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Feb 15, 2016 - 14:51
Webmaster4o
One of the major UI elements since iOS 7 is the large-radius gaussian blur behind a view. It's everywhere since iOS 7 /OS X 10.10. In `ui`, ...
Feb 15, 2016 - 12:22
CodeLearning191
Does this app support the Lua code?
Feb 14, 2016 - 20:53
lukaskollmer
Hi,
I made a small script that scans the iOS contacts list and looks for contacts that have a Twitter handle set in the Social section.
For...
Feb 14, 2016 - 13:31
Phuket2
Sorry, this is not a Pythonista question, it's a Python Question. I have looked this up, but I don't get it.
The below is just walking thro...
Feb 14, 2016 - 11:49
lukaskollmer
Hi,
Is there a way to use the ``contacts`` module to get and edit profile pictures for iOS contacts?
I'm sure I'd be able to do that with ...
Feb 14, 2016 - 04:36
coomlata1
I have a tableview created in a pyui file rather than in code. The data source is a csv file. I can delete a row in the tableview, but ho...
Feb 13, 2016 - 18:47
Phuket2
@omz, not so important. But dialogs.list_dialog can accept a list of strings or a list of dicts. Reference back to ui.ListDataSource.
It's ...
Feb 13, 2016 - 07:36
Wizardofozzie
I often switch between Pythonista Beta and 2.0 (or 1.5 as it were), and because my iPad is only 16Gb, I can't download both concurrently (th...
Pythonista version 2.0.1 (201001) on iOS 9.2.1 on a 64-bit iPad5,4 with a screen size of (1024 x 768) * 2
Select a Python function name or ...
Feb 12, 2016 - 09:13
Phuket2
@omz, is it a trivial matter to get your DropboxFilePicker utility to work synchronously rather than on ui.background. Well, the real questi...
Feb 12, 2016 - 02:15
Ivoah
I registered the channels #pythonista and ##pythonista on Freenode, so come by and chat.
@omz if you have IRC I'll turn the channels over to...
Feb 11, 2016 - 05:06
AtomBombed
I am creating an app with Pythonista that lets you write Markdown, and preview it in a built-in browser, or in Safari. But I have been using...
Feb 11, 2016 - 03:54
Webmaster4o
Not by me, wanted to share though.
Load framework:
https://gist.github.com/bmw1821/de3ab9cb8bb4b7719571
Add a button:
https://gist.github....
Feb 11, 2016 - 01:45
DmitriyShumkin
My iPod volume is stuck on headphones Volume! I just thought maybe I can change it back to default? aka Sound from actual speaker... Just ne...
Feb 11, 2016 - 00:55
marcus67
Is there a way to influence the spacing of `ButtonItem`'s in a title row bar? They seem to be pretty far apart. In the iPhone layout of my a...
Feb 10, 2016 - 19:09
captainunivac
I am having problems with the canvas.draw_text() method. I have Pythonista 2.0 on an iPad and iPhone, and when I try to use the draw_text me...
Feb 10, 2016 - 18:06
chibill
So I decide to play with the ObjC-util class
But I am getting behavior I don't understand.
I can get the instances of the classes just fin...
Feb 10, 2016 - 16:41
mikael
This is a convenience class for enabling gestures in Pythonista ui applications, including built-in views. Main intent here has been to make...
Feb 09, 2016 - 12:49
Phuket2
Just interested if anyone has tied 2 ListDatasource objects together before. Eg. The top level list triggers events in the second list. I as...
Feb 09, 2016 - 01:19
Dan_P
I used to be able to save to OneDrive prior to the release of v2. Is this by design? or did the upgrade trigger something? (do love the ne...
Feb 08, 2016 - 21:33
chriswilson
Hi all,
I have been using Pythonista to learn Python for a few months (I'm new to coding) and have been exploring the Scene module since th...
Feb 08, 2016 - 19:31
[deleted]
**Edit: the project is hosted** [here](https://github.com/The-Penultimate-Defenestrator/Pythonista-Tweaks) **on GitHub**
I have the idea to...
Feb 07, 2016 - 22:32
shaun-h
Does anyone know if it is possible to change the background colour and label text colour for a list_dialog, or is this something I have to c...
Feb 07, 2016 - 10:51
parkerc
Hi, I am a complete novice when it comes to programming, but I do my best to try and pick up new things, and the reason I bought Pythonista...
Feb 07, 2016 - 05:11
Ivoah
The other day I was going to work on a program on my iPad, while sitting next to my laptop. It seemed silly to be writing on an on-screen ke...
Feb 07, 2016 - 00:39
Webmaster4o
Does any apple policy prevent @omz from just throwing in a bunch of code signed ObjC frameworks with Pythonista? This way, the community cou...
Feb 06, 2016 - 22:00
Webmaster4o
When I try to AirDrop a file to Pythonista from my phone, Pythonista does not show up in the app picker. AirDrop would be a *great* way to q...
Feb 06, 2016 - 18:03
Webmaster4o
There was a recent post about opening page source in Textastic. I don't own Textastic personally, so I wrote a script to open page source in...
Feb 06, 2016 - 16:17
Webmaster4o
The
```
os.path.expanduser("~/Documents")
```
trick doesn't work from the app extension. Is there another way?
Feb 06, 2016 - 15:02
cappy
Why do some keys in the Pythonista keyboard have gray semicircles in the upper right corner?
Feb 06, 2016 - 13:00
thangdo
Hi,
I have recently installed Pythonista on my iPad.
Upon running some of the sample codes, most of them produced this error: "No module ...
Feb 05, 2016 - 12:29
carlossless
Hi Guys,
I'm new here and I just recently bought Pythonista. I was really happy to find NumPy supported out of the box. However I do like t...
Feb 05, 2016 - 07:58
cappy
When I select code, Copy, Select All, Indent, Highlight All, Help are displayed.
There doesn't seem to be any way to :
1. Cut the current s...
Feb 04, 2016 - 23:13
SteppenwolfUA
Hi all!
I get an error in Pythonista, but not in Idle on desktop
S = 'abcedfghijklm'
print S[5:1:−1]
What seems to be the problem here?
Feb 04, 2016 - 14:34
roderickperez
Good morning everyone. I´d like to add some equations into my text but I am getting familiar with Markdown. I´ve been reading several post a...
Feb 03, 2016 - 18:33
dashorty
I want to test if the user touch (hit) the Shape (triangle) but the path is mirrored. why?
here is my sample code
```
# coding: utf-8
from ...
Feb 03, 2016 - 09:33
JonB
I believe this is a new bug:
```
import ui,console
class Touchy(ui.View):
def __init__(self,*args,**kwargs):
ui.View.__init__(self,*args...
Feb 03, 2016 - 00:26
marcus67
I have a view with a canvas size of small portrait (iPhone) containing a `TextView`in the lower half. When I enter text into the view the ke...
Feb 02, 2016 - 20:50
mikael
Hello
I have a need to disable scrolling for a WebView, but even if UIWebView has a scrollView attribute to provide access for doing this, ...
Feb 02, 2016 - 17:14
TutorialDoctor
I am taking requests for user interfaces. I am using this as an opportunity to practice creating user interfaces according to specific stand...
Feb 02, 2016 - 13:31
upwart
I am trying to display 'foreign characters', like accented é and à in a Scene via Text, but that results in coercing to unicode errr. How ca...
Feb 02, 2016 - 01:30
AtomBombed
Since Pythonista cannot share or download folders, or multiple files at once, and requires you to copy and paste files into one you created ...
Feb 01, 2016 - 22:00
marcus67
Has anybody noticed that the reading velocity using `speech.start()` differs between iDevices? Using the value `0.5` is fine for my iPad but...
Feb 01, 2016 - 21:39
TutorialDoctor
Trying to go for a photo gallery in Pythonista that loads images for camera roll into a scroll view.
The project is hosted [here](https://g...
SymPy is built into Pythonista but I never understood what it was all about until now...
```
Podcast.__init__: SymPy With Aaron Meurer
htt...
Feb 01, 2016 - 15:37
Phuket2
Just been trying to help a friend with some example code. It's not good, but still gives some ideas... like food for thought
```
# coding: ...
Feb 01, 2016 - 01:47
dgelessus
Perhaps someone else thought of this already, but this just occurred to me. `ui.View().present("sidebar")` no longer works in 2.0. However i...
Is it possible to **increase the size of the fonts used in the console?** I am using an iPad Pro and the standard fonts are pretty small, at...
Jan 31, 2016 - 23:07
Kluesi
Hi
I have something like
x = [ [1, 2, 'Car'], [ [3, 4, 'House'], ... ]
Is there an easy way to write it to a file and read it from a fil...
Jan 31, 2016 - 20:04
dgelessus
When Pythonista 2.0 first came out, it was in 7th place or so, which is past the first "page" of result...