Live script output log once again

PowerShell Universal
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Product: PowerShell Universal
Version: 4.0.0-beta5

Currently im executing job then when it finish i read log form this job and im displaying it line by line by New-UDTypography
Its working its nice but not live :frowning:
Since my scripts execution can take quite a few seconds i decided that i need a live output log.
I read forum and only working solution was using New-UDCodeEditor trick.
I implemented it and its working (kind of) but i think this is not best suited for this job
So here are my questions:

  1. is there any other element that can display multiline output log except UDCodeEditor ?
  2. if not can I disable all unnecessary UDCodeEditor features ? Mostly im speaking about code preview on the right.
  3. is there any chance for dedicated command for this purpose ? Or maybe not strictly dedicated for job output but command that can display multiline ? I think it might by useful in other purposes as well ?
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1 - You could use something like New-UDSyntaxEditor. It doesn’t support Add-UDElement but you could use some combination of Sync-UDElement to update it live.

You might be able to use a pre tag with UDElement and then use Add-UDElement.

New-UDElement -Tag 'pre' -Id 'output' -Content {}

2 - There are a trillion options that you can pass into the editor but we don’t have parameters for each one. You can use the -Options parameter to adjust those.

New-UDCodeEditor -Options @{
    codeLens = $false
}
  1. UDTextbox supports multline. You could also make it readonly.
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thx
i think this codeLens option will do the job. i tried to browse for all parameters but this one is not implemented. i should read docs before copying script from forum :slight_smile:
i will also try UDTextbox but i think it will make more problems than Code Editor

4

ok now i was able to actually check it.
First option - haven’t get thru it (seems a little to complicated)
Second option - actually there is -HideCodeLens switch in Code editor and I was using it but it does not hide the lens …
With

-Options @{
   codeLens = $false

I got an error

An error occurred: Parameter set cannot be resolved using the specified named parameters. One or more parameters issued cannot be used together or an insufficient number of parameters were provided.
Endpoint: 25f68209-a229-4d06-9cec-d30556b940f2

at 25f68209-a229-4d06-9cec-d30556b940f2: line 4
at Show-UDModal, C:\Program Files (x86)\Universal\Modules\Universal\UniversalDashboard.MaterialUI.psm1: line 14941

Third option actually worked pretty well. Disabled multi line udtextbox is closest to what i want to achieve (except maybe that text is grayed out , but i can live with that or maybe we can change color of this text by style ?)

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Actually you can change color of disabled field

' .Mui-disabled { -webkit-text-fill-color: #000000;}'

That style worked. Maybe it can be achieved other way but this one works and now output log look like i wanted :slight_smile: