BUG: Books Online Index Search Field Finds Incorrect Topic

• Microsoft Visual Basic Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

The index view in Books Online provides a search field you can use to find a topic. Books Online scrolls to the appropriate section in the index list when you quickly type the letters for a desired topic into the search field. However, if you type slowly into the search field, Books Online scrolls to a section in the index list, but only for the text displayed in the search field. If you continue to type slowly, the index list scrolls to a different section for each of the letters you type and these letters are never displayed in the search field.

CAUSE

Typing slowly into the search field yields control to the Books Online program and focus is shifted from the search field. Books Online scrolls to the section in the index list for the text already in the search field but focus is not returned. If you continue typing slowly, this loss of focus on the search field causes each letter to be interpreted separately and the index list to scroll to a different section for each one. The text in the search field is also not updated correctly for the same reason.

RESOLUTION

The workarounds are:

• to type the letters of the desired topic into the search field as quickly as possible without any pauses,

  -or-

• to paste the string you are searching for into the search field.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Open Books Online. "Books Online..." appears under the Help menu.

2. Switch to the Index by clicking the Index toolbar button or selecting "Index" under the View menu.

3. Set focus to the search field by clicking the search field with the mouse. The search field is above the index list.

4. Press the “s” key and wait for the index list to scroll to the “S” section.

5. Press the “c” key.