You know how it is, I never use a button for the prupose, so I forgot about it. It's probably even the simplest solution. :-)

>Put a button on the form with .Cancel = .T.
>
>>You have at least two options:

>>ON KEY LABEL ESC thisform.release

>>Or, a much better solution is to put this in the KeyPress event method

>>if nKeyCode = 27
>>   thisform.release
>>endif

>>Personally I give my customers a last chance to regret, with a timeout. This also goes into the KeyPress event method

>>DO CASE
>>   CASE nKeyCode = 27	&&Escape
>>      IF MESSAGEBOX('Do you really want to exit the program?',4+16+256,'Obs!',5000)=6
>>	 thisform.Release()
>>      ENDIF
>>   CASE morestuff..
>>ENDCASE

>>
>>>ok, thanks I will try and let you know
>>>by the way...i have a problem with on escape too...i want to release a form when I press ESC.have any ideea