>>Frankly, not that good with the debugger. But I do put in some messagebox() displays at critical points, and I do see that it gets to the QUERYUNLOAD.
>>It does the CLEAR EVENTS and the THISFORM.RELEASE, and then the program ends.
>>Except that... the EXE is still running when I get back to the desktop.
>>And curiously... I can't delete it from the taskbar... So I'm forced to reboot.
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>>Thanks for the comeback, Tamar.
>>Rich
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>The code after read events should contain a QUIT

No, it shouldn't. You never need QUIT in an application. Once you execute CLEAR EVENTS, you return to the line after READ EVENTS and you continue running the code until you run out of code.

Tamar