Hi. I can not use "direct selection tool".

Hi. I can not use "direct selection tools". When i click the direct selection tool, mouse like on image.
I use illustrator cs 6

Thanks Monika, i am noob

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Is there a way to select a single vertex of an object, if all the vertices of that object are selected?
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I thought, based on what I read in the Illustrator help files, that the technique Joe describes would work. However, it doesn't seem to. If I have the object selected and then use the Direct Selection Tool (either by holding down CTRL or by selecting the white pointer tool from the palette) to click on a single vertex, all the vertices remain selected. I tried both click-and-release and click-and-hold but the behavior is the same either way.
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I'm a newby at Oracle Designer and I have a problem create a repository for Oracle Designer.
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x Java SDK & JRE 6
x Oracle Database 10g R2
x Oracle Designer 10.
While I'm installing Oracle Designer the OUI says that it can't find Java JRE but the installation completes.
If I want to use Designer with the hr-schema it says I have to create a repository for the user hr.
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Good evening,
I'm using Photoshop CC under a Macbook Pro Retina Display (15 inches), I've noticed that since lasts updates, when I use the direct selection tool for chaning a shape trace the points that should appear for selecting each anchor dissapears, and there's no way to get them back (sometimes by closing the program and restarting fixes this issue).
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1000x this. My designs are 100% vector shapes, so if Adobe have changed this core behavior intentionally, they’ve just made my life a lot more difficult.
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With the direct selection tool (white arrrow) moving over an anchor they show up, but even if the anchor is selected the anchor blue box disappears as soon as the mouse moves away, so its impossible to select a handle. I can still move an anchor, but its hard to select two anchors to joint the paths etc., sort of like driving blind. If I click on a path, then hold down the command key, the hollow box anchors show up and the cursor changes into the selection tool. The hollow boxes show up on selecting using the selection tool (black arrow). I am pretty direct selection tool was working correctly last week (am an occasional user).
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When trying to select anchor points using the direct selection tool it is no longer highlighting them as little boxes. I've obviously pressed something accidentally but can't work out how to get them back ! Help please.

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Noramlly in CS5 and any other version of Photoshop or Illustrator that I know of, if you click a point in an object, it will show the handles for transforming the line. As I'm creating something today, it works for a while and then stops. Yesterday I had the same problem. I drew a few things and then suddenly, the Direct Select Tool is not showing any transform handles.
I can get them to show if I can click and drag a box over the point, but this is slow and doesn't work well for layered art. I already tried resetting my illustrator preferences. Any other ideas?
EDIT: Also, in CS5 there's a simple icon that you can click to convert the currently selected point from a curved point to an angled point. Is there not such a thing in CS2?
I ask because at work I only have access to CS2.

Gregor,
Sometimes Illy gets distracted an confused when others start intruding. The usual suspects are listen in Item 7 in Other options .
You did get rid of the preferences while Illy was alseep, no?

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Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-06-24 13:34:15 -0700 (Tue, 24 Jun 2008)
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Changed InterfaceCompiler to public so that it can be used directly for mxml parsing by other tools. Also change parseMxml to public.
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The problem was that I had copied my Firefox profile to the new location and then modified "profiles.ini" to point to the new location and saved it there as a replacement to the original "profiles.ini" that I had renamed "profiles.iniOld." Even though I had changed "IsRelative" from "=1" to "=0" I got error messages. I had used this procedure successfully before, but it would not work this time. When I used Profile Manager to move the Firefox Profiles everything worked fine the first time I tried it, and it took only a few minutes.
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