>Ctrl+E is used in my VFP application and users expect that this key will work.
>So I must make it work.

Andrus, did you find a workaround for this yet? I toyed with it some this weekend and came up with something. Basically, in your TextBox class, you need to override the ProcessCmdKey and do some extra processing if the TextBox is ReadOnly:

protected override bool ProcessCmdKey(ref Message msg, Keys keyData)
{
  switch (keyData)
  {
	case Keys.Control | Keys.E:
		if (this.ReadOnly == true)
		{
			this.ReadOnly = false;
			bool returnvalue = base.ProcessCmdKey(ref msg, keyData);
			this.ReadOnly = true;
			return returnvalue;
		}
		else
			return base.ProcessCmdKey(ref msg, keyData);
  }
  return base.ProcessCmdKey(ref msg, keyData);
}

~~Bonnie