- Implement native bridge for Windows cursor capture via PowerShell/C#
- Add cursor-free capture using getDisplayMedia with setDisplayMediaRequestHandler
- Update video player and exporters to support native cursor telemetry
- Enable system audio capture on Windows via WASAPI loopback
- Add interpolation for smoother cursor movement in playback and export
- Improve cursor scaling and visibility handling in editor and playback
Resolve conflict in electron/i18n.ts by keeping both `ar` (from main) and `vi` (from this branch). Also add `vi` to SUPPORTED_LOCALES in src/i18n/config.ts so Vietnamese is selectable in the language picker.
Microphone permission is checked at startup via getMediaAccessStatus, and
camera has a dedicated request-camera-access IPC handler, but screen
recording relied entirely on desktopCapturer.getSources() to implicitly
trigger the TCC prompt — causing the permission dialog to reappear on
every launch (issue #558).
Note: askForMediaAccess() only accepts "microphone" | "camera"; screen
recording TCC is triggered via desktopCapturer.getSources() instead.
Fix:
- Import desktopCapturer in main.ts
- Call getMediaAccessStatus("screen") in app.whenReady(); trigger the
TCC prompt via getSources when status is "not-determined"
- Add request-screen-access IPC handler symmetric to request-camera-access
setPermissionCheckHandler and setPermissionRequestHandler only allowed
["media", "audioCapture", "microphone", "videoCapture", "camera"], causing
any renderer-side getUserMedia/desktopCapturer request using a screen source
to be silently denied by Electron before macOS TCC is ever consulted.
Fix: add "screen" and "display-capture" to both handler allowlists.
Both ipcMain.once handlers now check event.sender.id against
windowToClose.webContents.id and ignore messages from any other
renderer, preventing cross-window response mix-ups if multiple editor
windows are ever open simultaneously.
discardLatestPending() popped whichever batch happened to be at the
back of the queue. With a Stop → Record → Discard sequence, the
pending queue can have recording B's batch sitting in front of A's by
the time A's finalize callback resolves (because finalizeRecording
awaits fixWebmDuration), so the discard targets the wrong recording.
Tag each completed batch with the recording id supplied at
startSession() time and replace discardLatestPending() with
discardBatch(recordingId). takeNextBatch() now returns the full
{recordingId, samples} shape so prependBatch() can re-queue it on
write-failure without losing the id. The renderer already owns a
stable recordingId (Date.now() in useScreenRecorder) and the IPC
surface threads it through set-recording-state and
discard-cursor-telemetry.
Adds a regression test that mirrors FabLrc's scenario in PR #457:
two recordings finalize, A is discarded after B has already been
queued, and the buffer must drop A while keeping B intact.
Sandboxed preloads (Electron's default with contextIsolation) cannot
require node modules. Commit 702b733 added node:path / node:url imports
to preload.ts which fail at load time:
Unable to load preload script: dist-electron/preload.mjs
Error: module not found: node:path
This left window.electronAPI undefined, breaking every IPC call.
Compute the asset base URL in main process (windows.ts) and pass it
to preload via webPreferences.additionalArguments. Preload reads it
from process.argv. Sync API for renderer is preserved.
Every consumer of /wallpapers/*.jpg — SettingsPanel, VideoPlayback,
frameRenderer — was doing async IPC round trips, useEffect dances, and
Promise.all for a value that is a build-time constant per process. Each
consumer showed briefly-empty or briefly-404ing state on first paint
until the handler's reply resolved.
The asset base URL depends only on process.defaultApp and
process.resourcesPath / __dirname — all available in preload at
context-bridge time. Compute once there, expose as a sync string.
- preload.ts resolves baseDir (process.resourcesPath packaged,
<appRoot>/public unpackaged) and emits assetBaseUrl synchronously.
- get-asset-base-path IPC handler + main-process branching deleted.
- getAssetPath() is now sync. Returns string, not Promise<string>.
Throws AssetBaseUnavailableError (new) when electronAPI.assetBaseUrl
is missing — catastrophic preload failure, not silent 404.
- resolveImageWallpaperUrl() sync; same sync throw semantics.
- SettingsPanel: Promise.all + useState + useEffect collapse to one
useMemo. First paint has real URLs, no 18× ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND, no
flicker.
- VideoPlayback: wallpaper-resolve useEffect collapses to useMemo.
- frameRenderer.setupBackground: drops the await.
- electronAPI type decls updated in both .d.ts files.
- 35 unit tests updated to reflect sync signature + new
AssetBaseUnavailableError contract.
Silent-fallback behavior from getAssetPath (returning /relative when
electronAPI failed) is gone. Renderers now surface preload failures
instead of rendering 404s.
Three independent defects plus one SSOT violation caused reported symptom
of image wallpapers rendering solid black in exported MP4/GIF while
appearing correctly in the editor preview.
Bug A — Dev-mode IPC handler returned <appPath>/public/assets/, but
wallpapers live at public/wallpapers/. No assets/ subdirectory exists in
source.
Bug B — FrameRenderer.setupBackground bypassed getAssetPath and did
window.location.origin + wallpaper, producing file:///wallpapers/*.jpg
404s in packaged Electron.
Bug C — setupBackground silently caught any background-load error and
filled black. Masked Bug B from the export pipeline; why the bug shipped.
Smell D — Asset layout asymmetric: public/wallpapers/ (dev) vs
resources/assets/wallpapers/ (packaged). assets/ subdirectory had no
other consumers.
Fixes:
- Unify asset layout. electron-builder extraResources now copies to
resources/wallpapers/ (no assets/). Main handler returns
<resourcesPath>/ packaged and <appPath>/public/ unpackaged. Same
convention in both modes: /wallpapers/x.jpg maps to <base>/wallpapers/x.jpg.
Nix package.nix mirror updated.
- New src/lib/wallpaper.ts module owns the wallpaper contract:
DEFAULT_WALLPAPER, classifyWallpaper (color/gradient/image), and
resolveImageWallpaperUrl (pure URL resolver, wraps getAssetPath).
BackgroundLoadError typed error for short-circuit detection.
- FrameRenderer.setupBackground uses the new helpers. Silent black
fallback removed; rethrows as BackgroundLoadError. Export pipeline
(VideoExporter + GifExporter) short-circuits encoder-retry loop on
BackgroundLoadError. VideoEditor catch site dispatches to translated
exportBackgroundLoadFailed toast.
- VideoPlayback editor preview consolidated onto the same helpers.
Three default-wallpaper path literals (useEditorHistory,
projectPersistence, VideoPlayback) collapsed onto DEFAULT_WALLPAPER.
- i18n: new errors.exportBackgroundLoadFailed key added to all seven
locales (en, zh-CN, zh-TW, es, fr, tr, ko-KR).
- Tests: 20 unit tests for wallpaper module (classifyWallpaper +
resolveImageWallpaperUrl branches + BackgroundLoadError).
videoExporter.browser.test.ts and gifExporter.browser.test.ts extended
with image-wallpaper happy path and BackgroundLoadError failure path.
Migration note: packaged users upgrading in place may retain an empty
resources/assets/ directory from the prior layout. Unreferenced at
runtime; cosmetic only. DMG/AppImage fresh installs get the new layout
directly.
- Add buildDialogOptions helper function to safely attach parent window only when valid and not destroyed
- Update all dialog calls (save-exported-video, open-video-file-picker, save-project-file, load-project-file) to use the helper
- Fix supportsWindowOpacity logic by removing || isWayland so Linux always follows no-opacity codepath
- Change incorrect Chromium feature name 'PipeWire' to 'WebRTCPipeWireCapturer' in main.ts
- Remove unused isWayland variable in handlers.ts
- Add pacman package build target for Arch Linux in electron-builder.json5
- Update build:linux script in package.json to include pacman target
- Fix dialog window issues on Wayland/Hyprland:
* Pass mainWindow reference to dialog.showSaveDialog and dialog.showOpenDialog in electron/ipc/handlers.ts
* Required for proper dialog functionality on Wayland compositors
* Previously dialogs opened without parent window attachment causing issues on Hyprland
Changes ensure:
- Correct video export on Arch Linux + Hyprland systems
- Ability to install via pacman package manager
- Improved compatibility with Wayland compositors
- Added Japanese (ja-JP) translations for common, editor, dialogs, launch, settings, shortcuts, and timeline.
- Updated translations for existing locales (en, es, fr, ko-KR, tr, zh-CN, zh-TW) to include new keys for "showInFolder", "loadingVideo", "trim", and "speed".
- Refactored VideoEditor and timeline Item components to utilize localized strings for various user interface elements and notifications.
- Enhanced user experience by providing localized messages for project loading, exporting, and timeline actions.
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