Hi Francisco!

It uses .Hide because the uretval property of the form can be returned to the calling procedure. If you use .Release you can't look at the uretval property because it will be gone. You can see how this works at the end of the DoForm function in UTILITY.PRG. User preferences are disabled when any other form is open. Close all forms and it should become enabled. I just dealt with a problem with this because my User Preference option was always disabled. I found that the SDT dbcxmgr was showing as a form so I had to subclass the Forms Manager and set the nformcountoffset property to 1.

HTH

Dan

>Hello, i see in the click method of the user preference form the command: thisform.hide, for the menu manager i can use this option again because the option for the user preference is disabled, why the form use the option hide in place for the release method?
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>Best Regards