TcMenu Designer Turbo - a web based TcMenu designer

[davetcc]

Actually, you can think of this more like an Initialiser, as you don't really need to round trip in the way you used to with this new version, for most 32 bit boards you can generate code using fluent menu builder.

The web version of designer is in beta effective immediately. You can try it today see if it works for your project. Do note that until TcMenu Library 4.5 is released, using Fluent API or All-In-One mode would need you to have the mainline version of the library.

Direct designer link: https://designer.thecoderscorner.com
Documentation: https://www.thecoderscorner.com/products/apps/tcmenu-designer/

I know there will potentially be questions from long term users, and I'm happy to answer them here, but I strongly recommend you try the new solution, it uses the same generator behind the scenes that you're already running with no local install.

[davetcc]

I've now fixed a couple of blockers around generating fluent API menus in the web based TcMenu Designer Turbo.

If you wanted to try fluent API or All-in-one mode (where all plugin code is put into the _menu.cpp/h files then you need library 4.5 which is effectively main branch of the tcMenuLib repo at the moment, it will be released shortly.

Based on this I now have an ESP32S3 board with TFT and an MKR1300 with u8g2 OLED working with fluent menus. Here is an example of fluent menu code:

void buildMenu(TcMenuBuilder& builder) {
    builder.usingDynamicEEPROMStorage()
        .analogBuilder(MENU_VOLUME_ID, "Volume", DONT_SAVE, NoMenuFlags, 0, nullptr)
            .offset(0).divisor(1).step(1).maxValue(100).unit("%").endItem()
        .enumItem(MENU_CHANNEL_ID, "Channel", DONT_SAVE, ChannelEnumEntries, 4, NoMenuFlags, 0, nullptr)
        .boolItem(MENU_MUTE_ID, "Mute", DONT_SAVE, NAMING_ON_OFF, NoMenuFlags, false, nullptr)
        .boolItem(MENU_DIRECT_ID, "Direct", DONT_SAVE, NAMING_ON_OFF, NoMenuFlags, false, nullptr)
        .subMenu(MENU_STATUS_ID, "Status", NoMenuFlags, nullptr)
            .enumItem(MENU_AMP_STATE_ID, "Amp State", DONT_SAVE, AmpStateEnumEntries, 5, NoMenuFlags, 0, nullptr)
            .analogBuilder(MENU_LEFT_LEVEL_ID, "Left Level", DONT_SAVE, NoMenuFlags, 0, nullptr)
                .offset(-2000).divisor(100).step(1).maxValue(3000).unit("dB").endItem()
            .analogBuilder(MENU_RIGHT_LEVEL_ID, "Right Level", DONT_SAVE, NoMenuFlags, 0, nullptr)
                .offset(-2000).divisor(100).step(1).maxValue(3000).unit("dB").endItem()
            .endSub();
}