How to set keyboard focus to a TextBox in Powershell

Question

I\'m looking to find out how to automatically set the keyboard focus to a text box in powershell.

I have a script that asks the user to select an option from a drop

Answer 1

Try the Select method in case Ficus doesn't work:

if($textbox.CanFocus)
{
   $textbox.Focus()
else
{
   $textbox.Select()
}

Answer 2

Works great, but I needed to make the paramValue variable script global (the scope inside the Add_Click routine is not the script scope and the paramValue setting is lost). Using $Global:paramValue worked for me.

Answer 3

This is an alternative to the answers of @CB and @Shay Levy (none of them worked for me):

$objForm.Add_Shown( { $objTextBox.Select() })

Answer 4

The code that works with the original post and FOCUS is:

if ( $objTextBox.CanFocus )
{
$objTextBox.Focus()
}
else
{
$objTextBox.Select()
}

Answer 5

Following your code, where I can find a dropdown menu, to give focus to textbox when form is shown I've done:

$objForm.Add_Shown({$objForm.Activate(); $objTextBox.focus()})