Hi.
I have looked high and low with no luck but this feels like it should be simple. I am trying to programmatically emulate swiping left in the editor to show the preview of a markdown file.
Is there a way to open a file in preview using a url or is there a workflow / python interface to show the file in preview ?
Cheers
There is no built-in “Show Preview” action, and there isn’t really a Python interface for this either. The good news is that Editorial can call native Objective-C code, using the objc_util module, so this hack should work (via a “Run Python Script” action):
from objc_util import UIApplication, on_main_thread
@on_main_thread
def main():
app=UIApplication.sharedApplication()
vc=app.keyWindow().rootViewController()
vc.showAccessoryWithAnimationDuration_(0.3)
avc = vc.accessoryViewController()
avc.showPreview()
main()
Caveat: This might break at some point, when I change the internals. It should be possible to adapt it though.
Super cool. Can I ask how you’d display the file list (left slider) of the current open document? Thanks in advance.
...dave