Hi Nadya,
Congrats on being a MOTD! I guess the odds were finally in your favor.

Anyway, is the form modal or non-modal? If the form is modal, then you should observe the same behavior as having the Read Events. If it is non-modal then the program goes through the Form instantiation process (LISAG) and immediately exits the program that called it (with the form still displayed). Since the variable was scoped to the program and it is finished, so is your variable.

>Hi Ed,
>
>You're trying to explain me things, which I already knew or discovered by experience.
>
>Let me describe, that exactly I did and tell me, what's wrong:
>In the main program I do:
>private pcTable
>pcTable='' && This makes this variable really created
>do form form1
>read events
>
>* pcTable exists and visible in all events and methods of Form1
>
>do form form2
>
>pcTable is visible in DE.BeforeOpenTables and Form.Init (haven't tested in Load, but assume, it would be visible here too). Then it becomes invisible in other methods (in Add method or in Close method)...
>
> When I discovered this behavior (it was just recently) I was a little suprised, so I made a test, showed above.
>
> Now, how can you explain this difference (with vs. without read events)?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>>> I made the same assumption, but it's not a truly right. I declare a private variable in a main program pcTable and assign pcTable='' (This is important to assign a value, before using a variable). Then I create a form and test, if this variable is still visible. I found, that if I issue Read Events after
>>>do form MyForm, this variable is still visible in all methods and events, otherwise this variable is visible only for Init and then it becomes out of scope. You can test it.
>>
>>Read the docs on PRIVATE - it hides prior declarations but does not explicitly create the variable. If this were not the case, please explain how PRIVATE could support wildcarding:
>>
>>PRIVATE ALL LIKE p*
>>
>>would have to create an essentially infinite number of variables (at a minimum, 27*(37^128) seems to ring a bell, but clearly a lot more than the maximum value of MVCOUNT.
>>
>>Look at the difference in how the LOCAL and PRIVATE declarations are defined in the VFP docs - PRIVATE states that it hides previously-instanced variables, while LOCAL explicitly creates variables.