Excellent Robert, I tried all sorts of things and learnt abunch of stuff on
the way as usual.

Martin

Robert Purves wrote:

> >It still doesn't respond to the escape key (27)?
>
> The clear key and the esc key are both chr$(27).
>
> The reason that the escape key cannot be picked up by your ON EDIT routine
> is that it gets mapped to an _efClear event, which you can pick up in your
> ON DIALOG routine along with many other edit-field related events.
>
> case _efReturn ' return key in _NoCR type efs
> case _efTab ' tab key pressed
> case _efShiftTab ' shift tab key pressed
> case _efClick
> case _efClear ' clear or escape key pressed
> case _efLeftArrow ' left arrow key pressed
> case _efRightArrow
> case _efUpArrow
> case _efDownArrow
>
> Robert P.
>
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