just Retutn .F. this will prevent the form from instantiating in the first place Arnon > >I have a screen that receives several parameters, and then runs some code. Depending on what happens I may want to close the form >automaticlly so the users doesn't have to. Problem is that when I call ThisForm.Release() from the Init() event it doesn't close the form. I'm assuming it's because the form's not completely loaded into memory during the Init() event and therefore cannot be released. Any ideas on a work-around for this?