menu-string

Generate a menu with selectable menu items as a string.

Installation

npm install menu-string --save

Usage

const Menu = require('menu-string')
 
const menu = new Menu({
  items: [
    {text: 'Item 1'},
    {text: 'Item 2'},
    {text: '------', separator: true},
    {text: 'Item 3'}
  ],
  selected: 0
})
 
console.log(menu.toString())
// > Item 1
//   Item 2
//   ------
//   Item 3
 
// Move cursor one item down
menu.down()
 
console.log(menu.toString())
//   Item 1
// > Item 2
//   ------
//   Item 3

API

menu = new Menu(options)

Initialize a new menu object.

Options:

• items - An array of item objects
• render - An optional render function that will be called for each menu item that is rendered. Will be called with the item object that should be rendered and a boolean indicating if the item is currectly selected. Should return a rendered string representing the menu item. The item object will have an index property indicating its position in the menu
• selected - An optional integer specifying which menu item should be selected by default (defaults to 0)
• height - Set menu max height (in rows). If set, the menu will maintain a viewport, only ever rendering that amout of menu items. When moving the cursor up or down, the viewport will scroll to accommodate.

An item object can have the following properties:

• text - The text to show when rendering the item
• separator - A boolean indicating if the item can be selected
• marked - A boolean indicating if the item should me "marked". This property can be toggled using item.toggleMark(). It's up the the implementer to render marked items differently.

An item can also just be a string, which is treated as {text: item}.

If no custom render function is provided, the following default render function is used:

function (item, selected) {
  return (selected ? '> ' : '  ') + item.text
}

menu = new Menu(items)

An alias for:

new Menu({
  items: items
})

Event: update

An update event is emitted when ever the menu is updated - i.e. the cursor is moved.

menu.items

Array of menu items.

success = menu.up()

Move the cursor one item up. Separator items will be skipped.

Returns false if top of menu have been reached. Returns true otherwise.

success = menu.down()

Move the cursor one item down. Separator items will be skipped.

Returns false if bottom of menu have been reached. Returns true otherwise.

menu.select(index)

Select a specific menu item.

Returns false if the index was invalid. Returns true otherwise.

item = menu.selected()

Returns the selected item object. The returned item object will have an index property indicating its position in the menu. Returns null if no selectable menu item exists.

menu.toggleMark()

Toggle the marked boolean of the currently selected item.

str = menu.toString()

Returns the entire menu as a single string. One line for each menu item rendered by the render function.

License

MIT