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Hey I currently have an VB6 app and Im tring to implement the same feature to a Plus Live script but I cant get it to execute an external app in VB6 I have it like this:

Shell "C:\Program Files\Samurize\SamurizeServer.exe i=mcover c=msnc.ini trayiconvisible=0", vbNormalNoFocus

And then I close it using:

Shell "C:\Program Files\Samurize\SamurizeServer.exe i=mcover c=msnc.ini close", vbNormalNoFocus

How can I execute it under Jscrip for Plus Live?

Thank you.

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Originally posted by Leonardo
After further investigating in the MSDN library, I found I could do this:

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    var objShell = new ActiveXObject("Shell.Application");
    objShell.ShellExecute(MsgPlus.ScriptFilesPath + '\\file.chm', "", "", "open", 3);

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Just make sure to use \\ instead of \

Thak you verry much,  it worked perfectly.

I have a C++ console application which must take an argument to run properly.I wanna use MSN to make it run.I tried the "/run" command,the argument was passed to the program bt the program didb't run properly.I also tried using wat Matty posted with the difference of filling the 2nd argument of ShellExecute with the argument i want to pass to my program.Once again the argument was passed bt nothing happened.Keep in mind though that when i use cmd to run the application and pass the argument it works just fine

If your console application returns straight away, then you wont see anything because the program has executed, thus the window has closed. Thats why you only see it working fine in cmd.

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Originally posted by kostis90gr
I have a C++ console application which must take an argument to run properly.I wanna use MSN to make it run.I tried the "/run" command,the argument was passed to the program bt the program didb't run properly.I also tried using wat Matty posted with the difference of filling the 2nd argument of ShellExecute with the argument i want to pass to my program.Once again the argument was passed bt nothing happened.Keep in mind though that when i use cmd to run the application and pass the argument it works just fine

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Couldn't you execute it like this?

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/run cmd /k "path to file"

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"If your console application returns straight away, then you wont see anything because the program has executed, thus the window has closed. Thats why you only see it working fine in cmd."

Actually its not supposed to do anything,it just operates with files so i dont need any output to the screen (except for debugging things).

And that /run cmd /k "path" didn't seem to help.Well,actually there is a strange problem with my application..When i modify it so it reads from the file and outputs its content to the screen,the value is correct!When i look into the .txt file with notepad though,i see that nothing has changed.I thought that my program may have created an ADS (Alternative Data Stream) file which is completely invisible to cmd and windows,but after searching with LADS (a program to locate these files),i found nothing. Anyway people,thx for your help,i found another way to do this.