Is the validate/deploy process purposely not allowing any other actions? For instance if I hit validate and I want to go to the logs and follow along, i can't because I don't have control besides a box with a progress bar that doesn't seem to work.

Hello Chris, is this related to WebStorm?

yes

So you will not believe me, but we where discussing about that one hour ago... We need to make the progress bar and controls of logs / actions more useful. So yes, at the moment we only provide the status of the actions and you can also cancel the process, but no more. Your comment will support this enhancement. Thanks Chris.

Ha that is a good coincidence. I am not exactly sure how you are implementing your tasks in the code, but I have 2 actions you can use as an example if you want for my plugin i wrote for upload/comparing files that still gives the control to the user in the run() methods and also shows the correct progress bar: https://github.com/Topher84/NetSuite-Tools-For-WebStorm/tree/master/src/tasks