Boxes around selections?

Out of nowhere, after a logic pro crash, everything you select on this machine Every selection is oulined by a black box...
Never seen this before, have you?
I rebooted and cleared pram... and checked everything else too...
The other wierd thing is new option in the apple menu... specifically double entries for SHUTDOWN and LOGOUT...
Very Bizarre... any help would be appreciated.
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I finally figured it out by going into console and killing the screenreader process.
But your answer was right on the money.
Thanks.

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While using Q-Xpress this morning on a flat panel G5 w/OS10.4.11,
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Can anyone tell me what I've done?

Have you looked in Universal Access>Seeing? Otherwise, reboot and reset your PRAM.

Black outlined boxes around selections

Hi,
Just started up my Imac Intel today and suddenly when I select something from the desktop (as in click on it) or from a menu bar, a black outlined box appears around it. This has never happened before.
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Hi there,
go to system preferences > Universal Access > Seeing > Zoom, click on Options, from here UNCHECK - show preview window when zoomed out..
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A way to temporarily hide the selection box around an object while nudging it.

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I would like to see a simple "Hide All" type command, similar to the "Hide Extras" feature in Photoshop - this would leave the page in a blank/ "preview" like view, but with selected objects still selected and therefore able to be moved around without seeing the Blue Selection Box.
PROBLEM:
I am looking for a way to temporarily hide the selection box around an object while nudging it.
I want to visually nudge items around to find the ideal placement and I find the selection box distracting how it follows the object around as it is being nudged.
(For anyone familiar with Photoshop, —I am looking for something that works exactly like "Hide" cmd+H (VIEW > Extras) does in PS - where the selection goes away but the object is still adjustable.

Thanks, but I don't see how that's helpful really.
SHIFT+W goes into full on presentation mode already.
Also, —this still doesn't solve the problem of being able to move an element around without a selection box getting in the way.
I don't believe that a solution exists, I'm just checking with the community if one does.

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VoiceOver is on. Triple-pressing the Home button may be set to turn it on or off.
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Aletha,
This is a probably a stretch but something to check.
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When I originally downloaded this icon set, they opened normally, weren't legacy. However, now when I open the original icon files they are composed of boxes.
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Now it is showing up as if each object is a square of gradient with a clipping mask around it- except it isn't actually a clipping mask and the actual boundaries of each object are square rather than the visible shape.
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I didn't save them in any sort of format, this is how they came to me and, without editting the files, have begun to react differently when opened.
I think that does mean there's no way to "fix" a file that's been "squared"
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You have Voice Over turned on. Once you tap the item and see the box, tap it two more times to activate the selection.
Then go to Settings>General>Accessibility>Voice Over, and turn it off. Remember, 3 taps per selection until you have turned it off.
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Blue box around link wont go away

Im using DW cs3 and trying to redo a website. I have
everything in place, but when I add a link to an animated gif in
center of my page, it adds a blue border around the image. How can
I turn this off?
I have a nav column on left side of page will rollover
effects and there is no blue box around those images.
If thats not bad enough, I also have an animated gif above my
nav column, and when I add a link to it, It gets a blue box as well
and expands my nav table. I havent experienced this with older DW.
Any ideas on what Im doing or not doing right?
*****Disregard. Finally figured out you have to put a 0 in
for border. I dont remember ever having to put that in before. I
may just be getting old.

"David Powers" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:ffqc95$a4q$[email protected]..
> dellvostro wrote:
>> Im using DW cs3 and trying to redo a website. I have
everything in place,
>> but when I add a link to an animated gif in center
of my page, it adds a
>> blue border around the image. How can I turn this
off?
>
> Earlier versions of Dreamweaver automatically added 0 in
the Border
> attribute of an image if you embedded it in a link.
Dreamweaver CS3
> doesn't do so because it creates invalid code for HTML
Strict and XHTML
> Strict.
>
> A simple way to get rid of the blue border is to select
the image and type
> 0 in the Border field of the Property inspector.
>
> The better way to do it is to add the following rule to
your website's
> style sheet:
>
> a img {border:none;}
>
> Using the style rule is more efficient because the same
rule is
> automatically applied to all images embedded inside a
link in the same
> site.
Hi David - I thought he might want borders on some other
images on the page?
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