Keep the captured app focused during selection

The overlay used to activate Kapture, pushing the target app into
background mode so its chrome (title bar, toolbar, tabs) was captured
dimmed. Input no longer needs activation — the event tap handles it — so
the overlay is a non-activating panel shown without taking focus, and the
app keeps its active appearance in the capture.

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Assisted-by: Crush:deepseek-v4-flash-0731

Sources/Kapture/CaptureController.swift

@@ -84,21 +84,26 @@ final class CaptureController: NSObject {
         }
         isSelecting = true
         previousApp = NSWorkspace.shared.frontmostApplication
-        // Activation is async on macOS 26; wait a tick so the app is active
-        // before the overlays appear (otherwise clicks pass through).
-        NSApp.activate(ignoringOtherApps: true)
-        CaptureController.log("begin: activate issued, active=\(NSApp.isActive)")
+        // With the event tap driving input we must NOT activate: stealing
+        // focus turns the target app into background mode (dimmed chrome),
+        // and that is what would end up in the screenshot. Activate only on
+        // the fallback path, where panel events are the only input.
+        let usesTap = AXIsProcessTrusted()
+        if !usesTap {
+            NSApp.activate(ignoringOtherApps: true)
+        }
+        CaptureController.log("begin: usesTap=\(usesTap) active=\(NSApp.isActive)")
         DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 0.05) { [weak self] in
             guard let self, self.isSelecting else { return }
-            CaptureController.log("begin: active=\(NSApp.isActive) — showing overlays")
             self.overlays = NSScreen.screens.map { screen in
                 let panel = OverlayWindow(screen: screen, controller: self)
                 (panel.contentView as? OverlayView)?.controller = self
                 return panel
             }
-            self.overlays.forEach { $0.makeKeyAndOrderFront(nil) }
+            // orderFrontRegardless: show without taking key/focus.
+            self.overlays.forEach { $0.orderFrontRegardless() }
             self.overlayIDs = self.overlays.map { $0.windowNumber }
-            CaptureController.log("begin: \(self.overlays.count) overlays, ids=\(self.overlayIDs), active=\(NSApp.isActive)")
+            CaptureController.log("begin: \(self.overlays.count) overlays, ids=\(self.overlayIDs) — prior app stays focused")
             self.installEventTap()
         }
     }
@@ -262,9 +267,21 @@ final class CaptureController: NSObject {
         return nil
     }
 
+    /// System dialogs (permission prompts, System Settings) must always
+    /// receive their clicks even while we're selecting.
+    private func isSystemDialogFrontmost() -> Bool {
+        guard let front = NSWorkspace.shared.frontmostApplication else { return false }
+        let id = front.bundleIdentifier ?? ""
+        return id.hasPrefix("com.apple.security") || id.hasPrefix("com.apple.SystemSettings") || id == "com.apple.systempreferences"
+    }
+
     /// Returns the event to pass through, or nil to consume it.
     func handleTap(_ type: CGEventType, _ event: CGEvent) -> CGEvent? {
         guard isSelecting else { return event }
+        if isSystemDialogFrontmost() {
+            CaptureController.log("tap: system dialog frontmost — passing through \(type)")
+            return event
+        }
 
         switch type {
         case .tapDisabledByUserInput, .tapDisabledByTimeout:
@@ -301,8 +318,11 @@ final class CaptureController: NSObject {
                 }
                 return event
             }
-            // Drag: grow the marquee
+            // Drag: grow the marquee — but only after real movement, so a
+            // click's micro-jitter keeps the hovered window eligible.
             guard let start = marqueeStart else { return nil }
+            let distance = hypot(appKitPoint.x - start.x, appKitPoint.y - start.y)
+            guard distance >= 4 else { return nil }
             let rect = NSRect(
                 x: min(start.x, appKitPoint.x),
                 y: min(start.y, appKitPoint.y),
@@ -372,6 +392,41 @@ final class ScreenCapture {
 
     private init() {}
 
+    /// Estimate the window's corner radius (in image pixels) by scanning the
+    /// top-left corner: the crop's corner pixels are the desktop background;
+    /// app content starts where the color departs from it.
+    static func detectCornerRadius(of image: CGImage) -> CGFloat? {
+        let w = image.width, h = image.height
+        guard w > 30, h > 30 else { return nil }
+        var px = [UInt8](repeating: 0, count: w * h * 4)
+        guard let c = CGContext(data: &px, width: w, height: h, bitsPerComponent: 8, bytesPerRow: w * 4,
+            space: CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB(),
+            bitmapInfo: CGImageAlphaInfo.premultipliedLast.rawValue) else { return nil }
+        c.draw(image, in: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: w, height: h))
+
+        func pixel(x: Int, yTop: Int) -> (r: Int, g: Int, b: Int) {
+            let row = yTop * w * 4 + x * 4
+            return (Int(px[row]), Int(px[row + 1]), Int(px[row + 2]))
+        }
+        let bg = pixel(x: 0, yTop: 0)
+        func diffFromBg(_ p: (r: Int, g: Int, b: Int)) -> Int {
+            abs(p.r - bg.r) + abs(p.g - bg.g) + abs(p.b - bg.b)
+        }
+        var radii: [CGFloat] = []
+        for (limit, axis) in [(h / 3, 0), (w / 3, 1)] {
+            for i in 0..<limit {
+                let p = axis == 0 ? pixel(x: 0, yTop: i) : pixel(x: i, yTop: 0)
+                if diffFromBg(p) > 24 {
+                    radii.append(CGFloat(i))
+                    break
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        guard radii.count == 2 else { return nil }
+        let r = (radii[0] + radii[1]) / 2
+        return (r >= 3 && r <= 40) ? r : nil
+    }
+
     @available(macOS 14.0, *)
     private func crop(_ image: CGImage, to cgRect: CGRect, display: SCDisplay, roundedCorners: Bool = false) -> CGImage? {
         // cgRect is in SCDisplay space (bottom-left origin, Y flipped vs AppKit).
@@ -402,17 +457,47 @@ final class ScreenCapture {
         // Apply a rounded-corner alpha mask for window captures, matching
         // macOS window chrome (≈10pt radius, scaled to image pixels).
         if roundedCorners {
-            // Clip to a rounded rect and redraw — deterministic corner alpha
-            // (masking() can fail depending on the source pixel format).
-            let radius = 10 * scaleX
-            guard let ctx = CGContext(
+            // The screen crop contains the app's real rounded corners against
+            // the desktop — measure the radius from the corner pixels, then
+            // mask with it (supersampled for smooth edges).
+            let detected = Self.detectCornerRadius(of: result)
+            let radius = min(max((detected.map { $0 * 1.23 + 2.6 }) ?? (10 * scaleX), 4), 40)
+            CaptureController.log("corners: detected=\(detected.map { String(format: "%.1f", $0) } ?? "nil") using=\(Int(radius))px")
+            // Anti-aliased gray mask: supersample 3x, downsample, then draw
+            // the image through it ONCE at 1x (no content resampling blur).
+            let ss = 3
+            let W = result.width * ss, H = result.height * ss
+            guard let hiMask = CGContext(
+                data: nil, width: W, height: H,
+                bitsPerComponent: 8, bytesPerRow: 0,
+                space: CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceGray(),
+                bitmapInfo: CGImageAlphaInfo.none.rawValue
+            ) else { return result }
+            hiMask.setFillColor(CGColor(gray: 1, alpha: 1))
+            hiMask.fill(CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: W, height: H))
+            hiMask.setFillColor(CGColor(gray: 0, alpha: 1))
+            let cornerPath = CGMutablePath()
+            cornerPath.addRect(CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: W, height: H))
+            cornerPath.addRoundedRect(in: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: W, height: H), cornerWidth: radius * CGFloat(ss), cornerHeight: radius * CGFloat(ss), transform: .identity)
+            hiMask.addPath(cornerPath)
+            hiMask.fillPath(using: .evenOdd)
+            guard let hiMaskImg = hiMask.makeImage(),
+                  let downMask = CGContext(
+                data: nil, width: result.width, height: result.height,
+                bitsPerComponent: 8, bytesPerRow: 0,
+                space: CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceGray(),
+                bitmapInfo: CGImageAlphaInfo.none.rawValue
+            ) else { return result }
+            downMask.interpolationQuality = .high
+            downMask.draw(hiMaskImg, in: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: result.width, height: result.height))
+            guard let mask1x = downMask.makeImage(),
+                  let ctx = CGContext(
                 data: nil, width: result.width, height: result.height,
                 bitsPerComponent: 8, bytesPerRow: 0,
                 space: CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB(),
                 bitmapInfo: CGImageAlphaInfo.premultipliedLast.rawValue
             ) else { return result }
-            ctx.addPath(CGPath(roundedRect: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: result.width, height: result.height), cornerWidth: radius, cornerHeight: radius, transform: nil))
-            ctx.clip()
+            ctx.clip(to: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: result.width, height: result.height), mask: mask1x)
             ctx.draw(result, in: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: result.width, height: result.height))
             if let masked = ctx.makeImage() {
                 result = masked

Sources/Kapture/OverlayView.swift

@@ -6,8 +6,11 @@ final class OverlayWindow: NSPanel {
     init(screen: NSScreen, controller: CaptureController) {
         let content = OverlayView()
         super.init(
+            // Non-activating: the overlay must NOT steal focus, so the app
+            // being captured keeps its active appearance (undimmed chrome).
+            // Input comes from the CGEventTap, not panel events.
             contentRect: screen.frame,
-            styleMask: [.borderless],
+            styleMask: [.borderless, .nonactivatingPanel],
             backing: .buffered,
             defer: false
         )
@@ -57,6 +60,23 @@ final class OverlayView: NSView {
         NSColor.black.withAlphaComponent(0.35).setFill()
         NSBezierPath(rect: bounds).fill()
 
+        // Esc hint — the only way out once clicks are consumed by the tap.
+        let hint = "Drag to select · hover + click a window to capture it · Esc to cancel"
+        let hintAttrs: [NSAttributedString.Key: Any] = [
+            .font: NSFont.monospacedSystemFont(ofSize: 12, weight: .medium),
+            .foregroundColor: NSColor.white.withAlphaComponent(0.85),
+        ]
+        let hintSize = hint.size(withAttributes: hintAttrs)
+        let hintRect = NSRect(
+            x: (bounds.width - hintSize.width) / 2 - 10,
+            y: bounds.height - 46,
+            width: hintSize.width + 20,
+            height: hintSize.height + 12
+        )
+        NSColor.black.withAlphaComponent(0.65).setFill()
+        NSBezierPath(roundedRect: hintRect, xRadius: 8, yRadius: 8).fill()
+        hint.draw(at: NSPoint(x: hintRect.minX + 10, y: hintRect.minY + 6), withAttributes: hintAttrs)
+
         guard let controller else { return }
 
         // Highlight the hovered window (rounded, like real window corners)

build-app.sh

@@ -108,9 +108,9 @@ cat > "$APP/Contents/Info.plist" <<'PLIST'
     <key>CFBundleIconFile</key>
     <string>Icon</string>
     <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
-    <string>1.8.4</string>
+    <string>1.9.0</string>
     <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
-    <string>84</string>
+    <string>90</string>
     <key>LSUIElement</key>
     <true/>
     <key>NSHighResolutionCapable</key>