How to open a template sketch file in a plugin

daituzhang

Hi, I'm new to plugin development and was following http://developer.sketchapp.com/guides/ guides.
I want to open a sketch file from /src/assets/template.sketch when user run the plugin, but I couldn't find document around it. Can anyone help? Great thanks!

daituzhang

I tried the code snippet from http://sketchplugins.com/d/237-open-a-sketc-file-as-a-template-via-a-plugin
but got -[__NSCFString path]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x61000013c160 error

daituzhang

Can anyone help?
It seems that
var filePath = "~/Library/Application Support/com.bohemiancoding.sketch3/Plugins/YouPlugin.sketchplugin/Contents/Resources/template.sketch"; NSApp.delegate().openTemplateAtPath(filePath)
Doesn't work anymore, is there a new way to do it?

James

daituzhang The file path is pointing to a 'template.sketch' Sketch file within your plugin bundle. Have you placed a Sketch file with that name in that location? Otherwise, to use the templates provided by Sketch, have the file path point to '~/Library/Application Support/com.bohemiancoding.sketch3/Templates'

daituzhang

James
Hi James, Thank you for answering!
Sorry I was just using that url as an example.
I have file in my plugin under:
~/Library/Application Support/com.bohemiancoding.sketch3/Plugins/my-plugin/plugin.sketchplugin/Contents/Resources/template.sketch
I got error: -[__NSCFString path]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x618000329ce0
I tried ~/Library/Application Support/com.bohemiancoding.sketch3/Templates and got the same error

robin

daituzhang Looks like openTemplateAtPath_ was changed to take a NSURL, so you'll need to do something like

var pathString = "~/Library/Application Support/com.bohemiancoding.sketch3/Templates/hello.sketch";
var path = NSString.alloc().initWithString_(pathString).stringByExpandingTildeInPath();
var url = NSURL.fileURLWithPath_(path);
NSApp.delegate().openTemplateAtPath_(url);

daituzhang

robin Thank you sooooooo much!!! That works!!!!

Ashung

Save the template file within your plugin bundle, YouPlugin.sketchplugin/Contents/Resources/template.sketch.

var templatePath = context.plugin.urlForResourceNamed("template.sketch").path();
NSApp.delegate().openTemplateAtPath(templatePath);

vennsoh

Ashung This helps! I'm trying to find APIs/Docs on context. Where can I read more about this?

vladbers

Good day!
Please tell me how can I open a sketch file directly from my server, let's say I have file.sketch on my server, how can I open it through my plugin? I didn't find anything via Api and the Document.open () function, (err, document) => {only opens locally

Thank you for your help and answer!