Interactive Python Menu

This Python script provides a simple interactive menu using the keyboard library. Users can navigate through the menu options using arrow keys and select an option by pressing Enter. Keep in mind this project is simple and I probably won't care to fix errors but the issues tab is yours!

Features

• Navigate through menu options using the arrow keys.
• Select an option by pressing Enter or the right arrow key.
• Cross-platform support for coloured output.

Demo

Show Case of each style first option is style number Styles.<DEFAULT, SELECTED, ARROW, CENTERED, CENTEREDSELECTED, ARROWCENTERED>

Usage

To use this interactive menu in your Python script, follow these steps:

1. Install the required libraries:

pip install keyboard (required)
pip install pystyle (required for 1.0.3+)


pip install colorama (required ONLY for older versions > 1.0.2)

2. Drag menu.py to your project:
3. Import menu.py and use ex_menu = menu.Menu(options, color=Colors.CYAN, style=Styles.DEFAULT, pretext=None) module
4. User_choice = ex_menu.launch(response="String") # String Or index will be returned to User_choice var or just step 5
5. To get user selected input use menu.selected for str or menu.selected_index for index of options dict

Example

import menu


test_options = ["Option 1", "Option 2", "Option 3", "Option 4", "Option 5"]

menu_ex = menu.Menu(test_options, color=Colors.CYAN, style=Styles.DEFAULT, pretext = None)  # Use Colors.<color>  for color and style = Syles.<style> For pretext take dump of your currently displayed cmd and provide content as string
User_choice = menu_ex.launch(response = "String") # can be String or Index its aditional if you use menu_ex.selected or menu_ex.selected_index you can replace this with menu_ex.launch()
print(menu.Colors.GREEN f"Selected {menu_ex.selected}, index = {menu_ex.selected_index}, {User_choice}")
  

Plans

1. Add style presets ✔ Done
2. Center Menu (pystyle lib) ✔ Done
3. Find a way to only suppress arrow keys in the terminal not whole system ✘
4. Make large options (>10) list split in half ✘
5. Allow the user get the index number of user choice ✔ Done
6. Add proper exception handling ✘
7. Let user define text that would be printed before menu so it won't clear cmd ✔ Done

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.