Sketch Welcome Screen

[fabb]

Small bug when Sketch "Welcome" screen is shown on app start.

Expected behavior:

Rendering should start normally.

Observed behavior:

• TypeError: null is not an object (evaluating 'context.document.currentPage')
• Sketch shows welcome screen, but does not render document

How to reproduce:

Install Sketch and don't check off "show on every launch" on the "Welcome" screen.

Sketch version:

43.2

[alisonailea]

This is still happening to me even after turning off the Welcome Screen

[jemgold]

Does it work if you open a blank document? We have no way of bypassing the Welcome Screen — I've mentioned it to @bomberstudios but we'd need Sketch to help us out :(

[fabb]

Does it work if you open a blank document?

Unfortunately not

[jemgold]

Well that seems like a bigger issue :)

Can you try this?

• Open Console.app (find it with Spotlight)
• in the sidebar, select ~/Library/Logs -> com.bohemiancoding.sketch3 -> Plugin Output.log
• Close & reopen Sketch
• open a blank document
• type npm run render in a terminal
• are there any errors in your terminal, or in that Console screen?

[alisonailea]

Close & reopen Sketch
open a blank document
type npm run render in a terminal

That works! I got the styleguide example to load.

are there any errors in your terminal, or in that Console screen?

[vjpr]

Fixed by disabling welcome screen. This should be added to the getting started guide.

[macintoshhelper]

Hi, this seems to solve the issue and bypass the welcome screen:

const sketch = require('sketch');

export default () => {
  const documents = sketch.getDocuments();
  let doc = Array.isArray(documents) && documents.length >= 1 // if there are any open documents
    ? documents[0] // select the last active document
    : new sketch.Document(); // or create a new document
  doc = doc.sketchObject;

  const data = doc.documentData();
  const pages = doc.pages();
  render(<DocumentContainer colors={theme.colors} />, data);
  data.setCurrentPage(pages.firstObject());
};

Maybe this should be added to the getting started docs?

[mathieudutour]

I believe you can just do

const sketch = require('sketch');

export default () => {
  const documents = sketch.getDocuments();
  let doc = Array.isArray(documents) && documents.length >= 1 // if there are any open documents
    ? documents[0] // select the last active document
    : new sketch.Document(); // or create a new document

  render(<DocumentContainer colors={theme.colors} />, doc);
  doc.selectedPage = doc.pages[0] // not sure that's necessary?
};

[macintoshhelper]

Yes, that works too and is cleaner, thanks. The doc.selectedPage = doc.pages[0] isn't needed and can be removed, that was left in to resolve some issue I was having in the past. Should I add it to the docs?

[mathieudutour]

sure! 🙏