Possible feature - autoexec script shortcuts if app is pulled to foreground or category switch

[forumlw06]

Hi Roland,

while playing around with my shutter project (see also #466) i'd like to update the icons of my shutters to display approximate shutter position. If i move shutters only with HTTP Request Shortcut i could keep track of the position and the icon would always reflect the current position.
But as i can control shutters also outside HTTP request shortcut, the real position might be different than what HTTP request Shortcut thinks and so the icon (and possible depending actions) would be wrong.
That's why i update the icons before and after the shortcut, but that happens only after activating the shortcut (so kind of too late)

I was thinking if it would be possible to maybe have what i call "autoexec script shortcuts". I could think of a "global autoexec shortcut" that would be triggered once the app gets active / comes to foreground in android, and i can also think of a "category autoexec shortcut" that is triggered, when a user switches to that category.

Not sure if "activating (bring to foreground) the app" or "switching the category" could be caught by your app.
If yes, the app could check if a shortcut "autoexec_global" or a shortcut "autoexec_" (names to be defined) exists and then trigger the according shortcuts.

With that kind of mechanism it would be easy to prepare things without having to trigger a shortcut manually first.

Maybe an idea for your feature list. Could be useful in some cases, but i don't know if that fits to your concepts/ideas for the app.

Thanks!

Regards Rainer

[Waboodoo]

Hi,

Thanks for the detailed explanation. Currently there is no such feature in the app, but I'm planning on adding something like this eventually. I have yet to figure out how to best do it, but I imagine a setting that allows you to have a shortcut be triggered when the app is opened, and potentially triggered every X minutes while the app remains open.
I can't make any promises about ifs and whens of this, but it's on my radar.