Canceling Show Custom Dialog

[Echo33029]

Has anyone found a way to trap the escape key being pressed when using a Show Custom Dialog box. The get(lastmessagechoice) function always returns 1 when escape is pressed, and get(lasterror) always returns 0. Since we need to use the default (rightmost) button to get user input into a field, it seems impossible to find out if the user simply pressed escape ( a perfectly normal behavior in the world of dialog boxes). Several online searches on this website and google has resulted in no satisfactory answer.

Using Filemaker 11 Advanced on Windows XP.

[Vaughan]

Has anyone found a way to trap the escape key being pressed when using a Show Custom Dialog box. The get(lastmessagechoice) function always returns 1 when escape is pressed

Known behaviour. In WIndows the Escape key activates the default button. Note that in Mac OS X the Escape key does NOTHING.

..it seems impossible to find out if the user simply pressed escape ( a perfectly normal behavior in the world of dialog boxes)

Pressing escape may be "normal" in the PC world but not in Mac OS X.

[Echo33029]

Thanks Vaughn. I thought I was going crazy when I found no way around this.