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I'm not sure why
mmap
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@ywangd mmap is in the latest beta, uploaded moments ago
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Hi,
I don't know if it has already been mentioned somewhere but it would be nice if the app shows that it's running a script via url "api".
If the app starts up and is not returning from a suspended state it just shows the initial screen and I am not sure if the script is running
The small indicator with the script name would be nice for the first start up -
Thanks @omz This level of support is just like a dream! :)
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Delete key on extended keyboard (deletes this way: --> as opposed to backspace: <--)
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It is simple to get the different UISscrollView/UITextView keyboard dismiss modes with objc_utils:
ObjCInstance(textview).keyboardDismissMode = 2 # 0 - normal, 1 - on scroll, 2 - on scroll interactive
But publishing this as a part of the TextView Python interface would be a very easy way to make this rather convenient functionality available to everyone.
(Special note to @marcus67)
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@mikael Regarding the keyboard dismiss mode: Do you think this would really help on the iPhone in all the cases? I'm not familiar with these modes but is there really a mode that would hide the keyboard when the cursor is located in a simple text field and the view is not scrollbale?
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@ttobias said:
Hi,
I don't know if it has already been mentioned somewhere but it would be nice if the app shows that it's running a script via url "api".
If the app starts up and is not returning from a suspended state it just shows the initial screen and I am not sure if the script is running
The small indicator with the script name would be nice for the first start upThis is a wonderful idea. Also would be cool if when you tried to run a script while the other script is running, instead of just a modal dialog with one continue button if there was a button for "stop other script and run this one"
Or better yet ( I Don't have any idea of the technical feasibility of this) what if you could have multiple scripts running at the same time on entirely different threads with some sort of overhauled UI to make it clear how many and which scripts are running?
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@marcus67, no, unfortunately I think this is just one more thing in our toolbelt, exact approach to be selected based on the individual use case and UI preferences.
Just to collect my thoughts, here's the ways we have for dismissing the keyboard on iPhone, until Apple does something about it:
- Add a custom UI element like a button in the top bar or a gesture somewhere
- Auxiliary key above the keyboard
- Using ScrollView/TextView scroll to dismiss option
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One more thing:
Could we please remove or have an option to silence the various clicking sounds made by the editor auxiliary keyboard keys?
Currently they do not respect the system-wide setting, and are really annoying in a quiet environment.
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A "busy" option in console.hud_alert for showing that something is loading. This can be seen on other iOS apps frequently.
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@disorientedp You can use
console.show_progress()
andconsole.hide_progress()
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@disorientedp The function
console.show_activity
can take a string argument, which makes it display a HUD alert with a spinner and that string message, in addition to the spinner in the status bar. This has been around since at least Pythonista 1.5 but is not documented anywhere as far as I can tell. @omz -
@dgelessus is right of course, it's called
show_activity()
, notshow_progress()
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@omz thanks.
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I would throw in module
lxml
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@marcus67 I assume there's no XSLT 2.0 transformer available. (Thin on the ground last time I looked.)
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I'll second
lxml
, since without that module it's rather difficult (or it has been in my admittedly somewhat limited experience) to getpython-docx
andpython-xlsx
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@MartinPacker I haven't found anything. XSLT 2.0 is hard to come by, even outside Python. There's only a small number of implementations.
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I am not sure if being able to subclass ui compents is in the wind or will ever be. But I thought of something that may be quite useful, at least in my mind.
The simplest form of my idea is that you could call a ui method that sets a callback function that is called upon creation of any ui component. We could be passed the object type, or worse case check with type.
A little more refined would be able to also set different callbacks for the different types of ui components.That would offer a lot of flexibility and possibilities. Also, especially when testing would be so easy just to style the objects. I know, you can still just have a make button function anyway. But this just seems so much cleaner.
Not sure the impact this would have on performance or threading issues etc. I assume threading type problems would not be an issue as it would only be called on creation.