keyboard key value to ascii

[Shashi Sadasivan]

Hi All,
I am trying to simulate a certain key action on a control (control is a text box and lets say the symbol * activates a new form when pressesd and the text box has focus)
this * symbol is stored as a keyvalue.tostring() in the database and the user can change it. (which means i cant hardcode)
Now everytime i press the * key, the popup comes out, but it also puts the * into the textbox. If i handle it then the popup does not occour (the event for the popup to occour is defined on a click, but the keydown event is a generic one and thats why i cant integrate the txtbox_click event within teh keydown)

Now when the key * is presed e.KeyValue equals 106, 106 translates to j,
cant get my head around why this occours??

any clue?

thanks!