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Takahiro_Kinoshita
Takahiro_Kinoshita
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Design is not reflected in Figma widget plugin. someone help me

I don’t have much knowledge about development, but I’m currently trying to develop a Figma widget plugin. environment mac Figma App Created file https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dEtAVafP6NSPa51gc8Myt4-MxMhWE43o?usp=drive_link I’m trying to develop and test a music player widget app. Initially, an error occurred, but the error was resolved by deleting the Author etc. in the manifest.json file. However, the design created in ui.html is not reflected. Is it possible for you to tell me what to do when I have a moment? taka

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Takahiro_Kinoshita
1 year ago
Purple_Color
Purple_Color
asked in Ask the Community
How do I put content under content in an auto layout frame?

Auto layout frames are used in my projects so that content within them can fill the frame. I need two pieces of content that overlap to each fill to the width of the frame. Is it possible to do this?

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AlicePackard
1 year ago
Chibuike
Chibuike
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Good day. Please if i created a component and later on in my design, i wanted to delete that component. How do i do that?

Good day. Please if i created a component and later on in my design, i wanted to delete that component. How do i do that??ase search for existing topics before posting! Press 🔍 at the upper right to search.

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Chibuike
1 year ago
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Gaurav
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Will the resume made in Figma pass the screening tests from HR?

Are the resume made in Figma machine-readable?, because most HR departments at medium/large orgs will use some form of automated screening of CVs. Non-machine-readable PDF can get you filtered out very easily. Most graphic design tools will do a poor job of this or will require you to go to special pains. Any Idea how Figma does?

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1 year ago
Paul_Reid
Paul_Reid
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I'm unable to set the mode for a parent frame

I’ve gone through the variables playground docs and everything seems straightforward, but I cannot assign a mode to a frame. When I look at the example docs, there is a mode switch icon in the layer palette. But when I draw a frame on the canvas, I don’t see it. I’ve placed a demo file here. I want the red box to change its red variable between light and dark frames.

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Paul_Reid
1 year ago
Leo_uxui
Leo_uxui
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When using Figma, the laptop gets very warm

When using Figma, the laptop gets very warm. Is it normal or is something wrong? What to do?

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A
1 year ago
Ben29
Ben29
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Prototype Inconsistent Across Platforms + text in dropdowns disappear

We’re prepping to get some user feedback on our prototype, so you can imagine my frustration when other people are not getting the same experience as i’ve designed. • Dropdown menus are completely empty (but still show the tinted fill on hover states). • Upon clicking something in the dropdown, it closes, but the input field is blank instead of what should have been selected. •At one point i noticed that Figma would say something along the lines of ‘replacing fonts’, so i figured i should use something more websafe and converted those sections to arial. Still the problem remained. • I couldn’t recreate the problem on the same device that i work in, but I did create the issue (that my peers were concerned with) when i opened the prototype on my Figma app on the ipad. One solution i may try is moving all of our user testing frames into a new file (preserving our design library and low fidelity files). Maybe that’d reduce the Figma brainpower needed to run?

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Ben29
1 year ago
D_Scott_Clark1
D_Scott_Clark1
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Icons disappeared in Prototype

I’m designing a project for a client, and prototyping at the same time. Icons have been functioning fine for the last few weeks, but today when I logged in, the logos had disappeared from one particular component in most variants. I’ve tried restarting the Mac desktop app. It also doesn’t show up when I view from a different account on the browser app. Seems like a bug.

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dvaliao
Figmate
1 year ago
Asfandyar_Malik
Asfandyar_Malik
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Figma Moving to Frames makes life for me 10x harder as developer

Why did Figma move towards Frames from rectangles. I got designs from my designer which have all frames and now all frame paddings and margins are added in the css. It was 100x easier for me to get css of shapes directly and putting it in my React Code. I feel I might be doing something wrong here or dont know about something

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Asfandyar_Malik
1 year ago
Chris_Meeks
Chris_Meeks
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Component Publishing Loop?

Certain components in one of our Libraries seem to be stuck in a loop, where it recognized a new updates from the same exact Library I just published and asks me to receive those updates and publish the Library again. How can this be resolved for those isolated components?

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Alamaki
1 year ago
Huette_Kwong
Huette_Kwong
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I just don't know what does it call? Is that smart guide? And how to trigger this, because it on-off sometimes so i just don't really know what it is?

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tank666
1 year ago
Edyn_McCarty
Edyn_McCarty
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Variant-ception: Creating a text-typing illusion inside a Text Field Variant

I’m working on a prototype sign up screen for the Daily UI challenge and ran into a snag. So far, I have different components for each text field so the content changes as if you’re entering info into the blank. I also created a component that animates text like a user is typing in a username. Problem: Although the prototype shows the typing text fine when it’s alone in a frame, the typing animation doesn’t work when it’s inside the final variant of the username field component (it only shows the first letter of the username). Does anyone know how to make the typing animation complete once the “Filled” variant is activated in the flow? You can easily see the issue if you view the prototype of the two Preview Frames on the Components Page. See Figma file below:Figma – 19 Dec 23

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Gayani_S
Figmate
1 year ago
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Ida_Melank1
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Creating swap property for nested component containing text not working

I have a button icon component set with different button (and icon) sizes. I want to create icon swap in my properties so it is easy to switch it using panel on the right. The icon set we are using is fontawesome icon font (not SVG file). When I create icon swap property and apply it to all the icon sizes in the component set, all my icons change to the same size. Ie I cannot have different sizing of icons attached to the same property. Is anyone having the same issue and how did you resolve it? I have a suspicion the issue stems from using live font in icon set rather than SVG file. Note: converting icons to SVG is not the option for us.

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Gayani_S
Figmate
1 year ago
Lotta
Lotta
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Dark Light mode gradients with Buttons

hello community 🙂 our design system works with dark light mode variables which works perfectly except for the buttons which have a gradient. Any ideas on how I create this style working with dark/light mode? The button should be able to resize with different text lengths (working with auto layout). Any idea appreciated 🙂

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Lotta
1 year ago
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Carla4
asked in Ask the Community
functionality to add low opacity circle on mobile prototype (User test)

Hi everyone! A few days ago I was at a user test and we were testing a mobile prototype made on Figma. During screen recording and back in the listening room, we realized that we were missing the small, low-opacity circle found on the desktop version’s mobile prototype. My team and I thought it would be a good idea for Figma to add the option of using this low-opacity circle to track user movements, so that we could more easily analyze our recordings in the post-test phase.

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Gayani_S
Figmate
1 year ago
Tom_Fenby
Tom_Fenby
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Variant style appearing differently between source file (design system) and project

Hello ! Can anyone tell me why my imported variants are not matching the source design system file when inserted from the left panel Everything is published correctly and the design system is added to new project.

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Gayani_S
Figmate
1 year ago
Richard_Doyle2
Richard_Doyle2
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Still constantly baffled by setting actions on variants

I’ve got two radio buttons, and when you select one, that radio button should become selected, and another field should appear. Search by Name Search by ID Name field OR Search by Name Search by ID ID field The radio button group is a component with variants that when you Click it uses a Change To action to swap between them. I’ve been trying to add Set Variable actions to the Click to show/hide the ID and Name fields. It seems Figma should either 1) apply the actions to all the variants when they change, or 2) allow me to set actions on the other variants and apply those when the prototype is run. Instead it does 3) Keeps the actions of any variant visible when the prototype is run, and discards them when a Change To action happens. This results in it working if I switch from Name to ID, but when I switch from ID to name, the radio buttons switch, but the ID field is still visible and the Name field is not. I’ve tried a bunch of ways to work around this, and other than going back

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Gayani_S
Figmate
1 year ago
Cameron_McEfee
Cameron_McEfee
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Is there a way to tell if rulers are visible?

Howdy! Is there a way to detect whether rulers are visible? I’m working on a plugin that adds guides and it’s confusing if the guides are added while the rulers are hidden, since it appears that nothing happens. I’d like to automatically turn the rulers on, but that doesn’t seem like an option at the moment. Thanks for any input.

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y_toku
Figmate
1 year ago
Olivera1
Olivera1
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Figma's Selection Colors section isn't showing non-library colors

This file is where I’m building the library, so that might be part of it. I have a number of layers in this frame that are detached from the library. I use the plugin Design Lint to help catch and clean up these errors, but it hasn’t been working and i’ve had to manually select and update each typeface. I realized then that the colors are not appearing on the right when selected unless I go to the base layer. I can only attach one image to this post, so notice how the Select Colors shows a non-library color (technically the correct color, but still not attached to the library) but if I select the higher-level frame or group, it only appears as library colors. Any clues how to resolve this? Or is it a bug?

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y_toku
Figmate
1 year ago
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Vasanti_Suthar
asked in Ask the Community
Is there a way to get user account permissions?

Is there a way to get user account permissions? When a user is authenticated, I need to get the account permissions initially only when a user authenticates, and if the user can create a webhook or not, because webhooks are allowed to professional teams only.

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y_toku
Figmate
1 year ago
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Vasanti_Suthar
asked in Ask the Community
Trigger webhook event when a comment is resolved

Can we get to know when a comment is resolved? There is a webhook event for FILE_COMMENT, but this event does not trigger when a comment is resolved.

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y_toku
Figmate
1 year ago
mo_hamwi
mo_hamwi
asked in Ask the Community
Change text dynamically According to the icon instance name in the same component

Hi everyone, I am trying to create button component for music platforms As you can see in the picture I want to change the text inside the button according to the icon name without making Variant foreach platform As you can see I have named every icon with its platform. what I am wondering if there is a way to use icon name as a text content of the text on the right. something like this:

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B
1 year ago
Loredana
Loredana
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Screen dimensions

Hello! I have a problem. I’ve made a design for a web portal on 1440x1024 dimensions. Now I have problems with the developers because the dimensions that I’ve used in Figma (sizes, space between elements, etc.) do not correspond with my Figma design. For example: If I put a space between elements of 8, and the developer also used 8, at the end, on his screen the space is way bigger than in my design. What I’m doing wrong? I really need help on this.

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GlenMaxwel
1 year ago
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samirbitt
asked in Ask the Community
Join as owner why showing in figma

join as owner why showing in Figma, how to solve this

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dvaliao
Figmate
1 year ago
Dominik_Ilja
Dominik_Ilja
asked in Ask the Community
Generating SVG from SVG string within plugin

I have an icon library that exports SVG strings. Is there a way for me to paste the string into Figma through my plugin or would I have to manually build the graphic myself? If it’s the latter how would you recommend approaching this?

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Dominik_Ilja
1 year ago
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