You have even a button for this

@ihf possible and probable, but if action = Apple Shortcut and if this shortcut starts a Pythonista script, your objective is reached, isn't it?

Edit: sorry, I didn't read correctly the from a locked state

I got sometimes the same problem and it does not look like the split keyboard, only the supplementary row.

The problem occurs when I run a script in a editor's tab where the keyboard is visible.
But not in other tabs, or not if I run a script where the keyboard is hidden.

@mikael nothing special, why? Any script is ok, it is not really started by an automation but by the shortcut

I've created a shortcut automation for

• at a defined time
• action = "run shortcut" which only contains an "open url Pythonista3:://script?action=run"
  without asking before run

and it works (in unlocked mode)

@mikael said:

timed automations that would work in the background when the device is locked.

I used successfully Pyto background module to send a remote notification to my iPhone while my iPad was locked but this stops to work after I did install iOS 14.

Thus I hoped I could replace that by Shortcuts automation. 😥

@I-L please read this, seems to be still so 7 years later

For me (or I'm really bad), automation without asking to tap on the notification does only work if I'm logged on my iPad, not if it is black. At least tested with "sending an email"

@Dylko No way to help you without your code and/or your error

@tbrown313 A last solution is to copy the standard dialogs source code and modify as you want in your own version.

@blowhard could you check if after your problem a file _objc_exception.txt has been created or updated in the root of Pythonista. Perhaps is your problem coming from an Objectivec exception. If yes, you can post its content.

I think about a thread problem

@soydepr you can also try

    f = dialogs.pick_document() 

.db files are not grayed

@soydepr other solution: you can share a .db file from the Files app to Pythonista and run the standard "import file" script

@soydepr said:

greyes out

You're right, sorry

If you use "external files", it will work

@soydepr you can import the db file into Pythonista but you could even open/access it without importing it, like explained here for a script.

Here under, how to import

@tbrown313 don't use dialog if you want to

• use sheet, popover, ....
• decide the size of the view
• make the text non editable

from objc_util import *
import ui

def main():
    device = ObjCClass('UIDevice').currentDevice()
    if 'ipad' in str(device.model()).lower():
        w = 500
        h = 500
    else:
        w,h = ui.get_screen_size()
    font = ('Courier',12)       
    lc = ui.measure_string('A', font=font)[0]
    
    tv = ui.TextView()
    tv.frame = (0,0,w,h)
    tv.font = font
    tv.editable = False
    
    tvo = ObjCInstance(tv)
    p = tvo.positionFromPosition_offset_(tvo.beginningOfDocument(), 0)
    rge = tvo.textRangeFromPosition_toPosition_(p,p)
    x = tvo.firstRectForRange_(rge).origin.x
    #x = 5
    
    nc = int((w-2*x)/lc)    
    tv.text = 'A'*nc
    tv.present('sheet')
    
# Protect against import    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main() 

@tbrown313 you could try on your both devices:

import dialogs
from objc_util import *
import ui

def main():
    device = ObjCClass('UIDevice').currentDevice()
    if 'ipad' in str(device.model()).lower():
        w = 500
    else:
        w = ui.get_screen_size()[0]
    font = ('Courier',12)       
    lc = ui.measure_string('A', font=font)[0]
    
    tvo = ObjCInstance(ui.TextView())
    p = tvo.positionFromPosition_offset_(tvo.beginningOfDocument(), 0)
    rge = tvo.textRangeFromPosition_toPosition_(p,p)
    x = tvo.firstRectForRange_(rge).origin.x
    #x = 5
    
    nc = int((w-2*x)/lc)    
    f = dialogs.text_dialog(text='A'*nc, font=font) 
    
# Protect against import    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main() 

@resserone13 said:

I didn’t want to spend three days

On this forum you almost never wait during three days for an helping answer 😀
That's also an advantage of this (marvelous) app.

@resserone13

class Employee(object):
    def __init__(self, first_name, last_name, department, employee_id):
        self.first_name = first_name
        self.last_name = last_name
        self.email = '{}.{}@company.com'.format(self.first_name, self.last_name)
        self.department = department
        self.employee_id = employee_id

    def __str__(self):
        return '{} {}'.format(self.first_name, self.last_name)

    def get_email(self):
        return self.email
        
emp1 = Employee('mickey', 'mouse', 'EVS', '001')

print(emp1.get_email())

@tbrown313 text_dialog presents the view as a sheet of width=500 which can contain 68 characters with font Courier 12.
But sheet does not exist on iPhone, doc says

we call the View.present() method to get the main view on screen. 
Views can be presented with different styles. 
On the iPhone, all views are presented in full-screen, but on the iPad, 
you can choose between 'sheet', 'popover' and 'fullscreen'. 

So...for an iPhone, width will be

ui.get_screen_size()[0]