Comments on: PowerBoots: The tutorial walkthrough

By: Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett

Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:03:43 +0000

It does create a new thread, but it uses the same runspace, so it’s really not going to give you background jobs.

By: stej

stej — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:44:06 +0000

I like the -async very much. How is this done? I haven’t got background jobs (start-job) working, so I wondered whether I could add multithreading into powershell like you did with -async.

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Episode 54 - the case of the missing interview « PowerScripting Podcast — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:16:07 +0000

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By: AndrewTearle

AndrewTearle — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:49:31 +0000

Awesome .. Thanx.

By: Christian Hagel

Christian Hagel — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:22:50 +0000

Could you show an example of adding a stylesheet i.e. adding a reference to a resource dictionary in another file to the windows ressources and how to pick up those styles in Boots syntax? I would expect the latter to be along the lines of : "A gulp of swallows" | Button -Style SuperButtonStyle | Boots. But how do you handle static vs. dynamic resources and so forth.
thanks

By: Jaykul

Jaykul — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:41:10 +0000

Oh, I see. Yes: PowerBoots is slower to render due to it’s dynamic code generation beneath the covers. That will probably continue to be true for a while. I’ve got some brain-cells working on ways to trade disk space and even RAM for snappier results (I already cache the forms you use, but only for the session — so rerunning the same script should be faster). For the time being I think loading XAML via XamlReader is the fastest way to get a UI — but PowerBoots is a lot more pipeline and console oriented

By: Bernd Kriszio

Bernd Kriszio — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:53:44 +0000

Wow Boots seams easer for adding small dialogs than PrimalForms.
But needing the -sta parameter I can't use it with ISE for custom menue extensions.

By: Bernd Kriszio

Bernd Kriszio — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:40:08 +0000

Think I was confused while trying to download Windows 7. Yes PowerBoots is easy from ISE. I just posted http://poshcode.org/800,where I use it to querry two parameters for a custom menue function. I tried the same task using PrimalForms, it was more time consuming, the layout was crude, but it showed up a faster. As ISE is WPF I' ll proceed the easy way and focus on PowerBoots. I'm determinded to use and misuse ISE to its limits. Your posts came just in time.

By: Joel Bennett

Joel Bennett — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:33:41 +0000

I'm not sure what you mean about ISE. ISE is running in -STA mode by default — since it's a WPF application, it has to.

By: Jaykul

Jaykul — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:32:57 +0000

I'm not sure what you mean about ISE. ISE is running in -STA mode by default — since it's a WPF application, it has to.