>My experience is that pressing Esc always fires the valid clause, because I've had to put
>if lastkey() = 27
> return .T.
>endif
>in my valid clauses.
>
>So I don't see it as an anomaly.

I have found my mistake. I used "\?" in those
push buttons. The on-line help said it would fire
the VALID if a default escape button was specified.
I have removed all my "\? now.