>I am having trouble with the read event and clear event. It causes me not to be able to exit my app. Do I put them in my main start.prg or somewhere within the form? thank you.

The READ EVENT statement serves as a message loop afterwhich the application goes into "modeless" mode - so you put it in your start/main program after you've instantiated and/or declared everything your application needs

the CLEAR EVENTS statemen breaks the above mentioned loop thus leading to application termination, In other words you should put it in the method you call to end your app.

Arnon