In situation like yours I used to call form like /do form.... NAME form_name/. Then form_name can be used everywhere to access form properties methods and controls.

>What would be a good way to escape entry in a form?
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>I am currently trying toi put code in the Keypress event of a certain field, so that if the user hits the ESCAPE key, that the data entry form will close up (go gray) and will execute the ThisForm.cmdCancel.Click() method.
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>However, it appears that you can't do this as easily as I had thought. I received an error in which I was told by FoxPro (VFP 7) that you can't use the ThisForm.cmdCancel.Click method.
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>The specific error was:
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>"ThisForm can only be used from within a form."
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>Any ideas?