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Apr 19, 2017 - 16:14
Sir Platypus
I am finishing a script that uses a ui to add a reminder using the reminder module. In the last section of the script is the location alarm ...
Apr 19, 2017 - 10:57
iDevy
After updating pythonista (from like 2.0 or 2.1 to 2.1.1) getting some weird errors : "no module motion" (but I checked - it's still in the ...
Apr 17, 2017 - 19:31
lifidea
I'm wondering if there's a way to run a workflow periodically. The application I have in mind is getting alerts based on current progress in...
Is it possible to add a button (icon,action) in the title bar of Pythonista, where we find the script name, run button, wrench button etc...
Apr 15, 2017 - 01:56
sobreacain
I'm trying to import a file to reuse its functions in another file, but when I run the second file to check it was importing (it doesn't do ...
Apr 14, 2017 - 23:51
Treenjood
Hello coder community,
I am new to Python and I haven't written code for some while.
I specifically want to write gui with python.
At home ...
Apr 14, 2017 - 08:59
kseggleton
I was wondering if anyone else is having a problem with spell checking. I am finding that Editorial does not underline incorrectly spelt wor...
Apr 13, 2017 - 18:20
adamsjw2
Hi all,
What app are you using to edit or continue work on your MacBook? I can almost always finish my work on IOS, but there are times when...
Apr 13, 2017 - 12:37
sobreacain
I've installed beautiful soup, but I'm getting error messages saying I need to convert to Python 3 when it runs the beautifulSoup files. I'v...
Apr 13, 2017 - 09:53
AshleyElsdon
Hi all, I've been looking around the forum to the answer to this question but as I couldn't see anything that I thought would help I decided...
Apr 12, 2017 - 18:57
Omniver
I can't seem to find any way to set the username/password on a clone to be able to pull my code. What am I missing?
Apr 12, 2017 - 13:46
pyCode
'm trying to figure out to build myself a small tweak or add-on which allows me to import a picture from my local phone gallery into an app ...
Apr 11, 2017 - 18:35
jerry
I have the following text in a document I often view in Editorial:
```
L’esprit has other meanings as well, but, of course, so does *mind*—...
Apr 11, 2017 - 18:18
Koopa
I noticed from updating my iPad to the lastest version that the extended keyboard buttons have become slightly smaller
Apr 11, 2017 - 00:14
rol46
I use taskpaper for tasks, but Reminders for recurring tasks. I am intrigued by the idea of using pythonista to load recurring tasks due tod...
Apr 10, 2017 - 21:13
franco
I need to check wether the format of an input is "00 - 00 - 00" (12 characters without quotation marks) or not and then run block 1 or 2 bas...
Apr 10, 2017 - 16:49
daveaiello
When I am coding on my Mac, I use [Dash](https://kapeli.com/dash) to quickly review language and API reference material. I find that I need...
Apr 10, 2017 - 16:43
daveaiello
I wanted to post a block of Python code as a response to a Pythonista forum thread, but I was unable to do it. The site responded:
```
Err...
When looking at [user-submitted workflows](http://www.editorial-workflows.com/workflows), it is often useful to hit the `i` link to the righ...
Apr 10, 2017 - 03:07
NorthWind
As I am recently trying to develop a file manage program,there is a demand to use ui.TableView to present the files.Suppose the file names a...
Apr 10, 2017 - 02:36
NikkiSchwartzVB
Per usual, I've searched the forum and found ... nothing. 😂
Anyway to add a header to each page of the PDF output? Ideally this would inclu...
Apr 09, 2017 - 13:46
daveaiello
I'm brand new to Pythonista, and a fairly new Workflow user.
I'm trying to create a contact by passing certain data elements on the clipboa...
Apr 08, 2017 - 10:55
Ti Leyon
The Universal Python Adaptable GUI Extensions (UniPAGe) started as a general interface for researches I was doing in a mathematical form of ...
Apr 08, 2017 - 10:07
Ti Leyon
The Universal Python Adaptable GUI Extensions (UniPAGe) started as a general interface for researches I was doing in a mathematical form of ...
Apr 07, 2017 - 16:49
inzel
Hello Everyone. First time poster here but have been a lurker for quite some time. I recently installed stash and it seems to work well. The...
Apr 07, 2017 - 13:39
NorthWind
Today I tried to import some files into Pythonista,and unfortunately it was made into a tar.gz archieve,so I have to extract it first.As my ...
Apr 07, 2017 - 09:50
upwart
I recently bought Textastic because I felt rather limited by the Pythonista text editor. And I must say that editing long scripts is a lotte...
Apr 06, 2017 - 16:34
rol46
This is without question a dumb question, but I am still stymied. Can anyone tell me what is wrong?
This little workflow works perfectly.
...
Apr 06, 2017 - 03:12
NikkiSchwartzVB
Someone has, wonderfully, already written a workflow to do this... but I'm not sure how to make it read/parse whathaveyou, this... ?dialect?...
Apr 05, 2017 - 12:02
oscampo
Toaday I tried to install a package via pip inside StaSH, but I received the following error (in Pythonista v3.1):
[~/Documents]$ pip instal...
Apr 02, 2017 - 13:00
skrohmer
Hi friends of electronic music :-),
I'm looking for a possibility to use Pythonista for communicating to MIDI devices. I have found one thr...
Apr 02, 2017 - 10:35
Robert
So I've been using [this Pythonista Project Template](http://omz-software.com/pythonista/download/PythonistaProjectTemplate.zip) to be able ...
Apr 02, 2017 - 06:28
markhamilton1
I have also been working on a couple of tools to use Github within Pythonista. The first of which is gitter_search which allows you to explo...
Apr 02, 2017 - 06:22
markhamilton1
Finished a new sync program called Synchronator to sync from Pythonista to Dropbox and visa versa. It uses the new Dropbox API (the old one...
Apr 02, 2017 - 04:54
Evan03Davis
Hey, I am trying to make a program that you enter a bunch of numbers and it then returns all the numbers but in order least to greatest.
I h...
Apr 02, 2017 - 03:27
Evan03Davis
I have started a wiki for Pythonista [Here](https://bitbucket.org/PythonistaWiki/pythonista-wiki/wiki/Home)
I wanted to see what FAQ should ...
Mar 31, 2017 - 18:57
shyamal
```
sound.play_effect('casino:DiceThrow2')
```
I don't get any sound output when I run this command.
Mar 31, 2017 - 18:35
Berg
Hello,
I'm totally new to the Python language and to Pythonista as well.
I got the Pythonista app for my iPad Air and tried a few thing here...
Mar 30, 2017 - 23:22
marcin_dybas
I made a script using `scene` module. Basically it shows a different "image" depending on horizontal `touch.location`.
```
from scene impor...
Mar 30, 2017 - 16:11
NoBetterName
Can I combine several gifs together? I have about 43 of them... and I would like to do it programmatically.
Mar 30, 2017 - 02:08
rol46
I create workflows to set tags as priorities. When I change a priority, I EXTEND to capture the whole line, then remove the old priority, th...
Mar 30, 2017 - 01:26
paultopia
Super-annoying behavior on Twitter: the sort of person who follows you to get you to follow them back and inflate their follower count/promo...
Mar 29, 2017 - 23:56
NoBetterName
I have about 300 images that I want to combine together into a gif or video. I know there is a way to extract still images from a video in t...
Is it possible to change the default font of the cell.text_label of a FormDialog?
I've just installed iOS 10.3 on an iPad Mini 4 (64bits) and my folders with names containing accents (ex: /Mes données/) are "not found" (no...
Mar 29, 2017 - 17:06
eric
Hi,
Is there a way to get the BLE scan response when scanning for devices?
Is there a way to get advertisement data from surrounding BLE d...
Mar 28, 2017 - 20:42
offtheradar
Where do I find documentation on the appex module widget functions?
The page below doesn't cover get_widget_view etc.
http://omz-software....
Mar 28, 2017 - 19:48
lukaskollmer
It'd be nice if Pythonista offered Apple's [`SF-Mono`](https://developer.apple.com/fonts/) font in addition to the existing fonts.
Another ...
Mar 28, 2017 - 19:37
scj643
I have found myself using `objc_util` a whole lot. Heck my pride and joy of a library is made with it
Some things I wish `objc_util` had ar...