Argh! I could have sworn I was able to trap a few Alt combinations in a previous test, but I just went back and tried it again after noticing the following line in the VFP help entry for the keypress event: "The KeyPress event does not occur for any combination of keys with the ALT key.". As it states, I could not reproduce what I thought I had done. Perhaps in experimenting I had defined some OKL's for the Alt combos. Oh well, it's getting late and now I'm talking to myself so I'm going to call it a night.

Just for the record, after further experimentation with a hotkey object, I found that some Alt key combinations are passed to the keypress event while others aren't. I haven't quite figured out all the reasons why (menu pads shortcut keys are one). Same goes for Ctrl combinations that are defined as keyboard shortcuts for menu items.