I'm sorry, I read my original thread and I didn't explain myself properly. What I meant to say is that with these settings, if the user presses the key, it will activate the cmdCancel.Click Event. It isn't working. If I try to use code like Set Escape on and On Escape Thisform.cmdCancel.Click(), I get a message that says "THISFORM can only be used in a method."

Any other suggestions? I have tried to click the Cancel button while the program is running but it doesn't respond. Running out of ideas.

TIA,

Bill





>The cmds not really activate the cmdbtn. They are setting the properties of the cmdbtn. The only way to activate the btn is run "click event". You can use this cmd "Thisform.cmdCancel.Click". But why don't you simply use "Cancel, Return" or some other cmds to terminate the program.
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>>I have a modal form that has a command button which executes an update routine which is somewhat lengthy. When the cmdProceed command button is "clicked", I set the following code:
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>>Thisform.cmdCancel.Caption = " to Cancel"
>>Thisform.cmdCancel.Default = .T.
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>>The cmdCancel button is set Cancel = .T. already. My understanding is that will activate the click method on the Cancel button.
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>>Guess what. . .It doesn't. What did I do wrong.
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>>TIA - Bill

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