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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.

No. READ EVENTS is a wait state. Its name is totally misleading, but its purpose is to allow you to set up your app and then sit there and wait for the user to do something.

* Do all the set-up you need
DO FORM YourMainForm

READ EVENTS

* Code down here doesn't execute until after 
* you issue CLEAR EVENTS

* Clean up

Tamar