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Feb 19, 2015 - 16:26
dgelessus
Whenever I present a `ui.NavigationView` as `sidebar` or `panel` and try to quit it using the built-in X, the app crashes. I've tried implem...
Feb 18, 2015 - 19:59
techteej
Even though I haven't been posting in a while, I've had my head down on a few big projects.
I need to create a map of the world with sele...
Feb 18, 2015 - 04:30
sol144
This code below works great using editorial. It will select text on given positions and scroll the page to the selected text.
```python
...
Feb 17, 2015 - 22:47
reefboy1
Are there any arduinos I can program with Pythonista?
Feb 17, 2015 - 22:36
reefboy1
Build a tree :)
```python
#coding: utf-8
import console
print('1 space is stub 2 spaces is branch 3 spaces is apple')
for x in rang...
Feb 17, 2015 - 22:32
mncfre
With this script you can download on your iOS devices videos from youtube, Facebook, instagram, and many more pages, using the Youtube-dl Li...
Feb 17, 2015 - 07:23
reefboy1
I am new to scraping and I made this
```python
import bs4, requests
def get_beautiful_soup(url):
return bs4.BeautifulSoup(re...
Feb 17, 2015 - 03:10
madscijr
Could someone please explain how to install/setup or otherwise get pygame working in Pythonista, so you can run games or other multimedia ap...
Feb 17, 2015 - 01:13
reefboy1
[this](http://zello.me/k/dl6x4) is the official zello feed for the Omz-Forums. It explains it all in the link.
(This one is not broken) . O...
Feb 17, 2015 - 01:01
polymerchm
Developing musical applications in pythonista. Want to play more notes that just the 2 piano octaves without having to have a "note" wavefo...
Feb 16, 2015 - 23:51
dgelessus
(no, I couldn't think of a more original name.)
https://github.com/dgelessus/filenav
What is there to say? It's a file navigator with ...
Feb 16, 2015 - 22:45
reefboy1
Yes please
Feb 16, 2015 - 19:28
polymerchm
```python
# Sheild
# covers the designated view to suppress touch events.
import ui
class Shield(object):
def __init__(self,view...
Feb 16, 2015 - 19:12
reefboy1
Is there a possible way to blur output of a pythonista script? Specifically this one wich needs a UI to run:
```python
import ui
impo...
Feb 16, 2015 - 13:46
polymerchm
Is there such s thing
This is a question for the more experienced folks here... I've lately been wondering whether `ui` actions should perhaps run in the backgrou...
Feb 15, 2015 - 17:10
reefboy1
I'm trying to make a little flight simulator and I was wondering with motion.get_aditude() I. Old make an if statement to make the lane go u...
Feb 15, 2015 - 04:46
donnieh
I have a matplot view being output to the console. How would I adjust my code to output it to a new view instead?
The first bit of code i...
Feb 15, 2015 - 01:37
ltddev
When I'm happily coding away on stuff I always seem to lose track of time and even though I can see the digital clock on the upper status ar...
Feb 14, 2015 - 21:00
ywangd
Sorry for making a new thread about StaSh.
But I'd like to highlight some great new features from recent development
(special thanks to ...
Feb 14, 2015 - 16:27
Dann239
I didn't know if this fell under share code or questions, as this isn't a question about Python or Pythonista per se.
I know this is a s...
Feb 14, 2015 - 16:15
chiefenne
Is it possible to access the LED flashlight of an iPhone using Pythonista?
Feb 14, 2015 - 12:12
wolf71
Pythonista using print function is very slow.
can using other method to improve speed?
Feb 13, 2015 - 23:35
reefboy1
Is there a way to access the roll and pitch??by this I mean the tilting of the devise
Feb 13, 2015 - 15:59
donnieh
If I have a UI up and running, how can I open or close the console programmatically?
For example, what if I wanted to display a plot, but...
Feb 13, 2015 - 14:08
minnepicker
Greetings all,
Vittici shared [this][1] a long time ago. I'd like to modify it to select forward one word at a time instead of backward o...
Feb 13, 2015 - 04:11
Xplnr
I was wondering if anybody would be willing to provide "line by line" teaching comments on one of the starter sketches included with Pythoni...
http://preshing.com/20110926/high-resolution-mandelbrot-in-obfuscated-python is a really slick Mandelbrot generator whose obfuscated Python ...
Feb 12, 2015 - 06:15
donnieh
What is a simple way to have a timer call a function every 10 seconds?
Feb 11, 2015 - 18:49
RichDude
I saw a few stand alone apps that were created with pythonista.
How do you take a pythonista app and make it stand alone ?
Thanks
Feb 11, 2015 - 17:53
ltddev
I have a feature request. If there is a formal location to provide please let me know so I can see if it's a dupe. I switch between files a ...
Feb 11, 2015 - 15:50
ltddev
I have an iPad 4th gen, not jailbroken. Lately in the Pythonista editor the whole app crashes when backspacing repeatedly once I get to the ...
Feb 11, 2015 - 13:00
donnieh
**Is it bad practice to use a forever loop in pythonista?** I ask because I used the `def download_file` function from the omz dropbox file ...
Feb 10, 2015 - 22:38
donnieh
I am so pleased with omz software. Pythonista and Editorial are great apps. I would have paid $100 for each of these apps. But what makes th...
Feb 10, 2015 - 19:55
dvader9
Seeing a few new people join the forum and ask questions lately, I was thinking that it might be good to have someone write a quick intro to...
Feb 10, 2015 - 15:03
donnieh
How come the photos.pick_image() call doesn't work inside a function but works outside?
```python
def pick_photo(sender):
pic = ph...
Feb 10, 2015 - 14:46
ltddev
I'm wondering if it is possible to load SVG objects to a Web View and using load_url() or load_html() or loading via javascript? If it is po...
Feb 10, 2015 - 04:03
reefboy1
Ok, here is one of my little programs that doesn't do very much yet again :/ . It a metronome! Yay! Anybody on here play music? Here you go:...
Feb 10, 2015 - 03:49
reefboy1
I'm trying to do something like FileNav but I'm not as good as a programmer to make that, so I tried this. It's called FilePeeker.py
``...
Feb 10, 2015 - 02:43
donnieh
If I had a set of .csv values in a string:
00.1,00.2,00.3,00.4
What is a clever way to efficiently get them in an array?
Feb 10, 2015 - 01:25
coomlata1
I have been following the forum here for several weeks and find the info very helpful. I'm new to python and have been trying to develop so...
Feb 10, 2015 - 01:04
donnieh
In a .pyui file I have a switch (switch1) placed inside a scroll view. How do I define it and get it's value?
I am playing with the UI now.
I created a UI from built-in UI design.
UI had a text field for input.
My question is is there a way to ...
It would be great if the help form can directly built into the app. So user can ask question directly from app.
Feb 09, 2015 - 22:00
wradcliffe
I do an awfull lot of reading and viewing of code from other projects and routinely run into the "No Script Loaded" screen in the Editor. Th...
Feb 09, 2015 - 19:35
ealdaz
I am having some success and enjoying using Animation on layers, however i am stuck on how to use Animation completion or Animation.finished...
Feb 09, 2015 - 08:33
polymerchm
I have been taken to task to the indescriminate use of `try: except:` blocks to handle "edge conditions" in my code. _Mea culpa_. So, I tr...
Feb 09, 2015 - 08:01
reefboy1
I currently have a export function for my application, named export()
```python
import ui
import webbrowser
def export():
url = ...
Feb 09, 2015 - 05:24
reefboy1
How can I share a pyui file to the forums?
Feb 09, 2015 - 03:36
reefboy1
Is it possible to get Audio audio and present it with a command all through pythonista??