No. The subclass worked fine without the suggested code; did nothing at all with it.

Sergey's suggestion about using Textbox::Keypress worked fine ... altho that's magic code to me, I've never seen :: before.



>Could it be that in your subclass you were missing dodefault ?
>
>>Tore --
>>
>>DoDefault(...) did nothing -- it swallowed the keystrokes. I assume it was because this was in a subclass.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>>This is code I have used for years:
>>>

if Between(nKeyCode, 32, 255) and IsAlpha(chr(nKeyCode))
>>>   NoDefault 
>>>   DoDefault(Asc(Lower(Chr(nKeyCode))),nShiftAltCtrl)
>>>EndIf

>>>
>>>>What code do you put in Keypress to convert all uppercase characters to lowercase?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>>
>>>>Merry Christmas