CS5 Question re: selection edges

In CS5 Photoshop View / show / "selection edges" stops being active - not sure why or how to turn it back on

Does pressing Ctrl)cmd)+H make the selection edges (marching ants) visible?
Do you have Selection Edges enabled under View>Show>Show Extras Options?

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Can't see selection edges as I draw them.

CS4, Mac OS 10.5.6, iMac, 2.33 GHz Core Duo, 3 GB Ram, NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
When using selection tools (Marquee, lasso, etc.) I cannot see the selection edges as i draw them. After completing a selection "blind," I see the selection using the Marquee tool - and can see the selection edges after double clicking when using the lasso tools. I've tried using the selection tools on several different files - jpegs, .NEF, and TIFF.
In View/Show, the Selection Edges option is grayed out, so I cannot activate it. Under View, "Extras" is checked. Under View/Show/Show Extras Options, everything is checked including Selection edges.
I was never too good at using the selection tools when i could see them (in CS, CS2 and CS3), but I'm even worse trying to use them "blind." Appreciate your help...
Larry

amydesign3 wrote:
i'm having the same problem and have a similar system but macbook. it's pretty frustrating and impossible to see when working on black/dark colors.
You can always apply a Levels adjustment layer to make the cursor more apparent and delete it when your selection is done.

Where did my selection edges go??

I am using Photoshop CS4 and for some unknown reason my object selection edges (the little squares that appear when you select and object that allows you to grab the object, scale it down etc). I know you go to View > Show > Selection Edges..buy my "Selection Edges" option is gray..I cant select it I tried re-setting Photoshop preferences but it didn't fix the problem. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

You are getting confused with two different things… your terminology is not correct
In your move tool (V key) choose "show transform controls" - this will give you the resize handles you are looking for. This is not a selection. A Selection is a physical pixel area on the canvas. This selection can be altered without affecting areas outside it - thats what the word "Selection" means in Photoshop.
The screenshot you have shown will only look that way if you have no selection active. Make a new selection using one of the Marquee Selection Tools. Hide and show it using Command H

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Hi, I have a question about selecting path points in photoshop.
This is the setup. I have a vector shape layer (the redi circle). but that's placed inside a group with a vector mask (the black pentagon). What I want to do is select parts of the red circle using click and drag) so I can modify portions of the circle).
This is Photoshop's behavior as I've noticed it. Photoshop likes to select the shapes for you, and will target layers on its own when you use the Path Selection Tool. It tends to want to select the top most shape. If I target the shape layer first, I can use the Direct Selection tool to select individual points. I can add selected points bu shift+clicking.This is all well and good.
If I try to select multiple points using click+drag though, it gets a bit weird.
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Thanx for any input

canvai wrote:
Is there an easy way to tell photoshop not to auto target vector shapes? or a better way to select paths inside vector masks?
Sure.
Simply click once on the vector mask for the shape layer (red circle) to highlight that vector mask in the Layers Panel. Then when you click-drag the anchors of that path will be selected, not the group's path.
If you have no mask highlighted, Photoshop assumes it should select the first path it comes in contact with.

Beginner PS CS5 question

In PS CS5, I masked a rectangular selection on my first photo. Then I dragged a 2nd photo on to 1st photo using the move tool and it creates a new layer which I can now see a portion the 2nd photo through my 1st photo's rectangular selection window I selected a minute ago. So far so good.
However, I can only see a portion of the 2nd photo through the window because the window is not large enough for the entire 2nd photo to be seen. Is it possible to reduce the size of only the 2nd photo so that the entire 2nd photo is small enough to be seen through the 1st photos rectangular selection?
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Sevkie

If I understood your question the process is quite simple.
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2. Click "cmd" + "a"
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Photoshop CS5 Pen tool Selection problem?

I've been using photoshop for a while, and have never encountered this problem. I've had CS5 for about a year now and this is the first time it has done this, so hopefully someone can help me!
When I open photoshop, everything works. I make a new layer, go to use the pen tool, make my shape and then complete it, and the line solidifies showing its a complete shape. I right click, and select the option: Make Selection.
Instead of turning the inside of the shape into the selected part, it selects everything outside of it!
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There's a button for that up in the options area, when a Path Tool is active. It's been a while... Ah, here:
I'm betting you have the one next to it pressed.
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Quick question re select-options

Hi
I am relatively new to ABAP but have a quick question:
I need to create a select-options which does the following:
1. Allows ONLY "equals" signs
2. Disallows intervals
3. Disallows the use of ranges in the multiple selection box.
4. Allows multiple individual selections.
I can achieve most using the following:
select-options s_knvh for knvh-kunnr no intervals.
However, this still allows ranges using the multiple selection box, and also allows the "not equal to" option.
Adding the "no-extension" syntax simply removes my ability to use multiple individual entries.
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Thanks
Jon

Use this FM.
SELECT_OPTIONS_RESTRICT

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This is the only way I can print out color proofs for my clients. Unfortunately, I do not have administrator rights to any printer (our office has about 100 people, only IT staff can fiddle with that). What can I do to get this solved?

I think I have fixed it, though I'm not sure why this worked.
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1) How we can provide two fields on selection-screen side by side
2) How we can provide Text on selection-screen (ie some comments regarding selection-screen fields)

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Photoshop CS5 Win 64bit, selection/point glitchy?

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I'm trialing CS5 on 64bit at the moment, just wondering if anyone has had experience, where when using the selection tool, or move tool or any tool where you need to select or draw out something, I am regularly getting a glitch where where I selected/where the mouse point should be moves like magic 100+ pixels off (in random direction) where it should be. It like shifts off on its own?
Never had this issue in previous photoshops etc.
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I'm having some trouble with picking brushes to use in CS5. The first issue is that when I scroll through the different brushes available, if I hover over one for too long (in order to make the alt text with the brush's name show up), the brush selection will jump back to whatever I had selected previously, and I have to scroll through again to get back where I was. The second issue is that when I click a new brush I want to use, then move my cursor to the canvas, the brush resets itself to whatever I had selected previously, and I have to go back and reselect the new brush. (Sometimes more than once.) It's really messing up my work flow...
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Unfortunately I'm still having the brush selection issue even after doing this. (Though it did fix some other things that had been frustrating me, so thank you!)

Question on Select query

Hi,
I need to prepare a select query which can fetch the below mentioned scenario:
Ztable has fields zident, date, time, status. (zident, date, time are key fields)
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10001    02/09/09    111111                s
10001    02/08/09    222222                p
10001    02/07/09     333333               s        from this set only one ident should come which
10001    02/01/09     333333               s        has latest status
10001    02/02/09     333333               s
10001    02/03/09     333333               s
10002    02/09/09    111111                s
10002    02/08/09    222222                p
10002    02/07/09     333333               s      from this set only one ident should come which
10002    02/01/09     333333               s      has latest status
10002    02/02/09     333333               s
10002    02/03/09     333333               s
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from one set of ident one record should come in this way so many set of idents will be there.
My question is how to form the select query

Hello Chandra,
Your solution lies in the concept of Control-Break Statements.
AT NEW..
AT END OF
AT LAST, etc.
DATA:
BEGIN OF fs_table,
    zident TYPE char20,
    date   TYPE sy-datum,
    time TYPE sy-uzeit,
    status TYPE C,
END OF fs_table.
DATA:
        t_table LIKE
STANDARD TABLE
              of   fs_table.
" Populate the data in Internal Table.
" While displaying data.
LOOP AT t_table INTO fs_table.
AT NEW status.
     WRITE:/ fs_table-status.
ENDAT.
     WRITE:/ fs_table-zident,
                  fs_table-date,
                  fs_table-time.
ENDLOOP.
You can also use ON CHANGE OF fs_table-status, instead of AT NEW, if you get ***//* for date and time.
With this, status will be displayed once and remaining will following under it.
If you want everything to be displayed on change of each new field, apply that to every field,
eg:
AT NEW zident.
   WRITE:/ fs_table-zident.
ENDAT.
AT NEW date.
   WRITE: fs_table-date.
ENDAT.
.. so on and so forth.
This is just a test-case, try using the control break statements.
Hope it helps you.
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Question about selection table analysis

Dear All,
My last post was closed by the moderator so I would like to ask a different question. Please apologize if my question is trivial.
1. There is a selection table seltab with one fields of type I, with the following contents:
I     GT     3     0
I     NE     8     0
The literature eg. ABAP Objects says that the control statement like IF or CASE can be used with logical expression IN.
Now I am checking if the variable test fulfills the conditions defined by the selection table.
DO 10 TIMES.
IF test IN seltab.
    write test.
ENDIF
test = test + 1.
ENDDO.
As a result I get a full list of values.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2. Now, if the table contains
I     GT     3     0
I get
4 5 6 7 8 10 as expected
3. If the table seltab contains
I     NE     3     0
the result also seems to be ok
1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
The final question is. Is it true that the logical expression IN cannot be used with IF for more complex data comparisions?
Thanks,
Grzegorz

Well, the contents
I GT 3 0
I NE 8 0
I read as:
the variable fulfills the condition if is greater than 3 and not equal 8
test > 3 and
test <> 8
which should give the result from the example above a list
4 5 6 7 9 10
What is wrong with my analysis?
Regards,
Grzegorz

[JS][CS5] question, and comments

HI All.
I must first start off by recommending anyone seriously wanting to get into Scripting, or (like me) am fairly knowledgable, but needed the resource, to check out "InDesign CS5 Automation Using XML & Javascript" by Grant Gamble. (Amazon, Kindle etc...)
I am sure I am not the only one who has made his way, stumbling and even hacking through code to produce scripts that work well, but not really understanding why certain things were done in a certain way. This books helps a great deal with this, laying a good basis for further development.
Anyway, on to my question. In the afore mentioned book, he talks about making a global variable/object that is used to pass variables into throughout the script ie:
var g = {};
main();
g = null;
function main(){
//code here
//g.win = new Window("dialog",undefined,"New Window");
//etc.....
I can see how this works, with "g" being a master item, but why would this be needed? It seems more confusing to me, but maybe cause I am self taught, and not really been shown the "proper" way to use variables!
Can someone explain the reason behind this for me.
Many Thanks
Roy

Hi, Roy:
   I'm going to try again.
    Don't fool yourself. A difference of opinion doesn't mean both sides are right. It could well mean one side is wrong. (Maybe that's me. Maybe that's Jongware. Let's wait and see what he has to say.)
    In this case...this design pattern is just dumb. Unless there's something you're not showing us, like multiple functions that need to exchange data...in which case there is probably a better way, but it's hard to evaluate.
    The pattern is dumb because it does bad things with no upside. It makes the code harder to read. It adds potential conflicts with other scripts. And it has no benefit.
    I should probably have given you yet another example of something better. The very simple one. It's not as good because it still pollutes the namespace with main, but it's easy to understand and to read:
main();
function main() {
   var g = {};
   g.win = new Window("dialog", undefined, "New Window");
Even ignorance of a fnuction is probably better, since you could wrap it in a function later on (as your program got more complex) and it would all still work. That is:
var g = {};
g.win = new Window("dialog", undefined, "New Window");
But I suspect you're oversimplifying the program, since you told us that the point of this "technique" was to "pass variables into throughout the script."
But your example doesn't demonstrate any "passing." It's not too clear exactly what you mean though.
But here are some examples:
var g = {};
f1();
f2();
function f1() {
g.able = "baker";
function f2() {
alert(g.able);
There we have some data moving from f1() to f2(). But it's still poor. You should write it like this:
main();
function f1() { return "baker";
function f2(s) {
alert(s);
function main() {
var tmp;
tmp = f1();
f2(tmp);
But if for some reason it was really complicated and you needed to have f1() and f2() messing around directly with the data, then you could have a variable that was scoped to both of them:
function main() {
var shared;
function f1() {
    shared = "baker";
function f2() {
    alert(shared);
f1();
f2();
main();
But still you would never set a variable to null when you were done. The language has much better features than that! Use them!
When the enclosing function exits, there's never any fear of anything else gaining access to the variable. No need to set its value, because nothing can access it! Cross the final } and you're set. Awesome!
Obviously you put yourself at a level greater than someone needing
this book, but I know my short comings, and can see HUGE value in a book
detailing why certain practices are carried out
Respectfully, this is not a reasonable answer.
There are a lot of books out there. That you have found one that is better than forum posts does not mean it is a good idea to recommend it, especially when it seems to have problems. If you've read through several books and found this one to be better than the others, then that might be a good basis to recommend it. Or if you have searched high and low for books and failed to find any. Or if you were comparing it to Adobe's documentation on scripting. But by all means, do tell us the standard of comparison you're using...
But it doesn't sound like you're doing that. It sounds like you're in one breath praising a book, without comparing it to anything else. And in the next breath, you're asking a question (rightly so!) about what appears to be a bad practice that is advocated by the book.
That just doesn't make much sense.
I hope I'm misinterpretting you.

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