menufather

menufather Ver 1.0

menufather is a simple and lightweight python library for creating console-based menus (windows / linux) .

INSTALLATION

it can installed using pip : Linux : python3 -m pip install menufather or Windows : pip install menufather

Creating the first menu !

at first we declare our menu items in the "items" list as strings . then we create a menu using menufather.Menu(title , items) function . after that , we can show our menu using menu.show() method.

• we should make a loop in our program .
• in our while loop we should use a sleep (ex : 0.5s sleep)

menu.get_selected_item() can be used for getting the selected item by user . it returns the index of selected item in "items" list if user has selected an item else it returns None once we get selected item by this function , the next round this function returns None until user selects another item so we should save the result of this function in a variable at the first of loop (selected variable) .

Result :

Locking and Unlocking Menu

the two methods menu.lock() and menu.unlock() , can lock or unlock the menu . when menu is locked , user can't navigate or select anything on it .

Updating menu items

we can update an item in the menu using menu.updateItem(itemIndex , new) . itemIndex is the index of item in the "items" list that we want to update and new is the string value we want to replace .

example : menu.updateItem(2 , "Contact") . this changes item index 2 in the menu to "Contact" .

ReCreating the menu

sometimes we want to have some items that can create a new menu when user selects that . menu.reCreate(new_title , new_items) can do this . new_title is the title of the new menu and new_items is a list that contains the items of new menu .

example : after running this source , if we select "goto menu 2" item , a new menu appears (menu 2) ...

Auto Scrolling

if your items are too many , don't worry ! menufather simulate a scrolling state for items :

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