>>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
>
>Josh thanks that worked great! Do other events get put on hold while a while loop is running. Like maybe the oncomm event in the MSCOMM32 control?

Yes. Any time you are waiting for an ActiveX control event to fire you should either be in a wait state or use DOEVENTS.