I suppose you could create a local Object at the beginning of the routine and store state to it. In the destroy event of the object it can restore state.

Glenn
>>Would TRANSACTIONS be overkill ?
>
>I just came up to the idea, but do you think it would work?
>
>lcOldOnEscape = on('escape')
>on escape cleanup(m.lcOldOnEscape)
>==============
>
>Cleanup()
>...
>on escape &lcOldOnEscape
>keyboard '{esc}' && e.g. we would try to simulate esc