Form with runspace

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1

I have the below code in a simple form, the bit I am not having any luck with I want the form to close when the countdown has reached 1. I am not sure what event I need to trigger (or where to put it) as the counter is running in a runspace.

[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms") | Out-Null
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms

$sync = [Hashtable]::Synchronized(@{})

# Countdown Timer
$counter = {
$count = [PowerShell]::Create().AddScript({
for ($i = 5; $i -gt 0; $i--) {
$sync.label.Text = $i
start-sleep -seconds 1
if($i -eq 1) {$form.close()}
}

})

$runspace = [RunspaceFactory]::CreateRunspace()
$runspace.ApartmentState = "STA"
$runspace.ThreadOptions = "ReuseThread"
$runspace.Open()
$runspace.SessionStateProxy.SetVariable("sync", $sync)

$count.Runspace = $runspace
$count.BeginInvoke()

}

# create the form.
$form = New-Object Windows.Forms.Form
$form.ClientSize = New-Object Drawing.Size(200, 60)
$form.Text = "Counter"
$form.StartPosition = "CenterScreen"
$form.FormBorderStyle = "FixedSingle"
$form.MaximizeBox = $false

# create the button.
$button = New-Object Windows.Forms.Button
$button.Location = New-Object Drawing.Point(10, 10)
$button.Width = 180
$button.Text = "Close"
$button.Add_Click({$form.close()})

# create the label.
$label = New-Object Windows.Forms.Label
$label.Location = New-Object Drawing.Point(10, 38)
$label.Width = 100
$label.Text = 0
$form.add_Load($counter)
# add controls to the form.
$sync.button = $button
$sync.label = $label
$form.Controls.AddRange(@($sync.button, $sync.label))

# show the form.
[Windows.Forms.Application]::Run($form)
2

It looks like a job for System.Windows.Forms.Timer. It runs in the same thread, and is thus thread-safe…

[int]$countValue = 5

$timer= New-Object Windows.Forms.Timer
$timer.Interval = 1000 # trigger interval in milliseconds
$timer.Add_Tick({
    $script:countValue--
    $label.Text = $countValue
    if($countValue -eq 0) {
        $timer.Stop()
        $form.Close()
    }
})

$form.Add_Load({
    $label.Text = $countValue
    $timer.Start()
})
3

Thanks for your input. I ended up using the timer as ran out of time to deliver the solution. I may revisit at some point to get a run space solution working as we have several forms that use this technology.