Kerry,
Thanks for the INPUT.
Although what I was trying to do is use the ENTER as a flag to get
blocks from all the database "X" and not if the user tried to select
a group of objects but failed to get any matching blocks. After some
more testing I see that the ssget with a filter returns a null set
when non matching objects are attempted to be selected. At that point
pressing the enter key is the same as no attempt to select and pressing
the enter key. Therefore there is no way to know if the user wants the
selection set of the entire database or actually missed in there attempt
at selecting matching objects. Using ssget without a filter pretty much
ensures that something will be selected. This makes it more likely that
a null section set was a user pressing enter as a signal to use the
entire database.
Because ssget does not honor keywords i don't see a way to clearly signal
the routine to use the entire database only when enter alone was pressed.
Thanks
CAB