MyTUI 1.0.9

Easily create terminal user interface containing menus, text boxes and input fields for your projects

Copyright (c) 2022 Paulin-Dev.

Contact (Discord) : Pekkos#9809

MyTUI simplies for both users and developers terminal experience. It is inspired by the interface of the Rasberry Pi Software Configuration Tool (raspi-config). It is fully responsive to work with any terminals' size. It provides quick-to-implement functions to create interfaces such as :

• Text Boxes
• Menus
• Input Fields
• Yes/No Choice

Please note that it is still in development. There is no guarantee that everything will perfectly work.

If you have issues or ideas for this package, please contact the author.

Requirements

Python 3 (not tested under version 3.6)

getkey Package to get user's input

Getting started

You won't need to import extra modules to make it work, simply import the MyTUI class and use its methods to create interfaces. These methods will return the output if there is one. You can then use the user's response to do whatever you want.

Examples

As already mentioned, there are 4 different types of interface available at the moment plus the configuration. Here is how to use them.

Config

You can use the config method to configure some options.

from mytui import MyTUI

MyTUI.config(
    text_center=True,
    can_quit=True,
    quit_key='q'
)

You can always change this later
The quit key will exit the program. The "back" string will be returned if the user presses escape.

Text Box

This is the most basic interface, it creates a simple text box with its title and text. Press Enter to exit.
It returns None.

from mytui import MyTUI

MyTUI.textbox(title="Your Title", text="Your text")

you can use \n in the text fields

Output :

Menu

You can use menus to create a list of options. Use the up and down arrows to navigate.
It returns the name (str) of the selected option.

from mytui import MyTUI

options = [
    '1. First option',
    '2. Second option',
    '3. Third option'
]

selected = MyTUI.menu(title="Your Title", text="Your text", options=options)

if selected == options[0]:
    # do stuff

Output :

Yes/No Choice

The yes/no interface is basically used to ask yes/no questions to the targeted user. Use the left and right arrows or tab to navigate.
It returns True (bool) if the selected answer is "yes" else False.

from mytui import MyTUI

if MyTUI.yesno(title="Your Title", text="Your question"):
    # do stuff
else:
    # do other stuff

Output :

Input

Last interface but not least : input fields. You can create input fields to recover a value from your user. All parameters are optional. Press Enter to submit your answer.
It returns the value (str) inside the input field.

from mytui import MyTUI

output = MyTUI.input(
    title="Your Title",
    text="Your text",
    default_text="",
    input_size=60,
    max_length=50,
    min_length=0,
    can_delete_default_text=False,
    allow_spaces=True,
    only_numeric=False,
    only_alpha=False
)

Output :

Copyright

MIT License

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