Controlling a persistent progress bar

Command line options of the ppbS program are used to control a ppb. Every manner of control over a ppb is managed through a verb and verb arguments. You can have any number of verbs in the command line.

CrawlToPos N M

DOS> ppbs crawltopos 1 50

Crawl to position

N is the ppb window number.
M is the percent progress, 0 to 100, to crawl to.

CrawlToPos should be used before a lengthy process starts. The ppb will continue to update while the lengthy process is running.

When the crawl to position is reached the position is reset to the starting position. The starting position is what the progress bar was at when the crawl first started. It is a good idea to use SetPos between two CrawlToPos uses.

The ppb increments one percent every 125 milliseconds (8 times a second). This rate can be changed using SetCrawlTime or SetCrawlSpeed.