>So the principle here is the READ EVENTS in my main.prg gets associated with the DO FORM MAIN screen and therefore the CLEAR EVENTS must be also associated ( read part of ) that form. When I put it in the MAIN.PRG the form was already closed and therefore nolonger in scope and couldn't close the events. Do I understand this correctly?
>Terry

No. READ EVENTS puts VFP into a wait state. Your application just sits at the READ EVENTS waiting for user input. To expand on what Fred said, if your system were more robust (and it probably will be one day) with multiple forms being called from a menu, then there would have to be a menu option to do this.