>>>>Keypress doesn't support Alt combination. Instead you would need something like lastkey(), inkey().
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>>>If it is true that Keypress doesn't support Alt Combination, why when KeyPreview =.F. Alt combination does work as expected? If you don't belive me you can give it a try.
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>>How as expected ? Have you put a wait window in alt+letter keypress case or alt+letter did what it should ? If latter in many cases you don't need to catch alt+letter. ie: Page.caption = "\
>>Cetin
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>Centin,
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>Keypress does not support Alt combinations. It is what VFP help says. However when I have a following case statement in KeyPress event, it does execute the code upon one condition that is KeyPreview has to be .F..
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> case nShiftAltCtrl = 4 .AND. nkeycode = 32
>* ALT + D keys
> NODEFAULT
> select mytable
> set order to anotherorder
> ThisForm.Refresh()
>
>I do not have anywhere on the form which has "\>
>But my problem is that when KeyPriview is .F. Ctrl + [combination letter] does not activate. If KeyPreview is .T., Ctrl combination key assignments are working but Alt combination key assignments are not working.
>
>Jim
Jim,
I learned a new thing. You're right. Now what to resolve it. You need keypreview = .t. so for alt keys you could assign them to invisible buttons with \gtsignhereCaption so alt combination would also work or set it as a menu shortcut key.
Cetin
