I actually ran this on my terribly worn down Win7 machine with the noisiest fan known to mankind, but didn't notice any problems.
Therefore, I have now updated the archive to 2.1
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- 30 Dec 2020 17:45
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: CmdBkg - use bitmap as background to console window
- Replies: 73
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- 30 Dec 2020 05:04
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: CmdBkg - use bitmap as background to console window
- Replies: 73
- Views: 31374
Re: CmdBkg - use bitmap as background to console window
Steffen,
I trust you have done an excellent job as always
I will give it a few days before I update the archive though, just in case we should see any regression.
I trust you have done an excellent job as always

I will give it a few days before I update the archive though, just in case we should see any regression.
- 30 Nov 2020 16:13
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: CmdBkg - use bitmap as background to console window
- Replies: 73
- Views: 31374
Re: CmdBkg - use bitmap as background to console window
Archive finally updated (to 2.0). Again, good work
I prefer to keep the original behavior of scaling the image. The /s option was removed, instead /c [bg] is now the center option, with optional background color.

I prefer to keep the original behavior of scaling the image. The /s option was removed, instead /c [bg] is now the center option, with optional background color.
- 22 Nov 2020 10:43
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: CmdBkg - use bitmap as background to console window
- Replies: 73
- Views: 31374
Re: CmdBkg - use bitmap as background to console window

You're on a roll! Well done.
I have very limited time now, will try to make a release next week.
Interesting that using hooks is more cpu-consuming than polling, but the way you describe it makes sense.
- 11 Nov 2020 15:30
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: CmdBkg - use bitmap as background to console window
- Replies: 73
- Views: 31374
Re: CmdBkg - use bitmap as background to console window
Found it :D We have to call PostQuitMessage for WM_DESTROY. My original assumption that WMI could be the culprit made me think about alternatives. And indeed I found a much easier way. Instead of passing the console HWND as additional argument it gets now assigned to the user data of the background...
- 09 Nov 2020 12:03
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: CmdBkg - use bitmap as background to console window
- Replies: 73
- Views: 31374
Re: CmdBkg - use bitmap as background to console window
As far as I could tell the new version works as expected. The archive linked in the first post has now been updated to v1.2. I did not make any changes to Steffens new version except updated the resource file, updated the credits in code/help (as this is now very much a joint effort), and recompiled...
- 04 Nov 2020 12:46
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: CmdBkg - use bitmap as background to console window
- Replies: 73
- Views: 31374
- 01 Nov 2020 18:38
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: CmdBkg - use bitmap as background to console window
- Replies: 73
- Views: 31374
Re: CmdBkg - use bitmap as background to console window
- a variable with 64000 bytes of stack memory is critical - string "_secondRun_" should be inserted into the original command line because surrounding quotes are already removed if it gets rearranged out of the arguments - a combination of whitespaces is used rather than the word "Kill" and the upd...
- 23 Oct 2020 04:01
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Cmdwiz - 54 operation cmd helper tool (now with Unicode)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 31148
Re: Cmdwiz - 54 operation cmd helper tool (now with Unicode)
Hello, i have a bug that all text and backgrounds of fonts are bright, i saw a program that uses this and its not bright like mine any help ? Umm... use the "color" command to set the foreground and background color of the terminal. This has nothing to do with Cmdwiz. For example (for a default pal...
- 20 Oct 2020 07:50
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Blockout (3d Tetris) !
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7294
Re: Blockout (3d Tetris) !
I have a browser version in JavaScript. https://gamereality.se/blockout/index.php It now also work with swipe on phone. Is it ok? Umm... yes, seems ok to me, except the pieces don't move downwards it seems(?) until you press Space. You seem to know a lot more about Blockout than me, having some kin...
- 27 Sep 2020 10:01
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Cmdwiz - 54 operation cmd helper tool (now with Unicode)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 31148
Re: Cmdwiz - 54 operation cmd helper tool (now with Unicode)
I'm running this script (which also checks for left/right/middle mouse key presses) and don't see an issue here: @echo off for /l %%a in (1,1,500) do call :Get_XY goto :eof :Get_XY cmdwiz getmousecursorpos x set /a x=%errorlevel% cmdwiz getmousecursorpos y set /a y=%errorlevel% cmdwiz getkeystate 1 ...
- 27 Sep 2020 02:57
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Cmdwiz - 54 operation cmd helper tool (now with Unicode)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 31148
Re: Cmdwiz - 54 operation cmd helper tool (now with Unicode)
Any idea why calling this would result in my batch program locking up before the exit /b, sometimes at the first call and sometimes at the second? :Get_XY call cmdwiz getmousecursorpos x set x=%errorlevel% call cmdwiz getmousecursorpos y set y=%errorlevel% exit /b Well, after I wrote that I tried c...
- 25 Sep 2020 16:20
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Batch Games
- Replies: 31
- Views: 37625
Re: Batch Games
These are nice. Maybe not so much for the gameplay, but because you create an atmosphere with the story+music.Lowsun wrote: ↑25 Sep 2020 15:17I have also made lots of pure Batch games like platformers, rogue-likes, and other stuff. They're are all here
https://lowsun.itch.io/
- 25 Sep 2020 11:25
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Batch Games
- Replies: 31
- Views: 37625
Re: Batch Games
Well, here's a decent enough place to list mine, in order of download popularity (all made around 2015-2016, some were updated later): (open links in separate tab) CmdRunner A 3d action game with music, available in both text and pixel versions. Also possible to play fullscreen (Ctrl-Enter, for all ...
- 31 Aug 2020 07:50
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: g.bat to jump between folders - need help to make it pure batch!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5071
Re: g.bat to jump between folders - need help to make it pure batch!
As far as I understand correctly, the original g.bat script rotates over all folders matching a particular pattern. For example, if we have some folders: another/path/to/ mydir one/another/path/to/ my one/more/ my /dir the script invoked as below g.bat my will do CD to the first and second one (hig...