>My form appears and then dissapears immediately.

If the form is modal (if you've set the Form's WindowType property to 1), then the odds are that there are no active controls, or that the Init is returning a .F. and you've shown the form within the Init event.

The code fragment you've shown, where you effectively DO FORM bletch and then immediately issue a READ EVENTS should work. You can confirm that the form is visibile when it gets to the READ EVENTS by inserting a WAIT WINDOW for debug purposes to force VFP to pause execution before getting to the READ EVENTS. If the form disappears before the WAIT WINDOW appears, then something is closing the form before the READ EVENTS statement can take effect. Something like this might prove out the code situation:

DO FORM foo
=MESSAGEBOX("The line before READ EVENTS",16,'Form should be visible')
READ EVENTS
=MESSAGEBOX("READ EVENTS terminated",16,"Form should have disappeared")

MESSAGEBOX() is modal (nothing else should be able to happen until you close it) and a random keystroke won't close it like WAIT WINDOW might do.