First, let me say that I'm not a Visual Basic 6 expert...

My need is to:

* launch from a VB6 client code an exeternal .exe file
* wait for the process to finish and - during its execution - read the messages coming from its standard output "on the fly" (so that I can print it on a text-filed widget or similars).

I'm wondering if it is even possible to do that in VB6...after a long search on the Internet I didn't come up with anything. Found a lot of examples of how to use the `Shell` function, but it seems to force me to read the stdout all at once when the process' execution is over, but I want to poll the process for "fresh" messages as they become available.

Any code snippets/suggestions/references are really appreciated.

Thanks in advance!