>>How would I display the last key stroke - say it is escape key?
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>What exactly are you trying to do - is it something specific to COM/DCOM?
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>If you're in a form or control, you could look at the .KeyPress event. Programmatically, there's LASTKEY( ). There is special handling for the ESCAPE key, look at SET ESCAPE and ON ESCAPE.

escape = lastkey = 27
that does it

thanks al.

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