>i have this in my textbox's keypress event,
>
>if nkeycode=-1
>use employee
>brow
>endif
>
>but i don't see any browse window in my screen? i have a "mother child" set as top level form and another form as in top level which has the textbox..
>
>am i missing something here?

Probably version. In VFP7 and up F2 is reserved for 'next bookmark'. However your code should work at runtime.
Cetin