Problems moving an object with the selection tool

Im working on CS2 and since last week I have a problem moving objects with the selection tool: To move the object I am obligate to select the object first, and then click at the edge/stroke of the object to drag it. Before that I could move the objects just by selecting somewhere in the object and then just drag it to some other place in one step. I think I maybe changed something in the general preferences....

Ho thanks a lot Kurt!!!!! Indeed, that was the problem!!! Finally I can work normally again.... (the joker was me...but not on purpose)
Thanks again!

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Not sure if I accidently hit a key that I wasn't supposed to, but the selection tool stopped working the way it should. When I put the cursor on top of an object and click the mouse button, nothing happens. Also ctrl A doesn't work. Any suggestions? I've shut down and restarted and that didn't work.

grooveslapp,
To keep previously selected objects selected, ShiftClick the following ones.
If Ctrl+A does not select anything, and if no selection appears in the Info palette (select Objects in the flyout), something else is the matter, and it may be time to Move the folder

I no longer get the hallow boxes when I select something with the selection tool.

I'm really frustrated. I use to be able to select an object with the selection tool and the bounding box would have hollow squares on the corners and in the centers of each side. I could use these to transform the object. Now the bounding box appears but the hollow boxes are missing and i have to use the free transform tool, which when I use to lengthen a text box vertically it stretched the text instead of just enlarging the bounding box. I have tried cntrl + shift + B but that does not solve the problem, What am I doing wrong and how on earth can I fix it. Please help.

Two things I can suggest:
1) Under view make sure that the show bounding box is checked.
2) My Illustrator does that sometimes. The bounding box will not have the corners. I just select the artwork then click on the selection tool again and they show up.....I guess its a glitch.

Can't reshape rectangle with the "Selection Tool"

Hi,
After updating Illustrator CC 2014 to the newest versions I can't reshape rectangles with the "Selection Tool".
Is this a new feature where you have to go to: "Shape > Expand rectangle" to be able to reshape it?
-C

ristogoertz,
I am afraid you have come across the Live Rectangle bug which is limited to the MAC versions starting with 10.7 and 10.8, but not 10.9 (Mavericks).
So a switch to Mavericks with a reinstallation might be the way to solve it here and now.
To get round it in each case, it is possible to Expand the Live Rectangles to get normal old fashioned rectangles, or to Pathfinder>Unite, or to use the Scale Tool.
A more permanent way round that is to create normal old fashioned rectangles, after running the free script created by Pawel, see this thread with download link:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1587587

Can not resize with the selection tool

can not resize with the selection tool

joc,
I believe you may have come across the Live Rectangle bug which is limited to the MAC versions starting with 10.7 and 10.8, but not 10.9 (Mavericks) or 10.10 (Yosemite). Hopefully, the bug will be fixed soon.
So a switch to Mavericks or Yosemite with a reinstallation might be the way to solve it here and now.
To get round it in each case, it is possible to Expand the Live Rectangles to get normal old fashioned rectangles, or to Pathfinder>Unite, or to use the Scale Tool or the Free Transform Tool.
A more permanent way round that is to create normal old fashioned rectangles, after running the free script created by Pawel, see this thread with download link:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1587587

Selecting multiple objects with Direct Select tool

I'm working in InDesign CS4 on a pc and am having trouble with the Direct select tool. I go through my document selecting multiple objects, change the color of the selected boxes only to find that about half of my objects have "deselected" themselves. Has anyone else had this problem? Or does anyone have a fix I could try? Thanks!

I know, I was pretty vague.
Are you continuing to hold the shift key with each addition? Yes
Are you trying to selct things on more than one spread? No
Are you being careful to click inside each object other than an image and on the frame for an image? Yes

Problem deploying web service with the deploy tool (J2EE)

Hello,
I am trying to deploy a sample Web Service on the Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.1 2005Q1.
I run into a deployment problem ("jaxrpc compilation exception") when I have one of the web methods declared (in the endpoint interface) to throw a service-specific exception. The problem disappears when I change the declaration to throw an Exception.
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private String message;
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this.message = message;
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in the deploy tool dialog:
distribute: C:\Beginning J2EE 1.4\Ch13\StockServiceApp\StockServiceApp.ear
deployment started : 0%
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!!! Operation Failed !!!
!!! With The Following Failure Messages !!!
Deploying application in domain failed; Fatal Error from EJB Compiler -- jaxrpc compilation exception
; requested operation cannot be completed
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[#|2005-02-01T18:30:47.856-0600|INFO|sun-appserver-pe8.1|javax.enterprise.system.tools.deployment|_ThreadID=12;|DPL5109: EJBC - START of EJBC for [StockServiceApp]|#]
[#|2005-02-01T18:30:47.856-0600|INFO|sun-appserver-pe8.1|javax.enterprise.system.tools.deployment|_ThreadID=12;|Processing beans ...|#]
[#|2005-02-01T18:30:47.936-0600|INFO|sun-appserver-pe8.1|javax.enterprise.system.stream.out|_ThreadID=12;|
error: incorrect fault part name for fault "StockNotFoundException" of operation "sellStocks": "StockNotFoundException"|#]
[#|2005-02-01T18:30:47.966-0600|INFO|sun-appserver-pe8.1|javax.enterprise.system.tools.deployment|_ThreadID=12;|Total Deployment Time: 1001 msec, Total EJB Compiler Module Time: 0 msec, Portion spent EJB Compiling: 0%|#]
[#|2005-02-01T18:30:47.966-0600|SEVERE|sun-appserver-pe8.1|javax.enterprise.system.tools.deployment|_ThreadID=12;|Exception occured in J2EEC Phase
com.sun.enterprise.deployment.backend.IASDeploymentException: Fatal Error from EJB Compiler -- jaxrpc compilation exception
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     at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.Application.visit(Application.java:1333)
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     at com.sun.ejb.codegen.IASEJBC.doCompile(IASEJBC.java:785)
     at com.sun.ejb.codegen.IASEJBC.ejbc(IASEJBC.java:563)
     at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.backend.EJBCompiler.preDeployApp(EJBCompiler.java:340)
     at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.backend.EJBCompiler.compile(EJBCompiler.java:209)
     at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.backend.AppDeployer.runEJBC(AppDeployer.java:284)
     at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.backend.AppDeployer.deploy(AppDeployer.java:176)
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     at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.phasing.PEDeploymentService.deploy(PEDeploymentService.java:520)
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|#]
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Can you post the WSDL that was generated by the tool
for this interface ?I generate the WSDL using "wscompile -define -nd . -classpath ..\build\classes -f:wsi service-config.xml", and here it is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<definitions name="StockService" targetNamespace="urn:stockService" xmlns:tns="urn:stockService" xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/">
<types>
<schema targetNamespace="urn:stockService" xmlns:tns="urn:stockService" xmlns:soap11-enc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<complexType name="StockNotFoundException">
<sequence>
<element name="message" type="string" nillable="true"/></sequence></complexType>
<element name="StockNotFoundException" type="tns:StockNotFoundException"/></schema></types>
<message name="StockServiceIF_sellStocks">
<part name="String_1" type="xsd:string"/>
<part name="int_2" type="xsd:int"/></message>
<message name="StockServiceIF_sellStocksResponse">
<part name="result" type="xsd:boolean"/></message>
<message name="StockNotFoundException">
<part name="StockNotFoundException" element="tns:StockNotFoundException"/></message>
<portType name="StockServiceIF">
<operation name="sellStocks" parameterOrder="String_1 int_2">
<input message="tns:StockServiceIF_sellStocks"/>
<output message="tns:StockServiceIF_sellStocksResponse"/>
<fault name="StockNotFoundException" message="tns:StockNotFoundException"/></operation></portType>
<binding name="StockServiceIFBinding" type="tns:StockServiceIF">
<soap:binding transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http" style="rpc"/>
<operation name="sellStocks">
<soap:operation soapAction=""/>
<input>
<soap:body use="literal" namespace="urn:stockService"/></input>
<output>
<soap:body use="literal" namespace="urn:stockService"/></output>
<fault name="StockNotFoundException">
<soap:fault name="StockNotFoundException" use="literal"/></fault></operation></binding>
<service name="StockService">
<port name="StockServiceIFPort" binding="tns:StockServiceIFBinding">
<soap:address location="REPLACE_WITH_ACTUAL_URL"/></port></service></definitions>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Does this happen to anyone else with the Selection Tool

After making a selection in Photoshop CS6 I cant move the selection?
I am using a Windows 8 PC. AMD A6-3670 Radeon HD Graphics 2.7 GHz. 64 bit OS.
This seems to be a new problem over the past couple of weeks.
Thanks.

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Our company is trying to put user guides, screen shots, report examples, etc. on the BPMN diagrams that we are creating. I am wondering if anyone has figured out a good way to get multi-page documents to show up as icons which can be clicked from the Business Process Publisher web client. The normal OLE's work decently for users with BPA installed, but they are not hyperlinked in the Web Client. One option I tried was simply displaying the OLE not as an icon, but simply as it's own diagram in BPA, so it would be available that way, but the problem there is it only shows the first page, and it doesn't allow it to be linked to from an icon, it only uses the assignment icon. Any ideas? Best practices?
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when you create a web export, the files choosen as links for attributes are also exported on Business publisher.
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Is there a way to automatically resize the text box to fit the text inside, without using the selection tool to resize the corners in Illustrator and Photoshop?

I'm wondering if there is a way where I can quickly resize a text box to fit exactly around the text inside, so pretty much the smallest the text box can go without being too small to fit the text? I know you can do this manually with the selection tool, but is there a button/command that automatically does this in one go?
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Try this script. Save the page as .jsx the the "Presets>Scripts" AI folder. When you restart AI it will appear in the "Scripts" menu. Select the text block and run the script.
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http://kelsocartography.com/scripts/scripts/nvkelso/FitToTextContent_v2.jsx

Is there a way to automatically resize the text box to fit the text inside, without using the selection tool to resize the corners in Illustrator?

I'm wondering if there is a way where I can quickly resize a text box to fit exactly around the text inside, so pretty much the smallest the text box can go without being too small to fit the text? I know you can do this manually with the selection tool, but is there a button/command that automatically does this in one go?
Thanks

The short answer is No. But I see that Ray has given you an option.

Can only select items with direct selection tool

I have been working on a design: one layer, with multiple groupings, nothing is locked. I'm trying to select the items with the selection tool, but can only select items with the direct selection tool (which is very inconvenient in this case). I can select the text with the text tool, but that really serves no purpose in my case. Anyone have any ideas as to what's going on? When I was working on it yesterday, everything was fine with all the tools. Thanks in advance.

Imcookin,
It may be a corruption of preferences, or an issue outside Illy.
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