Fortunately, a solution using the keypress event has been found. If it hadn't, I definitely would have tried this.

Thanks,
Eric

>>I'm not really sure how to do that accurately. KEYBOARD adds to the existing keyboard buffer which may already have additional characters ahead of it. Problematic.
>
>I have yet to encounter a "real" situation where there is more than one character in the keyboard buffer (short of a user "leaning" on the keyboard).
>
>I'd go with:
>
>

>DO CASE
>CASE THISFORM.lTranslating
>   THISFORM.lTranslating = .F
>CASE nKeyCode = 97
>   THISFORM.lTranslating = .T.
>   NODEFAULT
>   KEYBOARD CHR( 98 ) CLEAR
>etc.
>