Jaykul

The basic idea here is that anything that can produce an image can embed it's output in the terminal now...

Jaykul

Someone on the PowerShell Discord asked about sending a message box to the current user on a computer.

This method should work to query the user for a choice (with an optional timeout) or simply notify them of something, whether the script is being run by the user or by an administrator in a remote PowerShell session, or from system, etc.

It's not thoroughly tested (as with most of what I put on gists), but it does work.

Here's some examples:

Show-RemoteDesktopMessage -Title "Test Message" -Message "This is a test message."

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<#
.SYNOPSIS
    Formats a script file using PSScriptAnalyzer
.DESCRIPTION
    Formats a script file using PSScriptAnalyzer and some hard-coded rules.
    There are many formatters, but this one is mine.
.EXAMPLE
    Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Filter *.ps1 | Format-ScriptFile
#>
[CmdletBinding()]

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function Test-Transcribing {
  [CmdletBinding()]
  param()
  $Host.UI.GetType().GetProperty("IsTranscribing",[Reflection.BindingFlags]"NonPublic,Instance").GetValue($Host.UI)
}

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# Borrowed this one from https://github.com/chalk/ansi-regex
$script:AnsiPattern = "[\u001b\u009b][[\]()#;?]*(?:(?:(?:(?:;[-a-zA-Z\d\/#&.:=?%@~_]+)*|[a-zA-Z\d]+(?:;[-a-zA-Z\d\/#&.:=?%@~_]*)*)?(?:\u001b\u005c|\u0007))|(?:(?:\d{1,4}(?:;\d{0,4})*)?[\dA-PR-TZcf-nq-uy=><~]))"
$script:AnsiRegex = [Regex]::new($AnsiPattern, "Compiled");

function MeasureString {
    [CmdletBinding()]
    param(
        [string]$InputObject
    )
    $AnsiRegex.Replace($InputObject, '').Length

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<#
    .SYNOPSIS
        gcixels is like gci, but with sixels...
    .DESCRIPTION
        Shows thumbnails of images with titles, directly in terminal.
        However, it's done with ImageMagick montage, so it's awfully slow.
        Just sharing it for your inspiration.
    .NOTES
        Requires ImageMagick and a Sixel terminal (like Windows Terminal 1.22+ or WezTerm)
#>

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#requires -Modules Metadata
function Get-PowerShellConfig {
    <#
        .SYNOPSIS
            Get the PowerShell.config.json as a hashtable
        .EXAMPLE
            Get-PowerShellConfig

            Returns the user's PowerShell Config (usually just what experiments you've enabled)
        .EXAMPLE

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function Start-Application {
    param($Name)
    if (!($Command = @(Get-Command $Name -CommandType Application -ErrorAction Ignore)[0])) {
        $Command = foreach ($Package in Get-AppxPackage *$Name*) {
            ($Package | Get-AppxPackageManifest).Package.Applications.Application.Executable | % {
                Join-Path -Path $Package.InstallLocation -ChildPath $_
            } | Get-Command
        }
    }
    & $Command

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function Convert-RTTTL {
    <#
        .SYNOPSIS
            Convert Nokia RTTL to VT256 DEC PS (PlaySound) escape sequences for Windows Terminal, for instance.
        .EXAMPLE
            Convert-RTTTL 'Mario World Theme:d=4,o=5,b=125:a,8f.,16c,16d,16f,16p,f,16d,16c,16p,16f,16p,16f,16p,8c6,8a.,g,16c,a,8f.,16c,16d,16f,16p,f,16d,16c,16p,16f,16p,16a#,16a,16g,2f,16P,8a.,8f.,8c,8a.,f,16g#,16f,16c,16p,8g#.,2g,8a.,8f.,8c,8a.,f,16g#,16f,8c,2c6' -InformationAction Continue

            Plays the Mario World Theme song (and show the name in the console).
        .EXAMPLE
            Convert-RTTTL 'HauntHouse: d=4,o=6,b=108: 2a5, 2e, 2d#, 2b5, 2a5, 2c, 2d, 2a#5, 2e., e, 1f5, 1a5, 1d#, 2e., d, 2c., b5, 1a5, 1p, 2a5, 2e, 2d#, 2b5, 2a5, 2c, 2d, 2a#5, 2e., e, 1f5, 1a5, 1d#, 2e., d, 2c., b5, 1a5' | Set-Clipboard

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This is barely worth sharing, but you can, for instance, get everything pinned to the taskbar, and unpin it from the start menu

Get-Application -PinnedToTaskbar | UnpinStart

Huge Caveat: I haven't figured this all out.

1. I can't figure out a way to get the order of the taskbar items...
2. Many items don't have the "pin to taskbar" verb when called this way (I don't know why) and you have to do something ridiculous like making a shortcut to them first (thus, the task bar folder) and then pin that.