>As far as I can remember the read events has always been required in Visual FoxPro if you want to run an application using runtime instead of in the IDE.
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>If you run in the IDE, a read events already exists (well the C/C++ version of this).

All I did was create a new project, created a new form (which defaulted to main), set the WindowType to Modal, compiled to .exe, shutdown VFP & ran .exe from Windows Explorer. No problems at all.

Am I misunderstanding something about the problem ?