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Mar 28, 2017 - 19:17
scj643
I have started a really really rough base for an objc header parser. You would give it headers and it would give you formated enums for the ...
Mar 28, 2017 - 18:24
procryon
Hi all, I've started learning how to use the UI views and web views and such and have a simple question. I made a new file with UI and adde...
Mar 27, 2017 - 22:51
marcin_dybas
Hello, I'd like to read a bezier outline from text. I know i can draw a bezier path with canvas or ui.Path but i want the opposite: i want ...
Mar 26, 2017 - 19:36
NikkiSchwartzVB
"Behind the scenes, the controls of a Custom UI action correspond to Python objects from the ui module, so you can mix and match Python code...
Mar 26, 2017 - 14:48
jsamlarose47
Forgive me if this has already been flagged, but I have a consistent crash in the Python code editor in Editorial when typing with a Bluetoo...
Mar 25, 2017 - 19:42
JonB
In the latest beta, I noticed the new exec url scheme. I wonder if such a feature will make it through app review...in any case, in brings ...
Mar 25, 2017 - 14:06
nekotaroneko
Trasnfer files by https. This program may be diffucult to read due to its difficulties and my coding ability sorry!! ***This program is bet...
Mar 24, 2017 - 15:37
Sebastian
Hey guys, just a quick question. I'm using SymPy to factorize polynomials, but I stumbled upon a certain polynomial that it wouldn't factor...
Mar 24, 2017 - 13:34
yueqiw
I'm trying to overlay a `SceneView` on top of a `WebView`. The goal is to have the `WebView` show mp4 video using html while the `Scene` in ...
Mar 23, 2017 - 15:57
sigmoid
Thought I'd share my first production Python app. ;) It generates deterministic passwords using a slow hash and mnemonic string conversion. ...
Mar 23, 2017 - 14:16
antdq
I reinstalled pythonista 3 on iPad iOS 10.2. I cannot create a python script or folder. In this example, I am creating a python script name...
Mar 23, 2017 - 12:59
cvp
[see](https://www.macrumors.com/2017/03/22/apple-acquires-popular-automation-app-workflow/) I'm really afraid that could happen with "our" ...
Mar 22, 2017 - 17:31
cvp
For the fun, based on [topic](https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/1686/3d-in-pythonista/3) You can pinch for zoom, or move the camera by a...
Mar 22, 2017 - 00:48
jsamlarose47
Hi. I'm experimenting with logging items to a Google spreadsheet from Editorial. I'd like to play with a Google Sheets API library— either G...
Mar 21, 2017 - 22:58
lewisl
I thought this would be simple but app integration seems never to be simple. I want to my script to invoke workflow, run a workflow action,...
Mar 20, 2017 - 20:35
TheClingyFox
So long story short I saw [this post](https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/3710/how-to-spritesheet-subtexture) and it made me realize that I...
Mar 20, 2017 - 19:00
gaijinsan
Hello. I'm totally new to Pythonista 3 and a bit confused as to what **is** and **is not** possible with respect to getting it to interact w...
Mar 20, 2017 - 15:45
upwart
I am trying to run a scene animation, which van end at some point of time. Then, I want to show ordinary output to the console and after tha...
Mar 20, 2017 - 04:58
inyourfaceplate
This is an appex extension script to remove PDF and color backgrounds from Notability documents. To use, open a doc in Notability, click sh...
Mar 19, 2017 - 23:43
lewisl
Search for "play music" and none of the posts returned even contain these words. It is just broken?
Mar 19, 2017 - 01:55
daveterry
Feature request: In file list view, allow manual sorting.(currently only Name/Date sorting is supported).
Mar 17, 2017 - 13:21
murraypetera
While I have see some very short post on this I would like to get this topic moving again. Google now officially support iOS since 0.9 relea...
Mar 17, 2017 - 09:14
yueqiw
I'm new to Pythonista and really like it. I'm trying to play `.mp4` videos in `ui.WebView()`, but I cannot set the video to `autoplay` with ...
Mar 17, 2017 - 05:19
JonB
Did the syntax for the "alternative" method naming for objc_util change in this latest beta? I though code like ``` image_manager.requestA...
Mar 17, 2017 - 04:52
ccc
For Python 2.7.12 and 3.5.1 -- updated to add [`arrow`](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/arrow) in the new beta. https://github.com/cclauss/pyt...
Mar 16, 2017 - 18:16
scj643
I am looking for people that are willing to contribute to my objc module that I've been making. https://github.com/scj643/objc_tools My pl...
Mar 16, 2017 - 18:08
scj643
This code is useful for handling c functions that should return ObjCInstances https://github.com/scj643/objc_tools/blob/master/objc_tools/c/...
Mar 16, 2017 - 05:52
inyourfaceplate
Hi there! Can anyone show me how to access the current WIFI SSID via Pythonista? This would be awesome in the widget. Thanks, John
Mar 15, 2017 - 05:51
ramvee
Hi Friends, Using navigation view, i wanted to write a script that stores my Pythonista tips in a json file and keeps updating it as i add t...
Mar 15, 2017 - 03:36
NoBetterName
I have the user select an image through ui.pick_image(). I have the code to save a photo to a special folder in my app. If they pick a video...
Mar 14, 2017 - 16:34
hydrochlorick
Hey guys, This seems like it should be obvious, but I can't figure it out. After playing around in the console, is there an easy way to dum...
Mar 12, 2017 - 23:41
mdck
I just recently got Pythonista and am still trying it out. I created a folder and created a small script inside that folder. Over the next...
Mar 12, 2017 - 07:47
Evan03Davis
Hey guys, I am 13 years old and really want a Mac laptop to work on coding. I have been looking around and can't find anything $200 or below...
Mar 11, 2017 - 18:01
NikkiSchwartzVB
I'm using workflows to simplify report writing, where much of the report has standard text. I'm writing one workflow per section/paragraph, ...
Mar 11, 2017 - 12:42
Buzzerb
I am attempting to write a program, within which I need to load a file, and remove all punctuation from it. In attempting to do so, I receiv...
Mar 09, 2017 - 19:47
scj643
https://github.com/scj643/objc_tools My pride and joy I also have a slack chat for it reply if you are interested.
Mar 09, 2017 - 06:37
cgoz
Hi, I couldn't find a way to fixt unsupported characters on pdf export, it works fine on preview but on export all characters go missing
Mar 08, 2017 - 18:26
NikkiSchwartzVB
Is there a simple way to use conditional statements with less than, greater than in editorial Itself? It's listed in the "math" documentatio...
Mar 05, 2017 - 14:37
cvp
I'm busy to develop a file explorer, starting from File Picker of @omz. I use a an ui.Webview to display some files extensions, or an ui.Tex...
Mar 04, 2017 - 13:59
FarmerPaco
So I am playing around with the Game Module and I have enjoyed swapping out coins for snowflakes and then slowed them down for a beautiful s...
Mar 04, 2017 - 12:34
cvp
I use an ui.WebView to have a quicklook of some files extensions, like PDF, doc,docs, xls,xlsx,pps,ppt,MP3,MP4,mov..., but it does not suppo...
Mar 03, 2017 - 18:51
NikkiSchwartzVB
I'm a therapist and frequently have to write lengthy reports that have very consistent text for about 75% of the document. Previously, I've ...
Mar 03, 2017 - 15:04
metawops
Hi, I'd like to kindly ask for a few lines of sample code. I want to achieve this: I have a custom ui.View where I draw things to. I want to...
Mar 02, 2017 - 17:13
LennyAbramov
Hello kind people of omz:forum I’m a regular user of taskpaper to keep track of my ‹to dos›. Sadly taskpaper doesn’t come with a iOS client...
Mar 02, 2017 - 03:54
ailee
I'm working with a BeagleBone Black and using Adafruit's IO Python library. Wrote a simple quadrature decoding function and it works perfect...
Mar 02, 2017 - 03:21
chrisiwyg
Hello, I'm new to Pythonista and file handling on iPad. I have a script that works on Windows which I have managed to copy into Pythonista....
Feb 28, 2017 - 15:31
Yalom
Hi guys! I`m a starter with python and pythonista. I need it for university and would like to work at uni on my ipad. I have some questions...
Feb 27, 2017 - 21:01
paultrott
Hi, I have downloaded some code which uses cv2 module but pythonista doesn't have this. Does anyone know where this module is and how do y...
Feb 27, 2017 - 18:17
henryaukc
Hi All, I am a newbie for Pythonista and stopped using it for a few months (just due to busy work). I would like to see if I can make a sc...
Feb 27, 2017 - 14:09
paultrott
Hi I've installed stash and want to use it to install some files from GitHub so i need some help. I would like to copy the following http...