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    copied!<p>I'm not sure how to do this easily considering that the InputBox call is modal so you can't easily try to find the window handle and do a set-foreground on that window (unless you attempt to use a background job). Rather than use this VisualBasic text input box, how about a "roll your own" implementation using WPF/XAML. It is pretty easy but it does require WPF which is installed by PowerShell 2.0 if necessary.</p> <pre><code>$Xaml = @' &lt;Window xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" x:Name="Window" Title="Name" Height="137" Width="444" MinHeight="137" MinWidth="100" FocusManager.FocusedElement="{Binding ElementName=TextBox}" ResizeMode="CanResizeWithGrip" &gt; &lt;DockPanel Margin="8"&gt; &lt;StackPanel DockPanel.Dock="Bottom" Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Right"&gt; &lt;Button x:Name="OKButton" Width="60" IsDefault="True" Margin="12,12,0,0" TabIndex="1" &gt;_OK&lt;/Button&gt; &lt;Button Width="60" IsCancel="True" Margin="12,12,0,0" TabIndex="2" &gt;_Close&lt;/Button&gt; &lt;/StackPanel&gt; &lt;StackPanel &gt; &lt;Label x:Name="Label" Margin="-5,0,0,0" TabIndex="3"&gt;Label:&lt;/Label&gt; &lt;TextBox x:Name="TextBox" TabIndex="0" /&gt; &lt;/StackPanel&gt; &lt;/DockPanel&gt; &lt;/Window&gt; '@ if ([System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.ApartmentState -ne 'STA') { throw "Script can only be run if PowerShell is started with -STA switch." } Add-Type -Assembly PresentationCore,PresentationFrameWork $xmlReader = [System.Xml.XmlReader]::Create([System.IO.StringReader] $Xaml) $form = [System.Windows.Markup.XamlReader]::Load($xmlReader) $xmlReader.Close() $window = $form.FindName("Window") $window.Title = "My App Name" $label = $form.FindName("Label") $label.Content = "What is your name?" $textbox = $form.FindName("TextBox") $okButton = $form.FindName("OKButton") $okButton.add_Click({$window.DialogResult = $true}) if ($form.ShowDialog()) { $textbox.Text } </code></pre> <p>This could be rather easily wrapped up into a Read-GuiText function.</p>
 

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