HUD will break actions with virtual mouse clicks if it's sitting on top of Final Cut Pro

[Chris Hocking]

Julian Liurette reports via email:

What went wrong?
When I select in my shortcuts in Final Cut Pro any of them, the window starts to flash and I can’t use anything on the computer for the next 15 seconds.

What did you expect to happen?
I expected to click on my shortcut (scale, gaussian, etc.) and have that applied to the clip I am working on.

What are the steps to recreate the problem?
Launch command post in Final Cut, Enable the HUD, create some shortcuts and then try to apply them. Sometimes it works but most of the time it will flash and bug.

The reason this is happening is because the HUD is over the top of the Effects Inspector, so CommandPost is triggering a virtual double-click on the HUD instead of the Effects Inspector.

We might have to either hide the HUD when the action is being triggered or see if there's a way to target specific apps with the virtual mouse click (like we do with cp.tools.keyStroke).