trapping escape key without user input

[BellwetherBill]

Hi,

Does anyone know of a way to trap when the user hits the escape key without a user input function. The idea is to loop infinitely and perform some analysis until the user hits the escape key.

I supose I could do the same thing with a form but I would not.

Thanks in advance.

[chiefbraincloud]

This is the simplest example:

http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2007/02/allowing_users_.html

This is a slightly different approach, and the example code does much more than what you are looking for, but not exactly what you are looking for, so you'd have to tweak it a bit.

http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2008/05/filtering-windo.html