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NickeManarin / ScreenToGif

🎬 ScreenToGif allows you to record a selected area of your screen, edit and save it as a gif or video.
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[Bug] Can no longer use user interaction as trigger in newer version #1263

Closed MichaelWoodc closed 6 months ago

MichaelWoodc commented 6 months ago

Describe the bug I was able to capture all user interaction inside a VM previously. I had to redo my PC, and it doesn't work anymore. I want to make instructionals but can't because it doesn't capture on every mouse click. Microsoft problem recorder has no problem, but I don't understand what changed in screentogif for this problem to happen.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Open VMware pro
  2. Click anywhere

Expected behavior I would love for it to capture the events as it did previously

Screenshots If applicable, add screenshots to help explain your problem. (Please notice how clicks inside the VM don't do anything, but if I click on the taskbar it does)

https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif/assets/51295010/0766c572-411e-43db-852a-4192b3179e6c

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Additional context It worked only days ago, not sure what happened :(

MichaelWoodc commented 6 months ago

In multiple acts of hopeless desperation, as I had to complete everything quickly, I enabled developer mode. This seems to have made it work for my use case.

Can anybody confirm this is the only required change to capture user events inside vms and protected windows? If not I'll go over everything I tried

MichaelWoodc commented 6 months ago

Ok I just updated to vmware 17.5 and I now have the same issue. One thing I had done on my previous VM was I enabled hyperv after having vmware installed. When I updatd, I was greeted with tthe following screen: vmware install question

I think that this feature is what disables it from being able to detect the clicks. Not sure though.

NickeManarin commented 6 months ago

Hello Michael!

ScreenToGif needs the OS to report the clicks or else nothing can be done.

If the clicks are not being registered (or are being done in a admin-run window, I simply won’t receive them).

MichaelWoodc commented 6 months ago

Hello Michael!

ScreenToGif needs the OS to report the clicks or else nothing can be done.

If the clicks are not being registered (or are being done in a admin-run window, I simply won’t receive them).

Thanks for the response! I am not sure what I did, but somehow, I got it to work again. I had to downgrade vmware, and I did so many things but it wasn't working. After restarting my PC it worked fine.

So it's obvious to me it's not a bug at this point. I love the program! If only I knew enough about this kindof programming to contrubute and make it seamless for these very rare use cases lol. Thank you!!

MichaelWoodc commented 5 months ago

I think the trick is to actually run screenToGif as admin, AND for some reason the other app had to be run as an administrator, then it could capture mouse clicks. Hope this helps anyone trying to grab user events from inside a "protected" app! (You won't be able to capture keystrokes though a VM, clicks only, there's lots of VM isolation going on)

https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif/assets/51295010/fa846f11-506d-4a91-9c8d-5920cdb11c6d