>>Hi Allen,
>>
>>In addition to what James and Ed suggested make the first line of your exit routine ON SHUTDOWN.
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>>>To All,
>>>
>>>I have a program exit routine that closes files, ends the event read, and terminates the application gracefully. How can I run that routine when someone clicks in the VFP desktop screen X button? Unless I stop reading events, FoxPro reports that it cannot quit.
>
>One of first things which hit me very early when I jumped into this OOP world was the lack of ability to find out whether a Read Events was already issued or it wasn't. In FP there was the RdLevel() function, but what's for Read Events? Is there something elementary that I've overlooked?

Hi Dragan,

Only one READ EVENTS can active at a time and subsequent READ EVENTS have no effect. So, if you're not sure just issue READ EVENTS. HTH