Steve,

An object can not destruct while it is on the callstack. The button calling thisform.Release() can't really release the form because the MED form is modal and once it starts running it's going to keep the button click in the callstack.

>Here is my command button code to switch from form to form:
>

>THISFORM.Release
>DO FORM \ARREST\FORMS\MED.SCX WITH ;
>	cForm, cIncident, cAddSW, cEditSW, cMainFrmSW, ;
>	cMedFrmSW, cShkFrmSW, cTimFrmSW, cAEDFrmSW, cOutFrmSW, cAdmFrmSW, cAdmSW
>

As a test to show it, create a modal form gomodal that has just a button with this code:

activate window "debug output"
debugout "going"
do form gomodal
debugout "back"

Note the forms will pop up on top of each other as you launch them so you'll have to move them to see them. If you add a thisform.Release() to the beginning of the method, you'll see that they don't really destruct until the last opened form is closed then they all disappear.