Code breaks ability to escape

Coding
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I added the following cope to move a stimulus on the screen, and just noticed that this seems to disable the ability to escape the code with the ‘escape’ key anywhere in the script. I am still very new to Javascript, any pointers would be appreciated.

// FRR ----- manual entry BEGIN; copy this before “function TestRoutineBegin(trials) {”
// code to move stimulus
var xforce;
spacepressed = 0; // reset each trial
xforce = 0; // initially set speed (‘force’) to 0. It increases in steps of 1 as long as key is down

function resetXforce(event){
xforce = 0 // if finger has been lifted, go back to speed 0
}
function getKeyResponse(event){ // check for responses
//psychoJS.eventManager.clearEvents({eventType:‘keyboard’});
var thisResp = psychoJS.eventManager.getKeys();
console.log(thisResp)

if (spacepressed == 0) { 
	if ("left" == thisResp[0]) {
            xforce--;  // decrease angle with increasing acceleration the longer key pressed
            angle = (angle + xforce); //plus not minus here since xforce may become negative
            myx = (0.25 * Math.sin((((Math.PI * 2) * angle) / 360)));
            myy = (0.25 * Math.cos((((Math.PI * 2) * angle) / 360)));
            //smallcircle2.setPos([myx, myy]);
            image_on_circ_test.setPos([myx, myy]);

    }
    if ("right" == thisResp[0]) {
            xforce++; //increase angle with increasing acceleration the longer key pressed
            angle = (angle + xforce);
            myx = (0.25 * Math.sin((((Math.PI * 2) * angle) / 360)));
            myy = (0.25 * Math.cos((((Math.PI * 2) * angle) / 360)));
            //smallcircle2.setPos([myx, myy]);
            image_on_circ_test.setPos([myx, myy]);
    }

	if ("space" == thisResp[0]) {
		LocCol2 = 'white'  // if response locked with spacebar
    		//document.removeEventListener("keydown", getKeyResponse); //once spacebar is pressed, dont except any more input
    		spacepressed = 1;//new 28.05 15:55
	} 

/* if (psychoJS.eventManager.getKeys({keyList:['space']}).length > 0) {
	LocCol2 = 'white'  // if response locked with spacebar
	spacepressed = 1;
	}*/

    psychoJS.eventManager.clearEvents({eventType:'keyboard'});
}

}

window.addEventListener(“keydown”, getKeyResponse); //tried keydown as well, with the same problem
window.addEventListener(“keyup”, resetXforce);

// FRR------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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resolved it by adding another instance of at the beginning of the function. Still not sure why this works, but did.

// check for quit (typically the Esc key)
if (psychoJS.experiment.experimentEnded || psychoJS.eventManager.getKeys({keyList:['escape']}).length > 0) {
  return quitPsychoJS('The [Escape] key was pressed. Goodbye!', false);
}