Feature Request: Show Mouse Clicks

[gurjeet]

This may be considered outside the scope of Keycastr, but bear with me.

The primary use of Keycastr for me, and I think for many other users as well, is to show the keystrokes used during a screen recording. During a screen recording, it's also very useful to explicitly show when and where a mouse is being clicked.

It would be great if Keycastr had this feature, so we didn't have to rely on other software. There are some paid software, but none FOSS ones.

[jrgong420]

+1 that would be awesome!

[akitchen]

Hey, I don't think this is necessarily out of scope for KeyCastr, in fact I agree it would be very helpful for certain kinds of screencasts. There's a lot to consider when it comes to the details of such a feature however.

The basics of this are very easy, in fact I already have something simple working on a private branch. The next step would be to show where the user has clicked. But there are other subtleties to consider, such as mouseDown vs mouseUp, drag, etc. This is an area where some UX design help would be very welcome, in case anyone is inspired to help out.

FYI, I've used MouseLocator for this same purpose many years ago, but I'm not sure of its compatibility with recent versions of macOS.

[dualhammers]

How would you like to collaborate on UX?

[nwg]

I am using Big Sur and when i do a screen recording in Quicktime, there is an option to show mouse clicks. They don't show while you are recording but in the generated video, a little bubble is shown emanating from each mouse click. So that is one way to show mouse clicks without using paid software.

[akitchen]

It's been a little while, but I have a set of changes in progress that somewhat emulate the results you get when including the mouse clicks in Quicktime. I'll release a new version as soon as it's in!

[gurjeet]

Looking forward to the update!

[dualhammers]

Great!

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[akitchen]

This is now available in v0.9.12

[amunrarara]

I notice the actual button of the mouseclick isn't showing; I get the same icon for Right, Left, Side Buttons, Scrollwheel Button, etc.

Possible to request the actual mouse button to be displayed?