PSGlass Wednesday, May 13 2009 - Software

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Josh on 5.28.2009 at 10:51 PM

Or avoid having anything in memory with this:

#

# Sample script showing how to show and hide

# console windows from PowerShell. It uses in-line

# CSharp code to create a ConsoleHelper class to show

# and hide the console.

#

param ([switch] $hidden, [switch] $glass)

#

# CSharp code for the ConsoleHelper class

#

$code = @'

using System;

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

public class ConsoleHelper {

private const Int32 SW_HIDE = 0;

private const Int32 SW_SHOW = 5;

[DllImport("user32.dll")]

private static extern Boolean ShowWindow(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 nCmdShow);

[DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true)]

public static extern bool AllocConsole();

[DllImport("Kernel32.dll")]

private static extern IntPtr GetConsoleWindow();

public struct DWM_BLURBEHIND {

public int dwFlags;

public bool fEnable;

public System.IntPtr hRgnBlur;//HRGN

public bool fTransitionOnMaximized;

}

[System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("dwmapi")]

private static extern int DwmEnableBlurBehindWindow(IntPtr hWnd, ref DWM_BLURBEHIND pBlurBehind);

public static void GlassConsole() {

IntPtr hwnd = GetConsoleWindow();

if (hwnd != IntPtr.Zero) {

DWM_BLURBEHIND blur = new DWM_BLURBEHIND();

blur.dwFlags = 0x00000001;

blur.fEnable = true;

//blur.hRgnBlur;//HRGN

blur.fTransitionOnMaximized = true;

DwmEnableBlurBehindWindow(hwnd, ref blur);

}

}

public static void HideConsole() {

IntPtr hwnd = GetConsoleWindow();

if (hwnd != IntPtr.Zero) {

ShowWindow(hwnd, SW_HIDE);

}

}

public static void NormalConsole() {

IntPtr hwnd = GetConsoleWindow();

if (hwnd != IntPtr.Zero) {

ShowWindow(hwnd, SW_SHOW);

DWM_BLURBEHIND blur = new DWM_BLURBEHIND();

blur.dwFlags = 0x00000001;

blur.fEnable = false;

//blur.hRgnBlur;//HRGN

blur.fTransitionOnMaximized = true;

DwmEnableBlurBehindWindow(hwnd, ref blur);

}

}

}

'@

#

# Only build the assembly if the type doesn't exist

#

# if this statement fails, then the trap handler will

# compile the code

[ConsoleHelper] > $null

$ch = [ConsoleHelper]

trap {

# Get an instance of the CSharp code provider

$cp = new-object Microsoft.CSharp.CSharpCodeProvider

# And compiler parameters...

$cpar = New-Object System.CodeDom.Compiler.CompilerParameters

$cpar.GenerateInMemory = $true

$cpar.GenerateExecutable = $false

$cpar.OutputAssembly = "custom"

$cr = $cp.CompileAssemblyFromSource($cpar, $code)

# display any errors (there should be none...)

if ( $cr.Errors.Count) {

$codeLines = $code.Split("`n");

foreach ($ce in $cr.Errors) {

write-host "Error: $($codeLines[$($ce.Line - 1)])"

$ce | out-default

}

Throw "Compile failed..."

} else {

# don't report the exception

continue

}

}

#

# Now use the helper to show and hide the window...

#

if ($hidden) {

$ch::HideConsole()

} elseif ($glass) {

$ch::GlassConsole()

} else {

$ch::NormalConsole()<

Brent Friedman on 5.29.2009 at 2:22 AM

Didn't think about doing something like that. Always good to have another option though.

Brent Friedman on 5.29.2009 at 4:51 PM

Just made a script that extends the glass from the title bar into the window. Set the powershell background to black.

Download

 

Itanium on 6.11.2009 at 12:13 AM

The script file is 404ed. Can you please check the link.

Brent Friedman on 6.11.2009 at 5:10 PM

Itanium,

Try now, IIS didn't like the extension.

Danny on 6.29.2009 at 12:36 PM

Sorry Brent, it still gives an 404 on me.

Maybe you can put it in an archive?

Thanks

Brent Friedman on 6.29.2009 at 4:38 PM

Try now. When I reinstalled IIS, it lost what I had changed.

Danny on 6.30.2009 at 8:12 AM

Thanks!