Hi;

   Yes, the key down events would not be the place to handle the keyboard activity as the keyboard's Z80 processor has not yet generated the new character until the key(s) have been released. The key up events are the proper event where a character in the keyboard buffer is now present however.

   In the case of the DC, you have to remember that the character in the keyboard buffer is not yet known to the DWO until another character is keyed in or a loose focus event occurs. If you want the last keyed sequence in keyboard buffer to be processed into the DWO before you move on, you would need to use the AcceptText() command. You could also consider using the Edit Changed event as well to get each character.

  The SLE also needs to have it's modifed event fired to get the last character from the keyboard's buffer. This happens automatically on a loose focus or another key in. The thing to keep in mind here is to make sure when using the key up event, is to process the last character before forcing focus to change to the DC.

HTH

Regards ... Chris

Another good place to process data that needs to be captured is in the LoseFocus event of the object, unless the object is a command button who when clicked, starts a specific process.

Olan

Why not create a window function that does the processing and you pass an argument to the function that tells it whether you're coming from the dw or the sle.  Then you can call AcceptText() on the DW or modified event on the sle as needed.