Hi Jim....

Requesting a feature to a solve a problem that would not exist with a good design??? No question that dangling object refs can be a problem. However, if you employ a good design and don't go crazy with creating lots of object references, and don't rely on Pemstatus to a great deal, I find that you don't really have these problems.

I don't know....I can think of a dozen or so things I would like to see in VFP - before I could think of givin this idea serious consideration. How about better ActiveX Control Support?

Just employ some good design techniques - and the object references will take care of themselves.