Thanks, now I understand more clearly how it works. And to force VFP to process keyboard buffer one should use doevents as pointed by others.

>Yuri,
>
>The KEYBOARD command only puts data into keyboard buffer. It doesn't execute or process it. IOW, '.TopItemid=15' is executed AFTER the KEYBOARD command but before VFP processes keyboard buffer.
>
>>Ok, wait window is waiting. Then consider another example:
>>
>>Let us suppose I have a multiselect listbox on the form and I want to select all and then make a topindex, say to 15:
>>
>>

>>with thisform.List1
>>			.setfocus
>>			.Selected(1) = .t.
>>			KEYBOARD '{SHIFT+END}{SHIFT+HOME}'
>>
>>			.TopItemid=15
>>....
>>
>>

>>
>>Whether it is not obvious that .TopItemid=15 should go AFTER all items are selected with the keyboard? But it is not, it goes first! (Yes, I know there is another way to select all; it is here just to play with the keyboard command).
>>So how to force here the .TopItemid=15 go after keyboard command?
>>