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I’ve seen this behavior on my own computer, Darrel, but it now worksas the others describe. I don’t know what broke it any more than I know what fixed it.
I did see one difference between the eyedropper and the other tools,though. The title bar does not change to the active color until you release the mouse when using the eyedropper. It changes state immediately on the first click with any other tool. Curious…
Hmm. Whenever I have any tool but the eyedropper active, I have to click twice in order to move a window, once in order to focus it, and again to drag. Now it does behave slightly funny when I do this, in that the titlebar doesn’t light up, like you said, and the window doesn’t come to the front immediately. (I can drag around, but it goes behind any other windows higher up in the stack.)
I’m using PS 7.0.1 here, on Win2000. Whether this behavior is any different in other versions of PS or other versions of Windows, I don’t know. (I’m pretty sure it’s completely different on the Mac, since the Mac version doesn’t have the backdrop…) I have tried this on both my home machine and my work machine (same versions on both machines), and they both behave the same way.
Anyhow, if this helps some people, then it’s good. Not sure why this would work differently on some machines than others, but it helps me a lot, and I doubt I’m the only one whose system works in this way…
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