Captivate won’t record mouse click
February 5, 2019
Captivate won’t record mouse click
February 5, 2019
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I’d been using Captivate to record screen steps for months and recently, I have several issues with the mouse clicks are not recorded, my current solution is to restart PC and restart captivate, but it’s getting annoying. sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.

any suggestion that I can do to solve this issue?

Thanks.

Best regards,

Claudia K.

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Nov 30, 2020
Nov 30, 2020

Thank y’all for this thread! After 5 attempts recording, this thread saved me many more useless attempts! 🙂

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May 12, 2020
May 12, 2020

All;

I’m new to Captivate and was getting very frustrated with this.  Worked fine on laptop alone, but very sporadic key captures on multiple monitors.  I tried running as Administrator but no change.  Then I tried making sure that the Application I was recording was on the PRIMARY monitor.  Worked flawlessly on multiple attempts.  So for me, the problem solved by making sure my application was on my primary monitor (Windows 10).

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May 14, 2020
May 14, 2020
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marks37484954
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As someone who answers questions daily, I know very well that it needs to be the primary monitor. It would have been user friendly if there was at least a warning before recording, like you get about using the ‘Run as Administrator’ warning. Maybe will log another feature request.

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Jun 28, 2023
Jun 28, 2023
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Lieve Weymeis
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Good day, I just came across this post. I have upgraded from Captivate 2017 to 2019. I had no problems with 2017, but now cannot capture mouse clicks. I have a laptop with 2 additional monitors. I have tried recording on all 3 screens but I cannot capture mouse clicks (it does seem to capture keyboard when I press the Enter key.

Any addition assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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Jun 28, 2023
Jun 28, 2023
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marks37484954
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Good day all, I am using a laptop and even disconnected the additional monitors, and using only the laptop, I am having the same issue. I have selected the “Automatic” mode, but still not recording. Is there another setting that I need to configure in order for the mouse clicks to work? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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Jan 2, 2020
Jan 2, 2020

I have found by accident, that if you are using 2 monitors, and trying to capture screen clicks from your SECONDARY monitor – no clicks are recorded.  (Only keyboard strokes are recorded).  Switch your recording content to the primary monitor and all mouseclicks will be recorded.  Is this a bug?  Shouldn’t I be able to record any screen?

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Jan 2, 2020
Jan 2, 2020
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Christo @ MSN
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That has always been the case, offered that recommendation many times on the Adobe forums and other social media. You can only record the primary screen.

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Jan 2, 2020
Jan 2, 2020
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Lieve Weymeis
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Really?  I’ve never noticed this!  I guess I have always recorded from my primary screen!  Thank you for the quick response Lieve!  I appreciate your response.

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Jan 2, 2020
Jan 2, 2020
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Christo @ MSN
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Anyway I didn’t mention it in this thread, sighing.  Never even asked if the users were perhaps using multiple monitors. Good that you posted it!

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Jan 2, 2020
Jan 2, 2020
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Lieve Weymeis
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This is the first company that I’ve used a laptop as my primary PC with an extended monitor.  Since the extended monitor is larger, I started using it as my “recording” monitor (as it’s easier to see the detail of your recording), and then noticed I wasn’t getting all the screen clicks, but only the first and last ‘clicks’.  I found a good work around:  to designate the larger monitor as your “Primary Display” (Windows 10) and Captivate now records properly from that larger monitor.

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Jan 2, 2020
Jan 2, 2020
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Christo @ MSN
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Indeed, needs to be the primary.

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Mar 6, 2020
Mar 6, 2020
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Christo @ MSN
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thanks for posting. I too was having the same issue. My secondary “bigger” monitor is what I had been using to record from. I don’t know what changed, but it just stopped recording the clicks. Your post helped me resoved 5 hours of searching for a fix.

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Mar 9, 2020
Mar 9, 2020
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niyedas
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Happy to have helped!

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