Menubar shortcut not functional if focus is on string control

Dear All,
I am wondering if this is the expected behavior or if I am doing something wrong:
On a panel I have a string control; on double clicking I open a file select box to select a file, the file name then is displayed on this string control. After this action, this string control is the active control, indicated by the grey frame.
I also have a menu bar with some shortcut keys defined, such as F2. It appears that F2 is not functional as long as the focus is on the string control. This is inconvenient because a typical user action is selecting a file and then pressing Fx. To solve this problem the user needs to click somewhere on the panel to move the focus to another control. Of course this could be done programmatically, but this extra effort is not necessary say for ring controls or numeric controls. Also in numeric controls I can change the numbers, but even if a numeric control is the acitve control because of editing the value F2 immediately works.
Help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Wolfgang
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I just tried in a project of mine and had no problems in calling a menu function with its shortcut key while the focus is on a string control with a callback attached: maybe the problem lies in the string control callback, which is possibly trapping the keypress event before it is sent to the panel.
I tested both with "regular" shortcut keys (such as Ctrl + P) and with F2 only as the shortcat. My callback is not trapping EVENT_KEYPRESS event.
EDIT: I tried by swallowing keyboard presses with if (event == EVENT_KEYPRESS) return 1; but I am still able to operate on menus with shortcut keys. Seems the reason lies elsewhere: you can try progressively excluding parts of control callback and see when menus return responsive.
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