@cvp said:

sorry for the delay but I needed some time to solve it

Please don't be sorry. I assume you are a volunteer contributor, and even if not, the response times are quite a bit lower, than what I have experienced from paid professionals :)

As for your question on wether or not you have understood the question, I can't answer that with exact certainty, but the solution you have provided does exactly what I was looking for, so I'd say that you most likely figured out what I meant. Sorry if I was not clear - English is not a first language for me, and the Python terminology is also a bit new for me.

Encouraged by the good and solid responses for my previous question I will dare another one here :)

Is there a way to maximize the console scriptually?

I have a script which I call through Siri Shortcuts, and prints the output to the console, but the state of the console/editor view is as Pythonista was left, so my thinking was to maximize the console view through the script.

@cvp said:

Normally, it is the purpose of deleting the imported dialogs module, did you remove this part of code?

No I kept it exactly as you wrote it (copy/paste). I can offer no explanation, but I did narrow in on the problem:

Removing the try/except-block around the del sys.modules['dialogs']-line, gave me the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/60EBD24F-667F-4F6E-B595-9100C20FC784/Pythonista3/Documents/dialogs_2.py", line 4, in <module>
    del sys.modules['dialogs']
NameError: name 'sys' is not defined

So I tried to add import sys in the beginning of the file, and it worked well. I am a bit perplexed by this behaviour, as I understood it so, that the sys-module would always be loaded?

Keeping the import-statement in place, I reinserted the try/except-block and it works flawlessly.

I am using Python 3.6 Interpreter in Pythoniste v.3.2 (320000).

Again thank you for the teaching points @cvp :)

I tried your code, and as you suggested, the rerun did give an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/60EBD24F-667F-4F6E-B595-9100C20FC784/Pythonista3/Documents/dialogs_2.py", line 16, in     <module>
    f = dialogs.form_dialog(title='dialog title', done_button_title='ok',fields=fields, sections=None)
  File "/var/containers/Bundle/Application/CD376C3C-8193-4F37-B990-A9B960D30F2D/Pythonista3.app/Frameworks/Py3Kit.framework/pylib/site-packages/dialogs.py", line 456, in form_dialog
    c = _FormDialogController(title, sections, done_button_title=done_button_title)
  File "/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/60EBD24F-667F-4F6E-B595-9100C20FC784/Pythonista3/Documents/dialogs_2.py", line 10, in my__init__
    original__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/60EBD24F-667F-4F6E-B595-9100C20FC784/Pythonista3/Documents/dialogs_2.py", line 10, in my__init__
    original__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/60EBD24F-667F-4F6E-B595-9100C20FC784/Pythonista3/Documents/dialogs_2.py", line 10, in my__init__
    original__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
  [Previous line repeated 494 more times]
RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object

Am I missing something here or isn't it the purpose of the del sys.modules['dialogs']-statement to avoid this issue?

@cvp, thank you for your quick response.

I see the magic lies in utilising c.textfield_did_end_editing and assigning that to a done_action(or like) function.

Again thank you - can I buy you a cup of coffee?

I just started on Pythonista a few days ago (and so far I love it), in order to learn a bit more of Python (I have no professional programming experience).

So after having stolen and modified the code by @cvp here and modified it a bit I ended up with the following little snippet, to convert a temperature from Fahrenheit to Celcius (just to have it do something more than print hello world):

from dialogs import _FormDialogController
from console import set_color

c = _FormDialogController('Input Box', [('', [{'title':'Fahrenheit:','type':'text','value':''}])], done_button_title='Done')
c.container_view.frame = (0, 0, 400,130)
 c.container_view.present('sheet')
 c.container_view.wait_modal()
 c.container_view = None
 if c.was_canceled:
    set_color(1,0,0)
    print('! ', end='')
    set_color()
    print('Cancelled')
 else:
    try:
       float(c.values['Fahrenheit:'])
       set_color(1,1,1)
       print(round((int(c.values['Fahrenheit:'])-32)*5/9,2), end='')
       set_color()
       print('˚C')
    except:
       set_color(1,0,0)
       print('! ', end='')
       set_color()

I went the way with the custom box, in order to generate a simple single-line input form, which the dialogs in the dialogs-module does not seem to have, so this seemed like the appropriate way.
I am missing a way to to press enter after having entered the Fahrenheit value, rather than having pto press Done. Is this doable?

On a side-note: The documentation for console.set_color doesn't actually mention this, unlike for console.set_font, but set_color() (without parameters) does actually set the color back to default color.