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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...
Aug 29, 2014 - 16:20
kw
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...
Aug 27, 2014 - 14:14
gjb
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...
Aug 25, 2014 - 16:19
ccc
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...
Aug 25, 2014 - 11:43
ced
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...
Aug 24, 2014 - 09:31
ccc
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...