>David,
>
>A couple questions:
>
>Can I have the event tracking turn on via code other than doing a set step on?The debugger interferes with the form and adds lines to the log that are confusing to follow.

See SET EVENTTRACKING and SET EVENTLIST in the help file.

>Unless I quit/restart Foxpro I cannot open the log file because of a "File is in use" error.

You just have to set Event Tracking off. Either in the Debugger, or in code.