TTMenu

TTMenu is a lightweight, cross-platform menu utility and library designed to present interactive lists of items to users. It is used by developers to embed simple menus in scripts, terminal applications, and lightweight graphical interfaces. TTMenu accepts a collection of items from standard input or a configuration source and returns the selected item to the caller via standard output. Its minimal footprint and straightforward API make it a popular choice for script-driven workflows in Unix-like environments.

TTMenu originated in the open-source community as a small, dependency-light option for building menus in environments that do not require a full GUI toolkit. It has been maintained by a volunteer community and has been ported to multiple platforms, with community-driven ports for macOS and Windows through compatibility layers.

The core component handles rendering, input capture, and selection logic, while optional frontends provide terminal-based or lightweight graphical interfaces. It supports scripting language bindings (for example, Bash, Python, and Lua) and a simple API. Typical features include keyboard navigation, basic item filtering, theming, and localization.

In practice, TTMenu is invoked by scripts to present a dynamic list of choices. A common workflow pipes lines of text into TTMenu and uses the resulting selection in conditional logic or downstream processing.

As an open-source project, TTMenu is distributed under a permissive or copyleft license depending on version, with ongoing community contributions and integrations in various lightweight toolchains.