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Oh well, first of all, with WPF you got much more freedom of design when you creating a GUI. You may have noticed, during the last few years, increasingly more windows applications shifted from the classic styled GUI (like notepad) to more visually appealing and in the best case easier to use and more intuitive GUIs ( GUI examples ). Also, think of things like floating menus, themes (like in Firefox), any kind of WYSIWYG editing (like in MS Project) or simply advanced data visualization (like ), all these things you either cant do with Windows.Forms or its very difficult and not satisfying.And while one may think GUI design is not that important, especially for the kind of GUI based tools you may usually create with powershell, i disagree.
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A good GUI design is the key to usability. Just think about why Apple has this huge success with iOS (iPhone, iPad) although they provided less functionality than previous devices. Its all about the GUI. Without having a good tool to create the GUI, you really don’t get freedom of design. I have yet to see a PowerShell WPF GUI tool that works as simply as PrimalForms does with.Net winforms. If one exists please let me know.
Even with using a tool to generate the xaml it seems overly complicated to get it to work – well, just as complicated as getting a winform to work, but at least PrimalForms is a nice tool to handle the hard work for you.I have no doubt that we will eventually see better tools to work with WPF in PowerShell than we have now. Whether that’s a future version of PrimalForms or some other tool I cannot say. From a GUI perspective I will wind up using whatever is fastest for me to create in.From the fun/hacking perspective – I definitely need to give the hardcore xaml/wpf stuff more of a go to really understand it. I have not played with it in C# at all. What I’ve touched in PowerShell is from the PowerShellPack only. The last thing I need is another side project. Thanks a lot denniver!
The last thing I need is another side project. Thanks a lot denniver!You’re welcome Tome! 😉 Seriously, i know exactly how you feel.Without having a good tool to create the GUI, you really don’t get freedom of design. I have yet to see a PowerShell WPF GUI tool that works as simply as PrimalForms does with.Net winformsYou’re absolutely right, thats why i asked the WPF in PF question in the first place. I havent done as nearly as much WPF with posh as i would like to, because of exactly this.As for complexity, remember when you used windows.forms for the first time? I do and i clearly remember calling my computer names i won’t repeat here.
😉 I haven’t got to this point yet, but everybody’s telling me WPF is easier than Forms when you managed to get used to it.
I have just returned from the amazing lineup of PowerShell sessions at the. Happened to sponsor the PowerShell track. This gave us the opportunity to hear what the company has been up to directly from their CEO, Dr.
Ferdinand Rios. I should note, not only did we get updates about their 2012 products, but we were handed USB keychains that were fully loaded with beta software!The session brought us through the updates that Sapien has made to iPowerShell, their iOS app and PrimalScript. Both had a whole set of new features, but it was the news about Primal Forms that I thought was worth blogging about. Here are some of the new features we saw (this is probably not a comprehensive list – it’s just the items that raised my eyebrow during the session): Primal Forms is now called PowerShell Studio 2012This makes a lot of sense to me. It is a name that more appropriately tells what Primal Forms is. It’s not only a full-fledged winform developing environment for PowerShell, but it’s also a fairly robust integrated scripting environment (ISE). The only downside is that there is already a codeplex project with this name.
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It’s sure to spin up some conflict or debate. Layout ThemesOne thing is clear when working with Primal Forms 2011, you definitely don’t want/use all of the panes that you have open all the time. When working on forms, you need a whole different layout than you need when you want to just work on a simple script. Layouts can now be switched rapidly via a control in the bottom left. These layouts continue to happen automatically, but you can also control them manually.Font Size SliderThis is a slider that will change the size of the fonts in your script window.
I use this slider all the time in powershellise.exe when giving demos. I’m glad this simple change is now in the app.Function ExplorerThis one is cool. There is a pane that will allow you to quickly click between events and functions in your projects.
It’s dynamically built. Obviously, it’s really neat when trudging through the complex structure of a scripted winform, but I am finding that it’s really cool for large modules too.Change-in-code IndicatorThere is an indicator between your code and the line numbers that are triggered during a change to your code. If you open a script, and then make a change to that script, a yellow indicator shows that this has been changed:Once you save the file, the indicator turns green:If you open the script again, the indicator resets to not being there. Toggle a Cmdlet to and from an aliasApparently, you could always toggle an entire script to remove all aliases. I was not aware of this. Regardless, you can now right click on a cmdlet or alias to toggle between the cmdlet and its aliases.Cmdlets have a ‘Convert to Alias’ context menu:Aliases have an ‘Expand to Cmdlet’ context menu.I should note that as of the beta you can convert to the alias foreach or% in place of Foreach-Object, but you cannot expand it back to a cmdlet. Tab Completion of.NET MethodsNeat-o feature.
When you enter a method, you get a helper window to tell you the overloaded options. You can press up and down (or click up and down in the intellisense helper) to select the appropriate parameter set that you plan to use:Once you have found the right method, you can press tab (like the helper says) to autofill the method’s parameters. This is really nice with classes that use an enumerator. It saves you from having to type out the entire class name. For example, the next image shows that it has typed the entire System.MidpointRounding for me.It goes a bit further too.
As you can see above, a variable name is created and highlighted. You can immediately start typing another variable or decimal. Once you are done entering that parameter, you hit tab to go to the next one. In the case of an enumerator, like the one above, it lets you select the item in the enumerator you would like to use.
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This is handled via another intellisense helper that you can quickly move to with the up and down arrows. It even gives you information about what the item does:Control SetsThis is the one that matters! This is the promise of scripted GUIs in my opinion.You can package sets of common form controls, events, and functions as a control set. This gives you an easy way to add something to your form that is a complete thing (for lack of a better word) via drag and drop.