How do I make one particular line of a batch file a different color then the others?

Question

I\'m working on a program which generates the day\'s weather for D&D games. I want the program to display a warning in red text when a storm is generated so the DM is aw

Answer 1

Script from here: How to have multiple colors in a Windows batch file? a little modified (simplyfied):

@echo off
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
for /F "tokens=1,2 delims=#" %%a in ('"prompt #$H#$E# & echo on & for %%b in (1) do rem"') do (
  set "DEL=%%a"
)
echo next line in another color:
call :ColorText 0c "There is an Ashstorm!"
echo this was red.
call :ColorText 0a "you survived it."

goto :eof

:ColorText
echo off
echo %DEL% > "%~2"
findstr /v /a:%1 /R "^$" "%~2" nul
del "%~2" > nul 2>&1
goto :eof

It was a link in the very first answer of "possible duplicate: How to change the text color of comments line in a batch file "

Answer 2

I was having the same problem yesterday, I did some research and this worked for me. EDIT: This is NOT the same code as the other one.

@Echo Off
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
for /F "tokens=1,2 delims=#" %%a in ('"prompt #$H#$E# & echo on & for %%b in (1) do     rem"') do (
  set "DEL=%%a"
)
call :colorEcho 0a "This is colored green with a black background!"
echo.
call :colorEcho a0 "This is colored black with a green background!"
echo.
pause
exit
:colorEcho
echo off
<nul set /p ".=%DEL%" > "%~2"
findstr /v /a:%1 /R "^$" "%~2" nul
del "%~2" > nul 2>&1i

it does this:

All you need to do to fit this is put the part from SETLOCAL EnableDel... to ) to the beginning of your code (If your code starts with @echo off then put it under that) and also put the part from :colorEcho to del %~2 at the exact bottom of your script (NOTHING UNDERNEATH!)

Now between you notice

call :colorEcho 0a "This is colored green with a black background!"
echo.
call :colorEcho a0 "This is colored black with a green background!"
echo.
pause
exit

Explained line by line: First line (call :colorEcho 0a "This is colored green with a black background!"): This is a colored echo, it suprisingly says This is colored green with a black background! in 0a (Black Bg, Green Text) Second line (echo.) prints a newline, since our colored echo doesn't print one.

SO

Let's say you wanted to say "Hello World" in Hello being yellow and World being green. Example!

@Echo Off
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
for /F "tokens=1,2 delims=#" %%a in ('"prompt #$H#$E# & echo on & for %%b in (1) do     rem"') do (
  set "DEL=%%a"
)
call :colorEcho 0e "Hello "
call :colorEcho 0a " World"
pause
exit
:colorEcho
echo off
<nul set /p ".=%DEL%" > "%~2"
findstr /v /a:%1 /R "^$" "%~2" nul
del "%~2" > nul 2>&1i

This is what it does: I hope this is understandable!

EDIT: Make sure the program exits before it could reach :colorEcho

Answer 3

@Echo Off
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
for /F "tokens=1,2 delims=#" %%a in ('"prompt #$H#$E# & echo on & for %%b in (1) do     rem"') 

do (
  set "DEL=%%a"
)
call :colorEcho 0c "HyperBeast"
echo.
call :colorEcho 0c "NeonRider"
echo.
call :colorEcho 0d "Djinn"
echo.
call :colorEcho 0d "Eco"
echo.
call :colorEcho 0d "MonkeyBuisness"
echo.
call :colorEcho 05 "GrandPrix"
echo.
call :colorEcho 05 "PolePosition"
echo.
call :colorEcho 05 "Heat"
echo.
call :colorEcho 05 "WormGod"
echo.
call :colorEcho 09 "Origami"
echo.
call :colorEcho 09 "Man'o'war"
echo.
call :colorEcho 09 "Valence"
echo.
call :colorEcho 09 "BronzeDeco"
echo.
call :colorEcho 09 "ArmorCore"
echo.
call :colorEcho 09 "EliteBuild"
echo.
pause
exit
:colorEcho
echo off
<nul set /p ".=%DEL%" > "%~2"
findstr /v /a:%1 /R "^$" "%~2" nul
del "%~2" > nul 2>&1\

Answer 4

You can try this script. Use it to print any text with any color in any screen position. It does not use temporary files, but your system must have debug.exe executable (Windows native):

@echo off
rem Script written by BrendanSilva [bl8086]
rem You need DEBUG.EXE executable in your system.
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set /a _er=0
set /a _n=0
set _ln=%~4
goto init
:howuse ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    echo.
    echo ECOL.BAT - v2.0
    echo Print colored text as batch script without temporary files.
    echo Written by bl8086
    echo.
    echo Syntax:
    echo ECOL.BAT [COLOR] [X] [Y] "Insert your text here"
    echo COLOR value must be a hexadecimal number like "color /?" information
    echo.
    echo Example:
    echo ECOL.BAT F0 20 30 "640K ought to be enough for anybody."
    echo.
    goto :eof
:error ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    set /a "_er=_er | (%~1)"
    goto :eof
:gcnvhx ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    set _cvhx=
    set /a _cvint=%~1
:cnvhx
    set /a "_gch = _cvint & 0xF"
    set _cvhx=!nsys:~%_gch%,1!%_cvhx%
    set /a "_cvint = _cvint >> 4"
    if !_cvint! neq 0 goto cnvhx
    goto :eof
:init --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    if "%~4"=="" call :error 0xff
    (
        set /a _cl=0x%1
        call :error !errorlevel!
        set _cl=%1
        call :error "0x!_cl! ^>^> 8"
        set /a _px=%2
        call :error !errorlevel!
        set /a _py=%3
        call :error !errorlevel!
    ) 2>nul 1>&2
    if !_er! neq 0 (
        echo.
        echo ERROR: value exception "!_er!" occurred. Check memory out.
        echo.
        goto howuse
    )
    set nsys=0123456789ABCDEF
    set /a cnb=0
    set /a cnl=0
    set _cvhx=0
    set _cvint=0
    set _cvmhx=0
:parse -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    set _ch=!_ln:~%_n%,1!
    if "%_ch%"=="" goto perform
    set /a "cnb += 1"
    if %cnb% gtr 7 (
        set /a cnb=0
        set /a "cnl += 1"
    )
    set bln%cnl%=!bln%cnl%! "!_ch!" %_cl%
    set /a "_n += 1"
    goto parse
:perform -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    set /a "in = ((_py * 0xA0) + (_px << 1)) & 0xFFFF"
    call :gcnvhx %in%
    set ntr=!_cvhx!
    set /a jmp=0xe
    set bl8086str=echo.h 0 0
    @for /l %%x in (0,1,%cnl%) do (
        set bl8086str=!bl8086str!^&echo.eb800:!ntr! !bln%%x!
        set /a "in=!jmp! + 0x!ntr!"
        call :gcnvhx !in!
        set ntr=!_cvhx!
        set /a jmp=0x10
    )
    (
    echo %bl8086str%
    echo.q
    ) |debug >nul 2>&1