Hi Albert

One possibility: if there is any object reference between the form and another object that cannot be released, it would interfere with shutting down. If such object has been instantiated arbitrarily you would only see the app not shutdown when that object was instantiated. This falls under the topic of garbage collection.

Check for any objects that are linked to properties on the form and that have references to the form.

>Hi all,
>
>I have an app that runs on a server and I need it to autoshutdown each night. It *mostly* works but sometimes chokes on trying to shut down so I wonder if I have the code in the right order or right place:
>
>The app has one form and on that form I have a timer that fires every 15 seconds.
>
>In the timer's .timer() method, this code checks the time and tries to shut down after 11 pm:
>
>

>
>IF VAL(LEFT(TIME(),2)) >= 23
>
>   * release this form and then try to clear the read
>  ON ERROR
>  THISFORM .Release()
>
>   ON SHUTDOWN
>   CLEAR EVENTS
>   
>ENDIF
>
>

>
>Questions:
>
>1) is the order correct on the above commands?
>2) should this code be in some method of the form itself?
>3) it does not seem like I need a QUIT most of the time - would this be better?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Albert Gostick