Permanent line at the bottom of the console window in batch files

Question

Hi guys,

Just wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to have a permament line of text at the bottom of a cmd prompt window when running a batch file? So it floats, and if there is a lot of text flowing on the screen, and the cmd prompt starts to scroll, that line of text is still there at the bottom.

Cheers,

Tim

Answer 1

Not without external programs. Your output options are limited to:

• Changing the foreground and background color of all text in the console
• Printing a line of text at the current cursor position
• Printing some text (without a trailing line break) at the current cursor position

Without writing your own programs (or resorting to others) you can't do anything else with the console output.

When needing a line or something to display status while the main portion of the output scrolls away I've usually been using the window title for that; you can set it with title.