Progress bar outside of context manager

[pbelange]

I can't figure out how to manually update a progress bar outside of the context manager. I have a code which calls multiple sub-processes from different applications and the context manager somehow prevents this from properly happening. The goal is to keep track of where we are in the execution with manual "advance" calls ... Is this possible?

This usage doesn't let my sub-processes from correctly happening:

with Progress() as progress: 
    progress_global = progress.add_task("[blue]Processing", total=2)
    
    subprocess1()
    progress.update(progress_global, advance=1,update=True)

    subprocess2()
    progress.update(progress_global, advance=1,update=True)
    ...

What I would want to do:

progress = Progress() 
progress_global = progress.add_task("[blue]Processing", total=2)

subprocess1()
progress.update(progress_global, advance=1,update=True)
#progress.render() ??

subprocess2()
progress.update(progress_global, advance=1,update=True)
#progress.render() ??
...

[pbelange]

Feeling silly now because I just figured out that this seems to work. Only have to .start() the process? I think this could be included in the docs since it is such a simple use case and it is readily taken care of. Cheers!

progress = Progress() 
#------ Magic Line -------
progress.start()
#-------------------------
progress_global = progress.add_task("[blue]Processing", total=2)

subprocess1()
progress.update(progress_global, advance=1,update=True)


subprocess2()
progress.update(progress_global, advance=1,update=True)

...

# Needed in Notebook to avoid LiveError
progress.refresh()
progress.stop()
progress.console.clear_live()