powershell objects to Autohotkey

[haichen]

Is there a way to work with powershell objects in Autohotkey? convert them to ahkobjects?
Has someone seen some code or has an idea how to do?

[RickC]

If you mean PowerShell cmdlets then it's very easy to wrap them in AHK.

For example:

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psScript =
(
   Stop-Process -ProcessName explorer
)
Run PowerShell.exe -Command %psScript%,, hide

I use this to refresh the Windows desktop.

It's also fairly easy to build queries and redirect output, for example:

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psScript =
(
    Get-NetTCPConnection | ? State -eq 'Established' | ? RemoteAddress -notlike 127* | FT -Autosize | Out-File C:\Support\established-connections.txt
)

; Use this call if you *don't* want to see PowerShell output
RunWait PowerShell.exe -Command %psScript%,, hide

; Use this call if you want to see PowerShell output
; Run powershell.exe -NoExit -Command %psScript%
Run, C:\Support\established-connections.txt

ExitApp

Hope this helps...

[haichenatwork]

Thank you very much! I found a slightly different solution:

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#include json.ahk ;https://github.com/cocobelgica/AutoHotkey-JSON

ps=Get-Service "s*" | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq 'running'} | Sort-Object status -Descending
svc:=RunPS(ps)

loop, 5
msgbox, % svc[a_index].name
return


RunPS(ps) {
json_str:=ComObjCreate("WScript.Shell").Exec("powershell -command " ps " | ConvertTo-Json").StdOut.ReadAll() ;convert a Powershellobject to a json-string
return JSON.Load(json_str) ;returns an AHK-Object
}

[tester]

Thank you very much! I found a slightly different solution:

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#include json.ahk ;https://github.com/cocobelgica/AutoHotkey-JSON

ps=Get-Service "s*" | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq 'running'} | Sort-Object status -Descending
svc:=RunPS(ps)

loop, 5
msgbox, % svc[a_index].name
return


RunPS(ps) {
json_str:=ComObjCreate("WScript.Shell").Exec("powershell -command " ps " | ConvertTo-Json").StdOut.ReadAll() ;convert a Powershellobject to a json-string
return JSON.Load(json_str) ;returns an AHK-Object
}

I've tried the posted RunPS() function by passing Get-Process like

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RunPS( "Get-Process" )

It took more than 1 minute to respond. If I manually open PowerShell and type Get-Process, it shows the output within a few seconds, however. Does anybody know why?