echoes text in a specific color - help

[alexsander.albani]

Hi! I'm new at the forum.
First I'd like to thanks, 'cause I already used many tips and examples of codes posted here!

Now, my question:
- I'm trying to use the echo function posted here, in order to echoes with colors. It works fine, but I need to have a screen with many rows (scroll) and when I use the echo function, the screen buffer is missed. It seens like the cmd window resizes each time it calls the echo and then turn back to the original size and some upper rows are missed.

Does anybody know how to solve that?

Thanks a lot!

[Ed Dyreen]

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Which function are u talking about
http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2745&start=0

[alexsander.albani]

Hi Ed!

I'm using this one: http://www.dostips.com/DtCodeCmdLib.php#Function.echo

thanks.

[Ed Dyreen]

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Well, I'm getting the famous for /f bug on XP, and did a dirty quick fix.

I see what u mean now, the screen buffer is being eaten and it seems to be caused by the COM file,
I know close to nothing about COM files, let's wait for an assembly wizard to pass by...

I'm interested in which OS you use, as you say it works perfectly with you, win7 ?

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@echo off &setlocal enableDelayedExpansion

for /l %%? in ( 1, 1, 50 ) do (
call :echo 0C. "Hello "
call :echo 0F "world"
)
pause
exit /b 0

:echo col txt -- echoes text in a specific color
::            -- col [in]  - color code, append a DOT to omit line break, call 'color /?' for color codes
::            -- txt [in]  - text output
:$created 20060101 :$changed 20080219 :$categories Echo,Color
:$source http://www.dostips.com
SETLOCAL
2>nul (
for /f "tokens=1,*" %%a in ("%*") do (
    set col=%%a
    set txt=%%~b
)
)
set cr=Y
if "%col:~-1%"=="." (
    set cr=N
    set col=%col:~0,-1%
)

call:getColorCode "%col%" col
set com=%temp%.\color%col%.com
if not exist "%com%" (
    echo.N %COM%
    echo.A 100
    echo.MOV BL,%col%
    echo.MOV BH,0
    echo.MOV SI,0082
    echo.MOV AL,[SI]
    echo.MOV CX,1
    echo.MOV AH,09
    echo.INT 10
    echo.MOV AH,3
    echo.INT 10
    echo.INC DL
    echo.MOV AH,2
    echo.INT 10
    echo.INC SI
    echo.MOV AL,[SI]
    echo.CMP AL,0D
    echo.JNZ 109
    echo.RET
    echo.
    echo.r cx
    echo.22
    echo.w
    echo.q
)|debug>NUL
"%com%" %txt%
rem del "%com%" /q
if "%cr%"=="Y" echo.
EXIT /b

:getColorCode col ret -- converts color text to color code
::                    -- col [in]  - color text BackgroundForeground, i.e.: BlueLYellow for 1E
::                    -- ret [out] - return variable to return color code in
:$created 20060101 :$changed 20080219 :$categories Color,Echo
:$source http://www.dostips.com
SETLOCAL
set col=%~1
set col=%col:Gray=8%
set col=%col:LBlue=9%
set col=%col:LGreen=A%
set col=%col:LAqua=B%
set col=%col:LRed=C%
set col=%col:LPurple=D%
set col=%col:LYellow=E%
set col=%col:LWhite=F%
set col=%col:Black=0%
set col=%col:Blue=1%
set col=%col:Green=2%
set col=%col:Aqua=3%
set col=%col:Red=4%
set col=%col:Purple=5%
set col=%col:Yellow=6%
set col=%col:White=7%
ENDLOCAL & IF "%~2" NEQ "" (SET %~2=%col%) ELSE (echo.%col%)

[alexsander.albani]

I'm using Win7, but I'm experiencing the "buffer problem" even in win7 and XP.
The same problem occours using ColorMsg.com that u mentioned before.

It really seens something related with .com files.

Let's see if somebody else can help.
Thanks.

[!k]

x64 ?
16-bit programs like .com not works on 64-bit OS

[alexsander.albani]

No. it's Win 32-bit.

[alexsander.albani]

After more tests I've realized that it keeps only the 50 last lines.
I don't know why just 50...