>The following is a translation of my previous reply to Rodrigo:
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>Rodrigo:
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>As Ed Rauh correctly says, public variables are a bad idea.
>To answer your question, yes you do need a CLEAR EVENTS.
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There is an alternative - a modal form provides its own wait state; it runs until it terminates, and then the code picks up from the next line of code following the DO FORM or oForm.Show(1)

>The most normal way of doing this, is that your project should have a common man point of entry in a prg (ie. main.prg). This prg instances the main menu and then issues a READ EVENTS. The menu is now functionaland from there you can open all your forms.
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>When you end the program, for example with a main menu exit option that issues a CLEAR EVENTS, control returns to main.prg at the point immediately after READ EVENTS.
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>There you clean up and close.
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>I also recommend you visit the Spanish newsgroups at microsoft.public.es.vfoxpro where there is a lot of Spanish speaking VFP users. I also want to mention that there will be a chat here in the UT, in Spanish, on Wednesday December 13th at 9:00 pm Buenos Aires time (see: http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~IntroducciónAOrientaciónDeObjetosEnVFP)