maybe the keyboard.

control key is sticky?

if smashing the keyboard doesent work, go for the preferences...

Do you see the same behavior if you click-down then hold on a tool icon, then slide over and let up the mouse button on the tool of your choice?

If not, that could be a workaround.

-Noel

Noel Carboni wrote:

 

For me, if I click and hold the left mouse button, the alternate tool choices appear.  If I drag over to one of them, then let up the mouse button, that tool is selected and the alternate choices disappear immediately.

 

Conroy, is what plotteaterre describes typical Mac behavior, or does your system behave as I describe here?

 

-Noel

Both behaviours happen on my Mac.

Your holding down, dragging over then releasing does work correctly in Ps CS5.1 and CS6 on my Mac.

However, a quick click on a Ps (CS5.1 and CS6) toolbar button, to simply select the tool, causes the flyout to appear when it shouldn't. Very infrequentlyy, a flyout correctly doesn't appear.

For about half the flyouts, the flyout can be ignored, though, and it disappears as soon as I start using the tool. Others do require the extra initial click before the tool becomes operational, as described by plotteaterre (and others, if i recall correctly).

Other Adobe apps that I use or have trialled do not misbehave in that way. A quick click always correctly produces no flyout in them.

You might like to try holding down the the Shift key and then repeatedly clicking the Keyboard Shortcut key for the tool in question ("B" for a Brush for example) to cycle through the different tools in the group.

I find this far quicker than selecting from the tool pop-outs and you very quickly learn how many clicks you need to get from one particular tool to the one which you want to use.