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Python 3.x Progress Update
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@omz so I was just taking a little stroll through my iPad's filesystem, and I noticed in the Pythonista Python library that there is a file template for something called "SpriteKit". It's module is
sk
. Hopefully I didn't just spoil anything cool for the next update, but is this an old, deprecated feature? -
@AtomBombed It's a leftover from a discontinued feature (was part of a beta months ago).
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@zense I don't check every day if new people have signed up, and right now, iTunes Connect is down, so I can't send invites (or upload betas) at the moment.
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@omz, Hi, thx for the invite. Playing around with the new interface and trying out the example scripts on my iPod Touch 5 running iOS 8.4, I've experienced the following issues (really hope none of them were mentioned, if they were - excuse me :) ):
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The font size selector in the general app settings is quite unresponsive - I press like 10 times in a short period of time and it slowly increases/decreases. Also the style of the selector is out of place - in the UI designer it is a draggable thing, but there it is an old +/- sign.
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Sometimes (I don't really know what's causing this, the first time I got it was when I first loaded the demo script game_menu and switched to the Match3 script through the navigation sidebar) the file selector randomly turns completely black for a certain amount of time or until you close the sidebar.
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The Camera Scanner crashes the app when I load in a pic, it might be because of the weakness of my iPod :).
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The keyboard "tick" sound is disabled in my system and the keyboard doesn't "tick", however the top row of buttons does (e.g. when adjusting the typing position), that's kinda annoying.
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All the plot scripts, even the simplest one, crash the app. I think the reason here is the same as that pic scanner script, but having MPL on an iPod would be cool, take a look to see what can be done here.
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The keyboard dismissing button is gone, so pretty much I haven't been able to dismiss it except for just running the script or such. (It might just be my stupidity)
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The undo button is very inconveniently placed, every time to undo you gotta hold the colon. I liked it more when you had a second button page, but there has to be a reason you did it this way, right?)
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I haven't found a way to input a hex string to the UI color picker, there is just a big pallete and one slider (also I wish the scroll speed would adjust based on where you drag, you know, like iOS sliders in general). Is there one? Because if not, this is desperately needed.
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The widgets in the UI designer are a little too easy to drag and resize, for example if it is positioned like 3 pixels off of where it would automatically stick, when pressing the widget for the bubble popup, it just jumps to the fixed place, which is not so handy. Also it would be nice to zoom out in the designer.
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The new copying mechanic doesn't keep size. On one hand it is good, e.g. for a color copy, but when creating tons of similar sized buttons, the entire copying of the widget would be much more useful.
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The main UI background & tint colors are nowhere to be seen. However, again, maybe I'm just blind (then excuse me :p)
Wow, I've probably destroyed this message page. Accept apology because I'm sure most of the issues described above are my fault :) Peace!
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@Leva7 To dismiss the keyboard you can swipe left to open the file list. Even on my iPad I use that instead of the iOS "hide keyboard" button - I usually have a Bluetooth keyboard connected, and in that case the button doesn't unfocus the current text field, but it disables the onscreen keyboard so you have more screen space when using the external keyboard. This is very annoying when I'm not using my external keyboard, because the only way to bring back the onscreen keyboard is to press the "eject" key on the external keyboard (or by turning off Bluetooth to forcibly disconnect the external keyboard).
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@dgelessus, Yea, it works, but I'd like something specifiaclly for that purpose
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@Leva7 I can dismiss the keyboard on my phone by swiping from above the keyboard down onto the area the keyboard covers. Try this.
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@Webmaster4o, is it mentioned somewhere (like docs or smth like that)? It also works, but then first the keyboard disappears and after a little delay, the top row does. Also not a problem, but I think it would be better to dismiss the whole keyboard window at once. Also this way, we are forced to scroll up in the editor so that's not so convenient. A button would be perfect imho
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The UI designer should display a popup bubble after a single touch, so that the widget wouldn't stick to an unwanted position. Is there a reason you did it this way, @omz? Also, I believe this shouldn't happen (the bubble should disappear when selecting a different widget). Also, is there a possibillity to add the guidelines that will stick widgets directly to each other without gaps? It would also be quite useful (e.g. in creating a button panel of some sort)
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@omz oh ok. I was just wondering if it was something new I should be excited about. Thanks!
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Another thing. The ability to switch between the script and the associated UI file with a touch of a button. The tabs system is cool, but for switching between scripts. Separately opening a pyui file is a lot of work) Because I find the "+" button in the code editor rather useless, maybe there could be a shortcut to a UI file in its place?
P.S. Is this the official bug reporting topic? Cause I have a feeling it's not so I feel bad about flooding :p
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@omz so: your most recent update is amazing. I love it. But it came with a removed feature that was really amazing in the other versions. Alignment. In the UI designer it is so hard to align elements properly in relation to each other due to the removal of the alignment feature.
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@omz said:
@zense I don't check every day if new people have signed up, and right now, iTunes Connect is down, so I can't send invites (or upload betas) at the moment.
Ah...
Just did a quick check. Apparently there is a workaround. Just go via developer.apple.com rather than itunesconnect... Saw this via some tweets
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@zense Yes, I saw that too (doesn't seem to be necessary anymore). You also should have gotten an invite already. Maybe check your spam folder?
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I discovered a very small issue in 3000005 (and same in 201005).
I have send some selected files and a sub folder with mail. The folder was summarized in one file without extention ZIP. No problem after I renamed the file everything worked fine!
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I am using iphone6 in "zoomed view mode". In this case in setup I am missing the option "Show Line Numbers". If I am in "standard view mode" I can switch to this option and the lines still remain in "zoomed mode". I suggest to ofer this option in every mode and also for other iphones in lower resolution.
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Moar stuff, this time it is about the docs in the new beta.
Slightest issue:raw_input
is mentioned in the console module docs, however, as you know, it no longer exists.
The contacts module documentation badly needs renewing. First of, the examples are given in Python 2 so running them results in an error (mostly the prints). Then, the indentation is 2 spaces. Like wow, that just took me a second to deal with it and proceed :)
Also, the reminders module docs are in Python 2 as well.
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If I make a "Indent" on a marked text, it work fine with indent of context menu, but if I make the indent with the key on additional keyboard or with tab on a bluetooth keyboard, the selected text is deleted.
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Trying to get the dropbox sync script working in P3 and running into OAuth errors. Google is telling my its to do with dropbox not supporting python3 and that I need to install the new SDK https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-python
Is this something I can install myself somehow or does pythonista need to be updated?