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May 13, 2016 - 06:52
ssgam
hi all,
I'm running pythonista v2.0 (200003), on iOS 9.3.1 iPad mini.
the extended keys for >, : and ' is not working.
eg: when I tap and ...
May 12, 2016 - 15:57
jaberg
As my collection of macros grows, accessing them efficiently becomes more difficult. It would be super-useful if I could switch between mult...
May 12, 2016 - 04:53
mako
Is there a way to make a call into sysctl from Pythonista?
May 11, 2016 - 19:44
Kamozo
'#I am new to Pythonista, and the forums, so I apologise if I'm doing anything wrong. The updates to the scene module are confusing me. I re...
May 11, 2016 - 18:16
Phuket2
@omz as far as I can see ui.parse_color tries to accept any input. Meaning it does not fail. Maybe there is a fail flag in values I am not s...
May 10, 2016 - 08:38
BillBaroude
Hi there,
I'm seaeching the right way to make work an ObjectC line of code to disable the Idle timer on iPhone (screen goes darker)
The ori...
May 10, 2016 - 04:43
cook
@omz just a quick bug in Editorial. I don't get in-line preview (I think that's what it's called) with Japanese text. I wonder if it's for u...
May 09, 2016 - 18:44
ryanlaner
Does anyone no how to pre-poplutate the datepicker UI with a provided date/time when the UI pops up. It defaults to today, but I want to pr...
May 08, 2016 - 23:55
chriswilson
Hi all,
The puzzle game I have been working on is now available for free on the App Store.
Here is the [link](https://geo.itunes.apple.co...
**Feature Request**
Any document in the local directory can be linked to from any other document. These links can be used in either the edi...
May 08, 2016 - 10:02
lukaskollmer
Is there a way to access the HTML source code displayed in safari in the Pythonista share extension?
I know that I can get the url via the ...
I'll put this here as a sticky post, so that it's easier to find, without digging through old threads...
We now have a [Slack](http://slack...
May 07, 2016 - 16:24
cook
I *think* someone had figured out a way to monitor for device orientation change and subsequently redraw a presented ui.View. I can't find ...
May 07, 2016 - 15:42
Phuket2
Maybe I am doing something wrong. No experience with this, did not want to put it in the Python 3.x thread.
But I am calling -
```
x = notif...
May 07, 2016 - 10:35
Phuket2
Not sure this is useful to anyone or not. I want to make my own cell type so to speak. Want to try different things with different objects ...
May 05, 2016 - 23:43
lukaskollmer
I'm working on a script to upload files to the internet. Currently, I use ``dialogs.text_dialog`` to request a filename.
The problem is, th...
May 05, 2016 - 22:38
Morgan
Hi Guys,
I wrote a Pythonista program for iPad about 3 years ago which imports PIL images which will now not work. My code:
from PIL impor...
May 05, 2016 - 22:17
dgelessus
## The Today widget is no longer included in the release version of Pythonista! You cannot run this script in the notification center anymor...
May 05, 2016 - 14:15
disorientedp
@omz The 1.3 beta is about to expire. Are you going to release this build to the App Store, or will you release another build?
May 05, 2016 - 12:56
elsatch
Hi everyone,
I'd like to share my deep concern with a bug that has stroke me twice. It's such an insidious bug I was almost tempted to cras...
May 05, 2016 - 10:11
Vertec
I'm trying to develop a simple chess clock - first I'm just having trouble running two instances of time - then I need to figure out how to ...
May 04, 2016 - 22:55
metawops
Guys,
still a beginner at Python, so please be patient.
I'm using the twitter.request function for a Twitter API request.
The result is a tu...
May 04, 2016 - 14:35
Phuket2
@omz, sorry. This is probably a very stupid question/assertion. But I don't understand why I can't add dynamic properties/attrs to ui.Rect. ...
May 04, 2016 - 12:31
cook
I'm wondering if anyone has a suggestion for how to refresh the data for a tableview and for it to display!
I have a UI with a search bar, ...
May 04, 2016 - 08:05
wolf71
Just like stash, it's can run N time same time.
Who can write a deom to show how to run two program same?
May 04, 2016 - 02:06
MichaelC
A nubile question. I have just installed Pythonista on y new iPad Pro and can not work out how to run pip.
I would like to be able to use nl...
May 03, 2016 - 23:53
ClareMacrae
When I upgraded to the current Editorial beta, I found that any of my scripts that imported other scripts from site-packages were failing. O...
May 03, 2016 - 23:50
chibill
In this topic I am going to be documenting my advantures trying to bypass the GIL using Apple's threading api and objc_utils. I also want to...
May 03, 2016 - 23:39
blmacbeth
I have a script where I'm trying to get the system attributes; eventually this will gather memory information. I have isolated the crash to ...
May 02, 2016 - 22:37
MutleyEugenius
I have written a bunch of scripts that render text on the screen using the text() command. I have used a blank line, meaning text(""), in a...
May 02, 2016 - 22:34
dpmitu
So my understanding is that the URL scheme looks like this:
editorial://open/NameOfFile?root=dropbox&command=MyWorkflow
No matter what I'v...
May 02, 2016 - 22:28
MutleyEugenius
I have written a bunch of script that use the iPad XYZ gyro axes and they have always worked perfectly. I just downloaded the new Pythonist...
May 02, 2016 - 19:57
georg.viehoever
I tried to create a simple today widget for the latest Pythonista Beta that just prints the time. The widget logo shows on the screen, but n...
I have Dropbox files names containing accented characters, like é or è.
When I ask Dropbox to generate an url, it copies a link as ...../**%...
May 02, 2016 - 16:57
JonB
since we are getting some console autocomplete improvements, might be worth asking again...
Certain objects, namely `requests` responses ta...
I've seen some topics in this forum where pictures are inserted. How can we do that?
May 02, 2016 - 14:15
pythonista
Hi,
being fairly new to python, but not to programming I have a problem with a script which runs beautiful on Windows python 2.7.11, but no...
May 02, 2016 - 13:12
daveg
For some reason, bs4 is giving a "FeatureNotFound" error when trying to parse xml documents.
This happens with both BeautifulSoup(markdown...
Whenever I try to write a file, as soon as I input any character via the onscreen keyboard, Pythonista crashes. I have not tested it with a ...
May 02, 2016 - 08:29
BillBaroude
Hi there,
I probably just don't get the right way to do (sorry, newcomer to Pythonista), but I can't figure out how to make it work.
I wou...
May 02, 2016 - 03:29
Tizzy
So, perhaps @omz will determine this a non-issue, but it's a peculiarity I've run into, so I figured best to report it.
I use Pythonista3 ...
I hope I'm doing something bad but it seems that I can't perform a FTP login in appex mode...
May 01, 2016 - 06:39
AtomBombed
My last post consisted of me asking how to give attributes to characters you are currently typing.
This thread's about how to give attribut...
Apr 30, 2016 - 22:49
artlanguagecode
With the current version of Pythonista, is it possible to get more data from the touch events? For example, I know there has been a little d...
Apr 30, 2016 - 09:20
Vertec
Hi guys
I'm very new to this so please forgive.
Can someone tell me please assist me.
I need to save switch positions and label texts t...
Apr 29, 2016 - 18:53
Phuket2
@omz, it appears that ui.Label does not honour the corner_radius param.
Apr 29, 2016 - 14:30
scj643
http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforum.omz-software.com%2Ftopic%2F3077.rss
Apr 29, 2016 - 05:03
syslot
well,pythonista is a awesome app and I like it very much.after trying,I find a problem. in script editor, I can use **help** to go t...
Apr 28, 2016 - 07:53
JonB
1) when using python2, PIL Image.Image.show() fails
```
img = Image.open('Test_Lenna')
>>> img.show()
Traceback (most recent call last):
F...
Apr 28, 2016 - 03:07
tszheichoi
I'm wondering whether it is possible to access the barometer (pressure) measurements on a supported iPhone from within a pythoninsta script?...