Interactive mode

[mattytrentini]

Would be interesting to use Textual to make an interactive mode where the user can navigate through the list of ports/boards - displaying information about them - and then choose to build/clean etc.

[Josverl]

You could create a simpler UX using one of the inquirer modules without the need to go full out on textual

[mattytrentini]

True, and that's a reasonable option! Though an interactive Textual application isn't terribly complex and may be more appealing..?

[Josverl]

I found Textual a bit more than what I needed, but was already underway with click and rich-click, and just needed an input/choice/dropdown.
I spend way more time on the mpflash TUI than I expected based on my Powershell TUI experience, where a lot of this is part of the language itself.
So did not want to grow the effort any further.

[mattytrentini]

A start has been made on this, see the interactive-build branch.

It was very straightforward to create a GUI shell application and populate the tree on the left with the list of boards. The harder part will be neatly streaming the CLI build output to a panel...