>   It seems the harder I work the dumber I get. As a newbie to vfp, I'm having a dickens of a time getting the hang of visual/oop.
>   I've created a couple of forms, starting with a LOGIN. When the user clicks on the OK button, the click event does a

THISFORM.RELEASE()
>DO FORM REPORTS

>The REPORTS form comes up all right but the LOGIN form is still there hiding underneath. Calling another form puts that one on top of this one.
>   I seem to have missed something very basic here. Is this normal behavior of forms, or as is more likely, am I exhibiting my ignorance again. I can find all kinds of info for opening forms, but almost nothing on closing them. Could someone please help?
>TIA
>Pete

Try 'RELEASE Thisform'