>Yeah, I think I've got it under control now ("sure", he says, "until next time"). David F. gave a pretty clear explanation in another thread, too.

Good, though this should read:

>>But in a VFP Base class method like Show(), if you put code in there without a DoDefault(), its going to execute that code, and only that code, it probably won't make the form visible. Thats why, if you use Show() like event, you need to include DoDefault() in order to actually do the Show(), it could conditionally leave it out too. It depends on what you want