Acshi wrote: However, if an entry is being edited, I don't want it deleted if the user presses the del key, instead, I want to have normal the normal del behavior of text boxes. I had the same problem some time ago and my first solution was to disable the shortcut-key before editing text. That got messy quite fast, and thus I changed the shortcut-key to Ctrl-DEL. I don't know if that's a viable option for your project though :) I are troll :)