Doubt about frames in a shell script

[LucianoCarvalho]

Hi guys,

Does anyone know how can I create frames (not the same, but as frames used in SAM) in a shell script?
Any tip will help.

thanks in advance.

[Howard Palmer]

Depending on what exactly you want to do, you could use "dialog".

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Shells/dialog-0.9b/

Basically lets you create pretty windows asking questions, input boxes, etc.

Otherwise you'll most likely need to use the ncurses libraries in C.


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[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

Hi Luciano,

You can do it using 'tput' command. But that would be very tedious and you have to keep track of ROW and COLUMN positions.

I suggest you use tools that are already there. For ex.,

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Development/Tools/xenmenu-0.8b/

It can help you create text based menus.

-Sri

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

Just to give you some idea, I am posting this sample script. It will create a small box on the right hand top corner and prints numbers upto 10 while printing something on the main window.

clear

cols=$(tput cols)
startx=1
(( starty = $cols - 10 ))
endx=7
endy=$cols
midx=4
(( midy = $starty + 4 ))

x=$startx
y=$starty

while [ $x -le $endx ]
do
tput cup $x $starty
printf "."
tput cup $x $endy
printf "."
(( x = $x + 1 ))
done

while [ $y -le $endy ]
do
tput cup $startx $y
printf "."
tput cup $endx $y
printf "."
(( y = $y + 1 ))
done

I=0
while [ $I -le 12 ]
do
tput cup $midx $midy
printf "%2d" $I
tput cup 1 1
printf "Working on item $I"
sleep 1
(( I = $I + 1 ))
done

clear

-Sri