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Use scene and ui in the same program
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The date picker appeared first, it is much better. But the problem is that I did my calculations with years and not with months and days, that's why the date that is given by the date picker can't be used in my program I think, because it can't be converted into years. Do you think that I could only ask the user a year and remove the months and days ?
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@pythonista21 not very nice but I'm not an expert 😢
import ui d = ui.DatePicker() d.name = 'Select a year' d.mode = ui.DATE_PICKER_MODE_DATE def date_action(sender): print(str(sender.date)[:4]) d.action = date_action l = ui.Button() l.frame = (0,0,d.width*2/3,d.height) l.background_color = 'white' d.background_color = 'white' d.add_subview(l) d.present('sheet') d.wait_modal() -
import ui d = ui.DatePicker() d.mode = ui.DATE_PICKER_MODE_DATE def date_action(sender): print(str(sender.date)[:4]) sender.close() d.action = date_action l = ui.Button() l.title = 'Select year' l.font = ('<System-Bold>',32) l.frame = (0,0,d.width*2/3,d.height) l.background_color = 'white' d.background_color = 'white' d.add_subview(l) d.present('sheet',hide_title_bar=True) d.wait_modal() -
It is perfect, I can now choose a year. But there is a last problem, when I use "d" as my date in the program, pythonista tells me that there is an error. Am I not allowed to use d in the program? Is there something else I need to add?
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@pythonista21 it's because my short code also uses d as a variable, use something else like dpicker for example.
d here is an ui object, if you want the year it is str(d.date)[:4]Put after the wait_modal
sel_year = str(d.date)[:4]And use sel_year as date variable
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I added this line and replaced all the "d" by "sel_year" in the program but it remains the same. The error is: "can't multiply sequence by non-int of type 'float' " when I try to multiply sel_year. Pythonista still doesn't consider sel_year as a variable. I can't use it as a number and multiply or divide it. I don't understand where the problem comes from 😓
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@pythonista21 use int instead of str if your code needs a number. As I don't know your entire code, it was not possible to know how you used this year
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It works! Thanks a lot for your precious help!!
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@pythonista21 , date has a day, month and year property you can access. So date.year, is an int.
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@cvp I have one last problem that I discovered, when I wanted to chose the year 2018.
If I want to select a date I need to move my finger until I reach the date that I want. As soon as I'm removing my finger from the screen, the year that I selected is saved in the code and the solar system appears.
I can't choose 2018 because when I start the program, I'm directly on 2018 and even if I move to an other year and come back to 2018 nothing happens when I stay on 2018.
Is there a possibility to add an "OK" button that I can press when I choose the year that I wanted? -
import ui d = ui.DatePicker() d.mode = ui.DATE_PICKER_MODE_DATE l = ui.Button() l.title = '☀️' l.font = ('<System-Bold>',128) l.frame = (0,0,d.width*2/3,d.height) l.background_color = 'white' d.background_color = 'white' d.add_subview(l) ok = ui.ButtonItem() ok.title = 'ok' def ok_action(sender): d.close() ok.action = ok_action d.right_button_items = [ok] d.name = 'Select year' d.present('sheet') d.wait_modal() sel_year = d.date.year print(sel_year)
