Forum Archive

These pages contain a static archive of the old community forum for Pythonista (and Editorial) between 2012 and 2022. The Pythonista forum is now hosted on GitHub: → Join the Discussion!
Mar 13, 2016 - 07:19
elsatch
Hi everyone, First post here! I'm loving Editorial approach and I'm trying to make the most of it. I've text expander installed in my devi...
Mar 13, 2016 - 00:23
alexandrepfurlan
Hi all, I'm trying obtain the roots of a function that depends on a parameter. For example : The equation ``` eos= math.log(1.-x)+x**...
Mar 13, 2016 - 00:18
disorientedp
How can I get the URL of the currently loaded page in WebView?
Mar 13, 2016 - 00:11
daraux
Hi everyone, Python noob here. From my understanding, Pythonista does not support curses module. Does anyone know of alternatives to prov...
Mar 12, 2016 - 20:24
jbap
When can I access the microphone? I want to make a recording app
Mar 12, 2016 - 13:59
Phuket2
@ccc, do you still have that code to traverse all the subviews of a view ? I remembered you shared with me a long time ago. It was nice as i...
Mar 11, 2016 - 18:15
tyehill
I want to use Pythonista to automate reblogging from one of my tumblr blogs to another (they're my kids' sites that I set up for my parents....
Mar 11, 2016 - 10:41
Phuket2
Hmmm, well this is embarrassing 😰😱 I really can't figure out how to use the ui.Path functions to create arcs or filled segments for a circle...
Mar 11, 2016 - 03:37
chibill
I saw [BioLib](https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/2894/biolib) I decided to do a project based of there code to store data in the whole RG...
Mar 11, 2016 - 02:14
[deleted]
I'm starting to think about implementing other CloudProviders for ```cloud.File``` beginning with ```WebDAV```. I think I can modify a WebD...
Mar 10, 2016 - 22:44
filippocld
I know full python file support is dumb for Editorial, but can at least Python syntax highlighting be added to the "Syntax Mode" list?
Mar 10, 2016 - 21:04
cvp
Hi Is it possible to delete photos from camera roll? If not, I planned to start a Workflow via its url scheme. It functions in a normal run ...
Mar 10, 2016 - 21:04
filippocld
I don't know if it was already solved, but i can't find a solution. I basically got an nsarray and i want to convert it to a python list. Is...
Mar 10, 2016 - 19:30
warco
Will Editorial support opening files from other app (using the iOS document picker) and edit them without creating a duplicate? Kind of like...
Mar 10, 2016 - 17:24
cvp
Hello I'm just new in Pythonista and English is really not my mother language, thus sorry if I'm not clear enough. I've written a script whi...
Mar 10, 2016 - 12:37
Phuket2
just wanted to share [this](https://gist.github.com/7474c485ace1ef68d112) Page Indicator class. Even if the code is not great, still a good ...
Mar 10, 2016 - 03:25
ywangd
EDIT: Nevermind. I have been told elsewhere that I was asking for the impossible.
Mar 09, 2016 - 18:29
Webmaster4o
In both Pythonista versions, console output is pretty slow. For example, `print` in my Mac terminal is noticeably faster than it is in Pytho...
Mar 09, 2016 - 17:10
Phuket2
@omz Would be great if there was a switch/activator to make the search in the file nav recursive. Maybe it's there already there. But if it ...
Mar 09, 2016 - 12:07
Phuket2
I am trying to create a page dot view, for the want of a better word. When you see the dots/circles at a bottom of a view in iOS to indicate...
Mar 08, 2016 - 19:29
Phuket2
@omz, I think you are the only one that can answer this. I am sorry I know you are busy, but really this drives me crazy, more than crazy. ...
Mar 08, 2016 - 18:36
omz
I've just built a little script to make it easier to share UI scripts. Sometimes, it's just more convenient to have everything in a single f...
Mar 08, 2016 - 13:22
Phuket2
In a previous [post ](https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/2902/circle-view-for-ui)I asked for help to get a circlular view working. @omz an...
Mar 08, 2016 - 10:36
palusus
There is only "extended keyboard" from settings before there were 2 lines... When I reinstalled device, there was nothing ... http://imgur.c...
Mar 08, 2016 - 10:30
Phuket2
i am trying to make a circular view/widget like we have for our pics in the forum. I think I am going about it the right way. I am using a c...
Mar 08, 2016 - 05:34
teeter
Trying to automate a webview by evaluating javascript in a page. I can set the input control value with a CSS selector, but the input contro...
Mar 08, 2016 - 02:52
Ivoah
Sorry if this is too off topic, but I figured some people here might be interested in this. (disclaimer: I am not related to this project, I...
Mar 07, 2016 - 20:07
psyFi
It would be awesome if there were a free app that was only able to run scrips, so tha code could be distributed to customers, or other peopl...
Mar 07, 2016 - 19:54
scj643
A dialog view with a side letter slider to quickly find items starting with a letter would be nice. Like how it works in the stock music app...
Mar 07, 2016 - 19:10
scj643
I've been coding with pycharm and was thinking we should follow standards. One thing I've noticed is by default Pythonista uses tabbed inden...
Mar 07, 2016 - 18:49
brumm
[DrawOnImage](https://github.com/humberry/DrawOnImage) Updated.
Mar 07, 2016 - 14:43
Phuket2
It appears to me that both bcrypt and py-bcrypt can not be used with Pythonista. If that statement is correct, does anyone know of a credibl...
Mar 07, 2016 - 07:09
AtomBombed
I made a little module that I have ended up using a lot. It can encode strings of text into RGB color values, store them as pixels on a .png...
Mar 07, 2016 - 06:50
aribilow
Hey all, am I the only one experiencing weird, missed keyboard input on the top row number keys? All other keys are responsive, but the top ...
Mar 06, 2016 - 19:45
macmacmac
I installed the hyphenation module pyphen from pyphen.org using *pip install Pyphen* in stash. When I run the simple test below I get a *Ty...
Mar 06, 2016 - 17:24
Webmaster4o
I really like both the [cloud module](https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/2775/cloud-module) and [Pydia](https://forum.omz-software.com/top...
Mar 06, 2016 - 12:33
JonB
I have been toying with various ideas for a pythonista debugging system for a long time, to replace pdb in the console. With ObjC, we can f...
Mar 06, 2016 - 07:15
JonB
Some UI objc components have a Py_Object method, which returns a pointer (if encoding is corrected). Is there a way to turn this back into ...
Mar 06, 2016 - 06:14
teeter
Does anyone know how to interact with Javascript in Pythonista? I use PhantomJS and Selenium on my desktop, but cannot for the life of me fi...
Mar 06, 2016 - 03:18
[deleted]
@JonB makes a good point to my mind about the disjoint between the forum discussion and the corresponding code hosted maybe on GitHub. Shou...
Mar 05, 2016 - 12:32
Phuket2
@ywangd , @JonB Just want to ask if in your opinion is building a ui interface around the commonly used git cmds using the stash object a wa...
Mar 05, 2016 - 12:17
ccc
When running the PEP8 check in the Beta, if there are _E501 Line too long_ errors, it would be helpful if the editor (optionally?) had a ver...
Mar 05, 2016 - 09:01
laszlo.j.hermann
Sound stop_effect stops the sound with a hard "noise" since Last Update of Version 1.6. See example code: If your touch is between 0.1-0.3...
Mar 05, 2016 - 06:37
AI subroutine
Hello, im brand new to the forum and im looking for some help on the UI module that I couldn't find in the documentation. What I'm trying to...
Mar 05, 2016 - 03:24
Webmaster4o
Just a minor suggestion, I think that the file move dialog should start with the file's current directory expanded, because it is common for...
Mar 04, 2016 - 23:57
TutorialDoctor
It seems in version 2.0 that the cyan colored snapping guidelines for centering UI controls in the UI editor are not working. I had noticed ...
Mar 04, 2016 - 19:27
TutorialDoctor
It would be really cool if there were a snippets button on the Pythonista keyboard like in Editorial. An alternative can be found here: ht...
Mar 04, 2016 - 15:24
Webmaster4o
Is it possible to have a NavigationView with semi-transparent layers that move over a constant background? Maybe BlurViews as well.
Mar 04, 2016 - 14:17
Webmaster4o
If I'm trying to indent part of a line, and I have the cursor before the end of the line, the new indent won't match the level of indentatio...
Mar 04, 2016 - 13:39
Phuket2
Sorry, this is a dumb question. But I don't know the answer to it. Using stash or other ways , is it possible to install Libs from PyPI that...