PowerShell Version 4.0 (.PS1 File) - Add Text from TextBox into an Array to be printed on the console - arrays

Question

Please Note this is PowerShell 4.0. I don't think Convert-String is available to , but granted, answers for other versions of PowerShell are still worth the read.
Alright. I'm very new to PowerShell, but interestingly enough both through Google and StackOverFlow I haven't been able to find the answer to this; I'm just not sure where to go yet.
Please keep in mind that i want to launch the file example.ps1 from the PowerShell prompt.
Function Show_Form
{
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms
$global:Y_Position = 10
$global:X_Position = 5
$Form = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.Form
$Form.Text = "Sample Form"
$Form.Width = 400
$Form.Height = 450
$Form.AutoScroll = $True
$Form.AutoSize = $True
$Form.AutoSizeMode = "GrowOnly"
$Form.MinimizeBox = $False
$Form.MaximizeBox = $False
$Label = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Label
$Label.Text = "Please Fill in the Required Information:`n"
$Label.AutoSize = $True
$Form.Controls.Add($Label)
$LabelTextBox = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Label
$LabelTextBox.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(10,40)
$LabelTextBox.Text = $Text
$LabelTextBox.AutoSize = $True
$Form.Controls.Add($LabelTextBox)
$global:textBox = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
$X_Position = $X_Position+90
$textBox.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(10,40)
$textBox.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(260,20)
$Form.Controls.Add($textBox)
$Okbutton = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button
$Okbutton.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(250,570)
$Okbutton.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(100,30)
$Okbutton.Text = "OK"
<#-----------------------------------#>
$global:Arr = #("lll", "ppp", 2)
$OkButton.Add_Click({[System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::Show($textBox.text, "My Dialog Box")})
$OkButton.Add_Click({Write-Host $textBox.text})
$global:Arr[0] = $textBox.text
$OkButton.Add_Click({Write-Host $Arr})
<#-----------------------------------#>
$Okbutton.Add_Click({$Form.Close()})
$Form.Controls.Add($Okbutton)
$Form.ShowDialog()
}
Show_Form
My problem is with these lines:
$global:Arr = #("lll", "ppp", 2)
$OkButton.Add_Click({[System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::Show($textBox.text, "My Dialog Box")})
$OkButton.Add_Click({Write-Host $textBox.text})
$global:Arr[0] = $textBox.text
$OkButton.Add_Click({Write-Host $Arr})
The Add_Click({Write-Host $textBox.text}) displays in the Console but when I add $textBox.text to an array (object array or otherwise) or replace another element with it then print the Array, it is always just blank.
.
And if I do the following (Note: Arr[0] AND Arr[1])
$global:Arr = #("lll", "ppp", 2)
$OkButton.Add_Click({[System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::Show($textBox.text, "My Dialog Box")})
$OkButton.Add_Click({Write-Host $textBox.text})
$global:Arr[0] = $textBox.text
$OkButton.Add_Click({Write-Host $Arr})
$global:Arr[1] = "$textBox.text"
$OkButton.Add_Click({Write-Host $Arr})
Both elements get written as the value System.Windows.Forms.TextBox, Text: .text
I'm wondering how to make $textBox.text display in the Console in the array?

Answer 1

The problem you face is simple.
You assumed that $global:Arr[1] = "$textBox.text" would be set the actual text value from when you click the Ok button in your form.
But actually, this section of code is called before $Form.ShowDialog(). Therefore, at that point in time, your textbox is indeed empty, which explains what you get.
If you want your global array to be set to the textbox text after the Ok button is pressed, you need to set the array value when the user click the button through the Add_Click event.
Like this:
$OkButton.Add_Click( { $global:Arr[0] = $textBox.text })
Additional note
If you're not familiar already with how debugging work in Powershell, I'd recommend you to look at some debugging tutorials.
You would have immediately seen that the script did go to your variable assignment before the form is even shown, which would have possibly clued you in on the situation.
--
You can see below a debug point on the assignment line. The execution is stopped before I had a chance to see or enter anything in the form, which indicates that the value clearly can't be the one from the form. Querying $textBox.text at that point from the console shows the value to be empty, as we would expect from a newly initialized form.
Some documentation: how to debug scripts (even though it says ISE, all of this should be good with VSCode too)