Auto-sizing text layers is disabled

[matt-curtis]

The more recent versions of Sketch have changed the backing implementation of text layers (MSTextLayer), making it impossible/more difficult to get the bounding size of text within a text layer. This feature has been disabled until an alternative can be found.

[ajilderda]

Hi Matt,

I'm not sure if I understand the problem correctly, but is layer.adjustFrameToFit(); in the Sketch Javascript API of any help? If I trigger that function on the textlayers that were resized by Fluid the bounding boxes get resized properly.

[matt-curtis]

@ajilderda That's great - looks like it solves the problem! Putting this into place.

[ajilderda]

Nice! 🎉 Looking forward to the new release. Thanks Matt!

[matt-curtis]

@ajilderda Trying to get this to work now on a fixed text layer and it doesn't seem to have any affect. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

[ajilderda]

No idea. I assume you loop through the layers and use adjustFrameToFit(); on them? That's how I tested it. I can provide you an example if you need one. I also see there's adjustToFit() which does exactly the same, but it requires you to import the Sketch api.

[matt-curtis]

Weird. I have a document where I've created a fixed-width text layer and am running this in the console with no affect. I guess it doesn't work any more?

const textLayer = context.selection[0];

textLayer.adjustFrameToFit();

[ajilderda]

The code you provided works here. Here's how to reproduce it:

1. Open a new document and create an artboard
2. Create a textlayer with multiple lines of lorem ipsum text over the full width of the artboard.
3. Set constraints to left 200 and right 200 relative to the canvas.
4. Update layout. The bounding box is smaller than the actual text.
5. While having the textbox selected go to Plugins › Custom plugin and run the script you provided:

const textLayer = context.selection[0];

textLayer.adjustFrameToFit();

6. You'll see that the bounding box is adjusted to the height of the text.

Does that help?

[matt-curtis]

Thank you for taking the time to write that up. Oddly enough, even following your instructions exactly it's not working for me. What version of Sketch are you running?

[ajilderda]

No problem! That's indeed odd. I'm using Sketch 43.2 with fluid 1.7.4.

[matt-curtis]

Fixed using macOS TextKit APIs.