menu

A cli menu for your node.

Install

npm install menu

API

Tabs

Menu is built around tabs. There are currently four types:

• Toggle: This tab functions like a button.
• List: This tab selects a single value from its list.
• Search: This tab takes a string input, and has the function of a list tab.
• Select: This tab creates a selectable drop-down list.

These tabs are declared as such...

var content = {
	tab1: {title:"column1", seltitle: "COLUMN1", type:"toggle", val:"true", color:"blue"},
	tab2: {title:["column2", "column22"], seltitle: ["COLUMN2", "COLUMN22"], type:"search", input: 0, val:"abcdefgh", color:"red"},
	tab3: {title:"column3", seltitle: "COLUMN3", type:"list", input: 0, val:["a", "b", "c"], color:"white"},
	tab4: {title:"column4", seltitle: "COLUMN4", type:"select", input: 0, val:["1","2","3","4","5","6"], color:"green"}
}

Properties

title: This is the tabs label when it's not focused. seltitle: This is the tabs label when it is focused. type: This is the tab's type. input: This is the index value for a list, select, and search tabs. val: For type toggle, it's a boolean value. For types list and select, it's an array of values. For type search it's a string. color: The tab's set color. Look at the node clivas for all possible values.

Initialization

var menu = require('./index.js');

menu.init(content);					

menu.draw()							//this draws the headers

menu.clivas							//you can custom draw with clivas

Delegate

function work() {
    menu.start(options, function(result) {
        var key = result[0]; 						//refer to node keypress for all properties
        var column = result[1]; 					//the focused tab
        
        menu.draw();								//draw tabs
        
        if(key.name=="return" && column.id === 4) {			
			menu.clivas.line(Math.abs(column.input%column.val.length));	//always mod your column input to determine focused index
		} else if(key.name=="return" && column.id === 2) {
			menu.clivas.line("You searched for "+column.val);
			column.val = "";
		} else if(key.ctrl && key.name ==="c") {
			process.exit();
		} else if(key.name ==="backspace") {
			
		} else if(key.name ==="left") {
			
		} else if(key.name ==="up") {
			
		} else if(key.name ==="down") {
			
		} else if(key.name ==="right") {
			
		} else {
			
		}
	
		if(column.id === 1) {					//use tab 1 to toggle tab 4's select contents
			if(column.val) {
				menu.columns["tab4"].val = ["z","y","x","w"];
			} else {
				menu.columns["tab4"].val = ["1","2","3","4","5","6"];
			}
			menu.draw();
		}
    })
} work();