I'm Working on a Batch Game called BatchOS That basically imitates an Actual Operating System. While i was making the Internet Explorer for BatchOS. I Found something that i had to ask for. How do i Center a InputBox in Batch? Like there is no actual Questions about this. I wanted everything centered.
Screenshot:
The code says that The InputBox is centered but in Command Prompt. It's Not Centered at all.
I'm In Windows 11 Btw
The set /P command trims leading white-spaces. But there is a nice work-around.
At first, do:
for /F %%B in ('prompt $H^& for %%Z in ^(.^) do rem/') do set "_BS=%%B"
to gather the back-space character. Then do:
set /P INPUT="#%_BS% Prompt: "
to get leading SPACEs on the console display.
The trick is to begin the prompt text with a character other than a SPACE (like #), but then move the cursor back by a back-space (⟵), so the first of the following SPACEs overwrites that character, thus deleting it.
Hence the actually printed character sequence is:
#⟵ SPACE SPACE SPACE SPACEPrompt:SPACE
which leads to the displayed text:
SPACE SPACE SPACE SPACE
Prompt:SPACE
It is not centered in the middle because for it to be in the center, you have to write a code which will keep resetting the code every 1 ms and check the location where the center is then center it there.
This is the closest thing I found that might help you
echo URL:
set /p url=
but the input will be at the below and not centered.
ANSII color codes will help you.
for /F "tokens=1,2 delims=#" %%a in ('"prompt #$H#$E# & echo on & for %%b in (1) do rem"') do (
set ESC=%%b
)
set /p url=%ESC%[30m------------------%ESC%[0mURL: