Bruce,
That is just off the wall enough to explain things!
The VFP equivalent is
READ EVENTS this will put your program into the event loop. When you want to end your program issue a
CLEAR EVENTS and the program execution will continue to the line after the READ EVENTS.
>I think I finally figured it out.
>In the old Fox 2.6 code I have:
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>DO wrupmenb WITH 'Windows'
>* this procedure builds the menues
>PUBLIC m.Done
>m.Done = .f.
>READ VALID m.Done
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>It appears that this READ was interfering with the forms. Comment it out and it appears to work just fine.