>Well, can anyone tell me what occurs during the form load event? What exactly is VFP doing during this event??
Ken,

The form Load event is your first opportunity to do anything during the form's creation sequence, there is no native behavior associated with the Load event other than returning .F. will stop the loading. There is an earlier point in fomr creation if the form has a data environment, and that is the Init, BeforeOpenTables, and Opentables events of the DE which all fire before the form's Load. After the form's load each of the contained objects are created from the innermost containership to the outer most and then form's Init fires at the end of this creation process. Finally the form's Refresh and Activate will fire while the fomr gets focus.