>>1) Make the cursor (focus) go to a certain field by means of pressing a key like F2, but only while I am in a given form?
>>I tried an ON KEY LABEL F2 thisform.thisfield.setfocus
>>but got a message saying thisform can only be used within a method.
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>>2) I have several combo boxes in a form and I'd like them to display (open) automatically when getting the focus. I'm looking for an equivalent SendKeys command in Visual Basic, but can't find any.
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>>Thanks in advance.
>>Ulises.
>ad1) How about _screen.activeform.specobject.setfocus()
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>ad 2) at gotfoucus KEYBOARD '{ALT+DNARROW}'
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You can use the Wscript.Shell COM object's SendKeys method, or use the Win32 API's SendMessage() to send WM_KEYDOWN and WM_KEYUP messages directed at the current window, or keybd_event() or SendInput() (requires 98 or NT SP3 or later) to send keystrokes. SendMessage() can also send mouse results, there's a separate API function mouse_event() equivalent to keybd_event().

There's a minor glitch with using KEYBOARD here, in that it adds to the end of the queue for the keyboard buffer. The result generally looks like a keyboard error. Issuin a KEYBOARD CLEAR, or sucking in the current buffer using CHRSAW() and INKEY(), and sending the added string before resending the current buffer are two options available here.

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>Hopes this helps
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>Lasse