PowerShell Form building

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I have built a pretty basic form for running New-ADUser and Add-AdGroupMember.

Right now I have it saved as a Function in psm1.

You bring up PS type the function name and the form loads on top of the powershell window. So far so good. But the users I have using it are wanting me to make the cursor active in the Textbox1 field automagically.

Anyone with an idea on somewhere I can find that info?

Shamus Berube · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-21 16:57:26Z

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Set the focus on the textbox object:

$textbox.Focus()

answered Feb 21, 2019 at 16:57

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Jason Amick Over a year ago

$textBox = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox $textBox.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(10,40) $textBox.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(150,20) $textbox.CharacterCasing="Normal" $textbox.Focused() $form.Controls.Add($textBox)

Jason Amick Over a year ago

Worked like a charm. This stuff is fantastic I just need to learn mroe of the terminology so google fu is easier. Thanks a ton.

Jason Amick Over a year ago

Well I say that, it worked while executing it from ISE as a ps1 but when I ran it as a function psm1 it did not switch focus.

Shamus Berube Over a year ago

You may need to add the $textbox.focus() to the form loaded event so that as soon as the form loads it switches the focus.

Shamus Berube Over a year ago

$form.add_Loaded({ $textbox.Focus() })

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