>>>Thanks, this is a bit neater until we figure out the proper way to do this. Anyone? Has anyone had problems releasing forms when you have "this.objref = thisform.txtMyTextBox" in controls?
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>>Forgive me for backpedaling a little here, but why are you setting up your addressing in this way to begin with?
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>Because the form will not form will not release if any of its child objects has an external reference. So instead of using a true VFP object reference the child object is referenced be name and then dereferenced via a with/endwith statement. Hope this Clarifies
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>Peter

Yea, but in my destroy event I reset my reference property to .NULL., so I would think that this would eliminate what you were suggesting, no?

Michael.