>>>>>>VFP 6.0
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ON SHUTDOWN QUIT

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>>>You need to be careful with a command like that... if you have anything open, and you don't do some cleanup, you might have problems.
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>>>You may want to consider calling a cleanup routine instead.
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>>I see... I kinda know what you mean. However, I have one command in my File > Exit, QUIT. I open ALL 4 tables in the beginning of the application and it all remains open until the QUIT is fired. So far, all seems well? Are you saying I should CLOSE ALL, then QUIT (two command lines)?
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>>Chuck
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>I suggest:
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>ON SHUTDOWN MyShutDown()
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>In the menu, invoke MyShutDown().
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>In the corresponding toolbar, invoke MyShutDown().
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>MyShutDown() may include
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>CLOSE ALL
>QUIT && CANCEL is better, for the sake of the programmer
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>Thus, you have one central place to manage your clean-up (in case you later find that you need to add additional commands).
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>Hilmar.

Very good example... you may also want to restore the environment for the programmer. Show the toolbars, set (settings), etc.