freebsd-src/contrib/dialog/samples/infobox5

#! /bin/sh
# $Id: infobox5,v 1.8 2019/12/10 23:38:49 tom Exp $
# get rid of all flickering by constructing a script unroll the loop, leaving
# us in curses-mode until we're done counting.

. ./setup-vars

. ./setup-tempfile

left=10
unit="seconds"
last='\'

cat >>$tempfile <<EOF
$DIALOG $last
EOF

while test $left != 0
do

cat >>$tempfile <<EOF
	--sleep 1 \
	--begin 0 5 \
	--title "INFO BOX" $* \
        --infobox "Hi, this is an information box. It is
different from a message box: it will
not pause waiting for input after displaying
the message. The pause here is only introduced
by the sleep command within dialog.
You have $left $unit to read this..." 0 0 $last
EOF

left=`expr $left - 1`
test "$left" = 1 && unit="second"
done

echo >>$tempfile

. $tempfile