FIX: Text In InfoViewer Topic Window Disappears

ID: Q168846

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

The text that appears in the InfoViewer Topic Window is invisible. The jumps remain visible on a blank screen.


CAUSE

The Display Settings are set to a color scheme that contains "High Contrast Black", for example, High Contrast Black, High Contrast Black(Large), High Contrast Black(Extra Large).


RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem for Visual Studio 97, change the Display Settings to another color scheme. Please see the MORE INFORMATION section of this article for details.

Microsoft Visual Studio, version 6.0 uses HTML Help rather than the InfoViewer for its Online Help system. HTML Help fixes this problem by making the colors on the topic pages independent of the system's Display Settings.


STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Visual Studio, version 6.0.


MORE INFORMATION

The text disappears because the background and foreground colors are white (white on white). The color settings for the InfoViewer must be set to use Windows Colors.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Click the Start button and click Settings.


  2. From the Settings menu, click Control Panel.


  3. Double-click the Display icon, and then click the Appearance tab.


  4. From the Scheme menu, select one of the High Contrast Black options.


  5. In Visual Studio, click a Help topic. All of the regular text in the InfoViewer Topic Window is not displayed.


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Keywords          : kbHTMLHelp kbVS97bug kbVS600fix kbGrpDSTools 
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: April 15, 1999