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Make Calculator Run from Anywhere on iPad...how?
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I'm totally new at this. So the calculator example that comes with Pythonista...does that mean I can run it from anywhere on my iPad? How do I make it start up? I can make it run in Pythonista, of course, but what if I want to actually start using it since the iPad does not come with a calculator? Or am I completely misunderstanding what I can do with Pythonista? I don't understand how one takes a script and makes it run on the iPad without starting Pythonista first.
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You'd have to use the Xcode template to compile it into an iOS app, and then side load that onto your device. It's a complicated process that you probably don't want to get into, but I can help you with that if you want
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Ok. So when people write these scripts then Pythonista has to be up and running first and then we just pick from our list of scripts in the file manager, yes
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@photodada22 Yep. You can also add them to the home screen with the shortcut in the wrench menu, but that will just be a shortcut that opens Pythonista.
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Ok. Thanks for the explanation.
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You can also run scripts from the Share Menu of any app with a share menu such as safari.
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Or, if you have some "launch" app, like for instance launcher, you can launch Pythonista from the today/notifications center (where launcher is a widget), asking Pythonista to directly run a particular script.
I define all my scripts in this way, so, they have their own icon and they all do this:
- launch Pythonista
- create an empty panel as background to hide the Pythonista script
- process
- terminate by "crashing" to go back to the home screen
If they run in the share sheet, they don't end by crash but by closing the appex mode.
