here are other examples.

# coding: utf-8 from scene import * import ui class MyScene(Scene): def setup(self): startx = 20 starty = 20 length = 100 width = 200 self.rect1 = Rect(startx, starty, width, length) self.rect2 = Rect(startx*2, starty, width/2, length/2) self.elli1 = Rect(startx*2, starty*2, 10, 10) self.elli2 = Rect(startx*8, starty*2, 10, 10) self.rect1_layer = Layer(self.rect1) self.rect1_layer.background = Color(.5,.5,.5) #grey self.add_layer(self.rect1_layer) self.rect2_layer = Layer(self.rect2) self.rect2_layer.background = Color(0,1,0) #green self.add_layer(self.rect2_layer) def draw(self): background(0,0,1) fill(0,1,1) #cyan rect(*self.rect1) self.rect2_layer.update(self.dt) self.rect2_layer.draw() fill(1,0,0) #red ellipse(*self.elli1) ellipse(*self.elli2) self.rect1_layer.update(self.dt) self.rect1_layer.draw() def touch_began(self, touch): self.rect1_layer.animate('alpha', 0.0, duration=1.0, autoreverse=False) # grey => cyan self.rect2_layer.animate('rotation', 180.0, duration=2.0, autoreverse=False) self.elli1 = Rect(touch.location.x, touch.location.y, 10, 10) # Pythonista docu: Animatable attributes are frame, scale_x, scale_y, rotation, background, stroke, stroke_weight, tint and alpha. class SceneViewer(ui.View): def __init__(self, in_scene): self.present('fullscreen') self.scene_view = SceneView(frame=self.bounds) self.scene_view.scene = in_scene self.add_subview(self.scene_view) SceneViewer(MyScene())

Thanks for the replies, both suggestions worked.

thanks for the replies, I think I understood it better now. One more question, how I keep the input focus to a field if it fails a validation, but still allow the user to cancel or click the X button to close the view?