>I wonder if anyone has tried to fire menu items or hot keys with a scanner? We made a bar code consisting of e.g. Ctrl + F, Alt + B using the CHR() function. The problem we encountered was when you are focused in a text box or another control. Instead of firing an interrupt (which works if you are focused on the toolbar) the literal characters are stuffed into the textbox control itself.

How about using your form's Keypress Event to capture those codes and then do your thing?