How to use `Progress<T>` and not the Ticks?

[Rafał Konrad Pawłaszek]

Currently to show the progress have to know upfront the maxTicks and simply increment the ticks. Is there a chance to use ProgressBar with Progress<T>?

In principle I'm looking for the capability to use

var progress = new Progress<double>(val => pbar.Percentage = val);

but this property exposes only getter and I can't find any other element that could do such a thing.

[Maciej Kuśnierz]

Simply set maxTics to 100 and in lambda in Progress just call Tick() with number as parameter.

[Rafał Konrad Pawłaszek]

Thanks @Hooch180, I did something like that, but with multiplying with a magic number, 100. I receive a more fine-grained numbers (as it is Progress<double>). Effectively, this is the same, but to me it is still a workaround. I have percentage in both cases, but cannot directly use one with the other.

[Cédric Luthi]

This scenario is addressed in #39 (Add AsProgress<T> method on IProgressBar). If this pull request gets merged, it will become trivial to update an IProgressBar with an existing IProgress<float> or IProgress<double> which reports the percentage completed by simply calling AsProgress<float>() on the progress bar, see IntegrationWithIProgressPercentageExample:

shellprogressbar/src/ShellProgressBar.Example/Examples/IntegrationWithIProgressPercentageExample.cs

Lines 12 to 22 in cdd94a1

 public Task Start(CancellationToken token) 
 { 
 	using (var pbar = new ProgressBar(100, "A console progress that integrates with IProgress<float>")) 
 	{ 
 		ProcessFiles(pbar.AsProgress<float>()); 
 	} 
 	return Task.FromResult(1); 
 } 
  
 public static void ProcessFiles(IProgress<float> progress) 
 { 

[Martijn Laarman]

Closing this as @0xced's PR is now merged.