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Par2: Locking out ESC key
2000-06-09 -- Jim Kane
 
> When you are in a Form, Browse, or Window, pressing the Esc key blows you > out of the procedure. This is catastrophic if you have a parent record not > saves and child records in a browse on the window. So what is the best way > to lock out the esc key? I have in the past been alerting the esc key to say > F12. This does it, but there should be a better way to do it. > There is! Define a local variable, OkToClose byte(0) In event:closewindow put if ~OkToClose then cycle. You could add an error message to the cycle if you wanted.


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