>>I have a screen with 1 single field which accepts numeric data.  When ESC key is pressed, valid clause of the field is not executed. Why ?
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>This may be canceling the input or halting your program. Try stepping through your program to see what actually happens when pressing ESC. Why would your users press ESC?


On pressing ESC, the READ is terminated, the window is released and cleanup code is executed. There are no ON KEY LABEL assignments.

ESC key is used to exit from the screen.

Rakesh