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Spinning bar status while doing something.
After some googling, I came across this script to create a spinning cursor:
Code:
#!/bin/bash

# paste following in your script
declare -a Spinner

Spinner=(/ - \\ \| / - \\ \| )
Spinnerpos=0

update_spinner()
{
    printf "\b"${Spinner[$Spinnerpos]}
    (( Spinnerpos=(Spinnerpos +1)%8 ))
}

# testing :

printf "Spinner :  "

update_spinner
sleep 1
update_spinner
sleep 1
update_spinner
sleep 1
update_spinner
sleep 1
update_spinner
sleep 1
update_spinner
sleep 1
update_spinner
sleep 1
update_spinner
sleep 1
update_spinner
sleep 1
update_spinner
sleep 1
update_spinner
sleep 1
update_spinner


I'd like to be able to make use of a spinning cursor in one of my scripts while the script does it's work (ssh to another server, maybe unzip and copy some files, etc.)

Any idea how to do this? I'll probably be using ksh instead of bash, but I think think that will make that big of a difference.

If anyone know of a way to make a faster spinning cursor, I'd like that as well.

Thanks in advance,
 
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dwtscrollwindowsetareas

DwtScrollWindowSetAreas(3Dwt)											     DwtScrollWindowSetAreas(3Dwt)

Name
       DwtScrollWindowSetAreas - Sets up or adds the window region, and the horizontal or vertical scroll bar widgets to the scroll window widget.

Syntax
       void DwtScrollWindowSetAreas(widget, horizontal_scroll_bar,				vertical_scroll_bar, work_region)
	    Widget widget;
	    Widget horizontal_scroll_bar;
	    Widget vertical_scroll_bar;
	    Widget work_region;

Arguments
       widget	 Specifies the scroll window widget ID.

       horizontal_scroll_bar
		 Specifies  the scroll bar widget ID for the horizontal scroll bar to be associated with the scroll window widget.  You can set or
		 specify this ID only after creating an instance of the main window widget.  The attribute name associated with this  argument	is
		 DwtNhorizontalScrollBar.

       vertical_scroll_bar
		 Specifies  the  scroll  bar widget ID for the vertical scroll bar to be associated with the scroll window widget.  You can set or
		 specify this ID only after creating an instance of the main window widget.  The attribute name associated with this  argument	is
		 DwtNverticalScrollBar.

       work_region
		 Specifies  the  widget  ID for the window to be associated with the scroll window work area.  You can set or specify this ID only
		 after you create an instance of the main window widget.

Description
       The DwtScrollWindowSetAreas function adds or changes a window work region and a horizontal or vertical scroll bar widget to the scroll win-
       dow  widget  for  the  application.  You must call this function before the scroll window widget is realized, that is, before calling the X
       intrinsics function XtRealizeWidget.  Each widget is optional and may be passed as NULL.

See Also
       DwtScrollWindow(3Dwt), DwtWindow(3Dwt),
       Guide to the XUI Toolkit: C Language Binding
       Guide to the XUI Toolkit Intrinsics: C Language Binding

														     DwtScrollWindowSetAreas(3Dwt)