Rich,

First thing is that your WAIT WINDOW is agffecting the firing sequence as it takes focus from the form and then focus returns again. If you want to see the real sequence then try using the event tracker in the debugger.

>Form.DE.OpenTables
This event fire only if AutoOpenTables is set to true. It is the event that opens the tables.

>Form.DE.BeforeOpenTables
This event fires when the tables are about to be open and before they are open. It is a result fo the OpenTables event firing.

>Form.Load
Fires as the first Form event after the BeforeOpenTables event and before the tables have been opened by the DE. At this point none of the contained objects exist except for the DE.

>Form.DE.Cursor.Init
Fires for the first cursor in the DE as a result fo the first table being opened

>Form.DE.Init
The Init is the last event for any object during its instantiation sequence.

>Form.Button.Init
The contained objects of the form are created after the form's load evne t has fired

>Form.Init
The last instantiation event for the form.

>Form.Show
Displays the form

>Form.Paint (twice) OK, maybe this doesn't count, you never put code
there

Probably because of the WAIT WINDOWS takling and returning focus to the form.

>Form.Refresh

Part of the intital showing of the form

>Form.Button.Refresh

Initial form refresh fires the refresh of every control in the form

>Form.Button.When

Button preparing to receive focus

>Form.GotFocus

Form getting focus

>Form.Button.GotFocus

Button getting focus

>Form.Paint

Form being painted

>Form.Button.KeyPress if I press space instead of mouse-clicking on it

You pressed a key

>Form.Button.Click

The spacebar fires the click of a button

>Form.Release

The click code calls the form's refresh method (this is NOT an event)

>Form.Button.Valid really surprised me that Button.Valid fired here

Valid fires as button prepares to lose focus

>Form.Button.When really really surprised me that When fired here!

When fires as button prepares to get focus (since it is the only control and some control must have focus when it loses focus it gets it back again. It may be a side effect of the wait windows.

>Form.Destroy

Fires when the form is being destoryed

>Form.Button.Destroy
The controls destory after the form destroy

>Form.Paint

Form repaints during it destruction

>Form.DE.CloseTables

The DE closes the tables

>Form.DE.AfterCloseTables

After the tables have been closed

>Form.DE.Destroy

The DE destroys

>Form.DE.Cursor.Destroy

The contained objects of teh DE destroy.

One event you missed is the form's Unload.