Project Description

PoshConsole is a modern graphical PowerShell Console. We aim to have a complete open source implementation of the PSHostUserInterface and PSRawHostUserInterface written in WPF and including a custom ConsoleControl which can be reused for other purposes.

Features

• The first rich, graphical, interactive console.
• The only PowerShell console with Quake Mode!
• Multi-line input prompt inline the way consoles should be.
• Global hotkeys can be tied to ScriptBlocks
• Rich XAML templates for Out-UIElement output formatting
• Each sequence of prompt, command, output are paired into a logical unit -- a RichTextBox Paragraph.
  • Triple-Click to select a whole sequence.
• Boatloads of configurable settings are available in the $Host.PrivateData.Settings variable.
  • Autohide upon losing focus.
  • Animation on hiding.
  • Customizable colors (optionally outside the 16 console colors) for each output type, and for each console color

• Integrated graphical Progress display ...

Technical

• Written entirely in C# using WPF for the UI, Event Handling, etc.
• Based on ConsoleControl, a WPF rich-text control for interactive consoles capable of embedding images and controls, etc.

Many things left to do:

• PSHostRawUserInterface.GetBufferContents and PSHostRawUserInterface.SetBufferContents are still not quite right.
• PSHostRawUserInterface.ScrollBufferContents is not implemented at all