All hail the wise PerlMonks!!!!

i was hoping you ppl could help me as i am trying to make a curses Application. inside the application i need to run a few other bash scripts and i need a progress bar for the duration of the script. so basically i press a button to execute then go into another widget screen which shows me progress of the bash script.

$w{7}->add( 
    'progressbarlabel', 'Label',
    -x => -1, -y => 3, -width => 10, -border => 1,
    -text => "the time"
);

$w{7}->add(
    undef, 'Label',
    -text => "The progressbar can be used to provide some progress inf
+ormation\n"
           . "to the user of a program. Progressbars can be drawn in s
+everal\n"
       . "ways (see below for a couple of examples). In this example, 
+I\n"
       . "just built a kind of clock (the values for the bars are \n"
       . "depending upon the current time)."
);

$w{7}->add( undef, "Label", -y => 7, -text => "Showing value");
$w{7}->add( 'p1', 'Progressbar', 
            -x => 15, -y => 6,  -showvalue    => 1 );
sub progressbar_timer_callback($;)
{
    my $cui = shift;
    my $COMMAND = "bash Script.sh $ARGUMENT1";
    $w{7}->getobj('p1')->get(`$COMMAND`);
}

$cui->set_timer(
    'progressbar_demo',
    \&progressbar_timer_callback, 1
);
$cui->disable_timer('progressbar_demo');

$w{7}->onFocus( sub{$cui->enable_timer  ('progressbar_demo')} );
$w{7}->onBlur(  sub{$cui->disable_timer ('progressbar_demo')} );
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i also tried this:

$w{12}->add(
    undef, 'Buttonbox',
    -y => 7,    
    -buttons => [
         { 
       -label => "< Example 1 >",
       -onpress => sub {
        $cui->progress(
            -min => 0,
            -max => 700,
            -title => 'Progress dialog without a message',
            -nomessage => 1,
        );

        for my $pos (`bash RunAllTest-test.sh $EMAIL`) {
            $cui->setprogress($pos);
        }
        sleep 1;
        $cui->noprogress;
       }
         },{ 
       -label => "< Example 2 >",
       -onpress => sub {
            my $msg = "Counting from 0 to 700...\n";
        $cui->progress(
            -min => 0,
            -max => 700,
            -title => 'Progress dialog with a message',
            -message => $msg,
        );

        for my $pos (0..700) {
            $cui->setprogress($pos, $msg . $pos . " / 700");
        }
        $cui->setprogress(undef, "Finished counting!");
        sleep 1;
        $cui->noprogress;
       }

         }
    ]
);
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i noticed that the scripts was being run for both the methods but i wasnt getting any progress bar whatsoever and i had my screen cluttered with error even though the scripts ran and were succesfully completed.

i noticed that the examples provided are based solely on numbers and scalar quantities because of which i have been stuck as to how to do this! any help will do!! thanks!!!