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[jakemoffatt]

The first section of code is for the compiled help viewer for the Visual Dataflex program. I want to be able to hit Escape to close it instead of having to hit ALT_F4. That works, but if I take out the comments, the rest of the code doesn't work.

The second section, is for the actual program, not the help file. The program shows the title of the app in the taskbar, plus the currently open workspace and filename. I only want the workspace + filename to show, so it is easy for me to tell what taskbar item is which workspace. So the Loop I have just continuously watches to see if the name of the app changes and if it does, I delete the front part of the name so that only the workspace+filename show.

This works great, but as I said before, I can't get the other part working at the same time.

I think I am in a bit of a catch22, because I want to define a hotkey, but I also need a continuous loop running. If I define the hotkey, the loop won't start until the hotkey is pressed. If I do the loop first, the hotkey will never get defined because the loop will run forever.

Is there a way to define a hotkey and then return to normal execution of the script?

[horntail]

Try this:

[jakemoffatt]

Thanks Horntail that works great!

But I don't understand why that works.

I would think that when you Goto Run

it would start the infinite loop and "Escape::..." would never get executed.

How is it that Escape still works?

[horntail]