Can't make shortcut icons.

shinya.ta

Once version upgrade is done on iOS 13, you can't make a shortcut of a script of Pythonisa on the home screen.
Is this a bug? Is there any change in the way?

shinya.ta

If you restart the icon that you made once, nothing will be displayed.

cvp

@shinya.ta In reality, the problem is more complex, I think. With IOS13 and Pythonista beta 330014 (and perhaps also with standard and last beta versions), the icon shortcut starts your script two times at almost the same moment and if your script does not check if it already is running, it locks or crashes or... depending on the script process.

I have opened an issue here

cvp

The best way now, I think, to create a shortcut icon on the home screen to start a Pythonista script is to create a shortcut in the Apple standard Shortcuts App with only one command,
"Execute Pythonista" and giving it the script folder and name.
Then tap "on home screen" where you can define the text and the icon of shortcut.
After that, you will see a new icon on your home screen.
And you would even been able to execute it by only say its name via Siri

mikael

@cvp, issue is the same with the App Store version. Thanks for pointing out the workround.

shinya.ta

The problem was solved. I was confused because the system has changed quite a lot due to changes in the system.

generic

@cvp I thought your solution was good but when the shortcut is run it cannot find the script. I've tried putting the script in various of the Pythonista folders, iCloud, site packages etc.

I presume I need to give the shortcut the full path to the script, and I've tried a few variants but simply cannot get the right path to make the shortcut fire the script.

Ideally I would like to have the script "test.py" in the top iCloud folder, and provide the path to this in the shortcut

Any clues?

cvp

@generic shortcut "execute Pythonista script" does not work for iCloud folder of Pythonista

That works, but non iCloud and without arguments

couplelongnecks

Not sure if this helps anyone but also since running this script does not work at the moment. This workaround does work. If you make a 2 action shortcut with:

pythonista3://iCloud/shortcutScript.py?action=run
    |
<open url>

it should work. You can get get your script URL with this:

import _pythonista, os

def this_url():
	_script = os.path.realpath(__file__)
	script_url = _pythonista.make_url(_script)
	return script_url

cvp

@couplelongnecks Pythonista doc says

Run a script from your library:

Use pythonista://MyScript.py?action=run for running a script that is in your library. 
By default, the script path is relative to Pythonista’s local documents folder. 
Add ?root=icloud to make the path relative to Pythonista’s iCloud folder instead.

couplelongnecks

@cvp This works for you?
I havent been able to get that working. If its in the docs its probably user error on my part.
Excuse the ignorance but whats the difference/benefit to this method?

cvp

@couplelongnecks you're right, it does not work, sorry.
But it seems that pythonista3://iCloud/shortcutScript.py?action=run does not work too...

But this works

pythonista3://shortcutScript.py?action=run&root=icloud

couplelongnecks

@cvp
Awesome! That works for me!
The link I posted must have been a fluke, yours must be the robust way. So will implement! :)

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