toolbox flyouts open with single click

[Sean Robertson]

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.

[Trevor Morris]

Try decreasing your double-click speed in Control Panel -> Mouse preferences.

[Sean Robertson]

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.

[Rob Keijzer]

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.

[Colin Walls]

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.

[Sean Robertson]

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.

[Colin Walls]

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?

[Andrew Pietrzyk]

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.

[Sean Robertson]

Colin, yes that is correct. :-/

Why doesn't Adobe have any support people on this forum? They really need to answer this thread!

[Eric Purkalitis]

Try their 800 number

[Sean Robertson]

And wait on hold all day? I've got better things to do with my free time, though I might do that eventually.

[Sean Robertson]

Every time I click on a button with a flyout in the tool palette, it pops out even though I'm only single-clicking it. It's not supposed to do it unless you right click or double click, so why are they still popping up. This is extremely annoying. I think I might have already asked this once before (or found another thread about it), but I can't remember the solution and the search feature refguses to return anything relevant no matter what I type (I either get total crap back or nothing at all - friggin USELESS!).

[Colin Walls]

I posted back, but it disappeared!

Summary:
1) you did post a few days ago
2) search properly you'll find an earlier relevant post
3) try rebooting

[Colin Walls]

You did post before - only a few days ago! I did a search on "flyout" and yours was #3 on the list. To me that ain't "friggin USELESS".

You are unlikely to get any additional input by posting the exact same thing again.

Out of interest, I did a search [using a little imagination in my search string] and found some previous posts on this topic from a few months back. In this case, the problem was fixed by a simple reboot. It was concluded that it was the usual WIndows "going bad" when it is not rebooted every day or so.

I don't wish to sound unsympathetic, as I know how annoying this must be.

[Colin Walls]

Now my 1st post appeared.
Gues my "f****** ..." quote was trapped.