Robert,

What John meant is that the CANCEL button is in so many places in
Windows, and is the de-facto standard for closing a form, so you might
as well adhere to the de-facto standard when implementing your
"Close-on-Escape" form (whether or not you make the button visible).

John was not arguing that the CANCEL button is endemic as regards
closing a form with ESC.

Michel.
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>I'd have to disagree that the cancel button is endemic. We are modeling our app after MS Outlook. All of the child forms (like the mail message text) that come up, close on ESC, but do not have a Cancel button.
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>>I agree with Josh. The Cancel button is endemic to almost all Windows apps so you're in agreement with standards to have it (and make it visible). So, set Cancel property to .T. and you're cooking.
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>>>What is the best way to have a form close with an ESC press?
>>>
>>>1) trap the KeyPress=27 event in the form and issue release()
>>>2) have a button (possibly invisible) set as "Cancel" and issue release() in its click
>>>3) something else
>>>
>>>
>>>Bob