Dave,

Try putting a DOEVENTS command in your loop.

>I want to be able to stop my program during a while loop and have tried the following but it did not work.
>
>llgo = .t.
>ON KEY LABEL CTRL+HOME llgo = .f.
>do while !eof() and llgo = .t.
> .
> .
> code.........
> .
> .
> skip
>enddo
>
>Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong. Pressing the ctrl+home key
>does not me out of the while loop.
>
>TIA,
>Dave