Problem w/ hiding/showing objects

Here's the problem: I want to hide all the forms in a project until a certain key combination is pressed..if the key combo is right I want to be able to pop up a form. It seems that if the form is hidden then the KeyDown event doesn't respond. How can I make this work properly? Thanks in advance.
-Adam

since the form doesn't have the focus, the KeyDown event is not sent to the form. maybe you could try implementing a hotkey in your project.