@ihf I think it is the same for Shortcut as for Pythonista: a background run of a small non-UI script is only possible in Siri. In all other cases the full app is launched in foreground.

@JoanneWillian I use it on an iPad mini 4, see here for all functionalities

@ihf I think that is almost always possible to write a Pythonista script which performs the same process as a Shortcut script.

@ihf That would say that Shortcut app would run in background...

@JonB That' what I do when I need such a function but he hoped a better way...

@JonB I think that @shinyformica hopes to find a way to use functions like without be obliged to define them entirely.
As we can use any method of a class/instance (found by dir).

@shinyformica Never found a standard way but always found a workaround like

CGRect(CGPoint(x,y), CGSize(w, h)) is similar to CGRectMake(x,y,w,h)

@djl or

import ui
import time
import dialogs
from objc_util import *

def open_in_with_specified_activities(path_in,uiview):
    global handler_done,SUIViewController_service
    handler_done = False
    SUIViewController_service = None
    def handler(_cmd,obj1_ptr,_error):
        global handler_done,SUIViewController_service
        # obj1_ptr = None if no service selected
        if obj1_ptr:
            obj1 = ObjCInstance(obj1_ptr)
            SUIViewController_service = str(obj1)
        handler_done = True
        return

    vo = ObjCInstance(uiview)
    SUIViewController = ObjCClass('SUIViewController')
    root_vc = SUIViewController.viewControllerForView_(vo)
    main_view = root_vc.view()
    handler_block = ObjCBlock(handler, restype=None, argtypes=[c_void_p, c_void_p, c_void_p])
    if type(path_in) is list or type(path_in) is tuple:
        path = path_in
    else:
        path = [path_in]        
    url_array = []
    for elem in path:
        url_array.append(nsurl(elem))
    UIActivityViewController = ObjCClass('UIActivityViewController').alloc().initWithActivityItems_applicationActivities_(url_array,None)
    
    UIActivityViewController.setCompletionWithItemsHandler_(handler_block)
        
    UIActivityViewController.popoverPresentationController().sourceView = main_view
    UIActivityViewController.popoverPresentationController().sourceRect = CGRect(CGPoint(10,10), CGSize(uiview.width,uiview.height))
    
    root_vc.presentViewController_animated_completion_(UIActivityViewController, True, None)
                
    while not handler_done:
        time.sleep(1)
    
    if SUIViewController_service == None:
        SUIViewController_service = 'None'  # for checking at return and use in alert       
    
    return SUIViewController_service
    
v = ui.View()
v.frame = (0,0,600,400)
v.background_color = 'white'
v.present('sheet')
    
service = open_in_with_specified_activities('sample.gpx', v)
print(service)
v.close()

@djl In this case, is this not sufficient ?

console.open_in(file_path)

@ccc Sincerely, what do you think about the functionality?