Hi Evelyn

>Ok so since I have only 2 forms in my programs, I placed the read events in my main form's init().
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>The program then hangs when run using the exe. It doesn't even show the main form.
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>What's wrong?

I suggest the first thing you do when creating a new project is create a main.prg with Tore's code in it. Do that before you create anything else.