Batch+ Project

[orange_batch]

Nerd wars.

I love the idea behind Powershell, but I don't quite understand how to code in it. I would learn, but it's not natively part of Windows XP or Vista, so not for my purposes at the moment.

Given that, I wonder if it's not better to learn AutoIt instead?

[Cleptography]

I love autoit though a completely different kind of language built around gui apps, autoit is a fantastic wonderful thing.

[Ed Dyreen]

@orange_batch

Given that, I wonder if it's not better to learn AutoIt instead?

AutoIT ROCKS

It is definetly powerfull, I wonder what we can't do in AutoIT, apart from programming linux fcourse. However it is not qualified as a real programming language simply because it does many things without the programmers specific permission.
AutoIT programmers very well know the Au3 Icon inside the taskbar. But that's not a prob.

AutoIT should be one of the easiest to learn it uses BASIC like syntax, which is me favorite

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While 1 < 0
  Select
   Case 0 > 1
  endselect
Wend

What am I saying, it sucks ! We need to stick with DOS batch for XP

[Cleptography]

Autoit is a very powerful tool I have used it many of times but my understanding of the language is at a beginner level at best, as I have not gone into depth with it. c++ and c# have always been my tools of choice. As a side note if anyone is interested in learning more on powershell, and not trying to preach to the choir by any means, but I found this to a be a very helpful resource http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/ebook/

[orange_batch]

Well, off-topic.

nitt, it turns out CURSOR does exactly what I need! So please, once again is it possible to program it to work without .NET? Thanks.

[Ed Dyreen]

@orange_batch
It does not have cursor, but it has color though Bill Stewart's Site - Shell Scripting Toolkit:
http://www.westmesatech.com/sst.html
I am looking for the exact same thing, it should be possible though with C, but I don't have the skills

It definetly can be done with ansi.sys, it comes with XP, I just never tried it. Also I don't know whether it's for command or cmd.


↓↓↓ cause it's more than 3 clicks away

[nitt]

Why is it so hard to download .NET framework?

[orange_batch]

Distributability.

[nitt]

Distributability.

Batch has low distributability anyways.


Anyways, I updated the List with COMWRITER and DOWNLOAD. COMWRITER I wrote in C++ so it doesn't use .NET framework.

DOWNLOAD is used basically to download things from the internet.

Like "download http://www.urwebsite.com/urfile.txt c:\users\user\desktop\file.txt" will download the file onto the desktop. It can download any file, not just TXT.

COMWRITER is not part of Batch+. But I just thought it was cool. It's its own project by itself.

[Cleptography]

DOWNLOAD is used basically to download things from the internet.

Yes like this one line of autoit which will do the same thing.

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InetGet($CmdLine[1], @ScriptDir & "\..\" & $CmdLine[2])

Except it just moves back a dir in my case, but I could stick it on my desktop
c:\users\user\desktop\

yawwwwn....

[nitt]

DOWNLOAD is used basically to download things from the internet.

Yes like this one line of autoit which will do the same thing.

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InetGet($CmdLine[1], @ScriptDir & "\..\" & $CmdLine[2])

Except it just moves back a dir in my case, but I could stick it on my desktop
c:\users\user\desktop\

yawwwwn....

...It does this and what? I don't get your point.

I just added LINECOLOR. It changes the color of the line your are one and further typed lines without effecting any of the other ones. There are plenty of these, but I just thought it'd be neat.

Anyone have any more requests?

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@echo off
:start
:getrandom
set rnd=%random%
if %rnd% GTR 9 goto getrandom
if %rnd% LSS 0 goto getrandom
linecolor %rnd% %rnd%
echo                                                                
goto start

[orange_batch]

Distributability.

Batch has low distributability anyways.

Is that a "no" to making non-.NET versions then? That's all I ask, because I honestly cannot use these as is.

[nitt]

Distributability.

Batch has low distributability anyways.

Is that a "no" to making non-.NET versions then? That's all I ask, because I honestly cannot use these as is.

Why?

[Cleptography]

I would also like to see .net independent versions.
Good work nit I had a chance to check things out kudos.

[nitt]

I would also like to see .net independent versions.
Good work nit I had a chance to check things out kudos.

Thanks, but there are no .NET independent versions because I coded them in C#.NET and you can't turn the framework off.

All of them use .NET except COMWRITER because COMWRITER isn't part of Batch+. I wrote that in C++ when I was bored one day.