Add text field for a custom layer property to inspector panel

niceone

I'm trying to find a starting point for a rather simple plugin (I guess): A text input field in the inspector panel for layer annotations. In our concrete project this would be super helpful e.g. to attach localisation keys to text layers.

Thanks for any pointers in the right direction!

dbrody

For the ContentSync plugin we had a similar use case for adding localization keys (and more).

The solution involved using the Sketch Headers (Objective C binding apis) to go into the "internals" of Sketch and append interface. For example, MSDocument includes:
@property(retain, nonatomic) MSInspectorController *inspectorController;
Which gives some access to the UI. Since this isn't part of the Sketch official public API, it requires a good amount of time to get it right.

Perhaps Sketch is working to improve UI integrations in their API?