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Add spacers to your home screen with Pythonista
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I created a script that can make a spacer icon (an image that's just a cropped version of your wallpaper at the relevant location) to put on your home screen. It runs a Bottle server and opens a page in Safari where you can tap a position to use as the icon. Then you can tap the Share button and add the page to your home screen. It uses the zero-width joiner (
&zwj
) as an invisible space that Safari accepts as a bookmark name.Here it is on Github: 0942v8653/pythonista-homescreen-spacer
Of course you can also make an icon to add a new spacer icon with my pythonista-homescreen-icon script.
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This is amazing, I was just trying to reverse engineer something using pythonista with safari, URLs, and base64 encoding. Now I can use this code to figure out how to do what I'm trying to do. Thank you!!
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Great, thanks a lot. If somebody need the values for the iPad (retina display)...
size = 152 startpos = (163, 176) diff = (352, 322) cols, rows = 4, 5 ... width:76px; height:76px; ... <div style="background:url(http://localhost:8080/screen.png);background-size:768px 1024px;height:1024px">
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I updated the script so that you only need to change those top four lines (the other numbers are calculated automatically). It should also support non-retina displays or iPhone 6+ if you can figure out those numbers at the top.
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I have to ask - what the heck is this for? I have no idea what problem this is solving but it seems important. Please excuse the clueless question.
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Creation of invisible home screen schortcuts.
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I found this article describing the entire problem. http://david-smith.org/blog/2014/10/15/blank-icon-slots/