Are you sure? I tried something similar - put a WAIT WINDOW in the KeyPress event and then pressed various key combinations. The Ctrl and Shift ones worked as expected. The Alt combinations did not - though I can't recall if they didn't fire the event, or if they did but without indicating that Alt was pressed.

Anyone else able to duplicate the behavior Brien is talking about?
zahid

>>So I can use KeyPress to capture the key, right? Well, according to the Help file, "The KeyPress event does not occur for any combination of keys with the ALT key" (which is bizarre, since the second parameter includes a bit indicating whether Alt was pressed). Since I want the thing to work for Alt keys as well as Ctrl and Shift, am I forced to then go to LASTKEY() or some such to handle this?
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>I tested this and it does work. To test it yourself, just type SET STEP ON in the KeyPress event of a new form, run the form and look at the values of nKeyCode and nShiftAltCtrl in the debugger. That's a strange comment in the help file. One thing you should note is that the menu takes precedence over the form. That is, if you have the standard menu up and the user types Alt+F, the form's KeyPress event won't fire... the File menu will be activated.