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TNO Total Posts : 2094 Scores: 36 Reward points : 0 Joined: 12/18/2004 Location: Earth Status: offline	UIs Saturday, September 11, 2010 8:21 AM (permalink) 0 Has anyone tried any significant UI development with PS yet? I've seen a few articles on the web, but most of them end up looking terribly verbose. Perhaps XAML makes things a little easier? *To iterate is human, to recurse divine.* -- L. Peter Deutsch
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Re:UIs Monday, September 13, 2010 3:22 AM (permalink)

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I will be the first to admit that doing a UI in powershell does look verbose. The only reason it looks that way though is because all the UI code is crammed into one file along with all the program logic. If you took a C#(VB.Net) app that did the same thing and pulled all the generated hidden code that rarely gets looked into one file it would be verbose too.

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Re:UIs Thursday, September 16, 2010 1:54 PM (permalink)

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Hi TNO,

Do you mean a PowerShell UI as in a like a dotnet form type GUI?

And do you mean verbose like this simple powershell calculator app which is over a thousand lines long?
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ScriptCenter/en-us/7e08cb64-f621-44b2-810b-dab3827755ce

The cool thing about this app is that it generated by primal forms and the majority of the verbose code can be almost ignored.

-join([int[]][char[]]'Ut|jwXmjqq%Wzqjx'|%{[char]($_-5)})

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Re:UIs Thursday, September 16, 2010 11:06 PM (permalink)

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TomRiddle

Hi TNO,

Do you mean a PowerShell UI as in a like a dotnet form type GUI?

Indeed

TomRiddle

And do you mean verbose like this simple powershell calculator app which is over a thousand lines long?
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ScriptCenter/en-us/7e08cb64-f621-44b2-810b-dab3827755ce

The cool thing about this app is that it generated by primal forms and the majority of the verbose code can be almost ignored.

Yep. In comparison to other approaches: HTA, .gadgets, etc. This is terribly verbose especially for a scripting language.

Though I did come across this:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/p...xaml-show-control.aspx

Improves things quite a bit. Its a shame I can't run a sidebar .gadget like an HTA file. The API is a wonderful improvement:
http://msdn.microsoft.com...5853%28v=VS.85%29.aspx

To iterate is human, to recurse divine. -- L. Peter Deutsch

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TomRiddle Total Posts : 620 Scores: 12 Reward points : 0 Joined: 2/7/2008 Location: Australia Status: offline	Re:UIs Friday, September 17, 2010 12:05 PM (permalink) 0 Thanks TNO for showing me WPF with XAML -join([int[]][char[]]'Ut\|jwXmjqq%Wzqjx'\|%{[char]($_-5)})
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ginolard Total Posts : 1347 Scores: 23 Reward points : 0 Joined: 8/11/2005 Status: offline	Re:UIs Sunday, September 19, 2010 7:48 PM (permalink) 0 XAML does my head in. I'm still firmly stuck in WIndows Forms mode. Author of ManagePC - http://managepc.net
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