>hi hilmar,
>
>thanks..
>
>i have a close button in my form, so i will set the property cancel to .T.
>
>but im just curious, how do i do that in my form keypress?

I am not so sure about all the details, right now. Basically, I think you have to check whether the key pressed is "ESC" - you will have to look up the code for that. This is the same code you find in the help topic for INKEY(). For ESC, that is number 27.

I understand you would need to set Form.KeyPreview to .T., so that the form sees the keys pressed before the controls contained in the form. (Otherwise, the form doesn't see the keys pressed at all.)

In summary, your code would probably look something like this:

* Method: Form.KeyPress()
lparameters nKeyCode, nShiftAltCtrl
if nKeyCode = 27
  ThisForm.MyMethodForClosingForm()
endif

If you use #DEFINE commands, you can make this more readable. In some include file, you have:

#DEFINE KEY_ESC 27

and then you can change the third line of the code above, as follows:

* Method: Form.KeyPress()
lparameters nKeyCode, nShiftAltCtrl
if nKeyCode = KEY_ESC
  ThisForm.MyMethodForClosingForm()
endif

Regards,

Hilmar.