Did you right-click somewhere outside the dialog box? If so, it tells them to move the door where you clicked. This is a problem I kept running into. This has been posted before: http://forums.introversion.co.uk/prisonarchitect/viewtopic.php?t=119&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&hig...

Why would it apply to cables? IRL electrical wiring can be placed on the outside of walls or on the ceiling. These cables are usually encased in small metal pipes, which is what the sprite in the game looks like.

Now a big water main? Well that's another story.

I posted that earlier here, but it got lost among the other posts.

Though not a big problem it does peeve me as well.

(EDIT: It seems that a forum search for 'tooltip' and 'tooltips' yield different results).

Likewise, when you put a shower in a room not designated as shower (like the holding cell in Chris' Sample prison from The Wiki), they shower fully clothed. So I guess it must be something like the pseudo code below:

Do additional grants become available later in the game or are we stuck with just the starting contracts for now? I'm out of money and the federal grants barely cover expenses and 2 new cells.

I saw some odd jobs queued up for workmen. I have Windows 7 64-bit. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/Kjammer/PA_pointerx.png The workmen are moving *X. whatever *X is, they are moving it. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/Kjammer/PA_storeprisoner.png The workmen are storing prisoners in medic...

When a menu item overlaps with an item on the ToDo list, mousing over the object shows the objective tooltip instead of the object tooltip. In the picture below, the cursor (not shown because of the screenshot feature) is over the bed icon. You can also see that the ToDo list item highlighed as well...

Put a little [x] button near the [o] button in the upper right corner to close all dialog boxes. I found myself right-clicking outside the box to close them, and when looking at object properties, right clicking tells the workmen to move the object. To get around this, I open and close the build men...

Did you right-click somewhere outside the box? If so, it tells them to move the door where you clicked. This is a problem I kept running into.

Another flaw with the tutorial:

The CEO attempted to turn on the electric chair before it was connected and starts the "overloaded generator" segment of the tutorial while it was still working. He says, "Notice the prison's gone dark" while all the lights still are on.