>Hi Ken and Mark, Thanks for the responses, we have reformulated our question like this Question: We are attempting to run an application inside of another application. The second application starts to load or run ( I can see it on the screen (for a millisecond) and then returns to the previous screen where it was selected.
>Does the second application need a read events; and if so, how should this be constructed??? p.s. We have a read events in the first application.Thanks again. Rick

Can't say that I have ever tried that, kind of. I have a small VFP EXE that launches my VFP APP. The APP has the READ EVENTS. As an anology, I look at issuing a DO FORM from the click method of a command button and linking the called form to a memory variable. If the called form is NOT modal, the remaining code in the command button method then returns. Thus the memory variable linked to the form goes out of scope and the called form closes immediately. This does not happen if the called form is modal.

Therefore, I would suggest you make a form call early in the second app but make this form modal to see what happens.