Hi So,

On Key Label happens outside the scope of the form, so you can't use the THISFORM construct. You have a few options:

1. As Michael has suggested, add a button a hotkey to the button (although this won't let you use F5)
   
2. Use the form's keypress event and set KeyPreview to .T.
   
3. Set a public variable to reference the form object and ON KEY LABEL F5 return goForm.cmdAddItem.Click()
   
4. Add a menu or popup with a hotkey that calls the method.
   

Note that you can use 1 and 2 together to give more than one way to get at the functionality.

HTH

Cheers,

Andrew

>Dear all.
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>Suppose I have a commandbutton 'cmdAddItem' on the form 'MyForm'. At the init event of the form 'MyForm' I have the coding segment:
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>On Key Label F5 thisform.amdAddItem.click()
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>so that the user may do the same job by clicking the commandbutton or press {F5}
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>Is this possible or otherwise any alternative?
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>With regards,
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>Ransome