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fix: respect hidden cursor state in recordings and auto-zoom - #731

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Summary

  • preserve recorded cursor visibility in the native compositor so hidden cursor phases stay hidden in preview and export
  • ignore hidden cursor samples and presses when generating automatic zoom suggestions while retaining legacy sidecar compatibility
  • reset cursor smoothing across visibility changes and document the Windows 11 manual smoke test

Related issue

Fixes #725

Type of change

  • Bug fix
  • Feature
  • Enhancement
  • Documentation
  • Refactor / maintenance
  • Performance
  • Security

Release impact

  • Patch
  • Minor
  • Major / breaking change
  • No release note needed

Desktop impact

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
  • Installer / packaging
  • Not platform-specific

Screenshots / video

No new UI. The scoped Windows 11 recording check is documented in technical-documentation/testing/manual-e2e-checklist.md.

Testing

  • npx biome check electron/media/cursorSidecar.ts electron/media/cursorSidecar.test.ts src/components/video-editor/types.ts src/native/contracts.ts src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/zoom-suggestions.ts src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/zoom-suggestions.test.ts
  • npx tsc --noEmit
  • npx tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --noEmit
  • $env:NODE_OPTIONS='--no-experimental-webstorage'; npm run test (252 files, 3,123 passed, 4 skipped; Node 26 local workaround, repository targets Node 22)
  • cargo test -p openscreen-compositor --lib (314 passed)
  • npm run build:native:compositor
  • Windows 11 manual recording: a slider-hidden cursor remained hidden in Studio and its press did not create an automatic zoom; a visible control click retained normal zoom behavior

npm run lint is not usable as a repository-wide Windows check in this checkout because Git's CRLF conversion makes Biome report existing files as needing LF normalization. All touched TypeScript files pass the targeted Biome check above.

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  • New Features

    • Cursor visibility is preserved in telemetry and reflected during playback and editing.
    • Hidden cursor intervals no longer display or animate the cursor.
    • Automatic zoom suggestions exclude hidden clicks and dwells while retaining valid visible interactions.
    • Cursor smoothing restarts correctly when visibility resumes.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for cursor visibility, telemetry round-tripping, and automatic zoom filtering.
  • Documentation

    • Added manual end-to-end test results for hidden cursor and automatic zoom behavior.

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The change preserves cursor visibility from telemetry sidecars through compositor rendering and automatic zoom detection. Hidden intervals suppress cursor output, interrupt smoothing and dwell detection, and exclude hidden clicks. Legacy telemetry remains visible by default.

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Cursor visibility propagation and rendering

Layer / File(s) Summary
Telemetry visibility contract
src/components/video-editor/types.ts, src/native/contracts.ts, electron/media/cursorSidecar.ts, electron/media/cursorSidecar.test.ts
Telemetry types now accept optional visible values. Sidecar reading preserves the field, with tests for visible and hidden samples.
Compositor visibility and smoothing
crates/compositor/src/cursor.rs, crates/compositor/src/frame_geometry.rs
CursorTrack stores visibility transitions and exposes visible_at. Hidden clicks are ignored, hidden rendering returns zero alpha, and spring smoothing restarts across hidden runs. Legacy tracks remain visible.
Visibility-aware automatic zoom detection
src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/zoom-suggestions.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/zoom-suggestions.test.ts, technical-documentation/testing/manual-e2e-checklist.md
Dwell and click detection now handle hidden samples. Tests and the manual test log cover hidden controls and visible controls.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SidecarReader
  participant CursorTrack
  participant Compositor
  participant ZoomSuggestions
  SidecarReader->>CursorTrack: load samples with visible state
  CursorTrack->>Compositor: provide visibility and smoothed cursor path
  Compositor->>Compositor: set cursor alpha to zero when hidden
  SidecarReader->>ZoomSuggestions: provide normalized telemetry
  ZoomSuggestions->>ZoomSuggestions: reject hidden clicks and split hidden dwell runs
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Hidden cursor activity may still affect cursor-follow framing or leave a visible trail after reappearance. Resolve these visibility-boundary issues before merging.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main changes: preserving hidden cursor state in recordings and automatic zoom.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes all required sections, identifies issue #725, classifies the change, states release and desktop impact, documents the absence of UI changes, and lists automated and manual tes…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #725. Cursor visibility passes through telemetry and native compositor paths. Hidden cursor intervals render with zero alpha. Hidden clicks, dwells, and drag sequences do not…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changed source files and tests directly support cursor visibility in recordings and automatic zoom generation for issue #725. The manual test documentation records verification of the same behavio…
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In `@crates/compositor/src/cursor.rs`:
- Around line 168-172: Update the visibility timeline initialization in load to
determine the latest visible value from samples at or before offset_ms,
defaulting to visible when none exists, and seed visibility with that state at
time 0. Keep subsequent samples clipped to the offset window and record later
visibility changes at their relative t values without resetting them to zero.

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Comment thread crates/compositor/src/cursor.rs Outdated
NoahSeeger and others added 5 commits September 27, 2026 13:39
…click's impact

The recorded visibility now gates `plan_cursor` itself, which every backend
and drawing path goes through: flat sprite, 3D model and its shadow, click
rings, motion-blur trail. It no longer gates `cursor_alpha`, which also
weights the click impact on the screen plane: a visible click whose pointer
an app hides on the next tick (dragging a numeric field) snapped the tilted
screen back from ~1.8 degrees in one frame. Clicks made while hidden are
still dropped at load.

The trail no longer samples a hidden phase: on the first frame after the
pointer reappeared it drew up to 16 copies from where it had been hidden.

`cursor.rs` is back to rustfmt-clean.
…indow

The Windows and macOS samplers fold a release into the press sample when
both land in one tick, so a quick tap has no mouse-up even in a take that
records them. It stayed "pressed" until the next click, and any later
hidden sample (typing, leaving the display) dropped it from the
suggestions. A press ended by its mouse-up is judged over the whole press;
one without is judged by the 150 ms grace, as PipeWire takes already were.
A mouse-up sample's own visibility no longer counts: it is sampled after
the release.
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EtienneLescot force-pushed the fix/725-hidden-cursor-auto-zoom branch from c4e604b to a2acc21 Compare September 27, 2026 11:41
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EtienneLescot changed the base branch from main to integration/demo-never-ugly September 27, 2026 11:41
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Thanks @NoahSeeger, great fix! I'm taking it over to land it in v2.0.0: rebased onto integration/demo-never-ugly and retargeted there. Your three commits are kept as they were; mine are on top.

  • Rebase: cursor.rs gained a 3D cursor since you opened this; the conflicts keep both.
  • Compositor (a7f3c32): the hidden check now sits in plan_cursor, which every backend draws through, so a hidden phase also hides the 3D cursor, its shadow, click rings and the motion-blur trail. It left cursor_alpha, which also weights the click impact on the screen: a visible press hidden on the next tick (your Blender case) made a tilted screen jump ~1.8° back in one frame. The trail no longer reaches back into a hidden phase when the pointer reappears.
  • Auto-zoom (a2acc21): Windows and macOS fold a quick tap's release into its press sample, so that tap had no mouse-up and any later hidden sample (typing, leaving the display) dropped it. A press without its own mouse-up now uses your 150 ms grace.

Verified locally: cargo test -p openscreen-compositor --lib (378 passed), vitest on the affected files (110 files, 1349 passed), both tsc configs, Biome on the touched files.

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EtienneLescot merged commit 249f495 into getopenscreen:integration/demo-never-ugly Sep 27, 2026
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[Bug]: Doesnt hide the cursor when adjusting sliders in the apps; Thus breaking the autozooms feature

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