Hello World! is boring, anyone know how to expand on it?

So basically I found out what a batch file really was and found that .bat files could be used for the Hello World! program.
I was wondering, how can I take that and then assign different keys to say different things?

From a curious--Gilroy

EDIT: Not exactly sure this is in the right forum :/

Where it says "hello world" change it
eg.
echo hello world
@echo off
sleep 5
echo goodbye world
@echo off
sleep 5



that will display hello world then wait and then say good by world

Awesome, thx for the reply

Hi,

you can alter the size of your window with the command mode con cols=number lines=number, where number needs to be replaced with a number to define the size. You can use the command color to change the color of your command line. COLOR c0 will create black writings on a red background. The command title, will alter the title-bar of your batch.

title my first batch
echo hello world
@echo off
sleep 5
color c0
echo goodbye world
@echo off
sleep 5

this batch will change the title to say "my first batch" and change the color between saying hello world and goodbye world.

regards myrti

thanks again, never knew you could do that

I didn't know ether that you could do colors.

Generally @ echo off is at the top of page. So it affects ALL commands under it. It won't ruin your code because I wrote a similar script myself

Where it says "hello world" change it
eg.
echo hello world
@echo off
sleep 5
echo goodbye world
@echo off
sleep 5



that will display hello world then wait and then say good by world

Hi,

you can alter the size of your window with the command mode con cols=number lines=number, where number needs to be replaced with a number to define the size. You can use the command color to change the color of your command line. COLOR c0 will create black writings on a red background. The command title, will alter the title-bar of your batch.

title my first batch
echo hello world
@echo off
sleep 5
color c0
echo goodbye world
@echo off
sleep 5

this batch will change the title to say "my first batch" and change the color between saying hello world and goodbye world.

regards myrti

@Above - I don't understand though, why you're using @echo off more than once within the same script when it was always off even at the point in time of calling it a second time?? You only need it once, and as this guy stated:

Generally @ echo off is at the top of page. So it affects ALL commands under it. It won't ruin your code because I wrote a similar script myself

That is correct, it's typically at the top of your code, and you don't have to set it again. You should also be using PING instead of SLEEP because it consumes less processor time.

@OP - Fool around with some loops, and variable modifiers. Start out with making a basic addition calculator with user input for the first and second numbers, output the total. Be sure to use the /a switch for mathematical operations with variables involved.

I haven't really done much with batch, but you can assign different keys (although you will have to press enter after) to do different things by using a variable and if statements.

Example:

@echo off
:top
set /p var=Type 'a', 'b' or 'c': 
if "%var%"=="a" (
    echo Hello World
)
if "%var%"=="b" (
    echo Too good for Hello World?
)
if "%var%"=="c" (
    echo Oh well Good Bye!
    goto :end
)
pause
goto :top
:end

Actually, in XP or later I believe, there's the CHOICE command (executable in an environment location as choice.exe) that you can use. It allows you to input without having to press ENTER.