G'Day.
Maybe I'm dense. I've been programming in VFP since day one, and never ran across this before.
Calling the release method of a form from within a method of the form DOES NOT RELEASE the form! At least, not at the point where the release method is called. I really can't believe this is true, but I just tested it.
I placed a command button on a non-modal form. The click method of the button calls 'thisform.testrelease()'
thisform.testrelease looks like:
activate screen
? "Start of release"
thisform.release()
? "We should not get here"
Unfortunately, we DO get here!
If I put display code into the destroy() method, destory does NOT get called when the release is called, but only after the testrelease method has terminated.
What am I missing here?
This comes up because in a CodeBook app, several methods deep in a form class, I encounter a situation where I want to issue a message and then close the form. Can't do it. All the code after the 'thisform.release()' still runs.
I can work around it in several ways, but this strikes me as weird.
Any thoughts?
Larry Bradley (lhbradley at igs DOT net)
FoxPro Developer
Ottawa, Canada
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