>Hi Mark,
>
>>Since you can not add an object to _screen, you are having to create the object as a memory variable which indeed would be lost by a *clear all* or *release all*.
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>You can add an object to the _SCREEN. It will survive RELEASE ALL, since RELEASE releases only variables. But CLEAR ALL releases not only variables, but all objects. Even those that are part of _SCREEN and those were no object reference exists anymore.
>
>Christof

I have tried using CreateObject() and NewObject(), but always get an error when trying to do this with _screen. So I made assumption about what you were actually doing. Again, I am using VFP 6.