22 Replies Latest reply: Apr 1, 2011 4:48 AM by - JM - RSS

    Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep

    matedobray Community Member

      I have an annoying issue with the Mini Bridge in Photoshop CS5, and I believe anyone could reproduce it if you do the following:

       

      1. Open Photoshop CS5.
      2. Have the Mini Bridge palette collapsed as an icon, docked somewhere (you can simply use the "Photography" workspace to do that).
      3. Open anything, perhaps a new document.
      4. Click on the Mini Bridge palette icon to open the Mini Bridge. Wait until it loads.
      5. Then click on the same Mini Bridge icon again to collapse it.
      6. Make sure your speakers are on.
      7. Now press Space as you would do to pan around the document. You don't have to pan, it's enough to just press Space.

       

      You will hear a beep sound, which you usually hear when OS X tells you that you're clicking an inactive window, or typing in a window that does not accept keyboard input, or in other similar situations. The beep will sound repeatedly while you hold Space down to pan around. It will sound each and every time you press space from then on, until you interact with the document using some other tool (like drawing something with the brush tool). Then the sound no longer happens when panning again.

       

      The problem has occasionally happened to me when using other collapsed iconic palettes as well, however, I cannot always reproduce them.

       

      This is a small issue that doesn't affect workflow, but having to click extra tools just to get rid of the beeping sound is very annoying, enough to make me not use the Mini Bridge.

       

      I'm running Snow Leopard.

       

      If anyone else can reproduce the issue, please post here. I can reproduce it every single time.

        • 1. Re: Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep
          Sergey Kritskiy Community Member

          That beep appears after opening/closing of every Extension Panel and, sometimes, after giving the mouse focus to Panel. Then this beep will sound while you hold Space AND using Actions with F*+CMD in shortcut. I constantly use two custom panels and binded actions so this beep annoys me very much as well Have to CMD+TAB to make the beep disappear.

          • 2. Re: Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep
            matedobray Community Member

            Is anyone else having this issue? Please make sure you make the steps I wrote down in the original post!

            • 3. Re: Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep
              charles badland Community Member

              Yeah. Got it to do that once, then could not repeat it.

              • 4. Re: Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep
                matedobray Community Member

                Could someone from Adobe please comment on this? I think this is a bug that can be reproduced by anyone at any time with the right (wrong) settings. Just do what I specified in the original post and tell me if it happens.

                 

                So far this happens every single time with the MiniBridge, and regularly, but not every single time with other collapsed palettes, such as Curves and Masks.

                 

                It's the sort of bug that annoys me a lot and adds to the "beta" feel of Photoshop, making me think "oh it's okay, it'll get fixed since it's just a pre-release version", but then I remember that it's actually the finished version.

                • 5. Re: Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep
                  SG... Employee Hosts

                  Hi,

                   

                  I don't think this is specific to MiniBridge or even Extension panels. I'm going to check and log a bug report for this so we can investigate. The system beep is annoying, but I have found a workaround.

                   

                  Instead of using the spacebar for temp selection of the hand tool, try holding down the 'h' key instead. This was new to CS4 and provides an added 'Bird's eye view' when using OpenGL enabled windows. I realized the space bar functionality is long ingrained and hard to break, but this might help to alleviate the annoying beep.

                   

                  regards,

                  steve

                  • 6. Re: Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep
                    matedobray Community Member

                    Hi and thanks for your help!

                     

                    Pressing H is not a good solution for me, since if you press H for a short amount of time, it stays on the Hand tool and doesn't automatically switch back to the tool you were using. Also, when I'm doing very precise retouching, it's crucial that I can track exactly what pixel is moving where when I pan, so the bird's-eye view isn't always good, but thanks for the tip, I didn't know about that last feature there, it can come in handy!

                    It's probably indeed not specific to the MiniBridge, I have gotten the been a few times with other palettes too, however, only with the MiniBridge can I always get it to beep.

                     

                    I have another workaround, I simply stopped using the MiniBridge and iconic palettes altogether, and I put the Adjustments panel in the same palette as Layers, so I switch tabs back and fourth between the two. Having the old modal dialog for adjustment layers from CS3 and before would still be the best for a "small" 15-inch screen, but that's another thread and another problem!

                    • 7. Re: Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep
                      - JM - Community Member

                      > I'm going to check and log a bug report for this so we can investigate.

                       

                      any news on this bug, anyone uncover any software conflicts that might be causing this?  I hear a clicking when setup as above and using the spacebar/hand tool.

                       

                      thanks

                      • 8. Re: Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep
                        Tevashov

                        Just go to Mac 'System Preferences' - 'Sound', set the volume of the error beep to minimum and forget about it.

                        • 9. Re: Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep
                          Sergey Kritskiy Community Member

                          But that's still not a proper solution.

                          Actually a friend of mine who is developing PS panels said that Adobe confirmed this issue as a CS5 Mac bug and they're going to fix it (someday, as usual)

                          As for me, I'm just quickly cmd+tabbing when sound appears

                          S.

                          • 10. Re: Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep
                            Tevashov Community Member

                            Yes. But I have to cmd+tabbing almost every minute, so I preffer to turn the sound off untill this issue will be fixed.

                            • 11. Re: Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep
                              - JM - Community Member

                              >But that's still not a proper solution.

                               

                              we're not in a very good situation to know what or when Adobe will respond. We know that they are aware of many bugs but since history is all we have, CS4 had only 1 update before CS5 was released and we've already had that same first quarter update. So, without any more information I can only assume that the next fix will be after CS6 is released.

                              I know that Adobe can't discuss future plans...... but what Adobe can and can not do is up to them. So if Adobe wanted to announce an upcoming fix they could ( and they have in the past ). I can understand keeping new product releases under wraps, but this is just a fix for something that .... well..... we have already purchased.

                               

                              >Just go to Mac 'System Preferences' - 'Sound', set the volume of the error beep to minimum and forget about it.

                               

                              So, yes I have had the error sound set to "funk" and on very low for quite a while, which results in a low clicking sound.

                               

                              Again, I feel like I need to repeat this, I like CS5, love PS, but some things can be better, and isn't that why we are all here. It just seems odd that you can purchase something today that has bugs but can't ask the vendor when it will be fixed?

                               

                              regards.

                              • 12. Re: Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep
                                Tevashov Community Member

                                Yes, that little bugs are annoying. It seems to me that similar interface problem happens when using Adobe Configurator, a tool for creating custom palettes for Photoshop. If your custom pallette is docked to another one, the buttons in your pallette requires two clicks to work. And what about incorrect behavior of shift+square brackets for the brushes in the Russian keyboard layout? PS changes the size, not the hardness? A lot of bugs and we can only hope to get updates shortly.

                                • 13. Re: Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep
                                  - JM - Community Member

                                  > If your custom pallette is docked to another one, the buttons in your pallette requires two clicks to work.

                                   

                                  I use a custom panel, I just tried moving it around to other configurations with tabs, docking etc but I couldn't repeat that problem? It contains a variety of buttons, scripts etc. but they seem OK.

                                  • 14. Re: Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep
                                    Tevashov Community Member

                                    And I use a simple panel with seven buttons and got this problem. This is the main difficulty, I think: not all the users expirience the same problems, It depends on some factors, including frequency of using ane or another 'buggy' feature. There's not so many refers in Google to this topic subject, but there's many refers to problems with Luquify on 12.0.0.

                                    • 15. Re: Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep
                                      Tevashov Community Member

                                      And there's another one bug: after accessing some of the extensions (custom panels or mini bridge) pressing cmd+- do nothing. So, it's the problem with extensions: space key beeps, zoom out doesn't respond. Let's see what happens if I switch locale to English...

                                      • 16. Re: Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep
                                        Tevashov Community Member

                                        Here you are! With English as primary language on my system, docked custom palettes works well, cmd+- works always, but... yeah, baby, space bar still beeps! -))) So, with a pair of crutches it is possible to workaround some of the Adobe bugs. But why I should use another locale and turn the error beep off? Does this Extensions so good for me?

                                        • 17. Re: Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep
                                          - JM - Community Member

                                          I'm totally impressed that you can switch between languages!  I have enough problems with the English language : )

                                          • 18. Re: Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep
                                            - JM - Community Member

                                            has this bug been fixed, or investigated ?

                                            • 19. Re: Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep
                                              SG... Employee Hosts

                                              Hi,

                                               

                                              I'll have to take a look and see what's the status.

                                               

                                              regards,

                                              steve

                                              • 20. Re: Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep
                                                Sergey Kritskiy Community Member

                                                It seems it disapeared after 12.0.2 update. I'm on Mac and I think I haven't heard these beeps after I updated a month ago.

                                                 

                                                Sergey.

                                                • 21. Re: Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep
                                                  - JM - Community Member

                                                  >It seems it disapeared after 12.0.2 update.

                                                   

                                                  I still have beeping with spacebar, but I've turned down the error beep and set it to a non-offensive sound so I don't notice it as much. So I'm still interested what occurred with the original bug report and if this report was closed.

                                                   

                                                  regards

                                                   

                                                   

                                                  10.6.7 / 12.0.2

                                                  • 22. Re: Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep
                                                    - JM - Community Member

                                                    was this fixed in 12.0.2, if so I might have a new bug?   it's just an annoyance nothing big.... if there are priority rankings to bug fixes, here's my wish list:

                                                     

                                                    1. the placed smart object AI/PDF errant line problem

                                                    2. AOM script errors when any drive is connected with the name "users"

                                                    3. this silly beeping thing.

                                                     

                                                    thanks

                                                     

                                                    j