I have been using Corel for more than 17 years; first time I have this problem (running Vista Office, Professional): All brush functions are affected: When I left click to anchor the brush, the cursor jumps diagonally up and the line is drawn from this new position to where the brush is currently. See pic. The cursor was at A when I left clicked the mouse, then jumped to B and simultaneously draw the stroke to A.

I reloaded Corel entirely, but problem persists.

Any help?

 I am not seeing this and I have a similar OS and configuration. If you reinstalled and still have the problem, it is likely that your workspace is corrupt.  Workspaces are held in your C:\users\Your NAME\ directory and are not uninstalled during the application removal.

Hold down F8 while starting your Corel applicatoin. When prompted, overwrite the workspace with the default workspace and see if your problem has disappeared.

If that doesn't work, look at your orbit settings in your Brush Settings Docker and see they are set to numbers greater than one under Number of Orbits.

Thanks for the quick reply. Tried, but to no avail. First time that I have had this kind of problem. I position the cursor, left click and then it jumps up and to the left. When I begin to drag it atomatically fills the brush stroke to where the cursor was initially positioned and draws the brush stroke.

 A few more things to try:

I didn't ask but are you using a mouse or a tablet?

Have you checked for an updated mouse or tablet driver?

Have you tried a different mouse?

If you have a mouse and a tablet, are they both connected at once? If so, try disconnectiing the tablet and see if the behavior persists.

If you have a wireless mouse, double check the distance to transponder is within limits and that your batteries are fresh.

Are any other applications misbehaving? Draw in particular?

 Hi Rick, this is one of those absolutely frustrating experiences. Checked all my brush setting vs Corel 9 running on my XP notebook where there is no problem. Settings identical. I use a mouse only and a touchpad on the Vista system.  Problem also with touch pad.

Thanks so much for you time!

Regards

Bertie

Hi all,

I got the same problem. Cursor jumps diagonaly to bottom right. And it jumps the same "screen distantion". Means, jump did not depends of zoom, tool etc.

My system: Dell Inspiron 1526, USB mouse (but trackpad does the same), Windows Vista Home edition, X3.

Looks like a problem with Vista drivers...

What are your hardware ?

 Yes this is exactly my problem. I Work on a Acere TravelMate 6291 with wide screen (i e 9 by 16 format), screen . Iresolution, 1280 by 800.  I use Vista professional.

Regards

Bertie

As you expline, looks like this is laptop's problem...

How did you "screw up" the problem (if you do) ?

 Not sure I understand what you mean with "screw up." The problem is still not fixed. The problem is als on Corel 9 on this system, but other photo editors work OK.

"Screw up": I understand, that problem are not fixed, but how did you work despite it ? Please share your experience...

If two versions of Coler didn't works, this mean problem are with Coler on Vista... How can we alarm the developers ?

 I have two HP laptops, Vista Home Premium, one is 32 bit, and one is 64 bit. Both have touch pads. I have tried them with three different brands of mouse in wired and wireless configurations. I have also tried with a Wacom tablet. I cannot duplicate your behavior with the mouse, tablet or touch pad in X3 or X4. I am not seeing the cursor jump with brush, eraser or clone.

Make certain you have the latest touchpad driver from your laptop manufacturer.

Some computers let you disable the touch pad. Try it and see if that changes things. Then try the touch pad with the mouse disconnected. Let us know what you find.

 I have the latest drivers for mouse and touch pad; neither works. I have  a shareware program where the brush functions work. But it is crude. I am looking to buy another programme such as photoshop, unless Corel can come up with a solution. The salient point here is that brush functions in other sofware programs do work with the rest of my configuration.

 I do not believe this is a Corel issue. I could be wrong. If it were, I think there would be quite a few more complaints than what I am finding. I only hope that your next purchase of an image editor doesn't result in the same issue.

 No, this is a Corel issue. ArcSoft Photostudio 5.5 which I got bundled with my scanner software works perfectly.

Looks very like Corel issue, becouse 2 versions don't works.

Actualy, I think we just got bad case - some combination(s) of Corel, Vista and drivers didn't works. Becouse same Corel versions works with your Vista, and with 4 other computers, where I can test, all they are with different configurations. One of them are laptop too, but runs XP, not Vista.

So we can't do nothing, unless to detect the exactly "critic mass" combination, to be possible to show to developers, both of Vista, drivers and Corel, what to fix. So we "just" need more testers... :-)