Bro. Lafleur,

>If I use the 'X' in the corner, the form will not close without 'CANCEL' from the command prompt. Clicking the 'X' does not cause the unload to fire. Neither does it fire the 'release'.

What it _does_ fire is the QueryUnload event. My code generally looks something like this:

Form.QueryUnload

IF &&we can unload the form now
    RETURN .T.
ELSE
    NODEFAULT
    RETURN .F.
ENDif

Form.cmdQuit.Click

IF ThisForm.QueryUnload()
    ThisForm.Release()
ENDif

In this case, you'd probably want to put the code releasing the object in either the QueryUnload or (better) a custom method called from QueryUnload.

S&F,