Julie, the READ EVENTS in your example must be in the application you are calling. When you run another exe it runs in its own environment and needs its own READ EVENTS.
>I an application that is calling other applications. The problem is that it calls the other applications, but it immediately closes that called application and returns the user to the main application. Is there a trick to calling an application from another application?
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>In the click method from a form from the main app I have
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>DO pfd_main.exe
>READ EVENTS
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