There is only one English language - but I forget which country speaks it!:-)
>Hi Terry,
>
>plese pardon me for jumping in. "so a method would have to be DOed"? I must have slept in my english classes at school, I was sure it was "so a method would have to be DOne"! :-)
>
>>In the textbox gotfocus you could
>>ONKEY LABEL F8 MESSAGEBOX([F8 KEY PRESSED])
>>this.value won't work with on key, so a method would have to be DOed!
>>It could then be cleared in lostfocus.
>>
>>>Hello Foxperts,
>>>
>>>I'm trying to capture the F8 keystroke and use it to replace the contents of a character field with another string that was saved in a memvar. Here's the code I've placed in the KeyPress event-method of the textbox:
>>>

LPARAMETERS nKeyCode, nShiftAltCtrl
>>>	WAIT "You Pressed "+TRANSFORM(nKeyCode) WINDOW NOWAIT   && for debug only
>>>IF nKeyCode=-7
>>>	NODEFAULT
>>>	oRec_mem.bwk_PlaceName=m.PlaceName
>>>	This.Refresh()
>>>ELSE
>>>	DODEFAULT(nKeyCode)
>>>ENDIF

>>>The WAIT ... WINDOW line shows me the nKeyCode for F7 and F9, but F8 returns nothing.
>>>
>>>UPDATE: F8 appeared to return nothing because an old ON KEY LABEL F8 DO ... was lurking in the dBASE/DOS program I've been trying to replicate in VFP. Thanks........ posting the problem solved it again!