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Creating Home Screen Icons
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Version 1.2 introduces the pythonista:// URL scheme for opening and running scripts in your library. Using Safari web clips (home screen bookmarks), you can use this to create dedicated icons for your scripts on the home screen.
As of now, this is pretty much a proof of concept, there's no way to select different icons, and the UI is pretty sparse, but if you like experiments, open this page on a device that has Pythonista installed:
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'Scuse me @omz could i have a detailed explanation on how to do this? When i open the shortcut it gives me:
the url could not be shown
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Do you have the latest update installed (version 1.2, out today)? It only works with that.
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Yeah but there's still a problem
Here are my steps1. Open the link 2. Type the name of one of my scripts in this case a default one (Zen) 3. Then rename the homescreen icon name to Zen 4. open it
This is where my error message pops up.
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Hm, weird, as I said, it's pretty experimental, but it's been working for me. Will look into it.
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Working for me too
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Working no problem for me here with my scripts. Love this!
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Sorry, not clear for me: where on Safari are "home screen bookmarks" to be found?
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It should look like this (make sure to tap the "Create Shortcut" link first):
<img src="http://omz-software.com/temp/IMG_0009.PNG"/>
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im still on ios 5.1.1 so that may be a problem
hope y'all can help me out in this muddle -
It should work on any iOS past like 3 or 4...
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Does the shortcut need to be renamed to match the scripts name?
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No it does not.
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It does not work for me either. It is quite strange as it works perfectly fine if in run pythonista://MyScript? from safari
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@pantazi: Using iOS 5 or 6? Do you get any error message?
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5, have an old ipad. I get the same error as above
the url could not be shown -
These shortcuts seem to be broken on iOS 7.
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yep it is broken on iOS 7
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: ( Any chance this can get fixed?
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I've looked into this, and it seems that it's no longer possible to make homescreen shortcuts that open non-web URLs (e.g.
pythonista://...
) on iOS 7, and I haven't found any workaround so far. I also tried creating a configuration profile with an embedded web clip, but that doesn't work either.