Lots of people have been looking for a way to read out and display the contents of the the 7zip cmd window. while there is no problem to read out the "7z t " and "7z l " commands by stdoutread, there is no easy way to get the text from the "7z a" (add to archive) command. finally i found a tricky solution written by valik (Screen_Scrape). at least it is able to read out the compression progress percentage. the script is deeply hidden in the chat forum. i was so glad about it that i built a lit