>I still don't understand where/why you need the wait state. I made a very simple test form with 2 textboxes and 1 checkbox. In the Init of the form I have:
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>KEYBOARD "12345{TAB}abcde{TAB}{ENTER}"
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>This will input "12345" in the first textbox, "abcde" in the second, will check the checkbox and go back to the first textbox. And it works.
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>Isn't something similar what you're doing?
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>Vlad

Here's pseudocode of what we're trying to do.

I'm working worth a page of a pageframe and based on what type of text box is there I want to format my input accordingly.

LOCAL llCommandButton
llCommandButton = .F.
DO WHILE NOT llCommandButton
   llCommandButton =  fFillTextBoxes()
ENDDO

PROCEDURE  pFillTextBoxes
#DEFINE kcTab   CHR(9)
LOCAL loCurObj, llCommandButton, lcKeyBoard

loCurObj = _SCREEN.ACTIVEFORM.ACTIVECOTROL.

* Now get the type from the control source.
* Get the name
.
llCommandButton = .F.
DO CASE
     CASE < commandbutton >
            llCommandbutton = .T.
     CASE TYPE < numeric >
            lcKeyBoard = "10"
ENDCASE

KEYBOARD lcKeyBoard + kcTab

RETURN llCommandButton

The point of the code is that I won't know what is on the page prior to running the code. Your keyboard example may not work for specific textboxes. This is a kind of programmatic interactive tester that based on the type of the control box, I will keyboard certain values. Now granted certain fields need special handling. But I am working on something that will do special handling based on properties and methods in the objects that I am looking at.

In this kind of loop I need to keyboard. Get control back in the program. Keyboard again. And finally have some way of stopping. Here I am making an assumption that after tabbing through a number of fields, I will reach a command button and stop execution of the test. The test must run by itself. Eventually we plan to have it run a number of screens to simulate data-entry on several different machines for a more severe stress test.

I have looked at DOEVENTS that does kick out the whats stuffed in the keyboard buffer, but unfortunately it has a lot of unwanted side effects as well

I appreciate your comments VLAD. Any help you can give me with this problem would be greatly appreciated.

Dan