You can trap the ESC key in the form's keypress event:

if nKeyCode = 27
    nodefault
    thisform.release
endif

>I have a nice application that requires the user to use the close form button to close down any open form. I tie the escape key to the cancel button. Now they want to have the Escape key leave the form if the cancel key is deactivated.
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>I'm trying to use ON ESCAPE but it does not seem to fire if the user is on a pageframe. Any ideas how to do this?
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>Thanks
>
>John Brooks