📂 interactive

⚡ interactive::confirm

Ask the user to yes or no.

• The user can switch between the two options with the arrow keys or space.
• The user can validate the choice with the enter key.
• The user can also validate immediately with the y or n key.

Dialog boxes are displayed for the question and answer.

Inputs:

• $1: prompt as string:

  the prompt to display

• ${default} as bool:

  (optional) the default value to select

  (defaults to true)

Returns:

• $?:
  • 0 if the user answered yes
  • 1 otherwise
• ${REPLY}: true or false.

Example usage:

if interactive::confirm "Do you want to continue?"; then echo "Yes."; else echo "No."; fi

⚡ interactive::confirmRaw

Ask the user to yes or no.

• The user can switch between the two options with the arrow keys or space.
• The user can validate the choice with the enter key.
• The user can also validate immediately with the y or n key.

This raw version does not display the prompt or the answer.

Inputs:

• ${default} as bool:

  (optional) the default value to select

  (defaults to true)

Returns:

• $?:
  • 0 if the user answered yes
  • 1 otherwise
• ${REPLY}: true or false.

Example usage:

interactive::confirmRaw "Do you want to continue?" && local answer="${REPLY}"

⚡ interactive::continue

Ask the user to press the button to continue.

Inputs:

• $1: prompt as string:

  the prompt to display

Returns:

• $?:
  • 0 if the user pressed enter
  • 1 otherwise

Example usage:

interactive::continue "Press enter to continue."

⚡ interactive::continueRaw

Ask the user to press the button to continue.

This raw version does not display the prompt or the answer.

Returns:

• $?:
  • 0 if the user pressed enter
  • 1 otherwise

Example usage:

interactive::continueRaw

⚡ interactive::displayAnswer

Displays an answer to a previous question.

The text is wrapped and put inside a box like so:

    ╭─────╮
    │ No. ├──░
    ╰─────╯

Inputs:

• $1: answer as string:

  the answer to display

• ${width} as int:

  (optional) the maximum width of the text in the dialog box

  (defaults to “${GLOBAL_COLUMNS}”)

Example usage:

interactive::displayAnswer "My answer."

⚡ interactive::displayQuestion

Displays a question to the user.

The text is wrapped and put inside a box like so:

   ╭────────────────────────────────╮
░──┤ Is this an important question? │
   ╰────────────────────────────────╯

Inputs:

• $1: prompt as string:

  the prompt to display

• ${width} as int:

  (optional) the maximum width of the text in the dialog box

  (defaults to “${GLOBAL_COLUMNS}”)

Example usage:

interactive::displayPrompt "Do you want to continue?"