Vista - Position a windows form in (or near) the console area?

02-08-2008

This may be a long shot, but I'll ask anyway...

I plan to use something like use the Get-OkCancel dialog from
Powershell in Action (which is basically a windows form being shown
with ShowDialog() )

Is there any way to specify the initial localtion of the form on the
screen? Ideally this would be within the PS console area, or at least
near it. At the moment the form can even appear on a different
monitor to the console (which isn't so good from a usability point of
view).

$host returns some info in a ConsoleHost type, but it doesn't seem to
contain any location co-ordinates.

For extra consistency, it also be good if you could assign the 'Esc'
key to a cancel button. Maybe using Start-KeyHandler inside the
windows form or something...

Many thanks,

Duncan

02-08-2008

This may help:

http://scriptolog.blogspot.com/2008/...ike-popup.html

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Shay Levi
$cript Fanatic
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com

Quote:

> This may be a long shot, but I'll ask anyway...
>
> I plan to use something like use the Get-OkCancel dialog from
> Powershell in Action (which is basically a windows form being shown
> with ShowDialog() )
>
> Is there any way to specify the initial localtion of the form on the
> screen? Ideally this would be within the PS console area, or at least
> near it. At the moment the form can even appear on a different
> monitor to the console (which isn't so good from a usability point of
> view).
>
> $host returns some info in a ConsoleHost type, but it doesn't seem to
> contain any location co-ordinates.
>
> For extra consistency, it also be good if you could assign the 'Esc'
> key to a cancel button. Maybe using Start-KeyHandler inside the
> windows form or something...
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Duncan
>

02-08-2008	#1 (permalink)
Duncan Smith n/a posts	Position a windows form in (or near) the console area? This may be a long shot, but I'll ask anyway... I plan to use something like use the Get-OkCancel dialog from Powershell in Action (which is basically a windows form being shown with ShowDialog() ) Is there any way to specify the initial localtion of the form on the screen? Ideally this would be within the PS console area, or at least near it. At the moment the form can even appear on a different monitor to the console (which isn't so good from a usability point of view). $host returns some info in a ConsoleHost type, but it doesn't seem to contain any location co-ordinates. For extra consistency, it also be good if you could assign the 'Esc' key to a cancel button. Maybe using Start-KeyHandler inside the windows form or something... Many thanks, Duncan
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02-08-2008	#2 (permalink)
Shay Levi n/a posts	Re: Position a windows form in (or near) the console area? This may help: http://scriptolog.blogspot.com/2008/...ike-popup.html ----- Shay Levi $cript Fanatic http://scriptolog.blogspot.com Quote: > This may be a long shot, but I'll ask anyway... > > I plan to use something like use the Get-OkCancel dialog from > Powershell in Action (which is basically a windows form being shown > with ShowDialog() ) > > Is there any way to specify the initial localtion of the form on the > screen? Ideally this would be within the PS console area, or at least > near it. At the moment the form can even appear on a different > monitor to the console (which isn't so good from a usability point of > view). > > $host returns some info in a ConsoleHost type, but it doesn't seem to > contain any location co-ordinates. > > For extra consistency, it also be good if you could assign the 'Esc' > key to a cancel button. Maybe using Start-KeyHandler inside the > windows form or something... > > Many thanks, > > Duncan >
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