Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: Using Windows PowerShell 2.0 to Display Color-Coded Output in a Table

re: Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: Using Windows PowerShell 2.0 to Display Color-Coded Output in a Table

Scott R. — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:31:29 GMT

Thanks for the article and example.

I tried your example code as-is and it works as described. I then tried to apply that example to a specific use, and the result is the whole set of Format-Table output as all one color (and not necessarily the default foreground color).

After much experimenting, I found that the behavior difference was related to my use of the -AutoSize parameter on the Format-Table cmdlet, where your example did not use -AutoSize. When I add -AutoSize to your example, it no longer displays the colors as before.

My best understanding of the resulting behavior is that it appears when -AutoSize is used with the selective color code approach, the entire Format-Table output will take on the color of the last line of output.

Any suggestions on how to get selective colors approach and -AutoSize to cooperatively work together?

Thanks,

Scott R.

re: Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: Using Windows PowerShell 2.0 to Display Color-Coded Output in a Table

Dominic — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:53:45 GMT

Thanks for this great post. Is there a way to make each column a different color? i.e. Process name could be grey, CPU could be Yellow, Memory could be red based on different thresholds?

re: Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: Using Windows PowerShell 2.0 to Display Color-Coded Output in a Table

Dominic — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:16:53 GMT

Is there a way to extend this color coding to just one column rather than the entire row? I tried adding the host.ui.rawui.foregroundcolor to each column but the last one in the row wins and the entire row becomes that color. The thought was you could have multiple alert items (CPU, Memory) and you could vary the color from green, yellow, red depending on threshold for that item whilst the Name column + header itself remains the default color.