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Hello everyone, I’m working on a draggable slider combined with tabs, and while the dragging functionality and tab-switching are both working fine, I’m facing an issue with smart animation. The problem arises when I switch tabs — for instance, when moving from “Tab 2” to “Tab 3,” the slider doesn’t animate smoothly with the transition. The motion effect is missing when using the tabs. Could anyone guide me on how to fix this and get the transitions working smoothly? [https://www.figma.com/design/ZwxNnfOG4sv39hHK6BVeVJ/image-carousel-using-variable?node-id=3-73&t=wPQoqyjbceUyAsUX-1]

For company reasons I can’t link to a file, so I’ll try my best to describe what I’m wanting to do: picture a beachball rolling across the ground. The first part of this animation is the ball repeatedly spinning 360 degrees. The second animation is that spinning ball moving from one side of the screen to the other. So here’s how I did it, and I’d love if someone can tell me where I went wrong: the spinning part is an interactive component, on “after delay” (so no trigger, it starts on its own), and it repeats. In preview this component does exactly what I want: it spins. Next, I take an instance of that spinning component and put it in another interactive component: variant 1 has the spinner instance on the left, variant 2 has the spinner instance on the right, and I smart animate between them, so that the instance moves from left to right, and back again, repeatedly. And technically it does this! But here’s what happens: it moves from left to right (and back again in a loop), but ther

I have a design that supports Arabic and English languages and we created a component for each part of this design with LTR and RTL so that we can easily change design elements we also use sting variables to change the content of this design but we are facing a problem that we need to change the layout to adjust with select language in prototype without duplicate screen two times. Is there any way we can do this in Figma?

Looking at the data type, ExportSettings, there appears to be no ‘quality’ option - am I missing something?

Hi everyone ! Sorry for my english, I’m french… 😦 I can’t use fonts that I just installed on my Mac (it works very well on Adobe), it does not appear in the font listing on Figma… ( for exemple, the font Quizles that I just bought on Myfont, the font Meno Banner… ) I don’t understand why. Does anyone have the same issue ? Thank you in advance for your feedback!

I am not able to move my deleted file to Draft. its giving error…

Is there a plugin to add notes on when hover on a design element/component without using comment feature?

I have set that anybody can view my prototype. When opening it through the link the user is first directed to the figma.com page and the prototype is not opening. One has to click the link a second time to open it which is not intuitive at all. How can the prototype open without going to figma.com first?

how to make an image hover effect in Figma by using an image in fill.

I’m trying to select multiple difference objects within a frame. Previously I could hold shift and click on the different elements I wanted to select. Ever since this multi-edit feature came out, I’m no longer able to do that. Does anyone know how I can get my “multi-select” back?

I’m currently working on a file where multiple changes were made over a course of 2 weeks or more. I had recently updated my Figma for the latest update, after which all my changes were reverted. I checked my version history to restore these changes but none of the previous history files reflect this either. I’m currently using the free version, please help 🙂

My team encountered an issue where most of our text styles disappeared. It appears to be a bug related to this post. Tagging @ksn here since they helped out in that post. I’ve tried restoring our design system file back to previous versions and the styles still don’t show up. I’ve resigned myself to having to re-create the styles in the file.

Frames stopped changing the number at the end of the name when duplicating. What to do?paste.pics Sorry, I don’t know how to insert pictures here

The following code used to work: var libraryCollections = await Figma.teamLibrary.getAvailableLibraryVariableCollectionsAsync(); console.log(‘libraryCollections…’); console.log(libraryCollections); Right now, it is not working and simply returns an empty array. Is there a new bug in Figma? Team libraries are enabled.

I don’t know about you, but I go back and forth all day between my screen files and my libraries. The detection of the update has changed! I have to wait far too long to be able to apply the changes. I also have to multiply my updates to ensure that all the instances and changes are correctly distributed throughout the document. I even have to quit Figma to force it to refresh its control and propose the updates. Is there something to do ?

Hi there! Since the latest release, June 21, 2023 I can no longer create a gradient from a library color. Previously, you could select from the dropdown to switch between document colors and library colors. Now that the tabs for “custom” and “library” are separated, there is no way to choose a library color for a linear gradient if the color isn’t already in the document. Suuuuperr frustrating. Hope this is something that gets fixed! Anyone have a work around or suggestions? Appreciate it!

I lost my research file from my Figma account. I also looked at the deleted tab, but it was not there. I still have the prototype link, but every time I click, it will show, ‘Either this file doesn’t exist, or you don’t have permission to view it. Ask the file owner to verify the link and update permissions.’ The file was lost during my computer’s internet connection. Do you think that will be a cause? But that file was really important to me as it related to my final project in my academic class. Does anyone have any rationale on how to fix or restore it? Please advice.

Hi, Figma! Yesterday you made the floating panels fixed on the edges and I got this problem. Over two of the three accounts on my device, they are still floating with bars under a future update. You may want to include making them fixed for all at once rather than 10 October. I won’t be able to work in this interface for another 8 days. P.S.: Clearing the cache and restarting the desktop app didn’t help

The prototype works fine on android devices (chrome), but on iphone (chrome, safari) the video does not play nor audio is heard. Anyone know what would be the problem?Figma – 18 Mar 21

Probably I am not using this correctly so I would appreciate some clarification. So, we have a new fresh file with instances coming from components that are published in one of our internal libraries. If any of these instances is detached, it becomes a frame, so I understand that Figma has not implemented any mechanism to trace back the owning component. But, when some elements inside this instance (say other instances) are detached…shouldn’t detachedInfo report some info in this case? For me it just prints null

There used to be options in preferences to increase or decrease the size of the UI. What happened to these options?

Hi, I’m currently enrolled in the ZTM academy online bootcamp, I want to use the free professional plan for students but I’m not sure how since there is no option for choosing it as a school? I know that we were given the option to, so I’m confused.

Usually, when I copy and paste a frame, the number keeps counting. But lately, it has stayed the same. Is the automated numbering just gone, or it just me?

Hi, I just joined Figma and can’t do the very first thing I want to do which is to create a navigation bar. I used Assets on the left and pulled a Navigation Pill List to my page which gives you 6 Navigation Pills. All I want to do is add one more navigation pill and can’t figure out how to do this and I don’t understand why it’s so hard. First I thought I could go to the right hand design of the Navigation Pill List and just click a + and add another Link but no, nothing here allows me to add another navigation pill to my list. Next I just selected a Navigation Pill and copy and paste it but it wouldn’t let me move it into the Navigation Pill by drag and drop so I went into Layers and tried to move the new Navigation Pill into the Navigation Pill List but it won’t let me do this either. I’ve been working on this one thing for over 30mins and can’t figure it out. About to quit Figma so any help would be appreciated.

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