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Feb 04, 2019 - 21:08
shinyformica
While implementing a system to determine which text input widget has focus, and place it in the right location when the keyboard shows up, I...
Feb 04, 2019 - 03:27
oldCovfefe
On iPad, both methods work, so I used the newer pick_asset to select pictures from the camera roll. On iPhone however, photo.pick_asset will...
Feb 03, 2019 - 23:56
xxao
Hi,
is there any way to remove clipping path? I haven't found any specific method so I've tried to set a new clipping to the size of full im...
Feb 03, 2019 - 18:37
adrius42
.... love your blog comments.
Presumably someone sad thought they were clever writing a python script to Spam this forum.
Well done you’ve ...
How To Install Custom Font to Pythonista ????
I Want Insatll Custom Font ! But I don’t know how...
I’ve tried various ways to search Googl...
I am trying to fetch a json document that has utf-16 accented vowels and convert it to utf-8 on the output file. I have a command line in th...
Feb 02, 2019 - 16:22
adrius42
I have attempted to search this forum via Google, to answer the question.
No joy apart from some old posts stating that it is not possible.
...
Feb 02, 2019 - 15:55
adrius42
In a <Scene> script that places a series of emojis on the Node, it seems that even after I have removed the images, their ghost still remain...
Feb 02, 2019 - 03:34
shinyformica
Here's an overly complicated scenario for you:
I have a widget in a parent ui.View, and that parent view has been transformed, a scale and ...
Feb 01, 2019 - 16:27
CastroSATT
Guys I’m like 3 weeks into learning python already built a BTC balance checker for an arcade machine with Arduino
So I’m kind of in love ...
Feb 01, 2019 - 15:40
Matteo
Hi, in Pythonista do you know a way to set a folder with read/write protection/attributes?
I mean, I’d like to set a folder “test_folder” (...
Feb 01, 2019 - 14:16
sureshsoft14
Just bought the app, is there a way to add new modules as that is very critical with open source development?
Jan 31, 2019 - 19:42
oldCovfefe
Hello all,
new here. Really like Pythonista for prototyping and messing with REST Apis. Also love the idea of including iPhone/iPad specific...
Is it possible, in pythonista_startup script, to know if app has been normally launched or via its url scheme? I want to process something d...
Jan 31, 2019 - 14:36
Drizzel
Whenever I try to run this basic script, I get the Error [Errno 1] Operation not permitted. It’s some example code of the pylatex module, so...
Jan 30, 2019 - 16:49
JpnHOP
Hi. If it was you how will you make a code who does something like that ? :
[The picture is here ](https://i.postimg.cc/mgHqVQw3/Blank-Diag...
I have been trying to install the uszipcode package which is available on PyPI. It looks like a pure python package, and seems to install w...
Jan 30, 2019 - 11:23
adrius42
These four lines are in a def setup function
```
self.emoji_original = self.emoji_names
print(self.emoji_original) # result is alphabetic ...
Jan 30, 2019 - 05:09
RoninSage
I want to have a button that has a different shape than a rectangle. I think ui.Path is the way to go but I am having trouble implementing i...
Jan 30, 2019 - 05:03
o_xkenshin
Hi,
I am trying do make a notebook in pythonista, with the existing editor and objc_utils.
I wonder that is it possible to custom the cop...
Jan 29, 2019 - 17:02
WalterJ
This one had me going for a day or so. I wrote an animation with scene and it drew the wrong thing. I finally traced it down to a variable o...
Jan 27, 2019 - 20:35
workethicsFTW
I love the new Pythonista keyboard and the functionality it provides. But as we all know, typing on is not as good as typing on the standard...
Jan 27, 2019 - 19:16
robertgil
Hello,
I am currently using the hardware Apple keyboard on my iPad and the software extended keyboard (the one with the shortcuts for inden...
Jan 27, 2019 - 19:07
FrankenApps
Whenever I update the title of a ui.button an animation is shown (so it appears as if the button flickers).
This seems to be normal on iOS,...
Jan 27, 2019 - 15:51
komanguy
Hi,
I think it will be great to have window functions in SQLite.
As I know, SQLite 3.25 supports such features.
@omz Is there any chance t...
Is there a way to construct a webview in reader mode when it is available?
Jan 27, 2019 - 14:06
TechnoExplorer
Hi
I was wondering whether pylzfse could be added to pythonista as I’m currently working on an image decompression project.
Also I can’t j...
Jan 26, 2019 - 01:06
adrius42
1) Is there any way for me to get Pythonista to show me the files I have created in my scripts?
( I have found no method so far ...)
2) If ...
Jan 25, 2019 - 16:44
philsgu
Can anyone show me how to implement multiple textfields inside a scrollview using GUI and delegates? I’m new to Pythonista and trouble findi...
Jan 25, 2019 - 12:58
tguillemin
On 2019 January 25th, I have the following todo list (Taskpaper) :
- 190120 [10] buy tomatoes
- 190121 go to Barcelona
- 190122 do so...
Jan 24, 2019 - 18:53
rex_noctis
I have recently been messing around with the ```
turtle``` module on PC and have come up with a few handy programs. I then became curious ab...
Jan 24, 2019 - 17:25
JpnHOP
Hello.
Is there a way to access the NFC functionality of our iOS devices (iPhone, iPad.)? And if yes, is there a way to make interaction by...
Jan 24, 2019 - 13:46
AlanE
Firstly. Pythonista: what a fantastic app!
And now the new Xcode template for version 3 is superb too... but I am struggling to write pers...
Jan 24, 2019 - 00:11
shinyformica
Here's two things, one follows from the other:
1. It seems that a bound socket currently being listened to for incoming UDP data via select....
Jan 23, 2019 - 18:45
Enez Houad
I’m beginning to learn Python and Pythonista. As English is not my native language (I’m French) and all documentations and examples are all ...
Jan 23, 2019 - 16:26
pedroagb
Hey everyone,
Can someone help me understand what I'm doing wrong with this [I Ching](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching) app I'm workin...
Jan 23, 2019 - 10:41
DKatri
I've been having some odd issues with stash as of late, most annoyingly is that it's started ignoring when I type a space with an external k...
Question for big guru(s): is it possible to initialize the search field of a UIDocumentPickerViewController?
Actually, I do it via copy (in...
Jan 22, 2019 - 23:40
adrius42
My program was creating extra ‘-‘ characters, I spent ages looking in other parts of the code for the extra character creator.
The lesson “...
Jan 21, 2019 - 22:49
ProgrammingGo
Hi , I have a short question regarding reading out the UUID of the sensortag via peripheral.uuid using the cb library
I connected the sensor...
Hello all,
About a year ago I started looking for a solution to gesture recognition for a Pythonista Scene module. At that time, I was ab...
Jan 21, 2019 - 08:08
riePat
Hi guys,
I have an image (a.heic) and a video file (a.mov) stored in Pythonista's Documents folder. I would like to save both files to Came...
Jan 20, 2019 - 14:52
bernard778
I'm new to Pythonista and have started to build an app using the PythonistaAppTemplate.
I'd like to import NLTK, but that isn't in the Pyth...
Jan 20, 2019 - 09:49
adrius42
I get that the Photo module is proprietary to @omz, and thus not accessible, but does any one know how I might be able to get it to display ...
Jan 19, 2019 - 19:21
DKatz
Is it possible to open a project folder, for example just something simple with a couple `.py` files along with some `.txt` `.csv` and `.xml...
Jan 19, 2019 - 08:26
Drizzel
I don’t want to bore you with a ton of details, so long story short: how do I close a game that has been coded with the scene module? I don’...
Function to open a sheet or popover view with the "save in Files app" without passing via the "Open In menu"
It uses the ObjectiveC UIDocume...
Jan 18, 2019 - 10:10
Enez Houad
Is it possible to modify the size (width or height) of a ui.View presented as sheet ? All my tests don’t work !
Thanks.
Jan 18, 2019 - 05:57
meobeou
Hello everyone, before we start, I am very new to python & I have also just purchased pythonista, so I'm sorry if this question is obvious b...
I successfully set up access to google spreadsheets on my laptop using the excellent guide: https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/02/an-easy-way-...