C# Console - set cursor position to the last visible line

Question

Hey,

I would like to set the position of the cursor in the Console to the last visible line. How can I do this?

Cheers,

Pete

Answer 1

If you mean the last line of the window, you can use a mixture of Console.CursorTop, and Console.WindowHeight and Console.WindowTop. Sample code:

using System;

class Test
{
    static void Main()
    {
        Console.Write("Hello");
        WriteOnBottomLine("Bottom!");
        Console.WriteLine(" there");
    }

    static void WriteOnBottomLine(string text)
    {
        int x = Console.CursorLeft;
        int y = Console.CursorTop;
        Console.CursorTop = Console.WindowTop + Console.WindowHeight - 1;
        Console.Write(text);
        // Restore previous position
        Console.SetCursorPosition(x, y);
    }
}

Note that this has to take account of Console.WindowTop to find out where you are within the buffer...