Thanks Ed, I appreciate the feedback.

>>Is there a way to release a form from within the INIT method? I have tried RELEASE THISFORM and it doesn't work. I have a situation where I load a form and if one of the methods on the loaded form (which I call from the INIT method) produces a critical error I want to immediately release the form.

>If you return .F. from Init, the form never gets instantiated.

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>>Thanks in advance, Peter Renton