Hi Chris

I remember being told some time ago that it was bad practise to overrule the windows Function key settings (by Christof Lange I think). Especially if you application is supposed to be Windows compliant.

Heres a list of what they are http://www.techtv.com/callforhelp/answerstips/windowstips/story/0,24330,2600873,00.html

Nick Mason

>Hi All - I have set KeyPreview true on my form and I have this code in the KeyPress event...
>

>LPARAMETERS nKeyCode, nShiftAltCtrl
>IF INLIST(nKeyCode, 28, -1, -2, -3, -4, -5, -6, -7, -8, -9, 133, 134) THEN
>MESSAGEBOX("F KEY PRESSED")
>ENDIF
>

>
>but this does not catch F1 or F10
>
>I am aware that F1 is reserved for HELP etc and F10 seems to set focus to my menu.
>
>How do I capture F1 and F10?
>
>Thanks