What I did was assign shift-F2 as well, and that worked, but that startmode is a great tip. I didn't know it existed and I can see using that in the future. :)
Thanks,
Michelle
>You can make it a little less painfull by assigning ON KEY LABEL in your texbox GotFocus for development only and check for that value in keypress.
IF _VFP.StartMode = 0
> ON KEY LABEL f2 KEYBOARD CHR(255)
>ENDIF