The first EVENT is Form's LOAD event, but when it happens no controls are initialised, the all Init events of the controls are fired and lastly Init event of the form is happen. I think that is because all controls must be created before you try to initalise them in INIT event of the form.

>I have a form that I want to reinitialize the memory variables from a DBF everytime the form displays.
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>Naturally one would think this is easy since you just put it in the INIT of the form.
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>NOT SO.
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>The Form init is not the first thing to run.
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>So I went to the first item below the form in the Properties window (a text box)and put my Init code there. I put a wait window there and it WAS first.
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>Is that a reasonable way to do this????
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>Joel