Templates

Templates are objects you can apply to a menu which applies a style or attribute across all pages. Some examples include color, footers, and fields.

Usage

from dpymenus import PaginatedMenu, Template

template = Template(...)
menu = PaginatedMenu(ctx)
menu.add_pages([...], template=template)

We want to import the Template class, which is exposed in the base dpymenus namespace. We can then create a new Template instance.

The template takes a variety of keyword arguments:

  • title: string

  • description: string

  • color: string

  • footer: dictionary -> { text: string, icon_url: string }

  • image: string

  • url: string

  • thumbnail: string

  • author: dictionary -> { name: string, url: string, icon_url: string }

  • fields: list -> dictionary -> { name: string, value: string, inline: boolean }

  • field_style*

  • field_sort*

    *see the next page for details

Most of these are self-explanatory, as they mirror the same attributes on an Embed or Page. An important distinction is what values they take -- typically favoring a single string representing the data.

Footer, Author, & Fields

The Footer and Author arguments take a dictionary containing the same keys one would normally use when adding these to an Embed or Page.

Fields are a bit different, as you generally create them by calling a separate .add_field() function every time. In this case, you pass a list as the argument containing a dictionary for each field. The dictionary, again, contains the same values used when creating them on a standard Embed or Page.