Cathi,

I thought it had to be something simple I was missing. Thank you very much for the pointer, it was the correct answer. I just had this feeling you would be the one to answer this question.

regards,

JE

>Hi Jim,
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>The Form class has a KeyPreview property that indicates whether the form will receive key events before the event is passed to the control that has focus. It defaults to false. Turn this property to true and the form should start to receive the keystrokes.
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>>I have been looking around the .net framework classes trying to find a basic way to implement what we've gotten accustomed to in FoxPro with "On key label" when using an MDI windows form.
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>>In my attempts thus far, I can't seem to get the keypress, keydown, or keyup events to fire at the mdi form level.
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>>Any thoughts on how to implement specific hotkey functionality outside of menus and controls would be greatly appreciated.
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>>regards,
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>>Jim Erwin