>Thank you Naomi and Borislav,
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>You are correct in that form refresh seems to be the most of my problem. I am going to use thisform.paint after setting the backcolor as suggested by Sergey. It seems to work in both typed and moused changes.
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>Scott Sherman

For me it looks like you don't have to use anything, no refresh, draw or paint. It seems to work fine without anything in the Borislav's form. When you add thisform.refresh it stops working for keyboard.