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Sep 04, 2014 - 08:02
gregorgross
I'm looking to call a drawing app, draw a pic there, call another app, upload that pic to Wordpress, and then come back to Editorial and add...
Sep 04, 2014 - 00:57
[deleted]
Here is our base class (and sub class example) for capturing media (@techteej and @tony).
CaptureMedia.py
```python
# not compatible ...
Sep 03, 2014 - 20:51
Hipvictor
Hi--awesome app. Thanks!
I use editorial as my Dropbox plaintext note taking app. But, to name a new note, a number of taps are involved....
Sep 03, 2014 - 20:16
nasadave
When using the photos.capture_image() command, is there a way to access the front facing camera on the iPad by default, rather than make the...
Sep 03, 2014 - 16:54
polymerchm
I am developing a fretted instrument chord finder using ui and chordcalc.py (developed by Gek S. Liong). I thought it was real slow, until ...
Sep 02, 2014 - 22:16
karthikmaiya
Can pythonista convert python 2 code to python 3 code?
Sep 02, 2014 - 21:55
mjakubowiak
I use Launch Center Pro to quickly create a new file in Editorial with some text defined by LCP prompt. I use this URL:
editorial://new/{...
Sep 02, 2014 - 10:16
drmtbishop
Hi
Using Pythonista on an iPad 3.
Rather than read from a file I copied/pasted some data into a dict() so that the code would be standalon...
Sep 02, 2014 - 04:33
techteej
There's nothing in the docs on this, is it possible to center text in a TableView?
Sep 02, 2014 - 00:58
techteej
Is there any way to display an animation of some sort or some way to eliminate the delay from UI Switching to scene?
Sep 01, 2014 - 04:23
techteej
How do I set an action when user selects row in a Table View?
Sep 01, 2014 - 00:52
TutorialDoctor
I have played around a little here and there with the Custom UI and Custom Actions actions. To date, I have created about 74 published workf...
Aug 31, 2014 - 14:52
brumm
[FileManager][1] Use at your own risk. No error handling! Feel free to improve the code.<br />
![Image][2]
[1]: https://github.com/h...
Aug 30, 2014 - 19:58
upwart
I have noticed a (minor) bug. When there are Carriage Returns in the script, Pythonista frequently crashes when deleting a line.
I noticed...
Aug 30, 2014 - 19:13
techteej
Fun [side project game][1] to be released (eventually, currently in review) on the App Store. Code is pretty messy at this point, just want ...
Aug 30, 2014 - 14:32
JadedTuna
My second creation using `ui` module :)
It can be used to edit text files which Pythonista doesn't support.<br>
Of course, it is not a v...
Aug 30, 2014 - 13:47
JadedTuna
I've looked at [https://github.com/dgelessus/pythonista-scripts/blob/master/filenav.py](https://github.com/dgelessus/pythonista-scripts/blob...
Aug 30, 2014 - 09:56
JadedTuna
My tableview is not getting automatically resized. What am I doing wrong?
```python
import ui
view = ui.View(name="Choose release")...
Aug 30, 2014 - 04:28
techteej
Back before my grandpop passed, I was working on a [basic email program][1] for him. Today I updated it to use the UI module, and added a lo...
Aug 30, 2014 - 03:45
techteej
Is there any way to disable scrolling in ui.TextView?
Aug 29, 2014 - 18:09
JadedTuna
When in the UI Editor you click + (New widget), and then change to the script (by pressing that file-like icon next to the + icon), Pythonis...
Aug 29, 2014 - 17:31
JadedTuna
A small slide puzzle I made while testing out beta version of pcista :)<br>
Feel free to modify.
GitHub repo: [https://github.com/Vik201...
Hello community!
I'm wondering if the following is possible:
Can python generate a text file and send it to another app? (basically in...
Aug 29, 2014 - 16:05
TutorialDoctor
I was copying some code from GitHub that I found for Pythonista, using the editorial browser. And all of a sudden I was kicked out of editor...
Aug 29, 2014 - 12:34
Ipoole
Minor bug. When in the console view, two-finger drag, intending to move cursor and select, results in crash. Seems easily reproducible, h...
Aug 28, 2014 - 22:18
Absolutist
Hi there,
Pretty simple question: how can I close the currently presented view when I tap a button in that view and open a new one when i...
Aug 28, 2014 - 20:37
techteej
Is there any way to stop all playing sound effects without stopping the script?
Aug 28, 2014 - 19:29
JadedTuna
Is there a way to reload all the modules, or at least some folder in Pythonista? It is really annoying to restart it, or to use reload() fun...
Aug 28, 2014 - 15:11
Dann239
What is everyone using?
I have been using: https://gist.github.com/sidewinder42/8631794. However, it has issues with anything more than ...
Aug 28, 2014 - 06:48
techteej
So I looked on here because I could've sworn someone posted something like this before, but is it possible to make text display as images in...
Aug 27, 2014 - 21:22
techteej
I don't know if this would be possible, but maybe a game center module and we can pick achievements and implement leaderboards.
Aug 27, 2014 - 16:11
JonB
It appears that the default reference frame used by pythonista when calling core motion is either xarbitrary, or xarbitrary with magnetomete...
Because of the larger screen on the iPad, it is much easier to create workflows and snippets than on the iPhone/iPod Touch. As others have m...
Aug 27, 2014 - 09:57
techteej
Is there any way to put switches in a cell in a table view?
Aug 27, 2014 - 04:29
dgelessus
The way the file move dialog currently works it shows the entire folder structure in a "tree" style, i. e. by indenting subfolders. However ...
Aug 26, 2014 - 23:30
techteej
If you click the Microphone button in [my program][1], it automatically freezes Pythonista. Any ideas?
[1]: https://github.com/tjferr...
Aug 26, 2014 - 02:30
gauden
Now that the Gmail API is released it seemed to me to be a good way to further break down the barriers between Pythonista and the outside wo...
Aug 25, 2014 - 21:33
Hungryturtle
I'm trying to install a module with pipista. The module is packaged with .tar.bz2. Installation fails with 'ERROR: Something went wrong'. Af...
Aug 25, 2014 - 16:29
SpotlightKid
Hi all,
I bought Pythonista yesterday, having been made aware of its presence by a talk at the EuroPython conference. I've been playing a...
OK, here are a series of Python brainteasers based on this very special day for me.
Today is NOT my birthday but today is *my 20,000th d...
Good evening,
I am currently trying to execute an 'argv' command similar to one found in exercise 13 of this book.
Currently, I am hav...
Aug 25, 2014 - 08:22
JadedTuna
When you are in the editor, if you swipe from right to left, console opens.<br>
But if you drag it (without releasing the finger), than put...
Aug 25, 2014 - 03:49
techteej
Is there any way to force the view to launch in landscape on iPad using the UI module like in scene?
Aug 25, 2014 - 03:35
snaggled
Hi
First of all, great product!
I'm pretty sure I can call back into Objective-C by writing a statically compiled python library with ...
Aug 25, 2014 - 01:55
nope
I was working on an dead reckoning script, despite hearing from just about everybody that the phone had too much noise/too low a frequency f...
Aug 24, 2014 - 15:35
JadedTuna
Hey guys! Haven't been on the forums for a long time.<br>
I also haven't been working on this project for like a month... ew...
Well, no...
Aug 24, 2014 - 15:31
pudquick51
https://gist.github.com/4139094
<u><b>Commands and features:</b></u><ul>
<li>cd - change directory</li>
<li>pwd - print current working dir...
Buttons are blue by default.
```python
import ui
view = ui.View()
view.add_subview(ui.Button(image=ui.Image.named('Girl')))
view.pres...
Aug 23, 2014 - 23:11
philw
I have recently switched my self hosted wordpress site to use 3.9.2 multisite/network, and the wordpress workflow no longer works correctly....
Aug 23, 2014 - 11:05
Sebastian
I started making a webbrowser with the ui module. It's not much now, but it works.
[https://github.com/SebastianJarsve/Pythonista-Webbrows...