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Athanasius12
Athanasius12

Reputation: 37

Scrolling Up Programmatically On The PowerShell ISE Console

Any help would be appreciated. I have script that runs and displays a list and ends with a question and prompt in my PowerShell ISE console. What I would like it to do is not scroll automatically to the question with the prompt, or I would like to automatically scroll to the top of the console window. I have tried derivatives of [System.Console]::SetWindowPosition and $psise.CurrentPowerShellTab.ConsolePane to absolutely no avail. It appears to me that it CAN'T be done or simply that I am misunderstanding something at a fundamental level and simply can't figure it out. Does anyone have a suggestion of how this can be done?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 533

Answers (1)

Clint Oliveira
Clint Oliveira

Reputation: 702

I would suggest outputting our results in chunks until the results are complete and then display the question. In my sample:

  • I created a list of 35 user FirstName fields.

  • Displayed 10 results at a time with a read-host of "hit any key to continue"

  • After all the 35 results are displayed it asks the user a question.

      $list = Import-Csv ".\data.csv"

  $startrow = 0

  $counter = 1

  $rows = $list | Measure-Object

  while ($startrow -lt $rows.Count)

  {

  $xs = $list | select-object -skip $startrow -first 10

  foreach ($x in $xs)

      {
          Write-Host $x.FirstName -ForegroundColor Green

      }

  Read-Host "hit any key to continue"
  $startrow += 10
  $counter++
  }

  Read-Host "did you finish reading the output?"

Hope this helps you out. Feel free to modify it to your specifications.

Upvotes: 2

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