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[TheZipCreator]

ZipMenu

Hello, and yes this time I do have a pastebin for this, I made a thing where you can create custom menus.

Note:
You need two programs for this to work, one to open the menu, and another to be a callback to receive the input from the menu.

So, to download

pastebin get qh3T84pJ

The code to create the image above is as follows:
In a file called "Menu":

term.setTextColor(colors.black)
term.setBackgroundColor(colors.white)
shell.run("zipMenu", "My_menu", "callback", "Item1", "Item2", "Item3")

In a file called "Callback":

local params = {...}
print("You chose ".. params[1])

Edited by TheZipCreator, 12 November 2017 - 02:33 AM.

[Luca_S]

Instead of using shell.run() you should probably make this as an API and just return the number, so you can invoke it like this:

os.loadAPI("zipmenu")
local chosen = zipmenu.menu("My_menu", "Item1", "Item2", "Item3")

[TheZipCreator]

Luca_S, on 12 November 2017 - 12:18 PM, said:

Instead of using shell.run() you should probably make this as an API and just return the number, so you can invoke it like this:

os.loadAPI("zipmenu")
local chosen = zipmenu.menu("My_menu", "Item1", "Item2", "Item3")

Yeah I'll do that. But instead of returning a number, it will return a string, which is the name of the item you chose. Just to make the code easier to read.

Edited by TheZipCreator, 12 November 2017 - 05:50 PM.

[Exerro]

A number is good for if you have multiple options with the same text (for whatever reason). Alternatively, you could return the text and the number as a second parameter.

[KingofGamesYami]

I return text in my own implementation of this, I don't think multiple options with the same text that do different things should ever exist. It would be confusing for the user.

[Exerro]

KingofGamesYami, on 12 November 2017 - 10:47 PM, said:

I return text in my own implementation of this, I don't think multiple options with the same text that do different things should ever exist. It would be confusing for the user.

I had an issue with just text before with a file-browser, where it trimmed the extension and displayed that separately. Files with the same name but different extensions would have the same name returned when clicked. Not so much of a problem here I guess, but the more information the better imo.

[Saldor010]

Can't you have a check when you create a button that automatically renames the button's internal name to something like buttonName_1,2,3 etc if you have a naming conflict like that?