Released 09 April, 2019 – read release notes

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Changes

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colors and gradients properties have been added on Document and globalAssets

GitHub pull request #345 and #398

• sketch.globalAssets property was added
• Two new asset types were added
  • ColorAsset
    • name, type: String (can be null)
    • color, type: String
  • GradientAsset
    • name, type: String (can be null)
    • gradient, type: Gradient

Usage

Setting Global Colors (Be sure to save a copy of your global assets before playing with this!)

Note that this doesn’t work

Other useful actions

Similarily for Gradients

Setting Global Gradients

Similarly, document colors and document gradients can all be found on Document

Shared styles are now document properties and can be mutated

Two new properties on document (try not to get them mixed up as the styles are subtly different!)

• sharedLayerStyles
• sharedTextStyles

Usage

Setting a Shared Style

layer.index can now be set

You can set the index of the layer to move it in the hierarchy. Note that you also have layer.moveToFront(), layer.moveForward(), layer.moveToBack(), and layer.moveBackward()

Usage

aspectRatio property has been added to Gradient

When the gradient is Radial, the from and to points makes one axis of the ellipse of the gradient while the aspect ratio determines the length of the orthogonal axis (aspectRatio 1 means that it’s a circle).

Usage

selected property and getFrame method have been added on an Symbol override

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The frame of an override can be different than the frame of its affected Layer in case where the Symbol Instance has been scaled or, in the case of the example below, the text value is changed for the Symbol instance resulting in a shorter frame.

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Usage

layer.duplicate now works on a layer with no parent

Previously you needed to have a parent in order to duplicate the layer. Now you are free to do so without working around this.

Usage

symbolInstance.master now works on an immutable instance

If you ever got an MSImmutableSymbolInstance object and attempted to wrap the native sketch object then you would have previously gotten an error. It has now been fixed.

You can now remove flow targets with setting flow as undefined on a Layer

Previously you couldn’t remove a flow target. Now you can!

Usage

pattern properties have been added to Fill

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Previously this also applied to the noise property as well but Sketch has depreciated the noise fill option in favor of having the noise patterns be image fills.

Usage

An image buffer can now be used with ImageData

This change helps with the next one (Export now returns a buffer if output is false)

export now returns a Buffer if options.output is false and options.formats is an image format

If you ever wanted to get at the thumbnail preview image data when something is marked for export you can do so with this new API functionality.

See this issue for more info why this was added.

Quick Summary of Sketch’s export options

The method returns

• undefined if options.output is undefined or a string
• an array of Buffer if objectToExport is an array and options.formats is an image format
• an array of Object if objectToExport is an array and options.formats is json
• a Buffer if objectToExport is a single item and options.formats is an image format
• an Object if objectToExport is a single item and options.formats is json

Usage

getSelectedDocument will try harder to find your document

If you are using SKPM, SKPM defines context as a global so it will prefer to use that first. If there is no current document (via NSDocumentController.sharedDocumentController().currentDocument() then Sketch will attempt to use NSApplication.sharedApplication().orderedDocuments(). Ultimately, you don’t really need to know too much about these underlying changes but it is useful to know that .getSelectedDocument() should work reliabily. If its not, be sure to file an issue.

console.clear will now clear the DevTools console

Use console.clear() to clean up your console.

selectedPage and selectedLayers can now be set on the Document

Previously these were read-only properties. However, now you can pass in a layer or a page to these objects to set them.

Usage

Add some methods to deal with the Symbols Page

The “Symbols” page is similar to other pages. The only way it is specific is when creating a Symbol, Sketch will ask the user if they want to move it to that page. You can put Symbols in any page but if you want to respect the convention Sketch put in place, here are a few methods to help you do so.

Adds a few methods on Page

• getSymbolsPage(document)
  • Returns a Page or undefined if there is no Symbols page yet
• createSymbolsPage()
  • Returns a Page
• isSymbolsPage()
  • Returns a boolean

Usage

Note that .createSymbolsPage() won’t prevent you from creating multiple pages that are titled “Symbols”.

If you have multiple pages with “Symbols” I believe that .isSymbolsPage() will only be true for the earliest created page with the title “Symbols”. Under the hood the API is using:

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