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Feature Requests
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Have you looked at kivy? http://kivy.org/
It's a cross-platform, open source GUI for python that has been port to iOS.
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Certainly looks interesting, the LGPL license could be problematic though.
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They claim "Kivy is 100% free to use, under LGPL 3 licence. The toolkit is professionally developed, backed and used. You can use it in a product and sell your product."
There are two apps in the App Store using kivy, one is free (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/deflectouch/id505729681) and one is $75 (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/processcraft/id526377075).
However, I'd be the last one to ask about what any particular license allows or not.
Another GUI I came across is PyUI (http://pyui.sourceforge.net), which has an option of rendering using PyOpenGL and PIL.
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The one feature I would really like is for my scripts to sync between my iPhone and iPad via iCloud. I think that would make development a lot more convenient as I like to switch between both devices for different types of tasks.
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You could use the Dropbox code posted here to sync your devices:
http://omz-software.com/pythonista/forums/discussion/10/using-the-dropbox-module#Item_5You would have to start the sync manually, however.
For my part, I would rather want support for a version control system. The currently available methods to up/download to gist are a start.
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@oefe: Unfortunately that kind of feature is the thing that tends to keep code interpreters out of the App Store. As long as the app doesn't directly ship with the ability to both execute interpreted code <b>and</b> load code from an internet-based source, it's generally OK.
I've heard this complaint from many different interpreter makers on the store - exporting to the internet is almost always ok, but being able to pull in code from an arbitrary location with an account / URL is generally a "no-no" feature to have enabled when publishing to the store.
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Sounds doable. A small part of hg is written in C for performance reasons, but there is apparently a pure Python option. I think we can live withbthe performance hit of the pure python version. After all, we few of us will have Gigabyte sized repositories any time soon.
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Dear all
I was going to post a thread regarding "Feature Requests" in which all of the requested features could be included by members. Just description of them and not any commenting or debate, etc. so that just with a glance one can understand what items are mostly required.
But I am just a newbie and I want to know ur ideas about it. Do you think it is a good idea?
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@rhithyn - You can already do that. If you use the modal parameter on the webbrowser class, it can run non-blocking in a different thread - leaving you free to run python code in the background to serve it up.
I've got several bits of code I'm working on right now that run python as the "server-side" code with the browser as the UI. Works great.
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@rroobblinn You can tap with two fingers to select a line.
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Meshes?
Is it possible to get meshes in Pythonista. If we could how long would it take @omz -
I don't know if this is difficult or not, but a way to pause and stop a sound.
That would help me because I just started making a simple music player. -
I'd like a facility to 'lock' a script. It's easy to accidentally hit a key and introduce an error when all I intended was to run it.
The ability to run the script from the library without going into the code editor would be useful too.
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PLEASE support multiline strings! I use them as docstrings, but in the current version of Pythonista, the syntax highlighter balks at multiline strings, and the editor will suggest random words from within the string when I'm typing code.
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Id love to see a way for a script to be run on startup.
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@C0deH4cker - See my tool here:
This will let you make an icon for running a particular script in Pythonista when you click it.
Admittedly, this is a bit different than your use case - I'm guessing you want to customize your Pythonista environment every time you start it - which if that's the case, I agree, I'd love that feature.
But if all you want to do is have Pythonista always run a particular thing when you open it, try my solution above.
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Actually, i mean a script that gets run whenever you run a script, such as the site module in normal python.
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I second the background running feature.
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It would be nice if the editor module could expose the editor settings (at least for read, if not read/write), perhaps presented as a dictionary.
Specifically, at the moment, I'm interested in being able to inspect the 'Tab Width' setting in order to cleanly incorporate a tabify/untabify action script.
Many thanks to you, omz, for building this app and continuing to improve it.
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@tahoma
I made this Macros.py script that I use for Pythonista. Maybe this will be helpful to you:
https://gist.github.com/3ae7811f06caabba80c9I have a separate script for each that basically just does:
<pre>
from Macros import functionfunction()
</pre>Except one of them, Spaces To Tabs, is this:
https://gist.github.com/60088a8513acaa99fd59So this might be what youre looking for. If not, I'm sure that this will be helpful to someone.
