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Pythonista empty start screen
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My scripts, when started via url scheme (pythonista://MyApps/Scriptname?action=run), always begin by a full screen ui.view hiding the App background and hiding the title bar, and are ended by buttons which return to the Apple home screen via webbrowser.open("launcher://crash"). So, the user would never see the Pythonista app, nor at begin, nor at end.
Could it be possible that, when Pythonista starts by its url (ex: launched by any Launcher app or by an home screen icon), the App shows an empty start screen instead of its main menu?
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From the latest update:
You can customize the startup process of the Python interpreter by creating a file named “pythonista_startup.py” in the site-packages folder. When the app is launched, the interpreter will execute this module, so that all variables/functions/classes in the script become available globally. A common use case might be from math import * (if you want to use the console as a calculator). Note: If Pythonista becomes unusable due to a misbehaving startup script, you can launch the app in a “clean” state by entering pythonista:// in Safari’s address field.
You could use the editor module to load an empty file.
I'm not confident that will work when you load a script via the URL scheme though...but you can try!
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@cook
pythonista_startup.pyis not run when you launch the app from a URL scheme. It's only run if you launch the app manually. All this would accomplish would be loading an empty file every time you opened the app. -
I'm thinking about adding some optional arguments to the URL scheme to basically show an empty screen (or perhaps a colored background with an icon) when launching a script via URL scheme. I haven't really started implementing any of it though, and there are a couple of things with higher priority on my todo list right now.
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Tanks everybody for your answers.
I think that, as OMZ said, there is no solution actually.
Not very important because there is only 1 second between the launch via Url and the load of my ui.view and during this second max, the start screen of Pythonsta is displayed. -
@omz do you still plan to add this optional argument to the URL scheme?
Anyway, one more time, thanks for your marvelous app! -
See the hoped result
