Phil Scott 223642b797
Add blog to docs (#484)
* Adding social card infrastructure
* Upgrades doc project to .NET 6
* Adds Playwright
* Changes the console to a web project for Playwright
* Adds social card template
* Added blog content
* Parallelized social image processing
* Updating CI to use .NET 6 for docs build
2021-07-15 19:53:01 +02:00

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Title: Status
Order: 10
RedirectFrom: status
Description: "*Spectre.Console* can display information about long running tasks in the console with the Status control."
Highlights:
- Custom spinner control for running tasks.
- Fallback for non-interactive consoles such as CI runners.
---
Spectre.Console can display information about long running tasks in the console.
<?# AsciiCast cast="status" /?>
<?# Alert ?>
The status display is not
thread safe, and using it together with other interactive components such as
prompts, progress displays or other status displays are not supported.
<?#/ Alert ?>
If the current terminal isn't considered "interactive", such as when running
in a continuous integration system, or the terminal can't display
ANSI control sequence, any progress will be displayed in a simpler way.
## Usage
```csharp
// Synchronous
AnsiConsole.Status()
.Start("Thinking...", ctx =>
{
// Simulate some work
AnsiConsole.MarkupLine("Doing some work...");
Thread.Sleep(1000);
// Update the status and spinner
ctx.Status("Thinking some more");
ctx.Spinner(Spinner.Known.Star);
ctx.SpinnerStyle(Style.Parse("green"));
// Simulate some work
AnsiConsole.MarkupLine("Doing some more work...");
Thread.Sleep(2000);
});
```
## Asynchronous progress
If you prefer to use async/await, you can use `StartAsync` instead of `Start`.
```csharp
// Asynchronous
await AnsiConsole.Status()
.StartAsync("Thinking...", async ctx =>
{
// Omitted
});
```
## Configure
```csharp
AnsiConsole.Status()
.AutoRefresh(false)
.Spinner(Spinner.Known.Star)
.SpinnerStyle(Style.Parse("green bold"))
.Start("Thinking...", ctx =>
{
// Omitted
ctx.Refresh();
});
```