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Apr 29, 2021 - 09:03
halloleooo
A new chapter with my Image Share Extension:
I started using `appex.get_attachments` instead of `appex.get_images`, because with `get attac...
Apr 27, 2021 - 07:02
keerthana06
An [embedded system](www.takeoffprojects.com) is nothing but a computing system which is meant to perform many operations like to access the...
Apr 27, 2021 - 05:23
RocketBlaster05
How would I go about setting the background of a scene to a video? Could I download a custom video, import it, then use it as a background, ...
Apr 27, 2021 - 01:47
timmuh
Hello everyone!
I have problem with AnyConnect VPN.
when my iPhone changes the connection from the Wi-Fi to the mobile Internet, my VPN is d...
Apr 25, 2021 - 03:05
halloleooo
I have my well-working Image Joiner share extension developed with a `*.pyui` file. This extension works well on my iPad I use for developin...
Apr 24, 2021 - 12:20
Sparky01-
**yaml.dump() appending to file rather than overwriting**
how do i make set 'hi' to 1 and 'hello' to 1
```
import yaml
class myClass():
...
**GoogleDrive_in_Script_Library**
script to show a Google Drive button in the standard left Script Library.
 quick and (not so) dirty script to edit Google Drive files like if they were local Pythonista files. (perhaps useful for @Ka...
Apr 18, 2021 - 05:28
satsuki.kojima
I put a home screen icon with shortcut to run a program I made. The program is with a ui view and the problem is that when I leave the view ...
Apr 18, 2021 - 03:45
RocketBlaster05
Can anybody tell me how to put a custom picture in an image view? Here is what I have:
```
#in a class already under self
self.mm = ui.load...
Apr 17, 2021 - 16:13
RocketBlaster05
I need to be able to prevent the user from putting more than 2 decimals on an input, which gets turned into a float. Is there any way to lim...
Apr 16, 2021 - 15:04
RocketBlaster05
Hello! I have a process where I want to make it so that whenever the user presses a button, it adds a value to what I'll call "total," and t...
Apr 16, 2021 - 00:54
Kasualpython
I’m trying to access my google drive from the external files menu, but for some reason the google drive folder is greyed out/disabled. Is th...
Apr 16, 2021 - 00:09
BurntRice
I don’t know what is wrong with my code, the touch mechanism.
```python
from scene import *
import turtle
import ui
import math
import ran...
Apr 15, 2021 - 23:32
RocketBlaster05
Would anybody be able to link me to or write a high score system? I have a menu to display it but can't seem to get the high score to regist...
Apr 15, 2021 - 19:53
RocketBlaster05
I was calling on a button starting with a number, and the number gets coded as red and when I run the app it says “invalid syntax” on the 8 ...
Apr 15, 2021 - 12:21
halloleooo
I am still experimenting with Pillow and UI images...
Now I try to convert a small UI image into a Pillow image, but somehow this doesn't ...
Apr 15, 2021 - 02:19
RocketBlaster05
So I have been messing around with Navigation Menus and I have a script that will open up various pages back to back to back. I wished to re...
Apr 15, 2021 - 00:57
krdavis
Any information on when the next release is coming?
Apr 14, 2021 - 19:59
Trouper
I'm very new to python and need to create a password generator (for school) containing upper, lower cases, numbers and characters and at le...
Apr 14, 2021 - 16:32
RocketBlaster05
I’m sure this is a simple problem but I can’t seem to get the button to move within the bounds of my navigation view. Here is the code I hav...
Apr 14, 2021 - 01:14
felciano
Hi all ---
Dropbox has started enforcing short-lived OAuth access tokens so it seems that any Pythonista scripts that want to use it will n...
Apr 13, 2021 - 16:33
RocketBlaster05
Hello! My app I am creating is meant to be played solely in portrait mode. I wish for the app to be played only in portrait mode as when it ...
Apr 13, 2021 - 15:44
RocketBlaster05
Hello! I have a player where I need to scale them down to properly fit the size I need, and I also need to change their x_scale to make them...
Apr 13, 2021 - 10:09
halloleooo
I know I can do resizing with pillow(i.e. reducing the dimensions of the picture), but to start with I have the picture as a `ui.image` obje...
Apr 12, 2021 - 17:09
alexsunnyx123
Hello,
I'm learning Python at my online class.
Pythonista is must-have tool for my class.
I'm using Pythonista in my iPad using bluetooth e...
Apr 12, 2021 - 16:02
RocketBlaster05
I'm trying to remove a loaded ui view from the screen after a button is pressed. I assumed that ui.dumpview() would remove said view but it ...
Apr 12, 2021 - 08:48
halloleooo
I have a script which uses Pillow to join images - when I call it from Pyhonista itself (with some default images) it runs fine, when I run ...
Apr 10, 2021 - 20:00
felciano
Hi all --
I'm trying to get Working Copy integration with Pythonista via the "External Files" functionality, so that code can be stored in ...
Apr 09, 2021 - 16:59
RocketBlaster05
I have two UI's, where I wish to make it so that when a button on the first UI is pressed, the other one opens. However when the button is p...
Apr 08, 2021 - 14:52
RocketBlaster05
I saw a post from like four years ago saying that the app did not support custom images. I have an image I would like to show on the screen,...
Apr 07, 2021 - 13:18
VarnaJalam00
7 Simple Tips to Improve Your Photography Skills
Go through your camera's user manual. Image Source: Pixabay. ...
Apply what you'v...
Apr 07, 2021 - 10:12
halloleooo
I have a image in the pillow format [PIL.Image](http://omz-software.com/pythonista/docs/ios/Image.html#module-Image) (generate via `Image.ne...
Apr 07, 2021 - 08:56
halloleooo
I am building a little share extension with a `view` UI. For this UI I need a few extra variables along side the view of the extension.
Wha...
Apr 06, 2021 - 09:01
tpdorynt
Does Pythonista support the latest version of Django? According to the store description it runs Python 3.6 which is quite old. While it’s c...
Apr 06, 2021 - 03:27
halloleooo
I'm back on Pythonista! Used it quite a bit a few years ago for some automation and it's cool that it is still going strong! :-)
But now I...
Apr 05, 2021 - 09:52
psidnell
I’ve just returned to the app after an absence of a few years, since I need a good iOS markdown editor again and remember Editorial fondly.
...
Apr 05, 2021 - 09:27
alexsunnyx123
Hello,
Has anyone else seen a problem with Pythonista 1.4 not running a script? It does not report any error or output in the console (even...
Apr 04, 2021 - 12:00
Sharp Archer
Hello,
I am very new to coding and am trying to practice what I learned with making a quadratic formula, and learned I needed to I put in a ...