Dialog window disappeared

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Didier Chesto
Apr 15, 2009
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Hello group, I’m new here but I’d like to ask for some help. Here’s what happens.

In general with Windows programs, when you engage a function that opens a dialog box, you can’t click outside that dialog box. You hear a ping and nothing happens. This is because you either have to finish the dialog or cancel it.

This happens in Photoshop when I choose Layer -> New Adjustment Layer ->
[any of them]. The only thing is, I don’t see the dialog! From the ping and
the non-behaviour of Photoshop I conclude the dialog is active somewhere but I can’t find it. The only thing I can do is hit enter or escape, to let the invisible dialog finish. It disappeared since I had to pull out my graphics card due to a failure and went back from dual screen to single screen. I have a replacement card (other brand) that does dual screen again but still no dialog.

I use Photoshop 7 on Vista.

Hope that anyone can help me.

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Didier Chesto
Apr 15, 2009
Op Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:03:20 +0200 schreef Didier Chesto:

Hello group, I’m new here but I’d like to ask for some help. Here’s what happens.

In general with Windows programs, when you engage a function that opens a dialog box, you can’t click outside that dialog box. You hear a ping and nothing happens. This is because you either have to finish the dialog or cancel it.

This happens in Photoshop when I choose Layer -> New Adjustment Layer ->
[any of them]. The only thing is, I don’t see the dialog! From the ping and
the non-behaviour of Photoshop I conclude the dialog is active somewhere but I can’t find it. The only thing I can do is hit enter or escape, to let the invisible dialog finish. It disappeared since I had to pull out my graphics card due to a failure and went back from dual screen to single screen. I have a replacement card (other brand) that does dual screen again but still no dialog.

I use Photoshop 7 on Vista.

Hope that anyone can help me.

Update: also the color picker is invisible. It’s not limited to dialogs from the layers menu. I was thinking, is there a configuration file that stores the position of those dialogs? This might be corrupted. —
Everything I do is either illegal, immoral, or fattening. (W.C. Fields)
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Didier Chesto
Apr 15, 2009
Op Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:03:20 +0200 schreef Didier Chesto:

Hello group, I’m new here but I’d like to ask for some help. Here’s what happens.

In general with Windows programs, when you engage a function that opens a dialog box, you can’t click outside that dialog box. You hear a ping and nothing happens. This is because you either have to finish the dialog or cancel it.

This happens in Photoshop when I choose Layer -> New Adjustment Layer ->
[any of them]. The only thing is, I don’t see the dialog! From the ping and
the non-behaviour of Photoshop I conclude the dialog is active somewhere but I can’t find it. The only thing I can do is hit enter or escape, to let the invisible dialog finish. It disappeared since I had to pull out my graphics card due to a failure and went back from dual screen to single screen. I have a replacement card (other brand) that does dual screen again but still no dialog.

I use Photoshop 7 on Vista.

Hope that anyone can help me.

Solved it. For the record: the configuration is stored in C:\Users\[myname]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Photoshop\7.0\_Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Settings

I renamed that directory and restarted Photoshop. It behaved like a fresh installation and all windows are back.

Sorry to have been talking in myself. Was nice meeting you 🙂 —
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