May 2007

It took me the better part of ten minutes, but I finally found a way out of my dilemma: File menu –> Preferences –> Reset Preferences –> select the checkbox labeled “Make all toolbars/pallettes visible and on screen.”

I wouldn’t mind those 10 minutes of my life back.

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I have been quite happy with Jasc Software’s Paint Shop Pro 8 for years, for one reason: it’s quick and easy to grab screenshots, edit them, and save them out to whatever format you like.

I wanted to grab a screenshot of my webmail client today. So I did what I normally do – launched PSP, pressed Shift+S, drew a rectangle around the portion of screen I wanted to capture, then left-clicked to capture.

There was a little bit of shmutz in the screenshot that I wanted to crop out, so I clicked on the “crop” icon in the PSP “modebar” (at least that’s what I call it in my head).

I drew a rectangle around the portion of the screen capture that I wanted to keep, then moved my mouse on up to the toolbar, where I’m supposed to click the “checkmark” button. I guess it means “do the action that you’ve just cued up.”

It wasn’t there.

The whole toolbar containing the checkmark button was gone.

I right-clicked in the toolbar region, hoping to find a way to display the toolbar containing the checkmark button. None of the toolbar choices I turned on contained the checkmark button.

Then I went looking through the menu system, hoping to find a “do it!” menu item that perfomed the same function as the checkmark button.

There’s craploads of menus, submenus, and items. But I can’t find anything that suggests it has the equivalent functionality of my missing checkmark button.

Now I’m looking for a menu item that would let me reset my toolbars to some kind of default configuration. But I’m not feeling confident about this. I just can’t seem to find it.

It’s pretty lame when an application gives a user enough rope to hang themselves with…and then doesn’t even offer you a knife to cut yourself down from the gallows.

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