How to hide status bar in scene?

[mikael]

@Tey, this seems solvable. Could you first clarify whether you are developing with the ui or scene? I would expect scene if this is some type of a game, and ui otherwise.

Your code snippet imports both, but only uses ui, as the scene class seems not to be used.

If you are really using scene only, you should not be using present, only scene.run.

If you are using ui, you can use the workaround I mentioned above to hide the Apple stuff at the top.

[JonB]

If you import * from objc_util, then erase the objc_util before UIApplication.

But yes, there is a different solution for scenes inside sceneview, versus scenes using Scene.run

[Tey]

@mikael
I am new to all this, so I’m not sure what you mean by “developing with”. I am using both scene and ui. I create menus by calls to ui, not with the UI builder.The program begins with menu buttons appearing to float on top of the initially black scene (because the menu itself has alpha 0.) Pressing a button causes the buttons to disappear and an animation to begin. Pressing a navicon icon in the upper left of the scene causes the animation to stop and the buttons to return. Menus of buttons and controls will be dynamically created allowing the user to adjust animation parameters.

[mikael]

@Tey, thank you for explaining. Since you are mostly building on scene with minor ui embellishments, and do not like the Apple stuff at the top, start with running the scene and then add ui elements as needed. Please see a minimal example below.

With the mixed use, remember that for scene, y=0 is at the bottom, while for the ui views it is at the top.

import ui
import scene

class Loop(scene.Scene):
    
    def setup(self):
        self.background_color = 'black'
        
        btn1 = self.button1 = ui.Button(
            title='Animation 1',
            background_color='grey',
            tint_color='black',
            action=self.animation1,
        )
        btn1.size_to_fit()
        btn1.width += 16
        btn1.center = self.view.bounds.center()
        self.view.add_subview(btn1)
        
        btne = self.end_button = ui.Button(
            title='Stop',
            background_color='transparent',
            tint_color='grey',
            action=self.show_menu,
            hidden=True,
        )
        btne.size_to_fit()
        btne.width += 16
        btne.x = btne.y = 8
        self.view.add_subview(btne)
        
    def hide_menu(self):
        self.button1.hidden = True
        self.end_button.hidden = False
        
    def show_menu(self, sender):
        for node in self.children:
            node.remove_all_actions()
            node.remove_from_parent()
        self.button1.hidden = False
        self.end_button.hidden = True
        
    def animation1(self, sender):
        self.hide_menu()
        ship = scene.SpriteNode('spc:PlayerShip1Orange')
        ship.position = self.size / 2
        self.add_child(ship)
        ship.run_action(
            scene.Action.repeat_forever(
                scene.Action.rotate_by(1)
        ))

scene.run(Loop())

[cvp]

@JonB said:

If you import * from objc_util, then erase the objc_util before UIApplication.

Of course, this is how my script does but I forgot to mention it, sorry.

[Tey]

@mikael
Thank you so much! It looks like it will do the trick. I won’t have time to apply it to my project for the next week or so but will get back to you.

[Carme7n]

We need to hide the status bar, navigation bar, and other things and only show the content we want to display!

[omz]

I'm not sure if I understand the problem correctly, and I think a solution has already have been suggested.

However, I would recommend using scene.run() for presenting, and then adding UI elements e.g. in setup(), like this:

from scene import *
A = Action

class MyScene (Scene):
	def setup(self):
		button = ui.Button(title='Tap me')
		self.view.add_subview(button)
	
	def did_change_size(self):
		pass
		# You may want to do layout here...
	
	# ...

if __name__ == '__main__':
	run(MyScene(), show_fps=False)

(Modified just slightly from the standard Game/Animation template)