I would like to know if anyone has run across this issue: In PowerBasic 10, you can place the cursor on a keyword and use a context menu on it. Among other things, you can get help on that keyword in PB's massive CHM help file. This function uses the Topic feature of the Windows Help program, hh.exe. If only one topic is relevant, the help system comes up, and you can hit Alt-D to display information and F6 to read it. But if this keyword results in multiple topic hits, Window-Eyes and the help system freeze up. The freeze is unusual. First the highlighted topic is spoken, and its index in the list "1 of 15" or whatever. Nothing happens to the screen and nothing is spoken if you use the keyboard to arrow up and down the list, press Tab, Alt-F4, etc. Physically moving the mouse reads items on the screen, but clicking the mouse has no effect. If you bring up Task Manager with ctrl-shift-Escape, Window-Eyes reads normally and allows you to kill the help process. It also just allowed me to run the Window-Eyes Diagnostics script (while Task Manager was open). At work, I am doing this on a Windows 7 32-bit system with over 3 GB of RAM. At home I tried this also with Windows 7 64-bit, with similar results. At home I set up a hotkey to stop all scripts, and stopping them didn't seem to change anything. I notice that pbhelp.set starts if I start the help from within PowerBASIC, whereas a generic Windows Help set file is loaded if I open the PowerBASIC CHM file from Windows Explorer.
Any suggestions? Lloyd Rasmussen, Wheaton, Maryland If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
