"My tool bar has started behaving strangely today"
When Photoshop suddenly starts acting weird, it’s usually a good idea to trash preferences. Might not solve the problem, but there’s a good chance it will.
Aside from that, recheck your mouse settings.
Okay, trashed the prefs, no joy. Switched off the mouse drivers, still no difference. Swapped my mouse back to the default one button job. Nope. Still no improvement.
Can anyone offer anything else here? This is REALLY bugging me…. :/
TIA,
JUles.
You might try restarting your computer
logging out may accomplish the same thing.
did you shut down photoshop before you trashed your prefs??
Tried the restart thing last night and I did shut down PS before doing any prefs surgery on it…still no joy. Illustrator is working perfectly though.
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Double-check your double click speed in your mouse drivers.
I’m only using a single click, so are double click settings relevant?
Because if your double click is set to maximum, a single click will be recorded as two, hence opening the flyout menu… We’ve seen this problem countless times, trust me!
Hmmmm….okay. I’ve tried slowing the double click speed in the OS X system prefs, but it hasn’t made any difference there. This just means that double clicks don’t need to clicked so quickly to be registered – I’m not sure how this could affect me…
This IS what you meant though, yes? 🙂
If you meant whether I have a repeating single click set – well, I don’t have anything set up like that AFAIK. USB Overdrive doesn’t give me that option.
what about connecting the mouse direcly, without USB overdrive?
Okay, I found that after disabling USB Overdrive and plugging in my old Apple mouse the same thing was happening again – BUT – if I tapped the ‘button’ very, very lightly, I could change the tool WITHOUT the flyout appearing most of the time.
Switching back to the new mouse and driver, I could just about do the same thing if I was careful. It seems that the flyout menu has become super sensitive on me for no particular reason. Is there any way I can increase the time it takes to pop up?
Many thanks… 🙂
Photoshop does NOT control the double-click speed of the mouse. Your OS or the mouse drivers does. Search for any other changes you made to your machine that might have caused that. New software/hardware installed?
I wasn’t saying that PS was controlling the double click speed of my mouse – I was saying that the flyout menu appeared to be more sensitive then usual – it isn’t waiting as long before it flies out.
Illustrator behaves as expected, as do the other 6 apps open on my machine right now. I’ve also been a PS user for a few years now, so this is unusual behaviour for me…
Is there any was I can test this?
Apart from my new mouse 2 weeks ago, there have been no other changes to my system.
