Read events is used to "start" a form. To learn the use of Read events myself, I used the analogy of preparing for a battle. First you place all your men, tanks, airplanes and so on, and then you shout "Fire". In this analogy Read events is equal to Fire or Start fighting.

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>From time to time I use things in Visual Foxpro that I have little understanding of but since things work pretty well I don't worry about them. Take the read events command I've used in my applications.... things appear to be working fine but to be honest I can't remember where I read or whom told me to use this command and why.
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>What is the purpose behind using the read events ? I've assumed you want to alter the normal flow of events and to force events on the opening form to execute first.
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>Don