Very very nice job with your console ! I’m a big fan ! I’ve made “advertising” of your console on my blog.

So when I use it with ‘help’, nothing appear at all and I dont have PSCX installed; just :
Name : PowerGadgets
PSVersion : 1.0
Description : Generates Charts, Gauges and Maps Gadgets from Windows PowerShell data

Name : Soapyfrog.Grrr
PSVersion : 1.0
Description : This is a PowerShell snap-in that offers high performance graphics and animation in the co
nsole.

Best regards from France !
Arnaud Petitjean

Typing perf needs work, I’ll point out this app to my WPF team members who own textbox…perhaps they have recommendations on better ways to approach what Joel is doing here…Perhaps there are WPF issues this will help uncover…

I couldn’t agree more about the typing performance. I’ve actually captured that as an issue for the next release, I think I need to do some profiling around the event handling on the ConsoleTextBox control. Originally there was some code for syntax highlighting in there which I borrowed from somewhere … I’ve stripped it all out now, but it was actually rescanning the entire document on each “text changed” event!

I sort of intend to get syntax highlighting working on the command-line eventually — and even enable a multi-line friendly mode which requires CTRL+ENTER to send the command, so it’s easier to edit snippets like the prompt function — ideally, something like $cmd = cat function:\prompt or Out-PoshEditing function:\prompt would put the existing function into the next command-line so you could edit it on the fly!

Thanks, Rob

Rob Relyea | Program Manager, WPF & Xaml Language Team
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