PSHostUserInterface.PromptForChoice

Link. March 28, 2007. Comments [3]. Posted in: PowerShell

I've been working a bit lately with the Windows PowerShell hosting interfaces (PSHost and friends). I've got a basic host up and running (UI and all), but I'm still strugling a bit with some of the methods. So, here's one question for you PowerShell guys: What command will trigger a call to PSHostUserInterface.PromptForChoice()? (I can't write it if I don't know what the behavior is!)

Update: To answer my own question, two commands that use PromptForChoice are "export-console" and "remove-item -confirm".

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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 1:13:15 PM (SA Pacific Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Why not use something like http://PowerGUI.org to be the UI for your cmdlets instead? Could save you the time and effort doing the hosting, etc.

Dmitry Sotnikov

Wednesday, March 28, 2007 1:43:24 PM (SA Pacific Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Dmitry: That's not an option in this case (particularly given that I'm not implementing an actual GUI). It's an interesting project, though.

Tomas Restrepo

Friday, March 30, 2007 8:32:07 AM (SA Pacific Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

All the CmdLets use this function for there confirm parameter, and it can be used for cmdlets for prompting user for input.

In the installer for my PowerTab tabcompletion you can find an example to use it directly for your own choices :

http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/posh/archive/2007/01/17/powertab-0-72-powershell-tabextension-part-1-installation.aspx

PS in future version direct soppert for this in functions likely will be added .

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