I think just keeping the iPad active will be enough. I don't really need it to run in the background. Thanks!

Is there a way to enable operation in the background?

I have an app that receives a data stream from a socket over wifi from my sailboat. The problem is I am not interacting with the app all the time. I want to be able to put it down but still collect the data.

When I close the top on my iPad right now it gets an io error on the socket after about 150 seconds.

Got it. There is setter code in the library and I was overriding it. Here is the fixed code:

from scene import Scene, SpriteNode, run, EffectNode

class pt(SpriteNode):
    
    def __init__(self, **kargs):
        SpriteNode.__init__(self, 'plf:HudX', **kargs)
        self.scale = 0.5
        
class plot (SpriteNode):
    def __init__(self, **kargs):
        SpriteNode.__init__(self, **kargs)
        self.anchor_point = (0, 0)
        self.color = '#8989ff'
    
class test(Scene):
    
    def setup(self):
        clip = EffectNode(parent=self)
        clip.crop_rect = (0, 0, self.size.x / 2, self.size.y / 2)
        pane = plot(parent=clip)
        pane.size = (self.size.x / 2, self.size.y / 2)
        clip.position = (50, 50)
        
        for x in (50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 350, 400):
            p = pt(parent=pane)
            p.position = (x, x)
            
if __name__ == '__main__':
    tst = test()
    run(tst)
        
        ```

Thanks. That is working for me.

It was something stupid. Spelled the reference to the file Handel wrong.

Thanks!!

Here is my test case:

from scene import Scene, SpriteNode, run, Point

class pt(SpriteNode):
    
    def __init__(self, **kargs):
        SpriteNode.__init__(self, 'plf:HudX', **kargs)
        
    scale_x = 0.5
    scale_y = 0.5
        
class plot (SpriteNode):
    anchor_point = Point(0,0)
    color = '#8989ff'
    
class test(Scene):
    
    def setup(self):
        pane = plot(parent=self)
        pane.size = (self.size.x / 2, self.size.y / 2)
        pane.position = (50,50)
        
        for x in (50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300):
            p = pt(parent=pane)
            p.position = (x, x)
            
if __name__ == '__main__':
    tst = test()
    run(tst)

Questions:

1. Why doesn't the color work on my plot class?
2. Why isn't the plot 50 px from the lower left corner?
3. Why are the x gifs not half size?
4. Why doesn't the plot Sprite clip its children?

Simple enough. Logfile_out is set to "log.txt"

  if self.logfile_out is not None:
        self._of = open(self.logfile_out, mode='w', encoding='utf-8')

It has to be something stupid.

Hmmm. Tried that and it didn't seem to work. No file showed up.

How can I save a log file to my pythonista file system?

I am writing an app that receives data over a tcp socket and displays the data graphically with some user interaction too.

I can't just call "run" for scene support because I need to poll the socket too.

Will threads work?