Hi Mark,

>
>By clear the screen, do you mean like *Set talk off* so commands do not echo to the screen? In forms, many *set* commands scope to the DataSession. So if a form has a private DS, you have to issue all the set commands again. Many of us have a form subclass whose Load event does all these set commands for us. In VFP help see *Set DataSession* for all the set commands taht are affected by the private DS.

I usually put all my SETs in BeforeOpenTables of the DataEnvironment object because of screen "noise" when initializing with TALK ON.