Jeff,
I assumed the same thing about loading a form or calling other code - until one day I called something with a return code and it 'returned' the same "" I initialized.

Barbara


>Hi Barbara,
>
>I had always assumed, for some strange reason, that CLEAR EVENTS had an implicit RETURN built into it - probably because it only exists in a few places in my framework and, until now, was always the last line of code.
>
>I'm now wondering what other assumptions I have which are not valid! :)
>
>Time for a vacation.
>
>>Jeff, this seems to be standard VFP functionality - you'll see the same thing if you call a non-modal form or show a container in the 'middle' of method-code - you won't see the form until the method-code is complete.