>>I've tried many read events / clear events combinations, still the grid on 'Form3' will not display.
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>This has nothing to do with READ/CLEAR EVENTS. It has to do with manipulation of the cursor underlying the grid. What is the grid's recordsource, and how/when is it created?

RecordSourceType is Alias, Record source is a Table, 'Table1'.
No filter, every record in the table is available for the grid, about 1000.
The click event code is actually -

use 'Table1'
set order to 'order'
DO FORM 'Form3'
sele 'Table1'
use
Thisform.release

Seems READ / CLEAR EVENTS has nothing to do with the grid not displaying , but I think it might, for this reason. In my explanation of the problem, I pointed out that the project NOT including the 'LaunchPad' form WORKED FINE as an EXE. I didn't mention that in order to get the grid to display in that project, I had to use READ EVENTS after DO FORM 'Form3' (in click event) and, also, add CLEAR EVENTS to the 'Form3' Unload event. Without this code the grid had the same behavior . . . display for a fraction of a second . . .then . . white box.