Long Press as right click

[MichaelD45]

I'm controlling the google chrome remote desktop app on a galaxy note 4 running android 6 using scrcpy 1.14. The remote desktop app on android mimicks a right click via a long press. The long press causes a rectangle to appear and on release the right click context menu on the remote computer becomes visible. When using scrcpy with mouse or touchpad a long click does not result in the rectangle and there doesn't seem to be a way for scrcpy to send the long press to the android phone that will make the google chrome remote desktop app display the windows right click context menu?

[MichaelD45]

Oh and thanks for making scrcpy!

[rom1v]

Does long press work in other contexts (outside of this app)? (for example, long press on a text in your browser, it should select a word... or any other long press action in other contexts)

[MichaelD45]

Thanks for coming back. Yes. Long press works fine on a browser. Tried it on a word in the chrome browser on the phone as controlled by Scrcpy and a full word was selected fine. As a further test I connected a bluetooth mouse to my phone directly and tried a long press in the chrome remote desktop app . It presented the same problem - the long mouse left press did not generate the right click menu. I do get the right click menu in chrome remote desktop on the phone if I long press on the phone with my finger. Also checked with the s-pen and a long press will also open the right click context menu. So seems there is maybe a difference between a mouse long click and a finger long press in general? So I suppose this means to control chrome remote desktop on the phone with a mouse there needs to be a way for the mouse to mimick some subtelty of a long finger press which is signalled maybe slightly differently to holding down the left mouse button.

[MichaelD45]

Just a little more investigation here in case this helps. Working only in chrome remote desktop directly on phone with finger it seems when I long press the chrome app - Recognises a press with circular notif at finger. This then changes to a rectangle and stays as rectangle. When finger released then rectange disappears and context menu appears. Working with laptop and scrcpy using my touch sensitive screen on laptop with chrome remote desktop: long finger press on laptop screen Recognises a press with circular notif at finger. This then changes to a rectangle and stays as rectangle. When finger released then rectangle disappears but NO context menu appears. Working with laptop and scrcpy using mouse on laptop with chrome remote desktop: long press on mouse left button - screen recognises a press with circular notif at finger. This then fades away. No rectangle. NO context menu appears.

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[xcjs]

I just wanted to leave a comment here discussing the way scrcpy handles the mouse and keyboard.

Android does have built in mouse support, and while few in number, there are Android applications that do properly support mouse events, complete with a right-click. The way scrcpy handles right-click now breaks these applications when trying to use them normally.

Typically Android maps "Esc" as back in its native keyboard support, and I would really prefer if scrcpy mapped keyboard and mouse events properly as if the keyboard and mouse were connected directly to the Android device itself.

I do realize special mappings may need to be required (pinch to zoom for example, which was an amazing addition), and I'm fine with that as long as it doesn't conflict with standard Android input events.

[rom1v]

@xcjs #1302

[rom1v]

@xcjs #1302 (comment) any opinion?

[rom1v]

I've just implemented an option: #1302 (comment)

Could you please test it?

[rom1v]

Merged into dev: adc547f.

[luke-jr]

Many apps don't work with a literal forwarded right-click action. Would it be possible to have actually simulating the longpress be an option? I wonder if it could be as simple as "backdating" the downTime parameter to MotionEvent.obtain...

[DanEdens]

I actually love scrcpy because it does exactly that.. toggle option please if you change it!