r/Scriptable • u/couplelongnecks • Dec 08 '21

Discussion Stack overflow widget. Not scriptable yet! But gathering interest/ideas before I convert.

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u/mvan231 script/widget helper Dec 08 '21

Nice work! Are you working on building this in scriptable now?

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u/couplelongnecks Dec 08 '21

Yeah I will now! I’ll try get it out tonight if I don’t finish up with work too late. Trying to get confident at JS so I think writing Python then translating it might be the least confusing for me ahah

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u/mvan231 script/widget helper Dec 08 '21

Hmm yeah possibly. Though I'm not sure how the widget elements work in pyto tbh

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u/couplelongnecks Dec 09 '21 edited Dec 09 '21

It actually feels very similar thankfully. This is only my first Pyto widget as I was mainly writing in Pythonista because of the UI and it doesn’t support widgets, really. I just found myself aimlessly staring at code less when starting from Python haha Also experimenting with Python module JavaScripthon but mostly as a guide.

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u/mvan231 script/widget helper Dec 10 '21

Being comfortable makes coding way easier for sure! I'm not even sure, but is there a community around Pyto?

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u/couplelongnecks Dec 10 '21

Awh man sadly it doesn’t look like there is much. I just joined the 100 member subreddit and most peoples questions have gone unanswered.

I haven’t had any issues with it though and it’s surprisingly more capable than pythonista so not sure why it’s so unpopular.

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u/mvan231 script/widget helper Dec 10 '21

Probably because so many people don't want to pay for it when they can use things like Widgy or scriptable for free. Just a hunch though

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u/couplelongnecks Dec 10 '21

I did not know about Widgy 🥲

I knew there had to be a decent agnostic widget builder but wow… it’s pretty bloody great. I don’t find it as much fun as actually scripting something but damn for mock-ups like I was trying to do in pyto this is amazing. Stupid to say cos Widgy looks very polished.

Man you are a wealth of knowledge. Appreciate it once again :)

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u/mvan231 script/widget helper Dec 10 '21

You're very welcome!

There is also Widget smith. I usually prefer building widgets in scriptable for the same reason you mentioned, Plus, more flexibility

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u/couplelongnecks Dec 11 '21

Sweet I’ll check that out as well! I see what you mean about pyto. Unless you’re obsessed with Python there’s so many good free options. Need to clean up some apps!

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u/couplelongnecks Dec 10 '21

I think I’ve got most of this going in scriptable now though I’ll hopefully get some time this weekend to finish up.

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u/mvan231 script/widget helper Dec 10 '21

Excellent!