Problem with ALT + mouse click

[SimonO]

I'm using PS 5.5. There is no response to mouse clicks while I'm holding down ALT, eg when trying to use the clone tool. It doesn't seem to be a problem with the ALT key itself, it works fine by itself and in key combinations, just not with the mouse. It used to work OK, I've made a few hardware changes but I can't pinpoint when this problem arose.

Has anyone heard of this problem before?

 

[cantwellt]

Here's a wild guess. Make sure you are in the clone stamp and not on the texture stamp. Hope it helps!

 

[Guest_imported]

Hi SimonO,

Seems we are in het same boat... I'm having this problem on 2 separate computers running 2 different Operating systems. The strange thing is that the help context (below) changes to whatever it needs to be when the alt-key is depressed but that's basically all it does !
With the zooming tool for example, as soon as ALT is depressed, the help context changes to "Zoom out" and one of them changes the + cursor into a - (the other one doesn't) but clicking the mouse does not do anything at all. I am not annoyed by a non working zooming function as there are other ways to do this BUT I am very frustrated about not being able to set anchor points for cloning, not being able to make new corners in paths etc etc.
I am desperate as I tried anything possible.
Have you gotten any further since Jan 16 ???
You can reach me : pgarain@hotmail.com

 

[Guest_imported]

SimonO

Found It !
Do you use Gurunet ?
If you do, remove it from systray and your Photoshop will work. It happens to be Gurunet's hotkey ...
Regards,
PG.

 

[gollyg]

that must have felt good!