>>Stephen,
>>
>>>Ok, I seem to be reading a bunch of requests for information to stop a process. I have the same dilemma but, as mentioned here, need to limit use of DOEVENTS because of the time overhead.
>>
>>You can overcome the time overhead off the DOEVENTS by
>>

IF MDOWN() OR CHRSAW()
>>	DOEVENTS
>>ENDIF

>>It only fires when there is an event to process. This mechanism is very efficient when calling several times in a second, without loosing significant amounts of time.
>>
>>Walter,
>
>Hi Walter,
>
>And the above code would be in my button with the Cancel property?
>
>Steve

No, I think he means this code would be in your loop somewhere.