Comments on: PowerBoots – Shoes for PowerShell

By: Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett

Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:49:21 +0000

Hmm… That could be done, possibly as an option for PoshConsole. I wouldn’t use the fully transparent version, but I might be convinced to make it an option. Here’s what it looks like right now (when it’s not in “quake mode”):

I’ve got a release coming later this weekend.

By: James Gentile

James Gentile — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:58:19 +0000

One thing I would love, is a way to make the entire Posh console an aero glass window, so the whole console window would be on blurred glass. Proofs of concept: http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/3838/aerocmdbl... http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/5760/aerocmdcl... I'm not sure if this is something that you could/would do, but it would be very cool. A great one-up to the *nix users with their transparent consoles.

By: Rob Lancaster

Rob Lancaster — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:53:16 +0000

Hmmm.. There's also a language called REBOL that uses a dialect (DSL) to construct a GUI – This might also be another source of inspiration on how to lay things out.

I.e

view layout [ button "Click Me!" [print "click!" ] ]

which is the same as writing:

layout [ button1: button "Click Me!" [print "click!" ] ] | view

The two concepts are much the same???

Anyway, love using the REBOL to write quick dirty GUIs – and I'd love to use powershell to do the same thing. Ddidn't think the WPF samples on the offical powershell blog were very easy to use in comparison… Your DSL looks much better!

Small tutorial at http://www.rebol.com/docs/easy-vid.html

By: Nolan Brubaker

Nolan Brubaker — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:27:15 +0000

I'd be very interested in this, especially as a possible replacement for HTAs. I might be able to help with some of it, although with the upcoming semester and work I'm not 100% sure how much time I'll have to devote to it.

By: PowerBoots 0.0.1 - A beginning (CTP3 only)

PowerBoots 0.0.1 - A beginning (CTP3 only) — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:31:55 +0000

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Dew Drop - December 22, 2008 | Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:51:15 +0000

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By: Joel Bennett

Joel Bennett — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:34:26 +0000

Yeah, I kind of like the ruby syntax myself … but I think the Pipeline syntax is a little more natural (and powerful) in PowerShell. Actually I'm wrestling with events at the moment, I'm not sure they work right against PowerShell when it's not in STA mode…

The thing is, in WPF you don't have the limitations that Shoes has, so I can put an image into a button, for instance — the ruby syntax doesn't seem to accommodate that very well — it uses the same syntax (curly braces) for the default (click) handler on the button as for content on container controls. Of course, I might just be misinterpreting the significance … my Ruby is still weak.

By: Jacob Saaby Nielsen

Jacob Saaby Nielsen — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:35:38 +0000

Not able to help out, but I'd definately be very interested in a toolkit like that
Or rather, I'm not able to help out with the coding, but if you need help with anything else, I'd be willing to help out.

By: tojo2000

tojo2000 — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:51:22 +0000

+1 I love this idea. I don't know how much help I could be on creating it, though, since I have no experience with C#. I have access to Visual Studio, though, and if you have some grunt work that you need help with (perhaps some of that repetitive coding), email me and I'll see what I can do. I would love to see this come to fruition.

By: Jason Archer

Jason Archer — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:31:30 +0000

I prefer the syntax that Doug used. But I personally would just learn WPF and use your Out-WPF.