Discord Menus

dpymenus is an add-on for the discord.py library that lets your quickly build stateful menus that respond to chat input within the Discord client.

Installation

pip install dpymenus

Usage

First, you must instantiate a new Menu. You must pass in a reference to your bot client and the message context. In addition, you must build a list of Page objects.

Page creation is simple:

new_page = Page('page_1', embed, func)
new_page2 = Page('page_2', embed2, func2)

The page name is a string and can be anything you want. The embed should point to a Discord Embed object. The func should point to a function or method which will handle validation and other features you want your menu to accomodate.

In addition, optional 'capture fields' can be named for more advanced menus that need to store many user input variables (eg. storing a user name and favorite color for storage in a DB later).

Capture fields can be declared with a dictionary:

captures = {'username': None, 'favorite_color': None}

Finally, you can create our menu object:

menu = Menu(self.client, ctx, pages=[new_page, new_page2], capture_fields=captures)

Once that is done, you simply call the run() method on our new Menu object:

await menu.run()

...and you're (mostly) finished! A menu loop will spawn and handle user input when the command is called until it times out or is cancelled by the user.

Your function or method references inside the pages should include a 'final' page where the function is None. When the final page in your pages list is displayed, the menu will call a close method and end the loop.

Your function or method reference should call the menu.next_page() method whenever it has successfully handled input. next_page() also takes 2 optional arguments:

specific_page: jumps to a specific page by name. Useful for edit options or non-linear menus.

quiet_output: prevents the page from displaying its embed when called.

Example

This is an example of a simple cog that confirms if you want to send the 'ping' or not.

import discord
from discord.ext import commands
from discord.colour import Colour

from dpymenus.menu import Menu
from dpymenus.page import Page

class Ping(commands.Cog):
    def __init__(self, client: commands.Bot):
        self.client = client

    @commands.command()
    async def ping(self, ctx: commands.Context) -> None:
        confirm_embed = discord.Embed(title=f'Ping Menu',
                                      description=f'Are you absolutely sure you want to send a ping command?\n\n'
                                                  'Type `yes` if you are sure.\nType `quit` to cancel this menu.',
                                      color=Colour.red())

        complete_embed = discord.Embed(title='Ping Menu', 
                                       description='Pong!', 
                                       color=Colour.green())

        menu = Menu(self.client, ctx, pages=[Page('confirm', confirm_embed, self.confirm), 
                                             Page('complete', complete_embed, None)])
        await menu.run()

    @staticmethod
    async def confirm(m: Menu) -> None:
        if m.input_message.content in ('y', 'yes'):
            await m.next_page()

def setup(client: commands.Bot):
    client.add_cog(Ping(client))

Todo

• Allow user to replace the Discord Colour class with their own class or file.
• Clean up and rewrite doc strings.