[codecraig]

Ok,
I basically want to take a VB app (which has no GUI, just does some background work) and writes it output somehow. I can't use MsgBox since that creates pop ups, and I dont want to write to a text file and then read it in from java.

In java I do something like

Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("MyVBApp.exe");
int val = -1;
while ( (val = p.getInputStream().read()) != -1) {
System.out.print((char) val);
}


....that's what I want to do in java...but i cant get anything from the input stream b/c the VB app doesn't write to it.....how can I write to it from VB?

thanks.

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If you wrote the VB app, you could dump it to a text file, then read it via java.

[ratmilk]

If you wrote the VB app, you could dump it to a text file, then read it via java.

[codecraig]

yea I know I could dump it to a file, but as I mentioned in the first post i was looking for some other way than using a text file.

[ratmilk]

I don't know, you may have to intercept the window's messages.