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.


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Features

  • The first rich, graphical, interactive console.
  • The only PowerShell console with Quake Mode!
  • Multi-line input prompt inline the way consoles should be.
  • Each sequence of prompt, command, output are paired into a logical unit -- a RichTextBox Paragraph.
    • Triple-Click to select a whole sequence.
    • Hold Control while pressing the Up or Down arrows to navigate the history one sequence at a time.
    • Invoking copy without selecting text will automatically select (and copy) the previous sequence, and pressing it repeatedly will select successively more sequences.
  • Boatloads of configurable settings are available in the $Host.PrivateData.Settings variable.
    • Autohide upon losing focus.
    • Animation on hiding.
    • Custom colors for each output pipe, and for every 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
  • There's no proper input buffering (for keystrokes)
  • PSHostRawUserInterface.KeyAvailable is not implemented
  • PSHostRawUserInterface.ReadKey is not implemented
  • PSHostUserInterface.ReadLineAsSecureString is not implemented
  • PSHostRawUserInterface.PromptForCredential is not implemented
  • TabComplete still needs work (does not yet complete paths at all)
Last edited Jan 28 2009 at 3:36 AM by Jaykul, version 12

 

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