mdmenu 0.0.2

A customisable text driven menu system.

mdmenu

A simple and customisable text based menu system.

Installation

Install mdmenu using pip:

pip install mdmenu

Usage

A new MDMenu object can be instantiated by calling its empty constructor for a default menu or it can be called with any combination of the instance parameters. Menu items can be added and removed with .add_menu_item() and .remove_menu_item() respectively.

The appearance of the menu is customisable by setting any of the menu instance parameters

Create a default menu object

# examples/default_menu.py
from mdmenu import MDMenu

my_menu = MDMenu()
print(my_menu)

"""
################################################################################
                                      Menu
################################################################################
     1:   Exit
################################################################################
"""

Create a menu with a predefined set of menu options

# examples/defined_options.py
from mdmenu import MDMenu

def hello_world():
    print("Hello World!")

my_options = {
    1: ("Item 1", hello_world),
    2: ("Item 2", hello_world),
    10: ("Item x", hello_world)
}

my_menu = MDMenu(menu_items=my_options)
print(my_menu)

"""
################################################################################
                                      Menu
################################################################################
     1:   Item 1
     2:   Item 2
    10:   Item x
################################################################################
"""

Parameters

The following table list the parameters of the Menu which can be altered to customise the look and formatting of the table.

Parameter	Description
footer_content Type: str Default: None	A text body to be displayed in the footer of the menu, after the main body of the menu.
footer Type: bool Default: True	Enabled by default, this boolean attribute indicates if the menu will be displayed with footer.
key_trailing_gap Type:int Default: 3	The number of white space to be added after the menu item key and before the items name when displaying the menu. eg. 5:<key_trailing_gap>Hello World
key_width Type: int Default: 7	The number of characters to pad the menu item key to when displayed. eg.<key_width>: Hello World
menu_character Type: str Default: '#'	The character used to create borders of 'self.menu_width' for the menu
menu_hold_last Type: bool Default: True	When true, the last item in the 'self.menu_items" dict is maintained as the item with the highest/last key value. As the default and most likely first item added is the exit, this provides a easy mechanism to keep it as the last last menu item even when key values are automatically assigned.
menu_items Type: dict[int, tuple] Default: {1: ("Exit", exit)}	The dict of menu items in the system. Each item has a int key and a tuple with the items title and associated function.
menu_name Type: str Default: True	The name of the menu as a string. The name is displayed when the attribute 'title' is true.
menu_width Type: int Default: 80	The width of the menu system
title_border Type: bool Default: True	Enabled by default, this boolean attribute indicates if the menus title should be surrounded by a border of 'self.menu_character'.
title_padding Type: str Default: " "	The character to use to pad the left and right of 'self.menu_name' when displayed in the menu title.
title_preface Type: str Default: None	A text body to be displayed between the menu title and the main body of the menu.
title Type: bool Default: True	Enabled by default, this boolean attribute indicates if the menus title should be displayed.

Examples

Several working examples have been included and are listed in the table below

Link	Description
examples/default_menu.py	Create an empty menu with the default formatting and implied exit menu option
examples/examples/defined_options.py	Create a menu with a predefined set of menu options
examples/examples/add_option.py	Add a menu option with a defined index key and with out and index key
examples/remove_option.py	Remove a menu option from the menu
examples/custom_formatting.py	Create menu with custom formatting
examples/call_function.py	Call a function selected from the menu