Flexible menu 2 (#916)

* Correct definition of btrfs standard layout

* New version of the FlexibleMenu
* Added new functionality to Selector
* Created a GeneralMenu class
* GlobalMenu is made a child of GeneralMenu

* Some refining in GeneralMenu
secret is now a general function

* log is invoked in GeneralMenu directly

* Correction at GeneralMenu

* Materialize again _setup_selection_menu_options. Gives more room to play

* Callbacks converted as methods
Synch() (data area and menu) decoupled from enable()
and made general before any run

* script swiss added to the patch set

* Only_hd gets a new implementation of the menu
flake8 corrections

* swiss.py description added

* New version of the FlexibleMenu
* Added new functionality to Selector
* Created a GeneralMenu class
* GlobalMenu is made a child of GeneralMenu

* changes from the rebase left dangling

* Modify order of execution between exec_menu and post_processing.
Added selector_name as parameter for exec_menu

* minor corrections to the scripts

* Adapt to PR #874

* Solve issue #936

* make ask_for_a_timezone as synonym to ask_timezone

* Adapted to nationalization framework (PR 893).
String still NOT adapted

* flake8 complains

* Use of archinstall.output_config instead of local copy at swiss.py

* Problems with the last merge

* more flake8 complains. caused by reverted changes re. ask*timezone

* git complains

Co-authored-by: Anton Hvornum <anton@hvornum.se>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/archinstall/lib/general.py b/archinstall/lib/general.py
index c9ebb921..ad7b8ad4 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/general.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/general.py
@@ -550,3 +550,7 @@ def json_stream_to_structure(id : str, stream :str, target :dict) -> bool :
 			log(f" {id} is neither a file nor is a JSON string:",level=logging.ERROR)
 			return False
 	return True
+
+def secret(x :str):
+	""" return * with len equal to to the input string """
+	return '*' * len(x)