Finished last todos and cleaned up README.md (removed the Roadmap Section)

README.md

@@ -4,19 +4,107 @@ A micropython library, which supports vertical and horizontal scrolling through
 
 This project is the completely rewritten successor of my old (and now archived) [ProgramChooser](/BlueFox/ProgramChooser) library.
 
+It is now production-ready (tested on 2x16 displays only at the moment.)
 
-## Roadmap
 
-- [x] forward, backward and select button
+# Installation
-- [x] support for horizontal and vertical scrolling
+
-- [x] support for both 2x16 and 4x20 LCDs
+To "install" the library on your Pico, clone the repository first using `git clone`. Open [Thonny](https://thonny.org). There, open a file from "This computer" (thonny asks for the location after clicking on "Open"), and select the `__init__.py` from this repository. To get this file to your Pico's storage, choose "Save as" and choose "Raspberry Pi Pico" as the location.
-- [x] a reliable order of the menu items
+
-- [x] good documentation for all of this (maybe through examples)
+Now, create a new directory called lcdMenu in the root of the Pico's file system (you can do that in the "magic" /lib folder too, makes no difference), and after that save the file there (with `__init__.py` being the file name).
-- [x] show an exit screen when a specific exit code is returned by a callback function
+
-- [ ] make the menu itself exitable (to enable stuff like submenus, etc.)
+Now you can use the library using `import lcdMenu` in any of your scripts!
-- [x] make the project a valid python package 
+
+
+# Usage
+
+For basic usage, you just have to create an LCD object, use it to create a lcdMenu along with some other arguments. On this newly created object, run the `setup()` method with your menu item list. Then, start the menu by calling the (blocking) `run()` method on it.
+
+To stop a running instance of lcdMenu (started by `run()`), call the method `stop()` on it!
+
+For further usage, see the comments above the respective method definition in question in the [__init__.py](__init__.py) file. These try to describe the behaviour of each parameter pretty precise. Also, have a look into the examples which can be found in the [examples](examples/) folder.
+
+
+## Gallery
+
+Here are some of examples of how a lcdMenu will look, showcasing the amount of options you have with lcdMenu. Currently, as the library is only tested with 2x16 displays, these are the only ones showing up below - but on 4x20, it should look the same except it's bigger!
+
+
+<table>
+    <tr>
+        <th>Scroll direction</th>
+        <th>Cycling</th>
+        <th>Title shown</th>
+        <th>Initial selection</th>
+        <th>Result</th>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+        <td>horizontal</td>
+        <td>yes</td>
+        <td>yes</td>
+        <td>first</td>
+        <td><img src="images/2x16-title-horizontal.jpg" alt="With title, middle item -> forward and backward, horizontal scrolling"></td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+        <td>vertical</td>
+        <td>yes</td>
+        <td>no</td>
+        <td>first</td>
+        <td><img src="images/2x16-title-vertical-up-down-cycling.jpg" alt="No title, first item & cycling on -> up & down, vertical scrolling"/></td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+        <td>vertical</td>
+        <td>no</td>
+        <td>no</td>
+        <td>first</td>
+        <td><img src="images/2x16-no-title-vertical-only-down.jpg" alt="No title, first item &amp; no cycling -&gt; only down, vertical scrolling"></td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+        <td>vertical</td>
+        <td>no</td>
+        <td>no</td>
+        <td>middle</td>
+        <td><img src="images/2x16-no-title-vertical-up-down.jpg" alt="No title, middle item -&gt; up &amp; down, vertical scrolling"></td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+        <td>vertical</td>
+        <td>no</td>
+        <td>no</td>
+        <td>last</td>
+        <td><img src="images/2x16-no-title-vertical-only-up.jpg" alt="No title, last item &amp; no cycling -&gt; only up, vertical scrolling"></td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+        <td>vertical</td>
+        <td>no</td>
+        <td>yes</td>
+        <td>no options (first and last)</td>
+        <td><img src="images/2x16-title-vertical-no-options.jpg" alt="With title, only one option, vertical scrolling"></td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+        <td>vertical</td>
+        <td>no</td>
+        <td>yes</td>
+        <td>first</td>
+        <td><img src="images/2x16-title-vertical-only-down.jpg" alt="With title, first item & no cycling -> only down, vertical scrolling"></td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+        <td>vertical</td>
+        <td>no</td>
+        <td>yes</td>
+        <td>middle</td>
+        <td><img src="images/2x16-title-vertical-up-down.jpg" alt="With title, middle item -> up & down, vertical scrolling"></td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+        <td>vertical</td>
+        <td>no</td>
+        <td>yes</td>
+        <td>last</td>
+        <td><img src="images/2x16-title-vertical-only-up.jpg" alt="With title, last item & no cycling -> only up, vertical scrolling"></td>
+    </tr>
+</table>
 
 
 ## License
 
 This project is licensed under the GPL-v3-or-later. A copy can be found [here](LICENSE).
+

__init__.py

@@ -23,9 +23,8 @@ class lcdMenu:
     # cycle:             bool    - if true, start again with the first menu entry after the last one (and show the last before the first)
     # hide_menu_name:    bool    - OPTIONAL - if true, hide the menu's name (won't work in combination with a vertical scrolling direction)
     # name:              str     - OPTIONAL - a string with the name of the menu (can be hidden under certain circumstances)
-    # default_selection: int     - OPTIONAL - the index of the item selected by default (starting with 0) - DON'T USE NEGATIVE INDEXES
     # debounce_time:     float   - OPTIONAL - the debounce time used by the library to debounce button presses
-    def __init__(self, lcd, buttons: dict, menu_items: list, scroll_direction: bool, cycle: bool, hide_menu_name: bool = False, name: str = "CHOOSE", default_selection: int = 0, debounce_time: float = 0.15):
+    def __init__(self, lcd, buttons: dict, scroll_direction: bool, cycle: bool, hide_menu_name: bool = False, name: str = "CHOOSE", debounce_time: float = 0.15):
         # save the argument variables
         self.lcd = lcd
         if "prev_btn" in buttons.keys():
@@ -34,27 +33,38 @@ class lcdMenu:
             self.prev_btn = None
         self.next_btn = buttons["next_btn"]
         self.ok_btn = buttons["ok_btn"]
-        self.menu_items = menu_items
         self.scroll_direction = scroll_direction
         self.cycle = cycle
         self.hide_menu_name = hide_menu_name
         self.name = name
-        self.current_selection = default_selection
         self.debounce_time = debounce_time
         
+        self.current_selection = 0  # set a standard value (can/most of the time will be changed directly after __init__ by a call to self.setup())
+        self.menu_items = []  # set a standard empty (can/most of the time will be changed directly after __init__ by a call to self.setup())
+        
         # variables that are very unlikely the user want's to set them (but can be set via <lcdMenuObject>.<attribute_name>, of course)
         self.start_execution_msg = "Selected..."  # the string displayed when an menu item is selected
         self.end_execution_msg = "Closing..."  # the string displayed when the callback function of a selected menu item returns        self.end_execution_wait = 1  # the time (in seconds) to wait after the callback function of a selected menu item returns
         self.start_execution_wait = 0.5  # the time (in seconds) to wait before the callback function of a selected menu item is called
         self.end_execution_wait = 1  # the time (in seconds) to wait after the callback function of a selected menu item returns
         self.fill_char = '-'  # the character used to fill up space (used only on 4x20 displays); MUST BE 1 character long
-    
+
-    
+
+    # menu_items:       list  - a list (-> maintains order!) containing tuples with the following format: (<ENTRY_NAME>,<CALLBACK FUNCTION>)
+    # start_selection:  int   - OPTIONAL - the index of the item selected by default (starting with 0) - DON'T USE NEGATIVE INDEXES
+    def setup(self, menu_items: list, start_selection: int = 0):
+        self.menu_items = menu_items
+        self.current_selection = start_selection
+
+
     def show_selection(self):
-        # a check:
+        # some checks:
-        # if you scrolling vertically, I found no elegant way to hide the name (there just need's to be something up there!)
+        # 1. if you scrolling vertically, I found no elegant way to hide the name (there just need's to be something up there!)
         if self.scroll_direction and self.hide_menu_name:
-            raise TypeError("Hiding the menu name whilst having the scroll direction set to horizontal!")
+            raise TypeError("Hiding the menu name whilst having the scroll direction set to horizontal is unsupported!")
+        # 2. if there are no menu items to display...
+        if len(self.menu_items) == 0:
+            raise TypeError("Can't show empty menus! Maybe you forgot calling self.setup() after initializing me?")
         
         # get some often used values into local variables
         selection_name = self.menu_items[self.current_selection][0]
@@ -97,7 +107,7 @@ class lcdMenu:
                 # maybe the following could be done with a crazy math formula - but I want to keep it simpler!
                 # as there aren't enough menu items after the current selection to fill the display, we have to...
                 # ... calculate where to place the current selection, how many items there are before it and how many after it
-                menu_items_cut = self.menu_items[:lines_for_display:-1][::-1]  # cut the menu_items list to the relevant last n ones maintaining order (n = number of lines for display)
+                menu_items_cut = self.menu_items[::-1][:lines_for_display][::-1]  # cut the menu_items list to the relevant last n ones maintaining order (n = number of lines for display)
                 current_pos_in_cut = -len(self.menu_items) + self.current_selection + lines_for_display  # calculate the current index of the selection in the new cut
                 # draw all the lines
                 for i in range(lines_for_display):
@@ -215,11 +225,17 @@ class lcdMenu:
             while self.ok_btn.value() == 1: sleep(self.debounce_time) # wait till release
             self.execute_selection()
         
-        
+    def stop(self):  # here to act as a callback for a menu entry (if the user wants to ofc!)
+        self.running = False
+        return True
+    
     def run(self):
         # show the selection first
         self.show_selection()
+        self.running = True
         
         # then listen on button presses in a loop...
-        while True:
+        while self.running:
             self.loop()
+            
+        return True  # to prevent a "Closing menu ..." in submenu-situations

examples/quittable.py

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+from lcdMenu import lcdMenu
+from machine import Pin, I2C
+from PCF8574T import I2C_LCD
+
+prev_btn = Pin(13, Pin.IN, Pin.PULL_DOWN)  # input of the first btn
+next_btn = Pin(14, Pin.IN, Pin.PULL_DOWN)  # input of the second btn
+ok_btn   = Pin(15, Pin.IN, Pin.PULL_DOWN)  # input of switch
+
+LCD = I2C_LCD(I2C(0, sda=Pin(8), scl=Pin(9), freq=400000),0x27,2, 16)
+
+def first_callback():
+    print("first_callback() called!")
+def second_cb():
+    print("second_cb() called")
+def third_cb():
+    print("third_cb() called")
+    return True
+
+
+button_mappings = {"prev_btn":prev_btn, "next_btn": next_btn, "ok_btn": ok_btn}
+
+submenu = lcdMenu(LCD, button_mappings, scroll_direction=True, cycle=False, hide_menu_name=False, name="Submenu!")
+# the submenu.stop callback is a special callback specifically designed for use cases where the lcdMenu ist started with run()
+# submenu.stop breaks an infinite loop inside the run() method, essentially quitting the run() method and giving back flow to the caller context
+# so we can utilize this for us to quit a submenu (or a "main" menu if you want to, of course!)
+submenuItems = [("first item", first_callback),
+                ("second item", second_cb),
+                ("third item", third_cb),
+                ("back", submenu.stop)]  
+submenu.setup(submenuItems)
+
+mainmenu = lcdMenu(LCD, button_mappings, scroll_direction=False, cycle=True, hide_menu_name=False, name="Main menu!")
+mainmenu.setup([("Sub menu",submenu.run)])
+
+mainmenu.run()
+

examples/simple.py

@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ def third_cb():
 menuItems = [("first item", first_callback),
              ("second item", second_cb),
              ("third item", third_cb)]
-menu = lcdMenu(LCD, {"prev_btn":prev_btn, "next_btn": next_btn, "ok_btn": ok_btn}, menuItems, scroll_direction=False, cycle=False, hide_menu_name=True, name="Fullscreen!")
+menu = lcdMenu(LCD, {"prev_btn":prev_btn, "next_btn": next_btn, "ok_btn": ok_btn}, scroll_direction=False, cycle=False, hide_menu_name=True, name="Fullscreen!")
+menu.setup(menuItems)
+
+menu.run()
 
-menu.run()

examples/submenu.py

@@ -22,7 +22,11 @@ menuItems = [("first item", first_callback),
              ("third item", third_cb)]
 button_mappings = {"prev_btn":prev_btn, "next_btn": next_btn, "ok_btn": ok_btn}
 
-submenu = lcdMenu(LCD, button_mappings, menuItems, scroll_direction=True, cycle=False, hide_menu_name=False, name="Submenu!")
+submenu = lcdMenu(LCD, button_mappings, scroll_direction=True, cycle=False, hide_menu_name=False, name="Submenu!")
+submenu.setup(menuItems)
+
+mainmenu = lcdMenu(LCD, button_mappings, scroll_direction=False, cycle=True, hide_menu_name=False, name="Main menu!")
+mainmenu.setup([("Sub menu",submenu.run)])
 
-mainmenu = lcdMenu(LCD, button_mappings, [("Sub menu",submenu.run)], scroll_direction=False, cycle=True, hide_menu_name=False, name="Main menu!")
 mainmenu.run()
+