No it's not normal. Most likely something in your code causes that.

>It appears that I need to set the KeyPreview in the base class for it to fire properly. Is this normal?
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>Regards
>Geoff
>>Hi
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>>Is anyone else having a problem with the keypress event of the control not firing when the form property KeyPreview = .T.
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>>My form keypress event calls a method on the form (FunctionKeyPress) which goes through its paces but when the keypress event finishes the control keypress does not fire.
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>>Any pointers as to what is going wrong?
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>>regards
>>Geoff