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Feature request?
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Pythonista is a great app, no question. However, there are obvious lackings to attend to.
- No support of camera or accelerometer.
- Difficult to navigate code (take inspiration from Codea. They have great navigation.
- No useful documents -yes, there are docs, but they're indexes. You need well written, user-friendly documents that are easy enough for a beginner and complex enough for an expert.
- No 3D support- this is a biggie
- No physics engine- again, look at Codea.
- Not very many examples- a good game and maybe something really cool, perhaps a web browser.
I hope you read this and realize the flaws and try to improve them. Sorry if this sounds negative, but I'm just trying to suggest some features. I really like this app and python is my proffered language.
-anonymous person :)
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photos.capture_image()
Show a standard camera interface and return the captured image.
webbrowser.open(url[, modal=False, stop_when_done=False])
Display url in an in-app browser
Items 3 and 6 on your list could be provided by the community instead of by the application author.
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Also checkout scene.gravity() for accelerometer access.
If you want to build a 3D app, then Pythonista isn't currently the right tool. Have a look at Unity3D. It is even scriptable with boo (which is basically python).
As far as physics engines go - you could look at using pynewt. I don't know anything about it though. I can certainly see the appeal of having a 2D rigid body dynamics engine in Pythonista, though. That could certainly make short work of making some types of games. I generally do very simple physics in my games, without trying to do a realistic simulation.
Next version of Pythonista will very likely have numpy, which would actually make building said rigid body dynamics engine a little easier - I might have a go at it myself.
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Thank you, I just found the camera, browser, and accelerometer tools. I'll try to look into numpy. One of my main points was navigation. Codea has a side by side navigational ui that's very useful.
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Also, do you know of an app where you can make 3D games or even 3D model on ios? Is there a way to import new modules not already in pythonista into it?
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The Codea AirCode video got me interested...
Would it be possible to enter values on a webpage that could remotely change a running Pythonista app?
The answer is yes. See remote_control_scene which uses a bottle server running in Pythonista to allow you to remotely change the color of a running scene.Scene. It would be cool to extend this idea to something that is closer to AirCode.