C#•4y ago

Progress bar in console app to show download progress

Wanting to create a very simple console application (.NET 7) which downloads a few files and installs them on the user's machine (less "install" and moreso "place a self-contained executable in a directory they choose").

What're my options to create a progress bar for the download process?

becquerel•10/4/22, 8:18 PM

depends on your framework, iirc WPF has a built in control

becquerel•10/4/22, 8:18 PM

as for how to wire it up, look into the interface

eroOP•10/4/22, 8:18 PM

console app

becquerel•10/4/22, 8:18 PM

oh, that's what i get for not reading

becquerel•10/4/22, 8:19 PM

seems like something spectreconsole would offer?

eroOP•10/4/22, 8:20 PM

never messed with it, i really need to check it out

eroOP•10/4/22, 8:20 PM

$spectre

Eero $spectre

MODiX•10/4/22, 8:20 PM

Spectre.Console is a .NET library that allows for easy creation of console UIs, text formatting in the console, and command-line argument parsing.
https://spectreconsole.net/

Spectre.Console - Welcome!

Spectre.Console is a .NET Standard 2.0 library that makes it easier to create beautiful console applications.

eroOP•10/4/22, 9:27 PM

I'm honestly not super sure how to even do this with downloading a file...

eroOP•10/4/22, 9:28 PM

Not to mention that another file I'm downloading is a zip of fonts, which I'll have to unzip and install, all preferably in memory

eroOP•10/4/22, 9:28 PM

So uh, probably just not possible

eroOP•10/5/22, 4:03 PM

can i force a specific "terminal" to open when a user opens my console app? asking because i wanna do something in spectre, and obviously not everything works in cmd that does in the modern terminal