A simple and declarative way of building console menus of any depth and complexity.
A simple class library to easily build complex console menus in a declarative fashion.
Available from nuget as DeclarativeConsoleMenu
class MenuGenerator
{
public static MenuCollection CreateMenuCollection()
{
MenuCollection collection = new MenuCollection();
//Declarative way of building a menu, there are also generator methods you can use.
return new MenuCollection()
{
Menus = {
new Menu()
{
// give the menu an identifier
MenuId = 1,
MenuItems =
{
new MenuItem()
{
Text = "Open Sub Menu",
// if you want to link to another menu, then set the other menu's id
SubMenuId = 2
},
new MenuItem()
{
Text = "Print hello world!",
//or if you want to perform an action, set the Action property
Action = () => Console.WriteLine("Hello World!")
}
}
},
new Menu()
{
MenuId = 2,
MenuItems =
{
new MenuItem()
{
Text = "Print Hello",
Action = () => Console.WriteLine("Hello")
},
new MenuItem()
{
Text = "Print Goodbye",
Action = () => Console.WriteLine("Goodbye")
},
new MenuItem()
{
Text = "Back to the top menu",
SubMenuId = 1
}
}
}
}
};
}
}