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>>How about using your form's Keypress Event to capture those codes and then do your thing?
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>Thanks, a good idea. I was able to trap the input and prevent the text from going into the textbox. However the keypress event traps only one key at a time and it is difficult to find a key to distuinguish between a scanned entry and a regular keyboard entry. Also, the CHR values have more than one representation (see the INKEY documentation). I think my best bet is to use a string identifier as my scanned 'code' and then to concatenate the string into a property character by character in the form's keypress event. When I have fully identified the scan code I can then take action. I'll try this. Thanks a lot.

Add a property to your form, like "expecting hotkey". Now in the keypress

...case nKeyCode=asc("@")   && say this is announces Alt
      nodefault
      thisform.ExpectingHotkey=.t.
   case thisform.expectingHotKey
      case inlist(nKeyCode, [list of acceptable ones])
         [activate whatever you need, based on the character]
         thisform.ExpectingHotkey=.f.
         nodefault
   case ...