>>Technically speaking, none of what we are calling events are really events. For example, we say "Put the code in the Click event of the button". But the event is the actual clicking on the button. The Click event method (this is what JimB calls them) will fire. The OpenTables event method will fire when the OpenTables event happens.
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>Craig,
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>Actually OpenTables is not an event method at all. When autoopentables is set to .t. VFP will automatically call the OpenTables method for you, but it is still a method call. The OpenTables methods will open the tables, but before the table are opened the BeforeOpenTables event is fired. If the OpenTables is never called, the tables will not be opened and the BeforeOpenTables will not fire.

I guess it depends on your definition of an event. Since I don't explicitly call OpenTables() or BeforeOpenTables(), I think of them as events.