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Feb 24, 2016 - 13:43
Webmaster4o
We need a better spam filter on these forums. This is the fifth or sixth time we've gotten stuff like this since we adopted the new forums. ...
Feb 24, 2016 - 04:40
blmacbeth
Hey @omz, I got back in to playing around with `objc_util` and found this:
```Python
>>> dir(OMJavaScriptSyntaxHighlighter)
Traceback (most...
Feb 24, 2016 - 03:02
Gibberish
Any chance we will be seeing an Editorial update for the iPad Pro? Editorial is my main app I use everyday for notes, task paper, etc but th...
Feb 24, 2016 - 01:14
dgelessus
With iOS 9 the behavior of the fn key on my Apple wireless keyboard changed. Before you could use it like on a Mac to e. g. change the Backs...
Feb 24, 2016 - 01:01
Webmaster4o
Running `os.listdir(tempfile.gettempdir())` shows tons of files, including (I think) every image I've ever `Image.show()`ed. Is this ever cl...
Feb 24, 2016 - 00:17
Webmaster4o
I recently saw a tweet about how many keyboard shortcuts Pixure offers. 
I frequently work in Pythonista...
Feb 23, 2016 - 23:46
davidj1810
I'm trying to access the MPMusicPlayerController using the objc_util and I get the error in the title- ValueError, no objective-c class MPMu...
Feb 23, 2016 - 22:21
Webmaster4o
For `pythonista.cloud`, I'm building a webservice. To prevent abuse of this, service I'd like to have a system by which upload requests can ...
Feb 23, 2016 - 21:46
Gibberish
Hi,
I saw mentions of a module name "sk" that wraps SpriteKit in precious posts. Is this released? Or will it plan on being released?
I wo...
Feb 23, 2016 - 02:27
Webmaster4o
# theme-utils
This is a module called `theme_utils` that makes it easy to work with themes, as well as making it easy to style UI components...
Feb 23, 2016 - 01:13
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### **See** [Samples (pickle, script, JSON, text, images) ](https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/2840/cloud-file-samples-pickle-script-json-...
Feb 23, 2016 - 00:12
Webmaster4o
If the "Find and Replace" dialog is open when you switch themes, its color remains 
Feb 22, 2016 - 22:15
brumm
[Unzipper](https://github.com/humberry/Unzipper) (required File Picker) 😀
Feb 22, 2016 - 20:10
Webmaster4o
Sorry if I'm missing something, but is this possible? If not, it should be.
Feb 22, 2016 - 18:09
CodeLearning191
Split view multitasking please 😄
Feb 22, 2016 - 16:42
JonB
Sorry for creating another thread... this is basically an extension of the 160xx thread, but nodebb got painfully slow for me on page 50 or ...
Feb 22, 2016 - 15:40
Webmaster4o
Some of the built-in themes contain [trailing commas](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/201782/can-you-use-a-trailing-comma-in-a-json-objec...
Feb 21, 2016 - 20:22
blmacbeth
In both the latest betas (Pythonista2 and Pythonista3) when running `web_view.eval_js('alert(document.title)')`, the alert is unable to be d...
Feb 21, 2016 - 17:17
donnieh
You can see in the code below what I want to do. How is this done? The way I have it doesn't work obviously.
```
self.image_view.image = p...
Feb 21, 2016 - 16:33
iBayern
Converting "*.dat" to array...
I have imported "banana.dat" data file to pythonista... i want to convert it to array using following code.....
Feb 21, 2016 - 16:27
Phuket2
I come across this Python lib (TinyDb). All seems very professional, documentation, installer, API etc.
I am very interested in this lib. In...
Feb 21, 2016 - 13:33
brumm
[FindCodeInForum.py](https://github.com/humberry/FindCodeInForum)
Feb 21, 2016 - 08:07
AtomBombed
So I am making a game, and I am having touch controls (obviously) for the game. I have it to where the spaceship will fly to the location th...
Feb 21, 2016 - 07:17
hdarian
In an effort to transfer all of my writing to a subfolder I created, I accidentally placed them in the ".previewTemplates folder. How do I u...
Feb 20, 2016 - 14:51
Webmaster4o
Certain bandwidth-intensive things could benefit from first checking whether the user is on WiFi, or over cellular, because many people (me)...
Feb 20, 2016 - 04:01
Webmaster4o
I think Pythonista is really missing something very beneficial in a built-in scriptable file navigator. The one that's inside the "move" dia...
I have to see my limited skills in programming:
I was looking for a way to backup and reload my Workflows and Snippets.
I tried it on my ...
Feb 19, 2016 - 09:29
marcus67
My little tool [gitsynchista](https://github.com/marcus67/gitsynchista) now offers support for my other little tool [pyzipista](https://gith...
Feb 19, 2016 - 06:31
coomlata1
I have recently posted several pythonista scripts in my [repo](https://github.com/coomlata1/pythonista-scripts) that together function as a ...
Feb 19, 2016 - 03:12
TutorialDoctor
Wondering how I could do custom UIs in Pythonista (inspired by the gauge someone is trying to create in another topic). I was thinking of us...
Someone [asked me on Twitter](https://twitter.com/kaynw80/status/700425538163310592) if Pythonista had support for scanning barcodes, using ...
Feb 18, 2016 - 19:01
Phuket2
@omz or anyone in the universe. I am trying to make a popup menu. I am just trying to position the popup, but I am going around in circles n...
Feb 18, 2016 - 11:51
JonB
just stumbled across this while working on a github stash command (fork, create, pull-request). somewhat specific to commandline tools, but...
Feb 18, 2016 - 10:20
Phuket2
Just in case you didn't see it. .cloud domains are on sale.
Feb 18, 2016 - 03:39
[deleted]
**The project is hosted** [here](https://github.com/The-Penultimate-Defenestrator/pythonista.cloud/) **on GitHub**
@ccc said:
> GitHub can...
Feb 17, 2016 - 22:21
Webmaster4o
The version of ionicons included in Pythonista is missing quite a few that are present on http://ionicons.com, and not just the android ones...
Any recomendation for a good and easy to use Python 3.5.1 IDE GUI for Mac OS X? Thanks
Feb 17, 2016 - 15:04
chibill
Okay. I have a few questions. When I look at the examples for using the objc_util once you load the objc class you can use it. But all the t...
Feb 17, 2016 - 10:24
Phuket2
Sorry, to ask yet another Python question. But because of the nature of it, I wanted to ask here as I don't get it.
From what I have read,...
Feb 17, 2016 - 09:40
dgelessus
@omz Does this forum software not support full deletion of threads? All the spam threads still exist, they only have their OPs deleted.
Feb 17, 2016 - 03:57
mtrevino57
I have a python program that I run on the Iphone. The script scrapes a website and create a "gauge" image that I would like to be able to di...
Python 3.x support has been a topic of discussion here for [years](https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/1907/pythonista-for-python-3-x), and...
Feb 16, 2016 - 23:11
db_81
To be more precise, I want to write a simple game and my idea is to embed the game scene into the ui that holds the game controls. I'm a beg...
Feb 16, 2016 - 21:43
cappy
Is there a way to attach files to these posts, so Dropbox links are not needed?
Thanks
Feb 16, 2016 - 21:38
cappy
After stopping execution of the script (below) while it was running, the stop(X) button was permanently disabled, and the Start (Right Arro...
I've finally managed to create a new Xcode template for Pythonista 2.x, and I've put it on GitHub:
**[→ omz/PythonistaAppTemplate](htt...
Feb 16, 2016 - 19:30
dashorty
Hello
I want to code a Dart-Score-App.
Is there a solution to test if a user touch a SpriteNode? The Textures are rectangles with alpha.
Feb 16, 2016 - 01:42
__mw__6m
Hi everybody !
I noticed that when you take the width and height of a node, they are 1 pixel too wide and 1 pixel too high :
```
class My...
Feb 15, 2016 - 23:36
mikael
ListDataSource items do not honor the background and tint color settings of the TableView; instead, they have a white background and black t...
Feb 15, 2016 - 16:16
Croc
I'm making a simple application in Pythonista to display webpages, listed in a text file, inside of a webview. I have looked over the docume...