BlastFromThePast (Text Animation in Powershell GUI)?

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2

This is a quite fun script.

  1. How do I get it to make the animation in a textbox in a GUI in Powershell?

  2. How do I stop the animation with, lets say a button-click?

  3. Is there a better way to aniamte | / - \ | / - \ in powershell in a textbox.

function BlastFromThePast([switch]$EndOfLine, [switch]$Finished){
$EscChar = "`r"
if($EndOfLine){ $EscChar = "`b" }
if($Finished){Write-Host "$EscChar"; return;}
if(!$tickcounter){ Set-Variable -Name "tickcounter" -Scope global -Value 0 -Force -Option AllScope }
if(!$tickoption){ Set-Variable -Name "tickoption" -Scope global -Value 0 -Force -Option AllScope }
$chance = Get-Random -Minimum 1 -Maximum 10
if($chance -eq 5){ if($tickoption -eq 1){$tickoption = 0}else{$tickoption = 1} }
switch($tickoption){
0 {
switch($tickcounter){
0 { Write-Host "$EscChar|"}
1 { Write-Host "$EscChar/"}
2 { Write-Host "$EscChar-"}
3 { Write-Host "$EscChar\"}
}
break;
}
1 {
switch($tickcounter){
0 { Write-Host "$EscChar|"}
1 { Write-Host "$EscChar/"}
2 { Write-Host "$EscChar-"}
3 { Write-Host "$EscChar\"}
}
break;
}
}
if($tickcounter -eq 3){ $tickcounter = 0 }
else{ $tickcounter++ }
}


for($i=0;$i-lt200;$i++){BlastFromThePast; Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 100}Write-Host "`r" -no

 

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you would have to run it as a back-ground job. Maybe check out the articles on sapiens forum about interactive gui’s.