>>Nodefault and stuffing the keyboard buffer works fine. Strange way to "eat >my sandwich" but it does the job. Looks like MS would have provided a way >to pass a different value back to the object directly from within the >keypress event. Many thanks for the help. > >Mike, > >If you must do it that way then here's an experiment to try, in the >Keypress; > > IF nKeyCode = > NODEFAULT > nKeyCode = ASC("") >ENDIF > what I usually do is DO CASE CASE nKeyCode= nNewkeyCode=new_value Textbox::KeyPress(nNewKeyCode,nShiftAltCtrl) && or any other control NODEFAULT . . ENDCASE