ConsoleMenuSelection 1.0.4

General information

• This is a small project which I made to save time in school since this is something I use quite often. I am not planning on doing regular updates or additions, this was just a small project out of lazyness to not rewrite the same code over and over in different projects.

1 Selection Menu

1.1 Using the Console Selection Menu

• The Selection Menu can be initiated the follow way:

User selectedUser = new SelectionMenu<User>(users, u => u.Name).Show()
string selected = new SelectionMenu<string>(listOfStrings, s => s).Show()

1.2 Navigating the Console Selection Menu

• The selection menu can be navigated using the following keys:
  • Arrow Up
  • Arrow Down
  • W
  • S
  • Enter: Select the current item

2 Checkbox Selection

2.1 Using the CheckboxSelection:

• With the Checkbox selection, multiple items can be selected and will be returned as List<T>
• The Initiation follows the same rules as the Selection Menu

List<User> userSelections = new CheckboxSelection<User>(users, u => u.Name).Show()
List<string> selectedStrings = new CheckboxSelection<string>(listOfStrings, s => s).Show()

2.2 Navigating the Checkbox Selection:

• The Checkbox selection can be navigated using the following keys:
  • Arrow Up
  • Arrow Down
  • W
  • S
  • Spacebar: to select/unselect the current item
  • Enter: Returns all selected items

3 Options

• With Version 1.0.4 there are more styling options for the selection menu's. These options can be implemented with SelectionOptions where the styling can be applied using the Enum's provided from ESelectionStyles
• The SelectionMenu and CheckboxSelection constructors are overloaded and can be initiated in 2 different ways:

3.1 Option 1:

// SelectionMenu
User selectedUser = new SelectionMenu<User>(users, u => u.Name).Show()
string selected = new SelectionMenu<string>(listOfStrings, s => s).Show()

// CheckboxSelection
List<User> userSelections = new CheckboxSelection<User>(users, u => u.Name).Show() 
List<string> selectedStrings = new CheckboxSelection<string>(listOfStrings, s => s).Show()

3.2 Option 2:

var userOptions = new SelectionOptions<User>()
{
    Items = users,
    DisplaySelector = a => a.Name,
    Style = ESelectionStyles.Default
};

var stringOptions = new SelectionOptions<string>()
{
    Items = options,
    Style = ESelectionStyles.Default,
};

// SelectionMenu
User selectedUser = new SelectionMenu<User>(userOptions).Show()
string selected = new SelectionMenu<string>(stringOptions).Show()

// CheckboxSelection
List<User> userSelections = new CheckboxSelection<User>(userOptions).Show() 
List<string> selectedStrings = new CheckboxSelection<string>(stringOptions).Show()