How to add custom panels to sketch like InVision craft or AutoLayout

hxgqh

hxgqh This code snippet DO NOT support multiple documents. If two panel added, sketch will crash.

hxgqh

websiddu What craft use is: https://github.com/sbooth/SFBPopovers. You can bring this framework to your plugin.

dbrody

At ContentSync (https://www.contentsync.io) we have used a combination of listening to the OpenDocument notification and appending a view into the SplitView of Sketch. By handling the way we insert the view properly we get our plugin to work well with Craft and others.

nikogu

@dbrody we do as same as you, but we listened to the sketch onOpenDocument action, there has a problem that is when the document open, the document.documentWindow().contentView() is not ready. so we add a setTimeout to do delay, but it will crashed and bring some bugs.

What did you do with that ?

Ariel

nikogu do you have Invision plugin installed? try disabling it... I needed to wait until Invision plugin installs it nsview, and then add mine (if not Invision plugin crash)

katyusha

I've been looking for a way to do this for quite some time (returning to this thread on multiple occasions looking for updates) and just wanted to share this blog post by James Tang describing how to do this with Xcode.

https://blog.magicsketch.io/sketch-plugin-xcode-template-c8236a6f7fff

It's a great post so definitely take a look if you're trying to understand how plugins like Anima might be doing this. It was easy to follow and I was able to get the plugin working and a custom panel added in 52.5 but that's about as far as I can get with my limited knowledge of the environment and obj-c.

Looking forward to a skpm solve (hopefully?) for custom panels.

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