You might want to take a look at some of the example apps that come with VFP. Read Events/Clear Events is the what causes an app to pause and wait for something to happen.

Typically an app will load a menu and then issue Read Events.

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>I'm a relative novice-
>could you expand...
>Since I don't know how the read and clear events applies to this situation I'm assuming this is probably my problem.