Achieving desired effect progress bars and live updating status

[ronnyek]

I'm hoping to achieve a desired effect with this library, but no idea if its possible because of comments about thread safety in the documentation.

Essentially I'd like to have app start by spitting out status much like the top example on this page
https://spectreconsole.net/live/status

That part all works and is pretty self explanatory.

One part of my logging is more complex and will get to the point where I'd like to pause updates of status or even exit status (although I'd assume this means all the status text in the console - not the log lines, would be removed?)

then I'd like to essentially display something like this

Transfer: <progress bar> 75%
Indexing: <progress bar> 15%
<Last status line live updated here in place>

Once things are complete there, I'd like to essentially clear all the progress information for that step in those three rows, and resume more status updates like example above.

My questions

1. Is there a way to suspend/resume status such that I don't lose the history for those items, but temporarily display live progress information?
2. Is there any way to just add a row that is a live updating text block or something? The status updates have no direct correlation with a specific progress value of any of the metrics, so it seems weird to me to create a task to update statuses etc (unless perhaps you could add a task and configure it to show no percentage, no progress bar.

Between the rich output, and the command args processing stuff, this library is definitely one of my favorites and I'd really like to know how I could better achieve something like this.

Thanks all.

[mitchcapper]

1: you can set the status of any such item so you can essentially clear and "resume" by just storing the state (or binding to a state) that you control.

2: yes. It is a bit confusing when it says this should not be used with certain other controls, I take that to basically mean you should only have one UI draw loop. You seem to be able to draw just about anything you want with the renderhook itself. For example see:
https://github.com/spectreconsole/examples/blob/main/examples/Console/Progress/Program.cs#L73-L97
you can see it adding a header / panel you can look at the examples