Wrong cursor icon - text selection icon over buttons

Even in Leopard the small flaw that is occasionally getting the wrong mouse cursor icon depending on what's underneath it occurs. In Leopard there's a very easy way to reproduce it, in the Finder open a new window and view it in Cover Flow mode then click the search field in the upper right corner of the Finder window. After this - without moving outside the window - move the cursor to he left over the tool bar buttons. The cursor doesn't change to an arrow. One can even move down "inside" the Cover Flow view and click arrow buttons and drag the scroll bar for moving the view left and right. Cursor is still the text selector.
In the Mac OS X guided tour this is exactly what happens when John is searching for "bicycle" about one fourth in the movie. For a while he just clicks along on things like everything is normal.
I wonder - where is Apple's attention to detail when it comes to this?

This happens on my system as well, it's very annoying!

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Wrong orientation of text selection cursor

I've OCR'ed a PDF document with page orienation "portrait" using Acrobat Pro XI with setting "exact image".
Unfortunately the text selection cursor has the wrong orientation, its orientation is "horizontal" but should be "vertical" as the text is written from left to right (German) in the document.
Any ideas how to change the cursor orientation?
Thanks.

I have got the same problem. Text ocr-ed with with setting "exact image", too - don't know if that matters. The problem might be indepedent from that.
The proble mist a real pain. It heavily disturbes text selection an marking.
Unfortunately I don't have a solution.

Cursor Lockup - Path Selection Icon with Tiny Menu(?) Icon Attached

Hi.
I'm running CS4 11.0.2 on a Quad-Core Intel MacPro with OS X10.6.6 (6 Gig RAM).
My cursor has changed to an arrow icon (like the Path Selection Tool) with what looks like a tiny pop-up menu stuck on the right side. I can't figure out how to get rid of it. I re-started Photoshop, and re-set the preferences.
I can't use most of the tools. I can use the paintbrush but it is constrained to horizontal and vertical strokes. I feel like I've seen this cursor icon before but I can't remember when it usually shows up or how to get rid of it.
I would include a screenshot but it doesn't show up in any screenshots I've been able to take.
Thanks in advance
Dominick

It is an Apple caused bug introduced in 10.6.5 and is still in 10.6.6
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Bookmark Toolbar will only show icons + text, not icons only

The bookmark Toolbar is displaying icons and text. I went to View/Toolbars/Customize and chose Display Icons, checked Use Small Icons, and saved. It did not change the toolbar, even after closing Firefox and restarting.

You can do this with the Smart Bookmarks Bar extension - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/smart-bookmarks-bar

How can I get an Extension's toolbar icon to display image without text (without universally affecting other icons)? How can I edit the icons text (save space)?

"From the Show dropdown menu, you can choose what to display in the toolbars: icons, text, or icons and text together. By default, Firefox shows icons only." Is there a way to choose an individual setting for a specific toolbar icon to be icon only (no text) without universally affecting all other icons on the toolbars?
Second, is there a way to edit the text on a specific toolbar button from an extension (because it occupies too much horizontal space on the toolbar due to the amount of text)? I do know how to locate the xpi file & open it with notepad, but then it's mainly code (not English) & FIND doesn't locate the button's text (to edit it).
These 2 questions should apply to Extension buttons in general. However IF it makes any difference I'm referring to the Toolbar Button in Back To Top 7.0 which says "Go to top/bottom". I'd at least like to edit out "Go to", but my questions apply to other Extension buttons too. I do realize it may be necessary to redo any fix/change each time there is an update? THANK YOU.

We use the DOM Inspector to find the IDs and Class Names of elements.
* DOM Inspector: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/dom-inspector-6622/
The DOM Inspector (DOMi) has a menu item (Edit > Select Element By Click) and a toolbar button "Find a node to inspect by clicking on it" (left icon on the toolbar in the DOMi).
* open the browser window in the DOMi (File > Inspect Chrome Document) and choose the first from the list.
* click the "Find a node to inspect by clicking on it" button and use the keyboard (Alt Tab) or the Task bar to go back to the browser window (do not click in the browser window other than the title bar).
* click that element with the mouse and keep the button pressed until you see a red border to indicate the the DOMi has located that element in the DOM tree.
* https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM_Inspector/Introduction_to_DOM_Inspector

Losing Mouse "hand" over buttons when publish for Web.

Hi,
I'm new to Flash. I'm publishing a web-site and I lose the "Hand" icon for the mouse over buttons after I publish and run the HTML=>Swf files from the Browser. When I "Test the movie" from flash I see the "Hand" over buttons just fine.
Is there a publish setting that I'm missing which allows the hand to remain?
Please help.
Thanks,
Jeff

Hi, Had to work yesterday.
At the moment I'm running/testing locally (which may be the problem) from a flash secure directory on my desktop. So no link sorry.
I think I need to look into setting up a test service with Yahoo or something. Any suggestions? I'm not really sure how to upload my completed website (.html and .swf files) to a service. That's a different topic/question. Any help along those lines is greatly appreciated.
Anyway, I'm using safari 5.1.7 on my IMac. and Safari 6.0.3 on my Mac Pro. and Firefox 21.0 (primarily) or Internel Explorer (rarely) on my "windows" laptop. The "Hand" works on all of these (files local to the respective computer) except the IMAC Safari 5.1.7 flash player 12.0 combination, which was my first test environment scenerio.
I'm planning to do two things.
1) Update my IMAC to Safari 6.0.
2) Set up a test area with a service provider. This in itself may resolve the issue for the Safari 5.1.7. At least I'll be testing in a "real world" environment.
So, thank you for your help with this. I think we can call it solved. If my testing on a true server shows the same results then I may shoot out another question. I think it is a nice goal to have our web site creations run on all platforms and browser comibations but is that realistic? If we test on as many combinations of the most recent software releases as we can with reasonable success what more can we do? I'd like to hear you opinion. Feel free to sent me an email.
Would you like me to open a new question/discussion regarding the help finding and uploading files to a service provider?
Thanks again,
Jeff

The icons in the bookmark tool bar are blank and the text that use to be below the icon is gone. I now have to cursor over the blank icons to see the text and the one I want. Can the icon/text customization be returned?

In the Navigation Toolbar, the icons "Back", "Forward" etc. show the small icon and the descriptive text below the Icon. My Bookmark Toolbar use to have the same icon/text format but at some point, possibly a browser update, that changed. Currently, I do have a visible Bookmark Toolbar BUT the icons do not show the website icon, as previously, and the text below each icon is gone. I an cursor over each icon and the text becomes visible next to the icon. This is a bit of a pain to find a bookmark. Can I do a customization to return to the icon/text format.
Was this changed because browser users requested this option, or was it an internal decision.? If the later why make such changes when not requested?
Ed Sander

That wasn't a change in Firefox. It sounds like something is broken in your Firefox installation, or you are misunderstanding the different between the Bookmarks Toolbar and the other Toolbars.
In the Bookmarks Toolbar the text appears next to the website icon, not below the icon as with the other two Toolbars, and it's not switchable between text and no text as with the other Toolbars. With both the bookmark icon and the Bookmark name missing, something is broken in your installation. You need to do a little troubleshooting.
Do you have that problem when running in the Firefox SafeMode? 
[http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode] 
''Don't select anything right now, just use "Continue in SafeMode."''
If not, see this: 
[http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes]
If your problem isn't related to an extension, your bookmarks data base file (places.sqlite) is probably corrupt. 
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locked_or_damaged_places.sqlite 
Be aware that if you delete the "places.sqlite" and similar files, your bookmark website icons won't automatically appear (the JSON backups don't have that icon data) when you restart Firefox and the places.sqlite is rebuilt using the backup data file, but the icons should be saved the first time each bookmark is used for the first time.

Is there a way to remove the text that appears over dock icons when the cursor is over them?

Is there any way to remove the text that appears over dock icons when you hover over them? Or at least make it time out, or become more transparent?

You can do that with the Menu Editor extension - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/menu-editor/
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My iPhoto icon has a cross over it, when i open it, it You have "iPhoto" 9.2.1. you can't use this with this version of OSX? it used to work ?what's gone wrong?

my iPhoto icon has a cross over it, when i open it, it You have “iPhoto” 9.2.1. you can't use this with this version of OSX? it used to work ?what's gone wrong?

iPhoto 9.2.3 is incompatible with MacOS 10.9.3 Mavericks. If you are running Mavericks on your system you need to update iPhoto to 9.5.1. Only, the problem is, that this version is no longer available at the App Store.
The easiest way to get a compatible iPhoto version in that case would be to upgrade to Yosemite, MacOS X 10.10, and then download the most recent iPhoto version from the AppStore, iiPhoto 9.6, like LarryHN suggested.
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Selecting Messages or Text Messages Icon takes me to the recent calls screen instead.

Hi,
This just started yesterday.
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Text for icons cut off

Ever since the last update the text that labels the icons in Thunderbird are cut short if they have more than 4 letters (i.e. Pri... for Print and Del... for Delete and so on, and so on. It does not matter if you add a bunch of spaces or not, nor does it matter if you choose "Text and Icons" or "Icons beside Text". I would love to send you an image but the link on this page is now working for me to choose a file that shows you what I am talking about. What is does do is show the whole icon but I want both the Icon and Text showing. When you respond to this, at my included email address, I will be happy to attach the picture of my problem then.
So, I guess there are two problems for you to look at, the one where it is reducing the number of letters in each word of the Thunderbird programs Icons and why the "Browse" button on this Mozilla support request page does not work. When I mouse over the button it does turn from gray to a light gradiation (sp) blue and when I mouse click on it, it does turn a darker blue with a dark blue border along with the normal black border. It just does not open up a window to navigate to and select the picture I want to send to you that shows the problem with the partial words and Icons.

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AS3: TextField - How do get rid of text select cursor

SC3 - AS3
How do we turn off the text select cursor?
I have a button object that has dynamic text, and the hand
cursor works fine outside of the text object but over the text
object the cursor is changing to a text select cursor!
I am setting selectable to false for the text field.

Is your dynamic text field part of a button? I just created a
test file with a dynamic text field set to not selectable and it is
not showing the text cursor.
Also, are you dynamically generating the text field or are
you drawing it on the stage?

Just upgraded to 5 from 3 - what happened to the page select icon? Can't find it in customize toolbars.

Used to be you could select which page you wished to go back or forward to from the arrow icons on the navigation toolbar. The history menu item only shows 10 sites without having to open history for today. What happened? Is there another icon or a new plug in for this functionality? I used it all the time.

''what happened to the page select icon (Back/Forward)''
The back/forward buttons have been moved to right-hand side of the navigation bar and the drop-down was removed. User right-click or hold click for one second to see the tab history. This is item #5 in my list.
The History menu also has "Open Previous session" and "Open closed windows",
to see more history use the History sidebar ("Ctrl+H") or the History Library List ("Ctrl+Shift+H") and sort or view by "Last visited".
You can make '''Firefox 5.0.1''' look like Firefox 3.6.19, see numbered items 1-10 in the following topic [http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/firefox-problems.htm#fx4interface Fix Firefox 4.0 toolbar user interface, problems (Make Firefox 5.0.1, or 4.0.1, look like 3.6.*)]. ''Whether or not you make changes, you should be aware of what has changed and what you have to do to use changed or missing features.''
* http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/firefox-problems.htm#fx4interface

Airplay selection icon not showing in itunes.

I have everything working for airplay when the icon in itunes appears. I have Apple Tv and use the remote on my ipad, Ipod and Iphone. Once I get the icon into Itunes it works fine but if Windows does an update overnight or I shut down Itunes, the icon dissapears. I always leave Itunes running in the background but if I shut down the computer or turn off itunes the icon goes away. After an hour or so of messing around with it, it seems to appear but wonder what the deal could be? I try logging in and out, turning off homesharing and turning back on, and exiting itunes and opening back up. Sometimes that will bring the icon back. Has anyone had this problem? I have not read of any that come and go like this.
When the icon is not showing in Itunes, all the remote shows is the apple TV.. I actually have airport express and a receiver for home theatre that I can use as well. My problem is getting the icon into itunes. Any help would be appreciated.

I am having the same problem. I have a Marantz SR7005. Until a month ago I was able to stream music to it over AirPlay from both iTunes and AirPlay Remote on my iPhone. Now the AirPlay selection icon has disappeared from the bottom of both iTunes and Remote on my iPhone. I've power cycled all components -- Verizon FIOS router, PC running Windows XP, Marantz receiver, iPhone.
The Marantz receiver is able to connect to my network as I'm able to play internet radio and check for firmware updates (all of which are up to date).
I've called both Marantz and Apple with no success. What happened? This used to work and and I'm not aware of changing anything.

ALV-Freeze colums and Icon on Selection Screen

Dear All,
suppose i have 10 columns in an ALV Report and i want to freeze from my 3rd column onwards so that if I scroll to right my these 3three columns can still be seen.How to do this.
also how to display icon on selection screen.I remeber doing some copy pasting from icon table to my selection texts.
How to acheive these two.
Regards,
Rahul Bhat.

Hi,
I hope the following links will help you,
how to freeze columns in table
how to freeze the selection column in the table control of the module pool.
Freeze Column
Regards,
Harish

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