Typing in the index box doesn't scroll the index topics

This has been a bug for quite a while (v5?).  We are using v7 now.  We have a large help system.  Generating WebHelp with RoboHelp for Word.  We are calling context help using the Robohelp_CSH.cpp function RH_ShowHelp().  What we are seeing is that when the user types into the index box (where it says 'Type in the keyword to find'), the list of index topics doesn't scroll to what the user is typing.  If we run the help 'standalone' by double clicking on the 'root' .htm file, it works fine.  We have users that find this very offensive.  One actually got a hold of the president of the company and gave him 'an earfull' about it.  Called us incompetent, etc.  I downloaded the trial of v9 to see if it had been corrected.  But it hasn't.  Has anyone seen this?  Is there a fix?

Hi there
I bit the bullet, downloaded the app and installed it. I do see what you mean by the index not scrolling automagickally as it would with basic WebHelp being presented in a standard browser. But I note that what is happening is you appear to have WebHelp but being somehow presented using a custom viewer? I think we need more information about exactly how this viewer is working with the content.
What type of help is this? I know you said that you are using RoboHelp for Word, meaning that you are making edits using Microsoft Word and creating output from that. But what happens once you create the WebHelp? I see that you have a gob of content out in the RSU.Help folder. I also note that if I find and double-click the page named: rsu.htm that WebHelp loads and the Index works just fine and scrolls as you would expect.
So I can only conclude that the issue really isn't with what RoboHelp is producing, but more what your developers may be doing with the help once they link it to the application. I guess my analogy would be that you are stuffing a working product into a crate and the process of stuffing it into the crate is causing breakage.
Cheers... Rick
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