>Bill,
>
>>It's used by all the classes in _base.vcx.
>
>Frankly, once I opened the first few classes in the FFC and looked at the code, I decided to avoid the FFC, because it does a lot of heavyweight, performance robbing, stuff that IMHO is pretty worthless. If they have some class stuff that I actually want to use, I "borrow" the useful code that I want into a class hierarchy of my own design.

Hi David,
I believe I understand the concept of an orphaned or dangling object. But this seems to be different.

I do something like this:

button.method()
  lo = createobject(HyperLink)
  this.oHyperLink = lo
  lo.addproperty('oCreator',this)
endproc

When my code reaches the line "THISFORM.Release()" it just skips over the line. The Form.Release() method is never executed, but the variable that the form is linked to becomes .null.
Normally when I'm leaving a reference to an object, at least the Form.Release() is executed, it's just that the form doesn't leave the screen.