@Rossburnett Do you happen to be running iOS 5?

As far as I know, you can not (currently) use tkinter in Pythonista but at least you can (with a lot of work) build a single Python app that will run on either tkinter or Pythonista scene.

I am building a game that I want the user to be able to run on:

Python3 using tkinter (all lowercase) or Python2 using Tkinter (capitalized) or Pythonista using scene or
*Text-only mode if all else fails.

Using the MVC programming pattern, my goal is to have a single Controller and a single Model but have three different Views (tkinter, scene, text only). It will be a real test of separation of concerns. Wish me luck!

guiSystem = None try: # tkinter on Python3 import tkinter guiSystem = 'tkinter' except ImportError: try: # tkinter on Python2 import Tkinter as tkinter guiSystem = 'tkinter' except ImportError: try: # scene on Pythonista on iOS import scene guiSystem = 'scene' except ImportError: pass print('guiSystem:', guiSystem)

This list is largely out of date, i apologize to all. Will try and fix it up in spare time, thank you

Location services are something I'm looking at for 2.0 (which I've actually started working on, but there will be 1.x updates before that).

That's a nice game. Thanks for sharing it. This has helped me to learn some things.

Direct support for this is unlikely because Apple's review guidelines don't allow it (no downloading of executable code). There's a Dropbox synchronization script though, that you could add to the action menu:
http://omz-software.com/pythonista/forums/discussion/10/using-the-dropbox-module/p1
(requires some setup to get working, so be sure to read the instructions)

what's the use of the alarm? can someone reply to my question? please :(

My thoughts exactly. Can't wait to see the application progress. Thanks very much.

All files you create in Pythonista's UI have an (invisible) .py extension, so the "log.txt" file you created is actually "log.txt.py", which is why your script couldn't read it. At the moment, you could either change the file name to "log.txt.py" in your script (probably the easiest), or write the txt file programmatically somehow (various ways to do that, but you couldn't see the file in Pythonista's library because it only shows .py files).

My pleasure. There is still a lot of refining that needs to be done. Firstly because i am only just starting to learn python, and I'm still discovering the "pythonic" way.

Secondly I'm probably going to have to abandon my initial design decision of redrawing the entire scene every frame. While it makes to code simpler and is fine for a small gui, it's killing the frame rate for a gui with over 100 components (like the demo).

I use <a href="www.i-funbox.com">iFunBox</a>.

(OT: Looks like neither BBedit or Markdown format works in the forum. Is that right?)

i am familiar with <a href="http://www.rasteredge.com/how-to/vb-net-imaging/load-from-file/">vb image loading codes</a> if you want some, i can provide you the easiest and simple one.

Thanks! I'll look into that.

...and another one: http://ipad.appstorm.net/how-to/utilities/pythonista-101-building-blocks/

1.3 has actually been out for quite a while. If you're still experiencing this problem with the latest version installed, please share some more details, thanks!

Thanks for noticing, this is a bug. <code>StdoutCatcher</code> is a class that is used internally to redirect output to the console UI in Pythonista. You normally don't have to worry about it.

The bug will be fixed in the next update. For now, you could replace the use of writelines in the sample code with something like this:

<pre>for line in lines:
sys.stdout.write(line + '\n')</pre>