>1 - I have a form with a pageframe on it and a commandgroup. I want my users to be able to do almost everything with keystrokes rather than desk rodents. So I put code like this in the keypress method of the form:
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> case nKeyCode=122 and thisform.pageframe1.activepage<>3 && ALT 3
> THISFORM.PAGEFRAME1.PAGE1.DEACTIVATE
> thisform.pageframe1.activepage=3
> THISFORM.COMMANDGROUP1.refresh
> nodefault
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>which works - Provided that the focus is on the Pageframe and not the Commandgroup.
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>Why should it not work when the commandgroup has focus?
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>2 - I would like to embed certain keypress behaviour like that into all my forms, so I experimented with placing the code in the base class.
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>This worked as well.
>But...
>I find that if I subsequently try to place further keypress code in a specific form subclassed from the base, then, even though I call the base method with a 'dodefault' and passed parameters, I lose either the base class behaviour or the subclass.
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Hi Harry,

Have you set form's property KeyPreview to .t.?