May
21
2009
Handling Button Clicks in WPF with PowerShell
Posted by: Andy Schneider in UncategorizedIn my last post, I discussed how to fire up a WPF window in PowerShell. You can make XAML look pretty amazing, but if buttons and controls never get wired up to any functionality, it gets boring pretty quick. Here is the code I had last time with a small addition.Blend allows you to name your controls. This turns into what you see in line 018 in the XAML. x:Name=”Close.”
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[xml]$xaml = @"
<Window xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" x:Name="Window" Title="Blend and PowerShell" Width="640" Height="480" AllowsTransparency="False"> <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot"> <Rectangle Margin="22,8,22,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="178" Stroke="#FF000000"> <Rectangle.Fill> <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="0.5,1" StartPoint="0.5,0"> <GradientStop Color="#FF000000" Offset="0"/> <GradientStop Color="#FF861A1A" Offset="1"/> </LinearGradientBrush> </Rectangle.Fill> </Rectangle> <Button Margin="121,0,129,96" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Height="100" Content="Button" x:Name="Close"/> </Grid> </Window> "@ $reader = New-Object System.Xml.XmlNodeReader $xaml $d = [Windows.Markup.XamlReader]::Load($reader) $d.FindName("Close").add_click({ $d.Close() }) $d.ShowDialog() | out-null |
Once you have the name, you can call the FindName method (see line 024) on your WPF Window. This allows you to find the named control that you want to add event handling for. Using FindName, we can add the add_Click method and pass in the ScriptBlock that we want to execute on the click event.
When you run this, clicking the button will close the dialog box.
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Have you tried powerboots? In case you don’t need to process raw XAML it could be your choice.. The window can be even opened in its own separate thread.