Feature request - ConfigManager

[Eisbaeeer]

I´m loving your work. This framework is great.
Is it possible to get a "drop-down" option in configManager.
I´l provide the time-zones for time-sync in configManager. In this case it will be perfect if the user is able to select his timezone by drop-down list.
A drop-down list is really missing ;-)
Greets Lars

[Eisbaeeer]

It seems, that aaronse realized something like that:
https://github.com/aaronse/esp8266-iot-framework
@aaronse
But he does not opened a pull-request. Now it is outdated.

[maakbaas]

That is right, he worked on some of that functionality, and proposed it in #44, but the pull request was mixed with other things. I agree that this is still a nice addition.

[Eisbaeeer]

Yes, it will be perfect eg. timezone selection and many other drop-down options.

[aaronse]

Will try to take another look at this over the weekend. I need to sync and pull latest edits from master for current ESP32 based project am working on.

[maakbaas]

Given that there was not much action on this item, I have added a drop down menu option in commit c7d6e45
which will be part of the next release.

For control items, "control": "select", will turn them into a drop down menu, with the options defined as "options": [1, 2, 3].

[Eisbaeeer]

Hey, many thanks for that!
I have additional question.
In html it is possible to "label" each entry separately. This would be perfect, if it will be possible to label each or is there an other way to da that?
This is what I mean:
label_of_Volvo

Because I must Label like this:
label: TZ_Europe_Berlin
value: "CET-1CEST,M3.5.0,M10.5.0/3"

You will find that in TZ.h as well.
Greets Lars

[maakbaas]

I would propose to add this as a field optionLabels in the JSON file.

The implementation should be quite straightforward. If you or somebody else will add this in a pull request I'll happily merge it to the master.

[Eisbaeeer]

I will try this. Hope I get it running.

[Eisbaeeer]

@maakbaas
I think Im not able to implement that. I added the optionLables and tried to change the ".pio\libdeps\nodemcuv2\ESP8266 IoT Framework\gui\js\comp\ControlItem.js" but get it not running.
{ "name": "Time_Zone", "label": "Time Zone", "type": "char", "length": 32, "value": "CET-1CEST,M3.5.0,M10.5.0/3", "control": "select", "options": [ "<-01>1", "<-04>4", "<-08>8", "CET-1CEST,M3.5.0,M10.5.0/3" ], "optionLabels": [ "TZ_Etc_GMTp1", "TZ_Etc_GMTp4", "TZ_Etc_GMTp8", "TZ_Europe_Berlin" ] },

[Eisbaeeer]

Can you give me some hints how to implement that?

[maakbaas]

Is your code somewhere on GitHub to see what you tried?

[Eisbaeeer]

No, because it´s not working. Im not firm with react and don´t know where to change the functions for "optionLabels". Tried to change the HTML part in ControllItem.js but this don´t worked. I got the "optionLabels" in source code of web-page in same struct as the "options" but the web-page always displayed the option istead of "optionLables". Im only edited the ControllItems.js.

[benklop]

I've implemented optionLabels with #120, but as this is my first attempt at React, it might need additional work.