I'm using a text-object for input which has a keydown, keypress and keyup-event. The keydown-event is used to detect which key(combination) is pressed and act on it. The text-box is an ActiveX-control, as the "normal" VFP-objects only have a keypress-event which does not detect ALT-combinations. So, I receive a key, check the key and if it's a preset execution of that preset starts. However, when processing that preset, I don't receive the keyboard input (eg. the key-down doesn't fire) UNTIL the system (eg. the form) is ready for input again. In that way I miss a lot of input! I actually know the solution: just reading the keyboard-buffer directly. Only problem is, I don't know how... What I need is to be able to read the keyboard buffer directly, one way or another. If anyone have an idea...