Yes, there is a pretty nifty curses based status-bar module in a package I picked up somewhere (couldnt find it on cpan) called 'Paw'. I cannot for the life of me find the homepage of this package, but if you like I have it at http://rdi.st/Paw-0.52.tar.gz if you wanna grab it....Ive used the entire package on a few application frontends for work.

-Mark