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GUI form front-end for Powershell
Looking for a (free?) GUI form frontend for scripts that I want to distribute to users. Basically, I want to gather three or four data points.... such as first name, lastname, domain name, and...
PowerShell supports this natively, you can get the input directly as prompts in the script, or if you want you can build a real UI with buttons and other controls. An easy to use tool is the PoshGUI project: https://poshgui.com/
There are also "professional" solutions, look them up.
Vasil,
Many thanks for the PoshGUI reference. That looks promising. I did look into Powershell Studio from Sapien...which is really wonderful, but pricey, and I'm using PowershellPlus as my normal development environment right now. --- Larry
- As for "native" GUI support within Powershell....apart from a few instances.... like Get-Credential, and a couple of the output commands my understanding is there isn't really support for GUI screen input. And of course character-based input comes in through Read-Host. --- Larry
Apart from password prompt, there are few other built-in methods you can invoke. Check them via
$host.ui | gm
