>>Hi
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>>I've been working on this form. Then I add the func'y to call a dialogue form. I misspelt the name and got an error, so cancelled out of that bit of code. But when I go to close the main form I keep getting the ever-useful error message:
>>"file cannot be closed because outsatnding references exist". Help on this merely repeates the message oin a different way.
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>>I can't close the form with its close button, Debugger's already washed its hands of it, File->Close has no effect and the only reaction is when I hit the modify form tool button. So I've only recourse to terminating VFP.
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>>What's VFP on about?
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>>'ppreciate it
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>>Terry
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>Do you do something like
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>thisform.oFancyDialog = createobject(...)
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>This would prevent your form from releasing...
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>Try cancel form, clear all, close all in command window, if it's available.

Couldn't get hold of ANY object in VFP, even the form that called the dialogue.

Thanks but none of these applies. I think it might be because I need to manually open tables in this suite of forms. In the called dialogue I use SQL on a table, which I, being used to having them all in the DE, had forgotten to manually open. Since now I have, I haven't had the error.

Still - a bit more information as to WHAT refernce is outstanding would have been welcome, eh?