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Nov 10, 2014 - 13:15
andrew
I had a bunch of files I created locally, copied them to Dropbox, and then wanted to delete the local versions. I did this by swiping to the...
Nov 09, 2014 - 17:27
Shambhala
When I present a different UI View over a SceneView, the scene becomes frozen and unresponsive. How do I resume the scene?
Nov 08, 2014 - 10:34
TutorialDoctor
How do I modify controls added in the UI Designer, via the python script?
The help says this:
- Add a button by tapping ‘+’.
- Drag...
Nov 07, 2014 - 18:03
TutorialDoctor
So, Ole has two cool apps, one called **Pythonista:**, and another called **Editorial**.
But there is more activity on the Pythonista for...
Nov 06, 2014 - 16:06
janAaron
I made a program that spits out hello + some numbers, and it makes a really cool animation. I tried to make it so that when the random numbe...
Nov 04, 2014 - 05:36
janAaron
I've (with a lot of help) made this basic tic tac toe game. Right now when you tap on one of the clocks it turns into an "X", but I want to ...
Nov 04, 2014 - 02:37
Pppi
Hi pythonista's,
is there a way to interact with content of a website loaded inside an ui.webview e.g. click on a link, push a button and...
Nov 04, 2014 - 02:01
bill.k
my automated script makes a perfect packing slip but when I go print with brother Print and scan in plain text it makes tiny little fonts u...
Nov 03, 2014 - 00:05
janAaron
This is a program I wrote which is supposed to change a button's image from a smiley face to an ant when the face is touched. When I ran it,...
Nov 02, 2014 - 18:33
techteej
Starting off a Tic Tac Toe game in Pythonista, but I can't quite figure out how to get the computer to randomly pick a button then draw the ...
Nov 02, 2014 - 14:42
janAaron
Hi everyone!
I wrote this ui code, but the button isnt showing up. What's up?
Here's the code:
```
import ui
def pressed (send...
Nov 02, 2014 - 13:07
janAaron
Hi!
I'm trying to write a program where you can flip a switch, and it changes the color of the switch flipped. I made a GUI with three s...
Nov 02, 2014 - 00:37
misterdoc
I see how to add a subview to a nav view item in the designer, but I don't find any option to create another subview. My application will n...
Nov 01, 2014 - 19:53
zencuke
I have gotten my app to work as a standalone. I suspect it is not supported by default. I'm been working through various iOS Custom URL docu...
Nov 01, 2014 - 19:11
potsky83
Hi !
Do you think it is possible to import the zbar library in a further release or Pythonista ?
http://zbar.sourceforge.net
Zbar already ...
Nov 01, 2014 - 17:16
bill.k
I have added a label (label1) in the Ui designer. Is there something I can preface my reference to it in the offending line so that it can ...
Nov 01, 2014 - 10:59
Rothrock42
So I've got to pull some text out of some html pages. The parts are marked like so:
'<!- TERM1_[ ->Html data I want in here<!- ]_TERM1 ->...
Nov 01, 2014 - 10:58
MartinPacker
It's occurred to me Editorial would be a great platform for generating HTML5 <canvas> and associated javascript - to build pictures - in the...
Nov 01, 2014 - 10:35
zencuke
I built and debugged my single file ui based app in Pythonista. It works as expected. Then I downloaded the xcode template and pasted my cod...
Nov 01, 2014 - 10:34
zencuke
The code in the following gist works fine as a script In Pythonista. When I copy it into Script.py is a python template it will build and ru...
Nov 01, 2014 - 10:33
zencuke
I'm having a heck of a time debugging my standalone app. I built it using omz's template. It fails in a way that it doesn't fail as a script...
Oct 31, 2014 - 20:54
Rothrock42
I've been playing with the sample scene file and the touches. I wanted to give each touch a random custom color. I notice that each touch ge...
Oct 30, 2014 - 23:46
pacco
Update: Being that no one else is reporting problems of this sort, I suspect my issue was an isolated experience and I don't want to mistake...
Oct 30, 2014 - 22:00
TutorialDoctor
How do I pass the contents of a code parameter in a custom action, to the next action as code?
workflow.get_input() doesnt work.
If it...
Oct 30, 2014 - 18:23
sap_tappity
One two different occasions, now, I’ve had scripts disappear on me, basically like what has happened to others in this thread:
http://o...
Oct 30, 2014 - 18:12
pacco
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Oct 29, 2014 - 16:03
roosterboy197
I'm seeing an issue with HTTPServer under iOS 8 on my iPhone 5S. I have a script using an HTTPServer subclass that serves a page in Safari. ...
Oct 29, 2014 - 15:23
bill.k
is there a way to provide a list of text items for DatePicker to offer instead of dates?
is there another type of picker that could be used...
Oct 28, 2014 - 19:23
cholbert
The script file for building standalone apps using pythonista code does not support matplotlib. I have a pythonista code that creates Thies...
Oct 28, 2014 - 09:37
pingviini42
When try to run a workflow involving the creation of a new file in Dropbox, receive the following error:
"Workflow Error: An error occurr...
Oct 28, 2014 - 02:42
n8henrie142
I have a script that is running perfectly on my Mac, but giving me an error in Pythonista.
BeautifulSoup is throwing an `AttributeError: ...
Oct 27, 2014 - 03:42
techteej
Is there any way to change the text color in Table View Cell?
Oct 26, 2014 - 06:48
jmv38
Hello all!
When i look into the doc about ui.ImageView it says:
```
ImageView.image
The view’s image (a Image object), or None.
...
I am new to Pythonista. Is there any way to access video clips (.mov files) recorded on iphone from pythonista? The photos.get_count() funct...
Oct 25, 2014 - 18:10
Harshal
On attempting to upload a workflow, I get Error : **Status Code 503**.
What's happening here? My workflow is fairly large.
Oct 25, 2014 - 18:00
Harshal
Can anyone with knowledge of Python help me add the contact details collected in [this workflow][1] to Contacts address-book on my iPhone?
...
Oct 25, 2014 - 08:29
KevinKarney
I am new to Python but have progressed as far as getting a complex algorithm coded, but I am now struggling with the UI interface. I have a ...
Oct 24, 2014 - 07:28
daveterry
Trying to replace html tags with hard returns between them. Such as:
<strong>
<p>
But couldn't find a way.
Tried several ...
Oct 23, 2014 - 17:04
boodo330
Hi,
I used the guide to connect dropbox and pythonista and I believe it was 100% successful, but I found it hard to translate a normal gu...
Oct 23, 2014 - 02:00
zencuke
I set up a text field with the gui design tool and then add keyboard_type = KEYBOARD_NUMBER_PAD after it is loaded. When the user selects th...
Oct 22, 2014 - 21:07
jmv38
Starting from @omz sketch example, i have modified it (see below) to:
- have a smaller view.
- not start in 0,0.
My goal i...
Oct 22, 2014 - 15:44
Harshal
I love Editorial, and wanted to bring to the dev's notice: the standard iOS keyboard does not popup automatically when I run any workflow wh...
Oct 22, 2014 - 14:35
tomkirn
Hi all,
I run in a problem that a ui.tableview does not update the screen after changing the content. Only after moving/scrolling the ui....
Oct 21, 2014 - 17:39
jmv38
I cant find in the doc or search in the forum about how to re-indent a code bloc forward or backward. So i do it line by line, which is bori...
Oct 21, 2014 - 03:59
theoriginalbudman
I've been working with the x-callback-ur scheme to try and send text from Drafts 4 to Editorial, but so far I've only succeeded in creating ...
Oct 20, 2014 - 18:16
janAaron
Hi! I wrote a code to let people write stuff in a box, using ui. However I want the program to output whatever the user types in the textvie...
I was trying to use the mechanize library to automate a login to a Wifi Access point authentication page. The problem is that when this page...
Oct 19, 2014 - 22:39
mgiu
I am a total beginner with Pythonista. I downloaded the latest Pythonista Project Template from the official link (pasted below) and tried t...
Oct 19, 2014 - 21:18
beer2011
Hello, all.
This code do not work.
When you tap , it will not work. (~~;;)
Any suggestion,please...
```python
# coding: u...
Oct 19, 2014 - 16:55
techteej
https://gist.github.com/tjferry14/5830a0fe34e7c3c52a29
I think I'm doing something wrong here, but @ccc's previous explanation to me was ...