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buildInteractionZoomSuggestions only ever considers explicit click candidates, so a recording whose telemetry carries no click events at all returns "no-interactions" and automatic zooms silently never appear. On Windows this is the common case rather than an edge case: the global uiohook hook starts without throwing but delivers no events, leaving telemetry that contains nothing but "move" samples. Add an opt-in allowDwellFallback flag. When a recording has no explicit click telemetry whatsoever, derive zoom windows from the dwell candidates that detectInteractionCandidates already computes and currently discards. Recordings that do contain clicks keep the existing click-only behaviour, so the deliberate tightening from 676d018 is preserved. Verified against four real recordings (33s, 64s, 5m24s, 37s), all with zero click samples: every one went from "no-interactions" with 0 suggestions to "ok" with 4, 4, 16 and 4 suggestions respectively. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
handleCursorMonitorStdout parses INTERACTION:mousedown/mouseup lines and feeds them to recordCursorMouseDown, but the Windows cursor-monitor helper never emitted them: main.cpp only polled the cursor shape and printed STATE: lines. That parser has therefore been dead code, leaving uiohook as the sole click source on Windows. That single source is unreliable. A WH_MOUSE_LL hook lives inside the process that installs it, and Windows silently unhooks it whenever the callback overruns LowLevelHooksTimeout -- which is what happens while the recorder's main process is busy encoding. The symptom is silent: the hook loads, start() does not throw, and no event ever arrives, so nothing is logged and every recording ends up with move-only telemetry. Sample the three mouse buttons with GetAsyncKeyState every 8ms and emit the INTERACTION: protocol the main process already understands. A separate process performing a cheap state read cannot be unhooked, so click telemetry survives a loaded main process. Cursor-shape sampling keeps its original ~50ms cadence. Also cover the INTERACTION: contract with tests, which it never had. NOTE FOR REVIEWERS: main.cpp could not be compiled here (no MSVC/CMake available), so the bundled electron/native/bin/win32-x64/cursor-monitor.exe and its helpers-manifest.json fingerprint are stale and must be rebuilt. The C++ change itself is unverified at runtime; the TypeScript side of the protocol is covered by the new tests. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe cursor monitor now emits mouse-button transitions while retaining periodic cursor-state reporting. Timeline zoom suggestions detect explicit clicks and can use dwell points when clicks are absent. Tests cover both interaction parsing and dwell fallback. ChangesCursor telemetry and zoom suggestions
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CursorMonitor
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CursorMonitor->>IPCMonitor: Emit INTERACTION mouse-button lines
IPCMonitor->>TimelineAction: Provide cursor telemetry
TimelineAction->>ZoomSuggestionUtils: Build suggestions with fallback when no explicit clicks exist
ZoomSuggestionUtils-->>TimelineAction: Return click or dwell-based suggestions
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Windows builds that fall back to the checked-in helper can still omit click telemetry, reducing zoom suggestions to dwell fallback. Refresh the helper artifacts before merging; native integration coverage would prevent regressions in the new polling behavior. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@electron/native/cursor-monitor/src/main.cpp`:
- Line 93: Add a Windows-native integration test harness alongside the existing
Windows CMake build path, with a CMake test target that exercises the
cursor-monitor executable’s GetAsyncKeyState polling through
reportMouseButtonEdges rather than only feeding synthetic
handleCursorMonitorStdout input. Cover left, right, and middle mouse button
press and release edge events, and register the harness with the native test
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- Around line 79-111: Refresh the checked-in Windows cursor-monitor artifacts by
rebuilding the executable from the current source and regenerating
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| MouseButtonWatch buttons[] = { | ||
| {VK_LBUTTON, 1, false}, | ||
| {VK_RBUTTON, 2, false}, | ||
| {VK_MBUTTON, 3, false}, | ||
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| const int cursorPollEvery = 50 / buttonPollMs; | ||
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| while (g_running.load()) { | ||
| CURSORINFO ci = {}; | ||
| ci.cbSize = sizeof(ci); | ||
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| auto it = cursorMap.find(ci.hCursor); | ||
| std::string type = (it != cursorMap.end()) ? it->second : "arrow"; | ||
| if (GetCursorInfo(&ci) && (ci.flags & CURSOR_SHOWING)) { | ||
| auto it = cursorMap.find(ci.hCursor); | ||
| std::string type = (it != cursorMap.end()) ? it->second : "arrow"; | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Refresh the checked-in Windows cursor-monitor artifacts. If build-cursor-monitor.mjs cannot find CMake, it accepts the checked-in executable and continues after only a manifest warning. The current source fingerprint differs from helpers-manifest.json, and the checked-in executable contains STATE: but no INTERACTION: output string. Packaged Windows code selects this executable, so fallback builds can omit click telemetry. Regenerate and commit cursor-monitor.exe and helpers-manifest.json.
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the checked-in Windows cursor-monitor artifacts by rebuilding the executable
from the current source and regenerating helpers-manifest.json. Ensure
cursor-monitor.exe includes the INTERACTION: click telemetry output and the
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| while (g_running.load()) { | ||
| CURSORINFO ci = {}; | ||
| ci.cbSize = sizeof(ci); | ||
| reportMouseButtonEdges(buttons, buttonCount); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Add a Windows-native integration test for click-edge polling. The existing cursor-monitor tests feed synthetic INTERACTION: lines to handleCursorMonitorStdout; they do not execute GetAsyncKeyState or reportMouseButtonEdges. Add coverage for left, right, and middle press/release events. The repository has no native test harness or CMake test target, so this requires introducing one alongside the existing Windows CMake build path.
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integration test harness alongside the existing Windows CMake build path, with a
CMake test target that exercises the cursor-monitor executable’s
GetAsyncKeyState polling through reportMouseButtonEdges rather than only feeding
synthetic handleCursorMonitorStdout input. Cover left, right, and middle mouse
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Problem
On Windows, automatic zoom never produces anything. Both Apply zooms automatically on new recordings and Connect zooms can be enabled and still nothing appears on the timeline.
The reason is that no click is ever recorded. Four real recordings on my machine, made while actively clicking, produced telemetry containing only
movesamples:move: 986move: 1926move: 9820move: 1094buildInteractionZoomSuggestionskeeps onlysource === "explicit"candidates, so zero clicks meansstatus: "no-interactions", zero suggestions, and nothing for Connect zooms to connect. The cursor position still looks right in the editor becausemovesamples come from the Electron polling sampler, which is independent of the interaction hook.Windows is supposed to have two click sources. Neither works:
1. The native cursor monitor never emitted clicks.
electron/ipc/cursor/monitor.tsparsesINTERACTION:mousedown|mouseupand callsrecordCursorMouseDown, butelectron/native/cursor-monitor/src/main.cpponly polls the cursor shape and printsSTATE:lines. Running the shippedcursor-monitor.exewhile clicking emitsSTATE:arrow,STATE:pointer,STATE:resize-ewand noINTERACTION:line at all. That parser has been dead code.2. uiohook goes deaf inside the app. During a real recording, with clicks happening:
The module loads,
start()does not throw, and no event ever arrives — not evenmousemoveorkeydown. The sameuiohook-napibinary, same Electron version, same machine, in a standalone harness captured 19mousedown/ 15click. The failure is invisible:startInteractionCaptureonly logs on a thrown exception, and nothing throws.The likely mechanism is
LowLevelHooksTimeout: aWH_MOUSE_LLhook lives inside the hooking process, and Windows silently unhooks it when the callback overruns — exactly what a main process busy encoding video will do.Changes
fix(zoom)— dwell fallback. Adds an opt-inallowDwellFallbackflag. When a recording carries no explicit click telemetry at all, zoom windows are derived from the dwell candidatesdetectInteractionCandidatesalready computes and currently throws away. Recordings that do contain clicks keep the existing click-only path, so the deliberate tightening from 676d018 is preserved — its test is kept and a guard test was added alongside it.fix(windows)— native click capture.main.cppnow samples the three mouse buttons withGetAsyncKeyStateevery 8ms and emits theINTERACTION:protocol the main process already understands. Polling in a separate process cannot be unhooked, so this survives a loaded main process. Cursor-shape sampling keeps its original ~50ms cadence.Verification
Replaying the four real telemetry files above through the suggestion pipeline:
no-interactions(0)ok(4)no-interactions(0)ok(4)no-interactions(0)ok(16)no-interactions(0)ok(4)Full suite green: 1137 passing,
tsc --noEmitclean, Biome applied. 12 tests added — 3 forhasExplicitClickTelemetry, 1 for the fallback, 1 guarding the click-only behaviour, and 8 covering theINTERACTION:protocol, which had no tests at all.A packaged Windows build was produced and the fallback confirmed working in the real app.
What reviewers need to check
I could not compile
main.cpp— no MSVC or CMake on this machine. So:electron/native/bin/win32-x64/cursor-monitor.exeand thehelpers-manifest.jsonfingerprint are stale and need a rebuild.GetAsyncKeyStatepolling itself has not been exercised.The dwell fallback is fully verified and independent of the C++ change; it is what makes auto-zoom work on affected machines today. Once the helper is rebuilt, real click telemetry returns and takes precedence, which is the better signal — a click marks the exact moment of an action, while dwell only approximates it.
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