Alan,

No read events is a one per application thing. It tells VFP to let the user work and to not continue with the code until the user does something. For example;

* Aplication Start Up Program
SET ...

DOMyMenu.mpr

READ EVENTS

CLOSE ALL
CLEAR ALL
RETURN

In this program fox will set the settings, then it will run the menu and then it will stop until something says CLEAR EVENTS. After a CLEAR EVENTS the code above will continue and shut down the application.

Additional READ EVENTS are completely ignored by VFP.