discord-ext-menus-views

A simple layer over discord.ext.menus using the new discord.ui components in discord.py v2.0.

For those who do not want to rewrite their code to use the new framework, this library makes it easy to switch to views by changing just a couple of lines of code.

Installing

Make sure you are using discord.py v2.0 or above, probably from the master branch. Install this library from git:

pip install git+https://github.com/oliver-ni/discord-ext-menus-views

For maximum compatibility, this library does not list discord.py as a dependency. You must provide it yourself.

Usage

This library provides two classes, ViewMenu and ViewMenuPages, which replace Menu and MenuPages, respectively. These classes aim to be as close as possible to the original classes, but use views (buttons) instead of reactions.

Most of the work is done for you; simply:

1. Replace Menu and MenuPages with ViewMenu and ViewMenuPages.
2. In send_initial_message, replace your ctx.send (or similar) with a self.send_with_view call.
   • This step may not apply if you're using MenuPages and do not have your own send_initial_message.

In most cases, this should already work. However, you probably want to take advantage of the Interaction object, which is now the second argument passed into the callback (replacing the reaction payload). You can do as you please with it.

By default, the library will automatically defer the interaction (for maximal compatibility with ext.menus). If you would like to turn this off, you can set the auto_defer kwarg in the initializer to False.

Here's a simple example:

from discord.ext import menus
from discord.ext.menus.views import ViewMenu

class MyMenu(ViewMenu):
    async def send_initial_message(self, ctx, channel):
        return await self.send_with_view(channel, f"Hello {ctx.author}")

    @menus.button("\N{THUMBS UP SIGN}")
    async def on_thumbs_up(self, interaction):
        await interaction.followup.send(f"Thanks {self.ctx.author}!", ephemeral=True)

    @menus.button("\N{THUMBS DOWN SIGN}")
    async def on_thumbs_down(self, interaction):
        await interaction.followup.send(f"That's not nice {self.ctx.author}...", ephemeral=True)

    @menus.button("\N{BLACK SQUARE FOR STOP}\ufe0f")
    async def on_stop(self, payload):
        self.stop()

An example of ViewMenuPages:

from discord.ext import menus
from discord.ext.menus.views import ViewMenuPages

class MySource(menus.ListPageSource):
    def __init__(self, data):
        super().__init__(data, per_page=4)

    async def format_page(self, menu, entries):
        offset = menu.current_page * self.per_page
        return '\n'.join(f'{i}. {v}' for i, v in enumerate(entries, start=offset))

# somewhere else:
pages = ViewMenuPages(source=MySource(range(1, 100)), clear_reactions_after=True)
await pages.start(ctx)