Terminal Menu

Creates a text-based menu in shell with python

Usage

Basic Menu

Multiple Selection

Features

Types of fonts used

• REGULAR
• BOLD
• ITALIC
• UNDERLINE
• BLINK
• INVERT

Types of foreground and background color

• BLACK
• RED
• GREEN
• YELLOW
• BLUE
• MAGENTA
• CYAN
• WHITE
• UNKNOWN
• DEFAULT

Example

setFont(Font.BOLD)
setColor(FgColor.RED)
setBgColor(BgColor.WHITE)
setTerm()
print("Hello World")

Show Menu List

Writes the given list to the screen in the form of a menu and returns the selected item

Parameters

Params	Type	Description
title	str	The menu title that will be written to the screen
options	list [str]	The menu options that will be written to the screen
info	str	The digest information of menu that will be written to the screen afte menu title
multiple	bool	Multiple choices
selected	list [str]	To show the pre-selected ones

Return

• if multi selection is enabled then return list
• else return selection value

showMenu(title, options, info, multiple=False, selected=[]):

options = ['Start', 'Settings', 'Exit']
showMenu('Tasks', options):

Builtin Command

Whenever you press the ':' key while the code is running, the command window becomes active and built-in commands can be executed. There is no case sensitive in command names

Built-in Commands

Command	Description	Usage
set	set local variable	set var=2
get	read local variable	get var