Code mentors for Textual?

[evanpolster]

Quick question.

I am struggling a bit with learning Textual. I have a simple App (see attached) I created that is actually looking far better than I would have imagined, for only a handful of hours of effort thus far, but I still am getting peculiar layout problems. That, and the runtime type and object identification is throwing me for a bit of a loop. (In days of old I would have had this thing called a "variable associated with a class instance" to play with :-)

For example, the layout of the app I have I would have thought would put the two containers right next to each other vertically yet the second one is apparently docked at the center or bottom when I requested dock:top. Just one example of many challenges I am running into.

Are there code mentors available for hire?

Just curious,

_evan

[davep]

You're very welcome to post questions here or over in the #help-wanted channel on our Discord server. Note that it's far easier to help diagnose the sorts of issues you mention above if it's accompanied by minimal-but-runnable code examples that illustrate what you're having trouble with.

PS: you can still create widgets and assign references to to them to instance variables; it's all still Python. It's quite a common thing to do that.

[evanpolster]

Thanks for your reply!

I attempted to drag the .py and .css file into this discusssion board but it does not allow it.

I connected to Discord Textual discussion earlier today but it did not allow me to post. I apparently did not go to #help-wanted.

I will try there.

[davep]

The common methods of sharing code here would be to quote the code in your post (ideally if it's pretty short), use a gist, or simply share a repository with the code inside.

[willmcgugan]

We're here to help as Dave says! You may also find this how-to on building a layout to be helpful.

[evanpolster]

Ah. Okay. Outside to inside. Makes sense. Let me see if I can get this to work without bothering you.