>>Howcome doing a getRead from within a method of an object on a form
>>causes the form's Detroy() to be called?
>
>Is GetRead a method? Perhaps you should (a) look at the source code, or (b) use the debugger, and see at what moment (with what command) the Destroy() method gets called.

Sorry.
I am doing a simple
@ X,Y SAY "Text" GET mvar
READ