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Aug 24, 2017 - 21:39
mrJean1
Pythonista3 crashes on certain objects returned by ```gc.get_objects()```. This only occurs with Python 3.5.1 but not with 2.7.12.
The cul...
Aug 24, 2017 - 16:08
Bjucha
Hello. Just added my space shooter game if any of you are interested in testing it.
https://github.com/bjucha81/KillAllAliens
It's far fr...
Aug 24, 2017 - 10:21
zrzka
Since I have no other way how to inform users about new [Black Mamba](https://github.com/zrzka/blackmamba) features, I decided to create thi...
Aug 24, 2017 - 07:06
shtek
tried example widget clipboard viewer.py,
I found that sometimes it could not detect clipboard text after copy sth in slide-over screen, in...
Aug 23, 2017 - 20:12
68kHeart
Is there going to be support for files with front matter, especially Markdown? These are a block of [YAML](http://www.yaml.org) wrapped in t...
Aug 23, 2017 - 09:55
Phuket2
This is not a Pythonista question, but I am going to ask here because I respect and trust your opinions.
I have a good friend in Denmark who...
Aug 22, 2017 - 22:08
JadedTuna
While developing a streaming app for Pythonista I noticed that it usually crashes after some time. Turns out it's somehow related to loading...
Aug 21, 2017 - 22:14
david
Hi,
can it be changed the background color in the dialogs form?
Best regards.
Aug 21, 2017 - 19:50
ltddev
I may have forgot but I checked through the forum posts and I don't see an answer to the following: What is the suggested way to view a .pyu...
Aug 20, 2017 - 22:46
jm2466
I am trying to get the actual filename of an image passed to a Pythonista script using the share sheet extension. I believe this is possibl...
Aug 20, 2017 - 19:45
zrzka
Hi all,
did anyone know how to run a script from another script in the same way as Pythonista does? I mean, emulate Run button behavior?
F...
Aug 20, 2017 - 17:43
pyfonista
I've read the ui guide but I haven't found a solution to my problem.
Given my pyui in my_gui.pyui:
http://i.imgur.com/cPlQddh.png
How can ...
Aug 20, 2017 - 13:48
Phuket2
I really do have a brain freeze on this issue. For the life of me I can't remember how to recover a reference to a ui.TableViewCell lets say...
Aug 20, 2017 - 11:17
biob
Hi,
I'm looking for a Bluetooth serial monitor example please? I can't make head or tails with the cb examples.
I have an arduino connecte...
Aug 19, 2017 - 18:56
ForceBru
I've been an (almost) everyday user of Pythonista, as it's really cool to have a Python IDE right at my fingertips, no need for a computer, ...
Aug 18, 2017 - 22:06
AtomBombed
So, a few of you already know that I've been working on a package manager utility for StaSh (if you didn't, now you do). The code is hosted ...
Aug 18, 2017 - 18:53
jeremyzh
To be more specific, I pip installed panda through StaSh and it shows:
```
Dependency available in Pythonista bundle: requests
```
Then I tr...
Aug 18, 2017 - 09:38
enceladus
We could use the designer(i.e. use the pyui file) to generate an image. Convert the view generated by pyui file to an image as folows. Open ...
Aug 17, 2017 - 08:05
marcus67
Hi there!
I've not been working with Pythonsta for over a year now (shame on me!) and coming back noticed that there seems to be a change in...
Aug 16, 2017 - 08:10
Bjucha
Hello, so I gotten pretty far with my "game", And I thought that now would be the time to make it a bit more challenge by adding a boss. Bu...
Aug 16, 2017 - 03:36
technoway
I want to be able to enter data in a Morse-code-like language while my phone is in my pocket by pushing anywhere on the screen.
I've exami...
Aug 15, 2017 - 20:21
Phuket2
I have just been thinking what would happen if I wanted to use a simple storage/DB that does not support locks etc with something like flask...
Aug 14, 2017 - 02:18
icanread
Curious if there are plans to support .textpack bundles in editorial.
http://textbundle.org/spec/
Aug 13, 2017 - 05:00
smartvipere75
I have a float2 struct that works perfectly:
```
class float2(Structure):
_fields_ = [('x',c_float),('y',c_float)]```
```
How can I implem...
I'm just trying to import scipy and I'm getting this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shar...
Aug 12, 2017 - 13:53
jsamlarose47
Can someone please remind me how to access file versions through Editorial? I It’s been a while since I’ve needed to, but I thought I used t...
Sorry if my topic seems unclear but I'm *coming* from the world of IBM's main frame.
If I correctly understand, under Unix, ctime attribute ...
Aug 10, 2017 - 23:24
djoce
My copy of the example Magic Text.py is damaged (keyboard slop)-- and as a beginner, I cannot fix this.
Is there somewhere we can download t...
I've searched a bit and have not found a direct answer to this.
I am creating a series of workflows to...
1. create a file based on a form...
Aug 10, 2017 - 18:29
simonh
So Editorial has a syntax mode for HTML, CSS and JavaScript, but not Python? JSON would be useful too.
Aug 10, 2017 - 17:10
zrzka
Hi all,
I mainly work with Pythonista on the biggest iPad with external keyboard. And I miss some features like Open quickly, registering s...
Aug 10, 2017 - 13:46
Bjucha
Hi. So I have made some progress in my space game.
I now have enemy ships that appears and moves, and I can shoot them down. However. If m...
Aug 10, 2017 - 07:49
AtomBombed
I'm working on a brand new project, and it's a video format. I'm making a Tkinter application that can view my new `.buzz` videos, but I won...
Aug 09, 2017 - 20:46
leos
I have this idea. Not sure that it is possible, but I 'll ask anyway.
I have the Ring doorbell and Iphone app that pushes notification on ...
Aug 09, 2017 - 17:54
jemostrom
I'm fairly new to Editorial and would like to use it together with git, as I understand it Editorial doesn't work with for example Working C...
Aug 09, 2017 - 13:29
smartvipere75
Hello, for some reasons the y value of **float2** ctypes.Structure doesn’t change. You can run the code from link below and check console. W...
Aug 09, 2017 - 11:40
smartvipere75
Hello, I am opening this topic once again since I still didn't get solution. Basically i’m trying to set contactDelegate on physicsWorld of ...
Aug 08, 2017 - 16:11
mikael
A finger-tracing racing game for Pythonista, available on [GitHub](https://github.com/mikaelho/caves).
 for a wrapper around the dialogs.form_dialog. It's not comp...
Aug 06, 2017 - 04:55
daveterry
I often want to refer to a CSS file using the HTML "link href" but want to avoid relative paths.
Often my files are deep in a tree structu...
Aug 05, 2017 - 07:35
ltddev
I don't recall this to be a problem before but when I run Launch STASH a second time to have a second STASH instance, when i go back to the ...
Aug 04, 2017 - 20:49
mikael
Just checking with you esteemed peers - suddenly `git push` just crashes my Pythonista, on a newly created repository and latest version of ...
Aug 04, 2017 - 10:28
Phuket2
I was looking at doing a file info thingy to put into the wrench menu. I remembered hearing about the pathlib lib on a video i watched rece...
Aug 04, 2017 - 10:12
smartvipere75
Hello, I’m trying to set contactDelegate on physicsWorld of SKScene that’s created through create_objc_class but it doesn’t work. Any ideas?...
Aug 04, 2017 - 03:45
wjshea
Hi, I’m trying to get a list of people from a group.
```
def test_get_contacts_from_group_name():
groupName = "Mail List Test"
groups ...
Aug 03, 2017 - 12:26
Bjucha
Hello. I have just started using scene and followed the tutorial at: http://omz-software.com/pythonista/docs/ios/scene.html#introduction.
...
Aug 03, 2017 - 09:32
Matteo
Hi, I've searched in the forum but I did't find an answer:
Can Pythonista access to SMS iPhone database? I've read that Pythonista can acces...
Aug 02, 2017 - 21:07
charlieb
My first time to use this app and I'd like to upload files to test my program. Please can you help? Thanks