ProgressBar not running with window.show

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been Googling a lot and ain’t able to make this work.

Essentially, I’m designing a WPF form with a progress bar while I run som lenghty stuff behind.
While this may seem rather easy and basic, I am no coder just a very resourceful guy.

My problem is when I use $window.ShowDialog(), the animation works perfectly but of course doesn’t run anything because it’s a modal form. Of course I went with $window.Show() which does bring up the WPF form and runs my stuff but the progressbar animation ain’t working. I tried with “runspace” and my latest test is with “start-job”.

As you will see, I’m not doing much in my code, it’s a “proof of concept”. I will be adding this to a way bigger PS1 file once it’ll be working.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Here is my code for the PS1 file.

Add-Type -AssemblyName PresentationFramework

function Load-Xaml {
	[xml]$xaml = Get-Content -Path $PSScriptRoot\ProgressBar1.xaml
	$manager = New-Object System.Xml.XmlNamespaceManager -ArgumentList $xaml.NameTable
	$manager.AddNamespace("x", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml");
	$xamlReader = New-Object System.Xml.XmlNodeReader $xaml
	[Windows.Markup.XamlReader]::Load($xamlReader)
}

$ScriptBlock = {
	sleep 10
	}

$window = Load-Xaml
#$window.Add_Closing( { $_.Cancel = $true; } ) 
$window.Topmost=$true

$Worker = Start-Job -scriptblock $ScriptBlock
$window.Show()

Do {
	#I added these lines to be sure something is actually going on
	Write-Host "." -NoNewline
	Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
} While ( $Worker.state -notlike "Completed" )

$window.Close()

Here is my XALM code, which again is very basic
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Your XAML code is not visible, post it via gist and add gist the link to the post.

3

I’ve removed the leading "<" so I can post this correctly.

Please assume those are there.

Window>
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        Title="ProgressBar" Height="100" Width="300" ResizeMode="NoResize" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen" Topmost="True" WindowStyle="ToolWindow" ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled" IsHitTestVisible="False">

    Grid Margin="20">
        ProgressBar Name="pbStatus" IsIndeterminate="True" />
    /Grid>
/Window>