now that restore is on mouse up instead of mouse down, we need to auto-unpause the emulator (if it were paused before editing input) on mouse up instead of mouse down. Mouse down was causing unpausing while painting which caused input to be added without invalidating greenzone. This code introduces unpausing as long as there is not a need to invalidate (if the user only painted down). If the user paints up beyond the original mouse down event it will invalidate and seek to the original mouse down frame and pause.

src/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/tools/TAStudio/TAStudio.ListView.cs

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ namespace BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk
 		private bool _suppressContextMenu;
 		private int _startRow;
 		private int _paintingMinFrame = -1;
+		private bool _playbackInterrupted; // Occurs when the emulator is unpaused and the user click and holds mouse down to begin delivering input
 
 		// Editing analog input
 		private string _axisEditColumn = "";
@@ -615,7 +616,8 @@ namespace BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk
 				}
 				else if (TasView.CurrentCell.Column.Type != ColumnType.Text) // User changed input
 				{
-					bool wasPaused = MainForm.EmulatorPaused;
+					_playbackInterrupted = !MainForm.EmulatorPaused;
+					MainForm.PauseEmulator();
 
 					if (ControllerType.BoolButtons.Contains(buttonName))
 					{
@@ -718,12 +720,6 @@ namespace BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk
 							RefreshDialog();
 						}
 					}
-
-					// taseditor behavior
-					if (!wasPaused)
-					{
-						MainForm.UnpauseEmulator();
-					}
 				}
 			}
 			else if (e.Button == MouseButtons.Right)

src/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/tools/TAStudio/TAStudio.cs

@@ -1009,6 +1009,11 @@ namespace BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk
 				_triggerAutoRestore = false;
 				_autoRestorePaused = null;
 			}
+			
+			if (_playbackInterrupted)
+			{
+				MainForm.UnpauseEmulator(); 
+			}
 		}
 
 		public void InsertNumFrames(int insertionFrame, int numberOfFrames)