Copy selection to NSPasteboard?

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Copy selection to NSPasteboard?

kupe517

Is there a way to copy the current selection, assuming it's layer class is MSBitmapLayer, to the NSPasteboard?

turbobabr

You could copy any set of selected layers by using MSCopyAction:

var document = context.document;
var copyAction = document.actionsController().actionForID("MSCopyAction");
if(copyAction.validate()) {
    copyAction.performAction(null);
}

kupe517

turbobabr Thank you for the help. I'm still a bit new to plugin development and cocoascript. In your script above where are you telling it which layer to copy?

turbobabr

kupe517 Hey! The copy action is performed agains current selected set of layers. Do you need to copy some custom list of layer?

kupe517

kupe517 Nevermind, it appears to just copy what is selected. Still don't fully understand it but it works. Thank you!

turbobabr

kupe517 So called actions are bound to default Sketch commands, in this case MSCopyAction does exactly the same thing as command-c shortcut.

kupe517

turbobabr Very cool. Is there is a list of all the actions somewhere? Also in your code is there any kind of response that gets sent back when the copyAction is successful? In my plugin I need to make sure the layer has been copied to the pasteboard before I run some more code. Thanks for the help!

turbobabr

Every action class has validate method which checks whether action could be performed in the current context:

var document = context.document;
var copyAction = document.actionsController().actionForID("MSCopyAction");
var pasteAction = document.actionsController().actionForID("MSPasteAction");
if(copyAction.validate()) { // This condition checks whether `copy` action could be performed.
    copyAction.performAction(null);
    pasteAction.performAction(null); // After performing `copy` action -> data gets into pasteboard immediately.
} else {
    print("Selection is empty!");
}

All available actions could be listed using this code snippet:

var document = context.document;
print(document.actionsController().allActions());

In Sketch 44, there're 189 actions