Macromedia Fireworks :: troubles with brush tool


	troubles with brush tool When I use the brush tool (Fireworks CS3), I loose control over the mouse. When I select the brushtool, the brushcircle (mousepointer) will flash in a high frequence and won't react on my mouse moves anymore or at least very slowly. All other (simular) functions performs well. I can't imagine it's a processor or memory problem; I use a brandnew laptop with Intel T7200 and 2Gb memory. Vista Home Premium is my OS. Already installed Fireworks againg but the problem remains. I hope you can help me. Thank you in advance! Charles Rurup wrote: > I hope you can help me. Thank you in advance! I can't duplicate the problem on my machine [PC running Win XP SP2]. You might want to contact Adobe Customer Service. http://www.adobe.com/support/programs/fireworks/?tab:contact=1 -- Linda Rathgeber [PVII] Adobe Community Expert-Fireworks -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.projectseven.com Fireworks Newsgroup: news://forums.projectseven.com/fireworks/ CSS Newsgroup: news://forums.projectseven.com/css/ http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ -------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------Reply----------------------------------------------- I have the same problem with any of the bitmap editing features. Perhaps it's something to do with the OS as I'm running Vista Business. -----------------------------------------------Reply----------------------------------------------- Thanks for the answers so far. I wrote earlier that the problem contains the brushtool only but Joey's right: The problem of the flashing mousepointer happens with all the bitmap tools. I installed Fireworks on another PC (with Vista too) and this PC has the same problem. Seems to be a major Fireworks/Vista bug. I hope there's a trick (or solution) to avoid this not-to-work-with toolproblem. Thank you in advance. -----------------------------------------------Reply----------------------------------------------- Ahhh, I figured it out. It's the Windows Vista Aero interface. If you disable Aero, the problem goes away. Here's instructions on how to turn it off: http://www.vistaclues.com/turn-off-the-fancy-windows-vista-aero-inter... I'm sure Adobe is aware of this problem right? -----------------------------------------------Reply----------------------------------------------- Yes, it's in the ReadMe :-) If the Windows Appearance setting in Vista is set to ?Windows Aero? for the color scheme, there may be performance issues when using the Fireworks Brush tool. To solve this problem, change the setting to? Windows Vista Basic". -----------------------------------------------Reply----------------------------------------------- Perhaps they'll fix it with a patch. Quite disappointing if they leave it broken like it is. :-( -----------------------------------------------Reply----------------------------------------------- JoeyD1978 wrote: > Perhaps they'll fix it with a patch. Quite disappointing if they leave it broken like it is. :-( Try updating to Java SE 6. http://java.sun.com/javase/6/ -- Linda Rathgeber [PVII] Adobe Community Expert-Fireworks -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.projectseven.com Fireworks Newsgroup: news://forums.projectseven.com/fireworks/ CSS Newsgroup: news://forums.projectseven.com/css/ http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ --------------------------------------------------------------