Nadya:

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so better just send me your class. Anyway, I see, that you use Value_Assign to check for lastkey()=27.
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I sent you a copy of the PRG and a screen shot to your email address. Most of the code is there simply to make the thermometer look good. Almost everything is done through Access methods. I only check for Escape in Percent_Assign but this is not a problem if the thermometer is refreshed often enough. As mentionned in my email, I ran into some problems with a Cancel button (the Click event was not processed quickly enough) and this was my quick workaround. This thermometer was developed because I did not like some of the code in the thermometer included in the Component Gallery (and the document is poor).

Daniel