Public/New-BTText.ps1

function New-BTText {
    <#
        .SYNOPSIS
        Creates a new Text Element for Toast Notifications.

        .DESCRIPTION
        The New-BTTextElement function creates a new Text Element for Toast Notifications.

        You can specify the text you want displayed in a Toast Notification as a string, or run the function without a paramter for a blank line.

        Each Text Element is the equivalent of one line in on a Toast Notification, long lines will wrap.

        .INPUTS
        String

        You cannot pipe input to this function.

        .OUTPUTS
        Text

        .EXAMPLE
        New-BTTextElement -Content 'This is a line with text!'

        Creates a Text Element that will show the string 'This is a line with text!' on a Toast Notification.

        .EXAMPLE
        New-BTTextElement

        Creates a Text Element that will show a blank line on a Toast Notification.

        .NOTES
        TODO: Implement hint-style (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/tiles_and_toasts/2015/06/30/adaptive-tile-templates-schema-and-documentation/)

        Credit for most of the help text for this function go to the authors of the UWPCommunityToolkit library that this module relies upon.

        Please see the originating repo here: https://github.com/Microsoft/UWPCommunityToolkit

        .LINK
        https://github.com/Windos/BurntToast/blob/master/Help/New-BTText.md
    #>


    [CmdletBinding()]
    [OutputType([Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp.Notifications.AdaptiveText])]
    param (
        # The text to display. Data binding support added in Creators Update, only works for toast top-level text elements (But appears to not be working via PowerShell yet.)
        [Parameter()]
        [alias('Content')]
        [string] $Text,

        # The maximum number of lines the text element is allowed to display. For Toasts, top-level text elements will have varying max line amounts (and in the Anniversary Update you can change the max lines).
        #
        # Text on a Toast inside a group (not yet implemented) will behave identically to Tiles (default to infinity).
        [int] $MaxLines,

        # The minimum number of lines the text element must display. Note that for Toast, this property will only take effect if the text is inside a group (not yet implemented.)
        [int] $MinLines,

        # Supply this switch to enable text wrapping. For Toasts, this is true on top-level text elements, and false inside a group (not yet implemented.)
        #
        # Note that for Toast, setting wrap will only take effect if the text is inside a group (you can use HintMaxLines = 1 to prevent top-level text elements from wrapping).
        [switch] $Wrap,

        # The horizontal alignment of the text. Note that for Toast, this property will only take effect if the text is inside a group (not yet implemented.)
        [Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp.Notifications.AdaptiveTextAlign] $Align,

        # The style controls the text's font size, weight, and opacity. Note that for Toast, the style will only take effect if the text is inside a group (not yet implemented.)
        [Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp.Notifications.AdaptiveTextStyle] $Style,

        # The target locale of the XML payload, specified as a BCP-47 language tags such as "en-US" or "fr-FR". The locale specified here overrides any other specified locale, such as that in binding or visual. If this value is a literal string, this attribute defaults to the user's UI language. If this value is a string reference, this attribute defaults to the locale chosen by Windows Runtime in resolving the string.
        [string] $Language
    )

    $TextObj = [Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp.Notifications.AdaptiveText]::new()

    if ($Text) {
        $TextObj.Text = $Text
    }

    if ($MaxLines) {
        $TextObj.HintMaxLines = $MaxLines
    }

    if ($MinLines) {
        $TextObj.HintMinLines = $MinLines
    }

    if ($Wrap) {
        $TextObj.HintWrap = $Wrap
    }

    if ($Align) {
        $TextObj.HintAlign = $Align
    }

    if ($Style) {
        $TextObj.HintStyle = $Style
    }

    if ($Language) {
        $TextObj.Language = $Language
    }

    $TextObj
}