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Mar 09, 2015 - 02:46
Helgi
I've stumbled upon a [nice sidebar UI script](https://omz-forums.appspot.com/pythonista/post/6438714356006912) made to work together with th...
Mar 07, 2015 - 22:27
wradcliffe
I just learned that implementing MIDI over Bluetooth LE "requires" an app to implement a custom ViewController. This one is CABTMIDICentralV...
What apps do I need to download and what steps do I need to take to backup (and restore) my Pythonista scripts when I can not launch Pythoni...
Mar 07, 2015 - 05:42
briarfox
I'm wondering if it would be possible for @omz to add kivy to pythonista. I've been using it on my laptop a lot and love it. It would really...
Mar 07, 2015 - 03:43
Kenbo01
Hi,
I'm using `bottle` to serve web pages that load javascript libraries, html and css.
It works fine most of the time. However, when...
Mar 06, 2015 - 19:03
Jonstieg
I have a UI with three text fields and one button. All three text fields use the Number Pad keyboard, which don't have a Return key to hide ...
Mar 06, 2015 - 16:36
donnieh
If a Pythonista script is using a text field or anything requiring a keyboard, is there a function I can place code in to execute when the r...
Mar 06, 2015 - 14:03
donnieh
Would some Pythonista scholar provide a simple example of any type of "view" coded such it will stretch nicely to any iOS screen? iPad, iPh...
Mar 05, 2015 - 09:41
hxdaze
I would like to delete a button of scene object.
How do I make a source code to delete it?
There is no information about it.
Mar 05, 2015 - 03:36
roger
There's already a programming app out with support for Bluetooth LE (techBASIC), and this seems like it could be a good feature for Pythonis...
Mar 04, 2015 - 11:56
donnieh
I have tried the code below to change the keyboard type, but no luck. What is the right way to do this?
```python
import ui
v = ui....
Mar 04, 2015 - 09:49
JonB
Has anyone figured out a robust way to get the root View of whatever is currently being presented?
I'm working on a little tool which r...
Mar 04, 2015 - 01:29
CarlRJ
This seems to be more of a problem on iOS 8, maybe there's more aggressive memory clearing, and it's driving me a bit batty...
When I swi...
Mar 02, 2015 - 19:45
Dormane
I have a iPhone 6+ and the font even at its smallest is overly large for my screen, I could see and edit much smaller fonts easily consideri...
Mar 02, 2015 - 19:04
pruppert222
I am not sure if this will catch on, but I thought it might be helpful to have a thread for bugs noticed in the new update. I have noticed a...
Mar 01, 2015 - 21:48
donnieh
If I am editing a Pythonista file (.py) in Xcode, what key on my Mac is used to properly indent?
When I use Tab on the Mac keyboard I get...
Mar 01, 2015 - 19:41
TutorialDoctor
Any way to backup the action library? It would be nice to have it included in the **Editorial Backup workflow** by Ole.
Also, a way to **...
Mar 01, 2015 - 02:10
donnieh
I change a button's corner radius just fine. Why won't a label's corner radius change? Do I have to do something special with the border or ...
Mar 01, 2015 - 01:34
reefboy1
How did programs like stash make their hot keys?
Mar 01, 2015 - 00:57
reefboy1
Is it possible to bios I website with pythonista? Like HTML?
Mar 01, 2015 - 00:44
dubh
I'm down to an iPad now that the students in my family have commandeered all the desktop machines.
Problem is, I'd like to continue updat...
Feb 28, 2015 - 12:53
Besitypanacea
I have a code that I developed in nltk, but I don't know how to highlight text on nltk. It works well on the terminal, but it doesn't tell t...
Feb 28, 2015 - 11:31
jock50
Hi,
Just signd up and want to download an app for pythonista on a tablet.Can any one help?
Feb 27, 2015 - 22:59
Proxy
Hello everyone
I'm working on another pip module for Pythonista. It's all done. Searching, downloanding, unziping. But the last step fail...
Feb 27, 2015 - 16:17
donnieh
How come the first function info() runs on startup?
```python
import ui
def info():
vInfo = ui.View()
vInfo.name = '...
Feb 27, 2015 - 12:44
Dormane
Ok, this is a fairly dumb question, and I am new to webpage development, but it is easy enough to use HTML with Bottle, such as in...
...
Feb 27, 2015 - 05:23
polymerchm
Trying to push next major upgrade to my chordcalc script and I get this from essantially all three of the subject line tools
```
temptin...
Feb 26, 2015 - 23:33
GenericUser
Hi,
My goal is to make a subclass of Ui.View and use it as a class for a whole UI like in a pyui file made in UI builder. How does that wor...
Feb 26, 2015 - 21:43
misha_turnbull
Hello - I am still working on [a chess game][]. It's coming along nicely, with one exception: the GUI. I've had some trouble with loading ...
Feb 26, 2015 - 09:38
PKHG222
Grr forgotten to include code in this forum, so sorry
I got from github a file for sounds ...
starting with : from ctypes import c_void_...
Feb 26, 2015 - 09:28
MalphasWats
Hi,
I'm making a little application to post photos to my photo blog. For the sake of learning I thought I'd make a little UI to go with...
Feb 24, 2015 - 21:19
simonh
Heres a code sample. If you comment out the three lines creating and adding the label the view looks fine. I need to add subviews because I'...
Feb 24, 2015 - 03:26
Malanowski204
Hello,
I am stuck getting anywhere with Editorial, because I cannot get DropboxAuth to run fully. It always fails when trying to get the ...
Feb 23, 2015 - 18:24
michael_recchione
I just got an iPhone, and have a bunch of scripts with UIs that I developed on the iPad. When I brought them over to the iPhone, they don't...
Feb 23, 2015 - 17:40
michael_recchione
I'm sorry for what's probably a stupid question, but I've been struggling with this for a while, and can't find the answer...
I'm using d...
Feb 22, 2015 - 13:48
misha_turnbull
I am working on a chess game. I have all the images I need stored in a folder: `Chess/gui_pythonista/imgs/` and a file `Chess/gui_pythonist...
Feb 22, 2015 - 13:29
smath
Would it be possible to allow users to assign their own hot keys for external keyboards? If so, there could be so many possibilities. There ...
I thought I'd start a new thread for this build, the [old one](https://omz-forums.appspot.com/pythonista/post/5792132698734592) is getting a...
Feb 22, 2015 - 00:15
PetervdKamp
I have a scrollview to which I add textfields and a button dynamically. For the button I use the following code:
insert_button = ui.Butto...
Feb 21, 2015 - 23:59
dgelessus
Changing the name of any folder will always move it into the root Script Library folder, even if it was previously located elsewhere. Fortun...
Feb 21, 2015 - 22:14
MartinPacker
Has anyone taken the HTML Editorial produces and further processed it into anything.
I'm thinking of trying it out and turning the HTML i...
Feb 21, 2015 - 22:11
TWSH
I write a lot in Pandoc-flavoured Markdown. Using Sublime Text 3 and Marked I can get a preview by using Pandoc as a custom processor in Mar...
Feb 21, 2015 - 07:33
Olivierr137
Hi Ole
Slowly but steadily my WF menu gets more and more populated. In parallel to this evolution it becomes more and more difficult to r...
Feb 21, 2015 - 02:17
polymerchm
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[1]: https://plus.google.com/app/basic/photos/photo/112092439016114236409/6116513772216195410?cbp=1mmpi5u7qxmjj&gl=us&...
Feb 20, 2015 - 19:45
blmacbeth
As some of you may have seen, I have been trying to dynamically load classes from a subfolder (or any folder...). It has been for a [maths l...
Feb 20, 2015 - 17:35
polymerchm
Can the gurus enlighten as how to do? I presume timers and touch.ids are involved but if you have a snippet or two to lead the way, would ...
Feb 20, 2015 - 15:07
misha_turnbull
Hello all,
I am working on a game of Chess for Pythonista. It's come quite far using the scene animations, and I'm currently touching up t...
Feb 20, 2015 - 00:13
dgelessus
This script provides a way to have multiple views presented in panel mode at once and allows switching between them using tabs. I tried to p...
You've already added a menu item to search for documentation on a highlighted bit of code, and it occurred to me today that it'd be nice to ...
Feb 19, 2015 - 18:00
blmacbeth
I have an app I'm working on which is supposed to load games dynamically from a sub folder. This is the basic setup.
Main Folder/
...