>> ... I wouldn't be surprised that James's program is a console one, not using TForm nor any windows message loop to process WM_ messages, but I may be wrong.
Indeed you are correct, it is a very extensive console application which uses PTCGraph. I do accept keyboard input on both the Console window and the PTCGraph window. I have a keytest function that I can run in my application that reports the returned keycodes every time a key is pressed in either window, but pushing the Pause key is the same as doing nothing, it does not trigger keypressed. However I was already doing: isShiftDown := GetAsyncKeyState(VK_Shift); because I want to know if shift was held down, I can't rely on just if I get a capital or lower case letter because caps lock might be on, and I want my key command to work the same regardless of caps lock. So I just added a new function that does: isPausePushed := GetAsyncKeyState(VK_PAUSE); and check the pause key every time I check for keypressed (instead of inside keypressed) and if it finds it, it executes my Pause routine. It's working GREAT! So Thank you for the help getting it to work in my console program! Pause is Back!! Now I can use F12 for something more useful. James _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
