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How to Make a Terminating Command Button

Article ID: 128337

Article Last Modified on 2/12/2000

Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q128337

SUMMARY

This article shows by example how to create a command button on a form that will close the form in Visual FoxPro.

In FoxPro version 2.x, you could do this by selecting the "Terminate Read on Selection" check box for the push button options. There is no such option for a Visual FoxPro command button.

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Step-by-Step Example

This example creates a new form with a command button that when clicked will close the form.

Create a new form:
```
   CREATE FORM
```
Place a command button on the form.
Change the caption property of the command button to "Quit".

Type the following code in the click event handler of the command button:

   IF TYPE('ThisForm.parent') = "O"
      RELEASE ThisFormSet
   ELSE
      RELEASE ThisForm
   ENDIF

Choose Run Form from the Form menu.
Click the Quit button, and the form will close.

Additional query words: VFoxWin 3.00

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