How to prevent text layer name from changing when text is updated?

nbiehl

Setting a text layer's 'name' not persistent. As soon as the text is updated, it changes the name.

var contrastText = new Text({
    text: 'Dummy text to be overwritten',
    parent: doc.pages[0],
    name: 'my_text_layer',
    frame: new Rectangle(40,108, 560,100),
    fixedWidth:true,
    style: {
        fontFamily: 'Roboto',
        lineHeight: 21,
        fontSize: 12,
        textColor:'#808080',
        fills:[],
        borders:[]
    }
})

contrastText.text='Why will this change the layer name when a name value is set?'

The new layer will not retain the intended my_text_layer name. Instead it's updated to the truncated Why will this change text. I can't see any properties in the JS API to prevent this. How can I lock the name in place?

kevgski

Ya there's a private property that needs to be changed in order for your text layer name to be fixed.
https://github.com/abynim/Sketch-Headers/blob/master/Headers/_MSLayer.h#L21

textLayer.sketchObject.nameIsFixed = true

Let me know if that works for ya.

nbiehl

The property works great, but due to the way I was creating the text layer the name was still changing before I could set the nameIsFixed. Found out the order of the text properties are important when passing in a variable for the text string. Initially I had:

var contrastText = new Text({
        parent: contrastArtboard,
        frame: new Rectangle(40,108, 560,1029),
        fixedWidth:true,
        name: 'contrast_report_text',
        text: contrastReportCardText,
        setNameIsFixed: true,
        style: {
            fontFamily: 'Roboto',
            lineHeight: 21,
            fontSize: 12,
            textColor:doc.swatches[bodyTextPrimary].referencingColor,
            fills:[],
            borders:[]
        }
    })
    contrastText.sketchObject.nameIsFixed = true

The layer name was still getting changed. Which was odd because it didn't have this issue with my other simplified example that had a static text string. The simple fix was to move the name property below the text:

var contrastText = new Text({
        parent: contrastArtboard,
        frame: new Rectangle(40,108, 560,1029),
        fixedWidth:true,
        text: contrastReportCardText,
        name: 'contrast_report_text',
        setNameIsFixed: true,
        style: {
            fontFamily: 'Roboto',
            lineHeight: 21,
            fontSize: 12,
            textColor:doc.swatches[bodyTextPrimary].referencingColor,
            fills:[],
            borders:[]
        }
    })
    contrastText.sketchObject.nameIsFixed = true

Thank you!