Mode command was very useful for me – the problem is that it making my scroll-up bar to disappear!

I need to print long usage for the user and the maximum size of the cmd.exe is not enough – I need buffer size , How can I set the Buffer size separately?

I run the command:

but the buffer size diapered.

Even if I try to use Win32::Console I didn't success to resize the current cmd.exe include buffer size that enable me to print all my long usage.

Can someone give me an example how to use Win32::Console to increase and leave the current cmd.exe display size to 100 * 60, or how to use mode and define a buffer size.

Thanks

Have you heard of the more command? Try typing help more

Messing with the user's screen in order to display your long usage message is a bad idea.

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Sorry to nag - but I run the following code:

use strict; use warnings;

use Win32::Console;

my $OUT = Win32::Console->new(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
my $IN  = Win32::Console->new(STD_INPUT_HANDLE);
$IN->Mode(ENABLE_MOUSE_INPUT|ENABLE_WINDOW_INPUT);

$OUT->Size(180, 200);
my ($maxx, $maxy) = $OUT->MaxWindow;

$OUT->Cls;
$OUT->Cursor(-1, -1, -1, 0);

$OUT->FillAttr($BG_YELLOW|$FG_BLUE, $maxy * $maxx, 0, 0);
$OUT->FillChar('X', $maxy*$maxx, 0, 0);

$OUT->Window(1, 0, 0, $maxx, $maxy);

while ($maxx>1 and $maxy>1) {
    $maxx -= 5;
    $maxy -= 5;
    $OUT->Window(1, 0, 0, $maxx, $maxy);
    sleep 1;
}

$OUT->Window(1, 0, 80, 50);
$OUT->Cls;
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Indeed, the screen size is dynamically variable - but if I remove/mark the sleep command than I can't see the screen resize.

I Would love to know what I was doing wrong, how can I make my current screen resize to 80*100 and stay on this size?

Mode command I used is good indeed, the only problem is that it disappear the buffer size and the user can't scroll the screen up and down

Thanks.