>>>>Using vfp5...
>>>>
>>>>I have a grid on a form that I want the deleted event to fire on. I have
>>>>a command button that does...
>>>>
>>>>

>>>>select childtable
>>>>delete
>>>>thisform.refresh
>>>>

>>>>
>>>>If I click the deletemark the deleted event will fire but using the
>>>>command button code it will not. Any ideas?
>>>
>>>Joe,
>>>
>>>This problem discussed here couple of times. The answer is to propagate record movement in a grid, say, skip -1, skip or something similar.
>>
>>In grid.deleted...
>>
>>=messagebox('test')
>>
>>This never fires even if I skip -1 or skip.
>
>Joe,
>
>I should read your message more carefully :) Deleted method of the grid fires only when you click on DeleteMark in a grid. It would not fire, if you use DELETE command in a code.

Here is what the help says:
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Occurs when the user marks a record for deletion, unmarks a record marked for deletion, or when DELETE is issued.
*****

I guess they wrote that wrong?