Hi MerryMay,
here you will find some hints to help you in your shortcut problems.
1) In a panel, you must put different shortcut keys for the controls, otherwise the behaviour of the interface is somewhat confusing (I hadn't tested it but I can figure that only the first control in the tab order will be triggered its callback)
2) What do you mean by 'that part of program started'? If in 'that part of program' another panel is displayed, the caller one lies in the background and doesn't respond to events like shortcut keys or other keyboard events. It can respond to mouse events because when you click on it it becomes the active panel, and then it can manage mouse or keyboard events
If these hints don't help you in solving your problem, try posting your UIR
file for us to look at it and check.
Roberto