In addtion to Peter's suggestion, you must use the nKeyCode associated with the nShiftAltCtrl. When you look at the INKEY() table, you will notice that nKeyCode varies with nShiftAltCtrl.

>I just checked. The parameters are different. How does keyascii relate to nKeycode, nShiftAltCtrl ?
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>>>I have a form with a treeview on a pageframe on one side and a browser control on the rest of the form.
>>>The tree shows items to select, the browser shows pictures about the item.
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>>>I want to randomly show items in the browser (in a kiosk setting) and if a user walks up to the machine and presses a key stop the timer and let the user make a selection in the tree
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>>>After now keypresses of about xx minutes the timer should kick in and displey randon pics in the browser control
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>>>Can that be done? And how? :-)
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>>Both the Treeview control and the form have a Keypress() event. Won't that do?