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Adds a Focus Mode (Notification Blocker) feature to the Recordly HUD bar to silently suppress all in-app toast notifications.

Key changes include:

  • IPC Handlers: Implemented get-focus-mode-status, set-focus-mode, and focus-mode-changed backed by appSettingsStore for persistence across restarts.
  • Typed API: Exposed typed methods (getFocusModeStatus, setFocusMode, onFocusModeChanged) via preload.ts and electron-env.d.ts.
  • Custom React Hook: Added useFocusMode to manage confirmed toggle state and synchronize updates across all open renderer windows via IPC broadcasts.
  • Toast Interceptor: Created a central @/lib/toast wrapper around sonner that synchronously checks Focus Mode state and silently drops all toast variants (.success, .error, .info, .warning, .loading, .promise, base) when active.
  • Import Migration: Migrated all existing toast call sites across components and hooks to use @/lib/toast.
  • HUD Integration: Added an interactive toggle button (#focus-mode-toggle) with BellSimple and BellSimpleSlash icons and tooltips in LaunchWindow.
  • Localization: Added i18n strings for enable, disable, unavailable, and error states across all 11 supported languages.
  • Testing: Added unit test coverage for IPC handlers, the React hook, and the toast interceptor.

Motivation

During screen recording or live presentations, sudden in-app toast notifications can interrupt workflows, appear in recorded footage, and force users to restart their takes. Focus Mode gives users one-click control to silence all internal notifications directly from the HUD bar while recording.

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  • New Feature
  • Bug Fix
  • Refactor / Code Cleanup
  • Documentation Update
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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
  * Added Focus Mode to suppress in-app notifications during recording.
  * Added a recording-window toggle with active, loading, and unavailable states.
  * Focus Mode status is saved, restored, and synchronized across open windows.
  * Added localized Focus Mode labels and error messages.

* **Bug Fixes**
  * Standardized notifications through the shared toast system.
  * Ensured critical Focus Mode errors remain visible.

* **Tests**
  * Added coverage for persistence, synchronization, errors, and notification suppression.
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- Implement Focus Mode IPC handlers backed by appSettingsStore
- Expose typed electronAPI methods via preload and electron-env.d.ts
- Add useFocusMode hook to synchronize toggle state across renderer windows
- Create central toast wrapper to suppress sonner notifications when active
- Migrate toast call sites to use @/lib/toast
- Add interactive Focus Mode toggle button to LaunchWindow HUD
- Add i18n keys for all 11 supported languages
- Add unit tests for IPC handlers, hook, and toast wrapper
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  • src/components/launch/hooks/useFocusMode.test.ts
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The pull request adds persistent focus mode across Electron IPC and the launch UI. Focus mode synchronizes between renderer windows and suppresses toast notifications. Existing toast imports use the local wrapper. Localization keys and tests are added.

Changes

Focus mode

Layer / File(s) Summary
IPC contract and persistence
electron/electron-env.d.ts, electron/ipc/register/focusMode.ts, electron/ipc/handlers.ts, electron/preload.ts, electron/ipc/register/focusMode.test.ts
Adds focus-mode API types, IPC handlers, persistent boolean state, validation, renderer broadcasts, and handler tests.
Renderer state and launch control
src/lib/focusMode.ts, src/components/launch/hooks/useFocusMode.ts, src/components/launch/LaunchWindow.tsx, src/components/video-editor/EditorWindow.tsx, src/i18n/locales/*/launch.json, src/components/launch/hooks/useFocusMode.test.ts
Adds initialization-aware state, cross-window synchronization, launch toggle controls, localized keys, and hook tests.
Toast suppression and adoption
src/lib/toast.ts, src/lib/toast.test.ts, src/components/announcements/*, src/components/video-editor/..., src/hooks/useScreenRecorder.ts
Adds a focus-mode-aware toast wrapper and changes existing toast imports to use it. Toast tests cover forwarding, suppression, dismissal, and unsuppressed control errors.
Native binary ignore rule
.gitignore
Ignores DLL files in Electron native binary directories.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant LaunchWindow
  participant useFocusMode
  participant electronAPI
  participant MainProcess
  participant RendererWindows
  participant toast
  LaunchWindow->>useFocusMode: toggleFocusMode()
  useFocusMode->>electronAPI: setFocusMode(enabled)
  electronAPI->>MainProcess: set-focus-mode(enabled)
  MainProcess->>RendererWindows: broadcast focus-mode-changed(result)
  RendererWindows-->>useFocusMode: update focus-mode state
  useFocusMode->>toast: report toggle failure with errorAlways
  toast-->>LaunchWindow: display or suppress notification
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In `@src/components/launch/hooks/useFocusMode.test.ts`:
- Line 103: Suppress the useHookAtTopLevel lint violation at the deliberate
useFocusMode() call in the runHook test harness, using a targeted inline
suppression with a reason identifying runHook as a test-only hook runner.

In `@src/components/launch/hooks/useFocusMode.ts`:
- Line 78: Update the focus-mode failure handling around setFocusModeEnabledRef
so disabling failures are always visible to the user; render the error inline or
bypass the toast suppression mechanism for these control errors, while
preserving the existing failure state behavior.
- Line 25: Mount useFocusMode in EditorWindow or a root shared by every renderer
consuming `@/lib/toast`, ensuring src/lib/focusMode.ts is initialized from
persisted Focus Mode state outside LaunchWindow while preserving the existing
setFocusModeEnabledRef behavior.

In `@src/i18n/locales/de/launch.json`:
- Around line 46-49: Replace the English focus-mode values for enableFocusMode,
disableFocusMode, focusModeUnavailable, and focusModeError with appropriate
localized translations in src/i18n/locales/de/launch.json lines 46-49,
src/i18n/locales/es/launch.json lines 46-49, and
src/i18n/locales/zh-TW/launch.json lines 46-49.

In `@src/i18n/locales/fr/launch.json`:
- Around line 46-49: Replace the four English focus-mode values—enableFocusMode,
disableFocusMode, focusModeUnavailable, and focusModeError—with accurate
translations in src/i18n/locales/fr/launch.json lines 46-49,
src/i18n/locales/it/launch.json lines 46-49, src/i18n/locales/ko/launch.json
lines 46-49, src/i18n/locales/nl/launch.json lines 46-49,
src/i18n/locales/pt-BR/launch.json lines 46-49, src/i18n/locales/ru/launch.json
lines 46-49, and src/i18n/locales/zh-CN/launch.json lines 46-49, using each
locale’s native language while preserving the existing keys and JSON structure.

In `@src/lib/focusMode.ts`:
- Line 13: Update the focus-mode state handling around _focusModeEnabled to
track whether the persisted status has been initialized separately from its
boolean value, and keep notifications suppressed until the initial status is
received. Ensure useFocusMode marks initialization complete only after the
persisted request succeeds, and have the toast path honor this uninitialized
state.

In `@src/lib/toast.ts`:
- Around line 62-63: Update maybeToast.custom and maybeToast.message to route
through the wrapper’s isFocusModeEnabled() suppression check instead of
assigning sonnerToast methods directly, while preserving the existing Sonner
method signatures and behavior when focus mode is disabled.

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  • src/components/announcements/LiveAnnouncementNotifications.tsx
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  • src/components/launch/hooks/useFocusMode.test.ts
  • src/components/launch/hooks/useFocusMode.ts
  • src/components/video-editor/AddCustomFontDialog.tsx
  • src/components/video-editor/AnnotationSettingsPanel.tsx
  • src/components/video-editor/SettingsPanel.tsx
  • src/components/video-editor/ShortcutsConfigDialog.tsx
  • src/components/video-editor/TutorialHelp.tsx
  • src/components/video-editor/audio/useSourceAudioFallback.ts
  • src/components/video-editor/captions/useAutoCaptionController.ts
  • src/components/video-editor/export/exportRunnerSupport.ts
  • src/components/video-editor/export/useExportDialogActions.ts
  • src/components/video-editor/export/useExportRunner.ts
  • src/components/video-editor/hooks/useClipRegionCommands.ts
  • src/components/video-editor/hooks/useTimelineEditingController.ts
  • src/components/video-editor/layout/EditorExportMenu.tsx
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  • src/components/video-editor/project/useProjectLifecycle.ts
  • src/components/video-editor/project/useProjectOpenActions.ts
  • src/components/video-editor/project/useProjectSaveActions.ts
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  • src/lib/focusMode.ts
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- toast: wrap custom/message through isFocusModeEnabled() check
- toast: add errorAlways() escape-hatch for critical control errors
- focusMode: add _initialized guard to prevent early-startup suppression
- focusMode: export setFocusModeInitialized()
- useFocusMode: call setFocusModeInitialized() after first successful load
- useFocusMode: use toast.errorAlways() for toggle failure toasts
- EditorWindow: sync focus-mode ref via IPC so editor toasts are suppressed
- useFocusMode.test: add biome-ignore for deliberate hook call in runHook
- useFocusMode.test: add setFocusModeInitialized + errorAlways to mocks
- toast.test: fix import order (Biome organizeImports), call setFocusModeInitialized
- i18n: translate focus-mode keys for de, es, fr, it, ko, nl, pt-BR, ru, zh-CN, zh-TW

All 136 test files pass (1202 tests). Biome lint clean.
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