Tom,
What is in your Destroy event? If the object is going away when you explicitly call the Destroy event, then it is not behaving as expected.

The Destroy event is triggered when the object is released. Calling Destroy shouldn't do away with anything.

>OK, it's stupid question time!
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>I created an object called my TimerManager. To test it I ring the bell every 5 seconds. So I create my object with goTimerMgr = newobject("TimerMgr", "TimerMgr.prg"). Don't laugh, it works. When I do goTimerMgr.destroy it goes away, as expected.
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>But I expected that the command "release goTimerMgr", as well as the command "goTimerMgr = null" would do the same thing, but they don't.
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>Did I misunderstand something? Does this only work for Linked Forms?