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FP98: Error Using Image for Hover Button on Disk-Based Web

Article ID: 181653

Article Last Modified on 12/1/2000

Microsoft FrontPage 98 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q181653

SYMPTOMS

When you preview a page that contains a hover button, the hover button appears as a gray box. When you rest the mouse over the hover button, you see one of the following messages in the status bar:

Internet Explorer:

   Exception: com.ms.securityExceptionEx[fphover.init]:
   cannot access file /C:/myweb/progressive.jpg.

Netscape Navigator:

   Applet Fphover can't start:
   exception: java.lang.NullPointerException.

CAUSE

This behavior occurs if both of the following are true:

You are using a custom image for your hover button.

-and-
Your Web is a disk-based Web.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, use either of the following methods:

Publish your content to a server-based Web rather than a disk-based Web.

-or-
Do not use a custom image for your hover button.

STATUS

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

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about why some components require a Web server, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

173437 FP98: Some FrontPage Components Do Not Work on Disk-Based Webs

For additional information about publishing your Web to a server, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

161414 FP: How to Publish a FrontPage Web to the Internet, Intranet

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