John--

>i think the shift key not function on these cases because user can hold CTRL+b or CTRL+B and vfp catch it same with SHIFT+b or SHIFT+B so can't combine those.
>You can make a timer that catch keys and have a table with combinations and forms name, when combination is typed you can start the respective form. this timer must be located as class in main program of your app.

I am not certain what you are suggesting. I suspect that my timer needs to go off every 0.25 seconds (or some such) and do an INKEY () or LASTKEY (). If I see the appropriate ctrl+shift, I start the form. Is that the suggestion?


Tim