FP2000: Blank Window Appears When Accessing Help for DOM Object (229571)

SYMPTOMS

When you press F1 in the Microsoft Visual Basic Editor window to view the help topic for an object, you do not see any text or user interface elements, such as toolbars or menu bars. The window is blank and gray.

CAUSE

The Visual Basic Editor is attempting to reference a help topic other than the correct help topic. This behavior occurs with the Component Object Model (COM) co-class of objects beginning with FPHTML. It does not affect help topics concerning interfaces, methods, properties, or events.

RESOLUTION

To access the help topic for the object, follow these steps:

On the View menu, click Object Browser.
In the Search Text box, type the name of the object you want to look up, and then press ENTER.
In the Search Results, right-click the object name in the Class column , and then click Help on the menu that appears.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

The Microsoft FrontPage object model consists of three separate object models-the Application object model, the Web object model, and the Page object model that is based on the Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 Document object model. In FrontPage, the objects in the Page object model are prefaced with an "FP" and take on the form "FPHTMLobject_name" or "IHTMLobject_name," while the objects in Internet Explorer have the form "HTMLobject_name" and "IHTMLobject_name." For example, if you want to reference the IHTMLDocument2 object in FrontPage, you would use "FPHTMLDocument."