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>> I have an application which I wish to be completely keyboard driven. If I
>> open a list box programmatically to use as a lookup to fill a text box, how
>> do I prevent the focus moving to enabled text boxes when the list box has
>> focus and the arrow keys take the selected row past the top or the bottom
>> of the list box.
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>> Thanks in anticipation of your help.
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>First off, use a combobox. You're reinventing the wheel.
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>Once you've done that, you can check to see if DisplayValue has been
>popoulated in your valid clause to prevent the object from losing focus
>if empty

Thanks for your response. Can you be specific about the code you would use as !EMPTY(this.DisplayValue) works fine if nKeyCode = 13 is coded for in the keypress event. If it isn't the program tries perform a run command.