Outputting in powershell

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Good Afternoon,

I need to utilize the AWS s3 ls command and have it automatically output to the textbox, instead of being required to execute on button push. How can I make this happen?

[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Drawing") 
[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms")  

$Form = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form    
$Form.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(600,400)  

############################################## Start functions

function s3Info {
$s3Result= aws s3 ls | fl | out-string;
$outputBox.text=$s3Result
                     } #end s3Info

############################################## end functions


############################################## Start text fields


$outputBox = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox 
$outputBox.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,150) 
$outputBox.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(565,200) 
$outputBox.MultiLine = $True 
$outputBox.ScrollBars = "Vertical" 
$Form.Controls.Add($outputBox) 

############################################## end text fields

############################################## Start buttons

$Button = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button 
$Button.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(400,30) 
$Button.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(110,80) 
$Button.Text = "Ping" 
$Button.Add_Click({s3Info}) 
$Form.Controls.Add($Button) 

############################################## end buttons

$Form.Add_Shown({$Form.Activate()})
[void] $Form.ShowDialog()

What I have tried:

I have tried to remove the function and add just an out-string to outputBox.text with no positive results.

Posted 4-May-17 6:04am

User 9727524

Updated 11-May-17 9:04am

OriginalGriff

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Richard Deeming 4-May-17 12:46pm

How about:

$Form.Add_Load({s3Info})

[no name] 4-May-17 12:52pm

Under which section? Do you mean remove to button information and use $Form.Add_Load{s3Info})?

Richard Deeming 4-May-17 12:56pm

Just under the $Form.Add_Shown(...) line. If it works, you should be able to remove the $Button lines.

[no name] 5-May-17 7:33am

Would I need to add Multiple $Form.add_Loads if I add multiple text boxes and functions to call to fill said boxes?

Richard Deeming 5-May-17 9:15am

That would probably be the best approach.

[no name] 9-May-17 9:08am

Thanks it worked out for me! I do have another question.

What am I doing wrong here. as its not passing only the text information from the text boxes into the function.

############################################## Start functions

function Sync {
$Local=$LocalPath.text
$S3Bucket=$S3Path.text
$S3Result=ping $S3Path $Local | fl | out-string;
$wshell = New-Object -ComObject Wscript.Shell
$wshell.Popup("$S3Result",0,"Sync Done",0x0)
} #end procInfo

############################################## end functions

Richard Deeming 9-May-17 9:21am

$S3Result=ping $S3Path $Local | fl | out-string;

Shouldn't that be:

$S3Result=ping $S3Bucket $Local | fl | out-string;

($S3Bucket instead of $S3Path)

[no name] 9-May-17 9:54am

I corrected that, The issue I am having with it is joining the two I used Ping as an example. The command should be piped like this
(aws s3 sync s3://bucketname/folder c:/Software) the bucketname and folders are populated from their respective text fields. I am using ping as an example for testing purposes of the function.

Richard Deeming 9-May-17 9:57am

I'm not familiar with the AWS commands. Are you getting an error?

[no name] 9-May-17 9:59am

It is acting as if the $S3Bucket and $Local are not joined together with a space in between. It is only seeing the $S3Bucket but not the $Local.

Richard Deeming 9-May-17 10:10am

I can't see any reason why that wouldn't work.

Try creating and calling a simple C# console application to echo the command-line parameters, to see if Powershell is doing something odd.

using System;

static class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < args.Length; i++)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("{0}> {1}", i, args[i]);
        }
    }
}

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User 9727524 · Answer 1 · 2017-05-11T09:04:00

Solution 1

Had to use a split in

3Result=ping $S3Path $Local

Posted 11-May-17 9:04am

User 9727524