David,

You can't release properties of objects with the RELEASE command. Setting the property to null as you have done will release the object (assuming nothing else is holding a reference to it). So, what you have below is correct. Just delete the line that you have commented out.

HTH,
Chad

>Hi all, I define a class below to do some basic directory management. The release line in the destroy method does not compile. Any idea? Thanks!
>

>define class CDir as custom
>   hidden sDir
>   hidden oShell
>   sDir= ""
>   oShell= .null.
>   function init
>      this.sDir= sys(5)+sys(2003)
>      this.oShell= createobject('WScript.Shell')
>   function destroy
>      cd (this.sDir)
>      && release this.oshell && Error: must be a variable or array
>      this.oShell= .null.
>   function MyDocuments
>      cd (this.oShell.SpecialFolders("MyDocuments"))
>enddef
>