Long time browser here, finally registered. While not on the TestFlight programme I was just wondering if your building this into an editorial workflow (which basically uses Python for its scripting), could it not also be done as a standalone pythonista implementation?
Pythonista allows for custom built UI’s so this would take the reliance out of using editorial, which still has no split screen or iPad Pro support, although I believe this may be in an extended beta. This could then be integrated so it appeared to be almost part of OF for iOS as far as the casual user would be aware.
It certainly could! Here’s how you might write that as a standalone Pythonista app extension:
# coding: utf-8
import appex
import clipboard
import dialogs
import re
import urllib
import webbrowser
def fill_placeholders(action_in):
# Find placeholders
known_placeholders = set()
placeholders = []
fields = []
for placeholder_match in re.finditer(u"«(.+?)»", action_in):
placeholder = placeholder_match.group(1)
if placeholder not in known_placeholders:
known_placeholders.add(placeholder)
placeholders.append(placeholder)
fields.append({'type': 'text', 'title': placeholder, 'key': placeholder})
action_out = action_in
# Substitute the placeholders
if len(placeholders) == 0:
if dialogs.alert(u"No template placeholders were found.", u"""
If your project text has placeholders (that look like «this»), this script will prompt for values you'd like to substitute for them.
""", u"Continue") != 1:
return
else:
print fields
values = dialogs.form_dialog(title='', fields=fields, sections=None)
print values
if values:
for key in values:
action_out = re.sub(u"«" + key + u"»", values[key], action_out)
return action_out
def main():
if not appex.is_running_extension():
print 'Running in Pythonista app, using test data...\n'
text = u"""
- «project_name» @parallel(false) @due(«due»)
- This task needs to be done at least 1 week before «project_name» is due @due(«due» -1w)
- This task needs to be done at least 2 days before «project_name» is due @due(«due» -2d)
"""
else:
text = appex.get_text()
if text:
print 'Input text: %s' % text
out = fill_placeholders(text)
if out == None:
return
print '\nPlaceholders filled:\n%s' % out
encoded_text = urllib.quote(out)
omnifocus_url = "omnifocus:///paste?target=projects&content=%s" % encoded_text
print '\nOmniFocus URL = %s\n' % omnifocus_url
webbrowser.open(omnifocus_url)
else:
print 'No input text found.'
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
