Shoutbox

Hello!
I'm trying launch an external program via MP!L script. So far I found only one way to do so:

code:

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  var objShell = new ActiveXObject("Shell.Application");
objShell.ShellExecute('C:\\myprogram.exe', '', '', "open", 0);

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myprogram.exe returns some text which I need to capture. unfortunetly ShellExecute only returns error codes or such...
Is there a way launch an external application (with no window showed if possible) and capture the output?

Thank you.

P.S. I dont know advanced programming languages such as C or even VB...