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MarkusMulholland
MarkusMulholland

Reputation: 339

Set Cursor Position Relative to Last Line of Text | C# Console App

Good Day

If this is the output of the Console:

.
.
.
.
Hello World!

I would like to set the cursor's position, say 20 lines from the last line of text. How would I do this in the case that the last line is obviously constantly changing?

Thank you for your time.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2591

Answers (2)

Aashish Mukherjee
Aashish Mukherjee

Reputation: 25

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace CUrsorPosition
{
    class Program
    {
       static int lastCursorLocation = 0;
       //customCursorPosition say which line number you want the cursor to //set after the last text for example i have set it to 1 so next line to hellow //world
       static int customCursorPosition = 1;
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // int customCursorPosition = 0;
            WriteLine(".");
            WriteLine(".");
            WriteLine(".");
            WriteLine(".");

            int x = Console.CursorLeft;
            int y = Console.CursorTop;
            Console.CursorTop = Console.WindowTop + Console.WindowHeight - 1;
            Console.SetCursorPosition(x, y);
            WriteLine("Hello World");
            Console.SetCursorPosition(0, y+ customCursorPosition);
            Console.ReadLine();


        }
        static void WriteLine(string message, [CallerLineNumber] int lineNumber = 0)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(lineNumber + ": " + message);
        }
        static void WriteLine(string message)
        {
            StackFrame callStack = new StackFrame(1, true);
            var lineNumber = callStack.GetFileLineNumber();
            lastCursorLocation = callStack.GetFileLineNumber();
            Console.WriteLine(message);

        }
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

Stuart
Stuart

Reputation: 4258

Console.SetCursorPosition(Console.CursorLeft, (Console.CursorTop+20))

Passing CursorLeft keeps it at the same left position, if that's important to you. Otherwise you can just pass 0.

Console.SetCursorPosition(0, (Console.CursorTop+20))

Upvotes: 1

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