toolbox flyouts open with single click

SR
Posted By
Sean Robertson
Aug 28, 2003
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Whenever I click on a button in the toolox, the flyout pops up even though I’m only clicking it once. Shouldn’t it only do that with a double click or a rightclick? This is driving me insane! How can I make it stop???

I tried searching the forum for this because I know I’ve seen it before, but all I got back from my repeated search attempts was nothing at all or useless irrelevant crap.

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Trevor Morris
Aug 28, 2003
Try decreasing your double-click speed in Control Panel -> Mouse preferences.
SR
Sean Robertson
Aug 28, 2003
Makes no difference. I set it all the way up and all the way down and the behavior is exactly the same. Deleting my preferences had no effect either.
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Rob Keijzer
Aug 28, 2003
Sean, Since you’re only clicking once, maybe your mouse setting is configured for left-handed people, and maybe you are right.
(or maybe I’m wrong…)
Or: Your O/S allows you to configure opening things with one click (like clicking on a URL) Rob.
CW
Colin Walls
Aug 28, 2003
Yes, this has appeared here before.

I think it was another case for resetting prefs [FAQ], which seems to fix lots of PS odd behaviour.
SR
Sean Robertson
Aug 28, 2003
Photoshop is the only program doing anything odd. I’m not stupid enough to not be able to tell if the mouse was set with the buttons flipped – give me a LITTLE credit, please!

I do not have the OS configured to do things in a single click. That only effect icons in My Computer and Windows Explorer anyway.

Also, as I said above (reply #2), I deleted my preferences and it didn’t make a damn bit of difference.
CW
Colin Walls
Aug 29, 2003
OK, at risk of being accused of treating you like you’re stupid …

Are you sure that prefs got deleted? You held down the keys, got the dialog and agreed?
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Andrew Pietrzyk
Aug 29, 2003
but all I got back from my repeated search attempts was nothing at all or useless irrelevant crap.

Well this probably falls into that category but I’ve seen this behavior too. I can’t isolate what’s causing this because I can’t reproduce this problem at will. It comes and goes. It works as expected most of the time so I don’t lose any sleep over that.
SR
Sean Robertson
Aug 29, 2003
Colin, yes that is correct. :-/

Why doesn’t Adobe have any support people on this forum? They really need to answer this thread!
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Phosphor
Aug 29, 2003
Try their 800 number
SR
Sean Robertson
Aug 29, 2003
And wait on hold all day? I’ve got better things to do with my free time, though I might do that eventually.

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