P: Spring-loaded tool feature is misbehaving

I tested the solution with psuserconfig file. It works in I would say 85% of the cases, Still random unfortunately. Still hoping for the more serious fix.

Thanks man!!!! It works!

12 years. It took 12 years for Adobe to finally fix Spring Loaded Tools.

Credit where credit's due, thank you very much for the fix.

But y'all?

12 years.

As probably the most vitriol-filled complainer of this flow-breaking issue that's frustrated me immensely for years now, I can say with certainty, actually TRYING to replicate the issue seems to be coming up negative. On a quick tap of a tool button, it simply does not, even with my computer running a Benchmark to overload the GPU, switch back to the previous tool.

It seems, as far as this angry person here is concerned, that the issue is fixed, the evil is defeated, and we artists can finally quickly switch tools in the middle of many small strokes without Spring-Loaded Tools swapping us back to the previous tool and giving us a singular major stroke.

I am having the same issue with the rotate tool. when i am quickly, hand drawing / sketching over a piece I often find myself needing to rotate the page so that I dont have to break my wrist to make decent line then bounce right back to my brush or pencil or eraser tool. So my work flow should look like this: draw a line with the brush tool, Hold "R" to rotate canvas, release "R" to draw the next line w/ brush tool, (((Reapet this until the peice is completed))). I like to rotate with my stylus tip because this allows me to just turn off the touch features on all of my Tablets that have it. 
But the interruption in the work flow happens when I hold R then release it. instead of photoshop bouncing back to the brush tool it full on switches to the Rotate tool. because this seems to happen at random my brain cannot track when it will/ is supposed to work and whether or not i need to hit the B key. Thus, the disconenct of what my fingers are doing and what is supposed to happen often causes me to make a lot of errand lines in my piece or I loose that perfect canvas angle becuse Ive double rotated myself out of it. 
Fix Suggestion: 
   - Somewhere in the preferences make a toggle check box for commonly used "spring loaded" key. This will give the user control of EACH spring loaded key's behavior. The program cant be unsure of what that user is trying to accomplish it cant mistake an accidental double press or a premature release of the button to mean "select this tool". It also cant mistake a prolonged accidental press of a key as a spring-loaded hold.  

        For Example: 

                           Spring loaded keys         "Always On"   -    "Always Off"   -   Standard (or Mixed or Both)

                                            Rotate                    ✅                          ❎                            ❎

                                            Brush                     ❎                          ✅                            ❎

                                            Zoom                     ✅                          ❎                            ❎

                                            Eraser                    ❎                          ❎                            ✅

Ok, now ive tried to search for the AppData Folder in the searching window: %appdata%, because when i click on User and follow the path, there is no App Data Folder showing. I googled this error and it seems to be a Windows 10 thing...
Anyway with the AppData Folder searched and found the Path is the Following: Lokaler Datenträger (German sry i dont know the translation but its C) -> Users -> User Name -> AppData -> Roaming -> Adobe -> Adobe Photoshop 2022 -> and then i have 3 Settings Options:
Adobe Photoshop 2022 Settings
Optimized Settings
Optimized Output Settings
However...i tried to save the txt file in all three of them and it doesnt worked. 
What do i do now?

@JonnaTraff  is this happening for different tools or only for the Eyedropper and Brush tools? Is this "stuck" behaviour always reproducible? Did this behaviour start to occur after enabling the sprk optional extension?

@Michèle22310063x1ha can you please let me know the complete path in which you're trying to search the Adobe Photoshop 2022 Settings folder? Following is the location of the path:

Windows: 

• [Installation Drive]:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\[Photoshop_version]\[Photoshop_version]Settings\

macOS:

• //Users/[User Name]/Library/Preferences/[Photoshop_version]Settings/

Hello,

ive tried to accomplish that, like you suggested, but couldnt find the folder where i had to save the file - "Settings". I have AMT, Configuration, Illustrator, Locals, Mona, Presets, Required, Resources, System and the System Folder is empty. Where do i save the txt?

Not yet, but you can bridge the error by using the alt key for the eyedropper tool. At least until the error is fixed. Let me know if it works.

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Hi!
I only started encountering this issue today so I'm assuming it has something to do with this most recent update — I hope it's okay if I ask a question about it here (despite not experiencing any of the issues this thread was originally started to discuss).

I usually use the spring-loaded tool feature to switch from the brush to the eyedropper and then back again, but as of today I get "stuck" at the eyedropper (ie. I have to manually click the tool (or press B) to go back to the brush tool). If I'm right about this happening due to the December 15 fix, is there a way for me to turn things back to the way it used to be?
Thanks!

THANK YOU SO MUCH for this, I've been waiting forever! This is quite the holiday gift in my book! One very happy camper over here 😄