>>** hover mouse cursor over the button then
>>ox = SYS(1270)
>>ox.WriteMethod("Click","thisform.Release()")>
>I tried this:
>zForm.cmd1.writemethod=("click","release thisform")
>
>but that got me the error "function name is missing"

I'm not clear that you are trying this at design time, so I'll repeat - this is a design-time only feature.

note: In the example code I gave you, ox is an object reference to the button on a form in the form (or class) designer.