>Can anyone tell me what are the advantage of using "Foundation Read" in Visual Foxpro? I had a reference book called "VISUAL FOXPRO 3 DEVELOPER'S GUIDE - BY JEB LONG". The book had mention that "Foundation Read was created as an attempt to support an event-driven interface in FoxPro 2.x ... Visual Foxpro easily supports totally modeless operations ... you will never need to use a Foundation READ in Visual Foxpro". However, I had spoken with some senior Xbase programmers, they said Foundation Read require less Hardware resource. If my clients do not purchase sophisticated high-end machines, event read will slow down the performance if multiple windows are opened, but foundation read won't! Is it true?

there is no advantage to using foundation read
foundation read is just a workaround to give something that looks like what read events does

as Michel mentioned you can control which and how many forms are open "even" with read event

also what are your client's hardware setup?
we use 486-66 with 16mb (lowest client machines) with reasonable performance (naturally the pentiums are better (s))

Arnon