Fred,

Dan showed the _screen.ActiveForm, but you shouldn't use it in the OKL, because there's a high probability that there isn't an active form at the time the key is hit. You should just test _screen.ActiveForm and then .ActiveControl inside ghelp.

FWIW, you should also consider using the form.KeyPress() method and getting rid of the OKL entirely.

>I need to pass the value of a property of the activecontrol on a form to a generic messagaging routine.
>
>Basically:
>
>On Key Label F1 DO ghelp WITH Thisform.ActiveControl.agenttext
>
>
>PROCEDURE ghelp
>parameter mtext
>
>=messagebox(mtext,0,'The Help You Wanted')
>RETURN
>
>************************************************
>
>The ghelp procedure is far more complex but basics of what I want to do.