>>Still digging... This is how to set it up using the Windows API. Now what I'm pretty clueless about is how to use the VFP API to handle a WM_Hotkey message in the message queue.
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>Looks in the samples/api directory for event.c. That will show you how to build an FLL to trap Windows messages. It's about the most elegant solution you're likely to find.

Thanks Mike. I took a look. I'm no WinAPI guru, but it looks to me like event.c demonstrates how to trap and report on VFP events. Does ev->what in the EventHandler actually point to the Windows message value? Here's what I need to have happen:
- I would have my VFP application call RegisterHotKey, passing to it the hWnd for _VFP, I suppose
- User switches to a NON-Foxpro windows application
- User hits hotkey sequence while using that application
- Windows sends a WM_HotKey message to _VFP main window
- I need to receive that message and execute a VFP procedure when that event occurs.
What I can't figure out is how to get VFP to receive and convey the WM_Hotkey message that gets zinged to it when the user enters a registered hotkey while interacting with a non-VFP Windows application. For others reading this thread: It's a "system level" hotkey I need, not an "application level" hotkey like you can create with the On Key Label statement.