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Changing caret/cursor position

today I'm here to give you all a new challenge!

Just joking: my problem is the caret of the Command Prompt. [The "entire" story is in the bottom"]

Short story long, I have to move the caret positions to ECHO a new line in the same position. That's because I have to print only few strings [about three lines]; making a CLS every time it blinks because of the speed of the execution.

I tried some things, also using the <NUL SET /P "=InsertHereString", but there's always the problem of what I already ECHOed that doesn't disappear!

So here's my request: There's a method to move that blinking bunch of pixel allowing to write a string starting from a certain point of the CMD?

BOTTOM: The "entire" story is that I made a sort of installer in batch, copying and linking some applications from a removable drive. Now, I also made a status bar saying in percentage what is done. Under the status bar I want to show what actually the program is doing, but when there are [for example] a lot of file in a directory to link or copy, it makes a list instead of erasing the previous thing, so at the moment I'm simply ECHOing a " - Done!" or a" - Failed!" string next to the main string. I asked for that because in another language [C++] I found a method that I used to make a PacMan simulation. It consists in a method that want an X and an Y variable that identify the caret position in a Cartesian plane where the (0,0) position is the up-left corner of the Command Prompt.

Thanks for your time!

Solution

  • BG v2.5 (unicode)

    http://batch.xoo.it/t2238-BG-exe-Utility-for-Batch-Games.htm

    BG.EXE is a tool for print text color in cmd.exe. It accepts regular expressions for print ascii characters. It also have useful functions.

    Locate row column ::locate the position of cursor in row and column specified, zero index based.

    Call it: bg Locate 0 0 and the cursor jumps there.

    Or

    CursorPos.exe

    http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3428

    Get or set cursor position.

    CursorPos [[±]col [±]row]

    If no parameter is given, return current cursor position as col+(row<<16) in ERRORLEVEL.

    If any coordinate have sign, the position given is relative to the current one.

    If cursor is moved, the Ascii code of the character at new position is returned in ERRORLEVEL.