Hi Al,

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, ESCAPE is set to ON. No code in the form's KeyPress event as well.

Will also tinker with your suggestions - use a variable instead of a form property.

Get back to you asap.

Are you still developing VFP apps may I ask?



>>Hi All,
>>
>>Is it possible to 'abort' some processing loop? I tried the code below (form method) to no avail:
>>
>>

>>
>>ON ESCAPE ThisForm.QuitProcess = .T.
>>
>>ThisForm.QuitProcess = .F.
>>
>>BEGIN TRANSACTION
>>
>>DO WHILE NOT ThisForm.QuitProcess 
>>     * here, we do stuff like calculations, record inserts
>>ENDDO
>>
>>IF ThisForm.QuitProcess
>>    ROLLBACK
>>ELSE
>>    COMMIT
>>ENDIF
>>

>>
>>Thanks in advance!
>
>Might be too obvious, but SET ESCAPE must be set to ON.
>
>Another thing to be wary of is, I don't know if ThisForm is still in scope during processing of an ON ESCAPE handler. To check you could reference the actual name of the form i.e.
>

>ON ESCAPE ActualNameOfForm.QuitProcess = .T.
>

>or, you could set and use a PRIVATE or PUBLIC memvar rather than a form property (if only for debugging purposes).
>
>Another thing you might need to check is if you've defined any code in the Form.KeyPress() or elsewhere that may get called.