Console animations

Question

I just want to know how to create simple animations like blinking, moving stuffs on C# console applications. Is there any special method for this?

Answer 1

Great work with the ConsoleSpinner and the sequence implementation. Thanks for the code. I thought about sharing my customized approach.

    public class ConsoleSpinner
    {
        static string[,] sequence = null;

        public int Delay { get; set; } = 200;

        int totalSequences = 0;
        int counter;

        public ConsoleSpinner()
        {
            counter = 0;
            sequence = new string[,] {
                { "/", "-", "\\", "|" },
                { ".", "o", "0", "o" },
                { "+", "x","+","x" },
                { "V", "<", "^", ">" },
                { ".   ", "..  ", "... ", "...." },
                { "=>   ", "==>  ", "===> ", "====>" },
               // ADD YOUR OWN CREATIVE SEQUENCE HERE IF YOU LIKE
            };

            totalSequences = sequence.GetLength(0);
        }

        /// 

        /// 
        /// 
        ///  0 | 1 | 2 |3 | 4 | 5 
        public void Turn(string displayMsg = "", int sequenceCode = 0)
        {
            counter++;
            
            Thread.Sleep(Delay);

            sequenceCode = sequenceCode > totalSequences - 1 ? 0 : sequenceCode;

            int counterValue = counter % 4;

            string fullMessage = displayMsg + sequence[sequenceCode, counterValue];
            int msglength = fullMessage.Length;

            Console.Write(fullMessage);

            Console.SetCursorPosition(Console.CursorLeft - msglength, Console.CursorTop);
        }
    }

Implementation:

    ConsoleSpinner spinner = new ConsoleSpinner();
    spinner.Delay = 300;
    while (true)
    {
        spinner.Turn(displayMsg: "Working ",sequenceCode:5);
    }

Output: