Using a keypress to break out a loop

[Gumppy]

I've currently have a loop of a ball bouncing around the screen, but i wanna know if thers any way u can get the loop to break if you hit escape or x. I tried to call form_keypress with in the loop to see if a key was pressed but that doesnt seem to be working. can anyone help?

[rino_2]

Hi,

This may work:
dim run as boolean

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do until run = false
' ball bouncing code
loop

Private Sub Form_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
dim strKey as string
strKey = chr(keyascii)
if strKey = "x" then run = false
End Sub

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I hope it works!

[KENNNY]

remember to put DoEvents inside your loop, or it will hang the OS while your prog is running ;)

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[Nitro]

Inorder for you to break a loop, you must use the function Doevents. Look this up in the help because that is the official method of breaking a loop.

[Gumppy]

Thank you for the help, The DoEvents worx great =)