Actually what you have right there is perfect!

@JonB, I don’t need the little things! However, I will probably create a new version of this code and turn it into that for practice! I could definitely use it.
Edit: On second thought, that sounds real complicated. I might quit Python attempting that at this point :)

@cvp Again, those changes are exactly what I needed, thanks!
(https://imgur.com/a/TiCqTRz)

^^ Dunno how to do inline images haha. I ran out of ideas, so that’s a link to what I have with your changes.

Ooo awesome. Thanks! I have been playing around with it trying to figure out a way to o’offwet’ the starting point so that the center of the slice on each vertical and horizontal axes line up. (Like on a dartboard).

Let me see if I can throw an image here to show you what I mean.

@cvp
Alright, I installed the version of stash mentioned in his repo.
Then conveniently used pip to grab the gestures library to make sure I didn’t mess anything up.

Now the dartboard works like a charm! Thanks again.

I’ll play around with it and see if I can clean it up without breaking it!
I really need to browse git for useful Pythonista modules.

In a week or so I will be back onto the DatePicker program and understanding objC usage in what you gave me there haha. Slowly but surely..

@cvp
Oh, whatcha got in your gestures module? Haha. That is not included by default:p

@cvp
That’s perfect! Thank you a ton haha. I see that I was close on what I had..
I will put what you have to good use, thank you!

I just couldn’t understand why ‘18’ wouldn’t work and that ‘9’ was producing better looking results.
But now that you gave me something that works, I can finally understand where I went wrong.
Very much appreciated!

Alright, I’ve been asking a lot of you guys (well, mainly @JonB and @cvp haha).
However, I have one more question / request..

I thought it would be something I could easily accomplish but I was wrong.
Was hoping to write a simple program that does the following:

— Draw a dartboard on screen (circle split into 20 equal segments is all I need)
— This works out to be 20 segments that should be 18 degrees each (360/20)
— Set up each segment as a clickable button
— The button.Action will be to highlight the selected segment and place a number label on it
— For example:
— Tapping top center segment will highlight it and place number 1 in segment
— Then, if I tap a 2nd segment, it highlights it (same color as first is fine) and places number 2
— This continues for 3 total selections. However, more is fine.

I keep running into issues doing this.. It could be my lack of Geometry skills, or that I haven’t used Path() before, or maybe I’m just not cut out for programming ;)

What is the best way to go about doing this?
I’ve looked for code and tried reusing a few, but I end up with a weird pie chart that doesn’t ‘slice’ where I expect it to. Or I end up with some pretty cool drawings, from an abstract point of view!

@JonB
Sweet, I actually have been browsing the Apple developer docs, specially UIKit stuff, because that is what I keep finding examples of and I believe that’s what OMZ based the UI elements on.

I managed to find some stuff there, as well as created a method to help investigate objects, etc.

def investigateItem(item):
    mysteriousItem = item
    mysteriousInfo = dir(mysteriousItem)
    for x in mysteriousInfo:
        print(f"{x}")
    
#setScreenBrightness()
UIScreen = ObjCClass('UIScreen')
screen = UIScreen.mainScreen()
investigateItem(screen) 

However, I totally forgot about using the console... That is a game changer, thanks!
I’ll check out the other info you mentioned after I play a bit via console. Is it weird that I’m excited right now? Haha. Using the console to interact/access/view attributes, etc. is going to be crazy useful.

@cvp
I need some help ;)

Been struggling because I have not used objc previously. So syntax and how it’s being converted on the fly to be used to access objects, etc.. is brand new to me.

I have been trying to play with it via adjusting my screen brightness using one of the built in objc examples:

from objc_util import *
from time import sleep
def run_async(func):
    from threading import Thread
    from functools import wraps
    
    @wraps(func)
    def async_func(*args, **kwargs):
        func_hl = Thread(target = func, args = args, kwargs = kwargs)
        func_hl.start()
        return func_hl
    return async_func

@on_main_thread
def setScreenBrightness():
    UIScreen = ObjCClass('UIScreen')
    screen = UIScreen.mainScreen()
    #print(f"UIScreen.get_names(): {UIScreen.get_names()}")
    for x in range(1):
        brightnessVar = 1.0
        for x in range(995):
            screen.setBrightness(brightnessVar)
            brightnessVar -= 0.001
            sleep(0.0001)
            #print(f"screen.brightness(): {screen.brightness()}")
        for x in range(995):
            if screen.brightness() < 1.0:
                screen.setBrightness(brightnessVar)
                brightnessVar += 0.001
                sleep(0.0001)
setScreenBrightness()

However, what would help is being able to see a list of ‘objects’ I can get/set attributes for.
For example:

UIScreen = ObjCClass('UIScreen')
    screen = UIScreen.mainScreen() 

What is UIScreen? I assume we are letting objc create a class/do conversions/do its magic to allow us to access/modify properties of it. But what other strings/object classes are available? Is there something like ‘UIFlashlight’?

Of course, my attempts to print out a list of ‘things’ to try and understand structure, etc.. have resulted in a HUGE list being returned.. But for me to be able to learn this stuff, I get the most out of playing around with things, tweaking, printing out what’s there, but I can’t seem to do this. But again, I don’t even know where to begin haha.

Any resources, tips you have send them my way! But as far as the countdown code you gave me; that will work perfectly. Once I understand the basics I will be rolling through the rest.

@cvp

Sweet, looks like all the bits n pieces are there!
I haven’t played around with objc_util much, so it will take some trial and error to get what I want.

However, I see that module used all over the place, and likely for good reason.
So I will play with it and once I get a feel for it, will see where else I can use it.

Thanks!

Hey guys,

I was playing around with date picker so I could create a quick program to calculate the time until a future date for my 7 year old daughter. She always asks us “how long until my birthday??” So I made her a program that will tell her the Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds until the date she selected in the ui.DatePicker.

Currently, she selects a date and it outputs the delta into a textView(4 of them, one for each: D,H,M,S), which get updated in real-time (Spams the terminal if debug flag is true, but I’m cool with that).

What I would like to do is replace the textViews with another DatePicker.
Unfortunately, none of the modes available display all fields: D,H,M,S.

Is there a way for me to do this?
Ideally, I’d like a copy of the source code for DatePicker so I could resize the width of the segments to be smaller(so it all fits) and then create additional segments to display D,H,M,S and rotate each dial in real-time.

Here is my working code as of right now:

import ui
import console
import time
import datetime
from time import *
from objc_util import *
from datetime import timedelta#, datetime

def run_async(func):
    from threading import Thread
    from functools import wraps
    
    @wraps(func)
    def async_func(*args, **kwargs):
        func_hl = Thread(target = func, args = args, kwargs = kwargs)
        func_hl.start()
        return func_hl
        
    return async_func

birthday = [2021, 2, 21]

# TODO: ##### MAIN VIEW #####
birthdayView = ui.View()
birthdayView.background_color = 'black'
birthdayView.x = 0
birthdayView.y = 0
birthdayView.width = 100
birthdayView.height = 100
birthdayView.flex = "LRTB"
#########################

# TODO: ##### DATE PICKER #####
dateSelector = ui.DatePicker()
dateSelector.center = (birthdayView.width / 2, birthdayView.height / 2)
dateSelector.x = birthdayView.center[0]
dateSelector.y = birthdayView.center[1]
dateSelector.background_color = "#AAA"
dateSelector.mode = 1
#########################

# TODO: ##### DAYS OUTPUT FIELD #####
daysOutputField = ui.TextView()
daysOutputField.x = birthdayView.center[0] - 15
daysOutputField.y = birthdayView.center[1] + 300
daysOutputField.width = 350
daysOutputField.height = 50
daysOutputField.background_color = "#000"
daysOutputField.text_color = "#F00"
daysOutputField.font = "<system>", 18
#########################

# TODO: ##### HOURS OUTPUT FIELD #####
hoursOutputField = ui.TextView()
hoursOutputField.x = birthdayView.center[0] - 15
hoursOutputField.y = birthdayView.center[1] + 355
hoursOutputField.width = 350
hoursOutputField.height = 50
hoursOutputField.background_color = "#000"
hoursOutputField.text_color = "#F00"
hoursOutputField.font = "<system>", 22
#########################

# TODO: ##### MINUTES OUTPUT FIELD #####
minutesOutputField = ui.TextView()
minutesOutputField.x = birthdayView.center[0] - 15
minutesOutputField.y = birthdayView.center[1] + 410
minutesOutputField.width = 350
minutesOutputField.height = 50
minutesOutputField.background_color = "#000"
minutesOutputField.text_color = "#F00"
minutesOutputField.font = "<system>", 26
#########################

# TODO: ##### SECONDS OUTPUT FIELD #####
secondsOutputField = ui.TextView()
secondsOutputField.x = birthdayView.center[0] - 15
secondsOutputField.y = birthdayView.center[1] + 465
secondsOutputField.width = 350
secondsOutputField.height = 50
secondsOutputField.background_color = "#000"
secondsOutputField.text_color = "#F00"
secondsOutputField.font = "<system>", 30
#########################

#import datetime
#from time import localtime, time, gmtime, mktime, struct_time

# TODO: ##### DEBUG FLAG #####
debugMode = 1
#########################

@run_async
def calculateTimeUntilBirthday(sender):
    global birthday
    global dateSelector
    global countdownTimer
    global daysOutputField
    global hoursOutputField
    global minutesOutputField
    global secondsOutputField
    
    while birthdayView.on_screen:
        currentTime = datetime.datetime.now()
        birthdayTime = dateSelector.date.replace(hour = 0, minute = 0, second = 0)
        birthdayString = f"{birthdayTime.month}/{birthdayTime.day}/{birthdayTime.year}"
        timeUntilBirthday = (birthdayTime) - (currentTime)
        
        seconds = timeUntilBirthday.seconds
        hours = seconds / 3600
        
        minutesLeft = hours - int(hours)
        minutesLeftMinutes = minutesLeft * 60
        
        secondsLeft = minutesLeftMinutes - int(minutesLeftMinutes)
        secondsLeftSeconds = secondsLeft * 60
        secondsLeftSeconds = round(secondsLeftSeconds, 2)
            
        daysOutput = f"Days: {timeUntilBirthday.days}"
        daysOutputField.text = daysOutput
        
        hoursOutput = f"Hours: {int(hours)}"
        hoursOutputField.text = hoursOutput
        
        minutesOutput = f"Minutes: {int(minutesLeftMinutes)}"
        minutesOutputField.text = minutesOutput
        
        secondsOutput = f"Seconds: {int(secondsLeftSeconds)}"
        secondsOutputField.text = secondsOutput
        
        
        if debugMode:
            print(f"Current Time: {currentTime}")
            print(f"Birthday Time: {birthdayTime}")
            print(f"birthdayString: {birthdayString}")
            print(f"timeUntilBirthday: {timeUntilBirthday}")
            print(f"seconds: {seconds}")
            print(f"hours: {hours}")
            print(f"minutesLeft: {minutesLeft}")
            print(f"minutesLeftMinutes: {minutesLeftMinutes}")
            print(f"secondsLeft: {secondsLeft}")
            print(f"secondsLeftSeconds: {secondsLeftSeconds}")
            print(f"secondsLeftSeconds: {secondsLeftSeconds}")
            
            print(f"Time Until Birthday: {birthdayString}\n Days: {timeUntilBirthday.days}\n  Hours: {int(hours)}\n   Minutes: {int(minutesLeftMinutes)}\n    Seconds: {int(secondsLeftSeconds)}")


#birthdayView.add_subview(countdownTimer)

birthdayView.add_subview(dateSelector)
birthdayView.add_subview(daysOutputField)
birthdayView.add_subview(hoursOutputField)
birthdayView.add_subview(minutesOutputField)
birthdayView.add_subview(secondsOutputField)

dateSelector.action = calculateTimeUntilBirthday
birthdayView.present(hide_title_bar = True)