>I jumped in here because I thought you might have answered a problem I have which is that sometimes in my simplest apps (a PRG calls a FORM and then follows it with a READ EVENTS and some cleanup and then exits, sometimes it leaves the form window open (in development mode -- of course it closes in compiled mode)... and I don't know why, since I CLEAR EVENT and thisform.release as the last two things under the "click" method of an "exit" button...
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>Ah... oh... hmmm... maybe I need to put those somewhere other than click?
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>Cheers,
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>Kevin
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>PS (Sorry if I hijacked this thread...)

I don't mind, as long as questions get answered.

Sounds like you're closing your form properly, it's probably something else - you may have a dangling object reference, or a buffer which wasn't tableupdate()d nor tablerevert()ed, which may be the reason why would your form refuse to die gracefully. Check for those.

As for returning .f. from form.init (or any other class's, for that matter), it means the form dies before it shows, i.e. it only existed as a sort of unfinished object until its init exited, but then it vanished. So it didn't open at all, and this can't count as closing.