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Pierre-Luc_Soumis
Pierre-Luc_Soumis
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Icon component

Hi community, I’m trying to create an icon component to add to a design system and I’m not too sure what is the best way to go about, kind of a newbie here. I want to create a component which will allow to select which icon to show, and also give the option of choosing a size, and between outlined and filled. Any recommendations?

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Nate_G
1 year ago
Ralf
Ralf
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Exporting PDF assets with P3 color space

When I use the PDF export in the Figma app on macOS, it says ‘Color profile: Same as file (P3)’. But the resulting PDF file will have ‘Generic RGB’ as color space, and the colors look grayish (Figma to the left, asset in Xcode to the right): I want to export PDF assets so that Xcode does the converting to 1x, 2x, 3x PNGs as needed. This is pretty much standard procedure when exporting assets for use in Xcode when developing iOS apps. PNGs have the correct color space and display correctly, btw. Is there a way to export PDF assets with the P3 color space from Figma?

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dvaliao
Figmate
1 year ago
Liron_Ben-M
Liron_Ben-M
asked in Ask the Community
Not all frames are showing up when I click play

Can you please let me know why this is happening? When I click the play icon to present all the frames it only shows 3 out of the 5.

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dvaliao
Figmate
1 year ago
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Riha
asked in Ask the Community
How to set this text center with fixed height?

Hi, guys! I would like to know and eagerly wonder how to make the text X central in the text box with fixed height and fixed width at the same time? If I set fixed height on X, it doesn’t seem like properly fitted?.. and when I narrow down the height of the text box, the X follows down as I did… Anyone who can help me? Thank you for your help in advance!

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ksn
Figmate
1 year ago
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anon64026963
asked in Ask the Community
Community account is blocked

same here, I just noticed my account is blocked as well, although I still don’t understand what that means yet, for now I can’t change my username which is annoying

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ksn
Figmate
1 year ago
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Nidhi_Worah
asked in Ask the Community
Cannot find any option to change the starting point for animation prototyping

I cannot find any option to change the starting frame (point) of my prototype

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dvaliao
Figmate
1 year ago
pawan_gupta
pawan_gupta
asked in Ask the Community
Why is my screen not visible? I see there are multiple users listed in my profile. Why is my screen not visible? I see there are multiple users listed in my profile

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dvaliao
Figmate
1 year ago
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AsarafGhanchi
asked in Ask the Community
Hiding a guide in figma

Guys I have seen many users asking how to hide guides while working in Figma. Well there is a way shown in community but that is too long… Here is a quick short cut. Windows —> Shift + R Mac —> You know better

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1 year ago
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Wow
asked in Ask the Community
Do you use Spacer with Auto Layout?

I’m new to Figma and design in general. I have a case where I need to adjust spacing between elements based on their content type and hierarchy. After searching around, I found that using a spacer seems to be the best approach for my use case. However, I’m curious to know about your approach in your design with auto layout. Happy designing!

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L
1 year ago
Dad_Zurigo
Dad_ZurigoNew Member
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Specification/note for a component variant?

Friends! Some of the components in my design system have many variants. A design system consumer might get overwhelmed. She/he has to select a component variant and see the configuration options in the right panel to understand what a single variant stands for. This needs to be more intuitive. I had a separate Figma file, a sort of style guide, where I used to place some component instances and describe them, but I don’t want that redundancy any more. It was redundant, but much easier to place some text around the instances. Now, the variants appear as a bunch, so you can only place notes around that bunch. Look at this. No space to put any note, comment, title… How can I make my component variants more understandable at first sight? Any idea? Thx

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Gayani_S
Figmate
1 year ago
Martin_Mateos_Sanchez
Martin_Mateos_Sanchez
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Simple button prototype not working

I’m learning about prototyping. To do so, I copied a button component with a hovering effect from the Interactive Components - Playground File (Creating interactive components frame) into my own file for testing the prototype. Then, I attempted to create a button with the same properties and hover effect from scratch. However, the prototype doesn’t seem to be working. Could you please review my file here and let me know what I might be doing wrong? The file consists only of those two buttons:

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Martin_Mateos_Sanchez
1 year ago
Lisa8
Lisa8
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[solved] Is there a way to set variable and change to different variant of a component at the same time?

Dear Figma community, I’d like to do two actions on click of a checkbox: set a variable to increase a counter change the component variant to a different variant that has a checked checkbox. Just looking at the interface Figma seems to allow me to do this and add the change to. However when I try to change the status from “default” to “selected”, it automatically switches back after I select “selected”. Why could this be? Does anyone have an idea? Thank you for your help! Update: I got it to work by removing and adding it back a few times. Not sure what happened there.

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Lisa8
1 year ago
tallevin
tallevin
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Create component shortcut not working

Hi there, For some reason, the Create component shortcut (Opt+Cmd+K) has stopped working for me. Every other shortcut seems to be working completely fine. Figma is up-to-date, and I restarted just to make sure. Any ideas?

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tank666
1 year ago
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Philippe_Gallant
asked in Ask the Community
Grouping set angle to -90

When I group a couple of layers together, the group itself has now an angle of -90 even tho the grouped layers have an angle of 0 beforehand. Any idea of how to fix this?

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Gayani_S
Figmate
1 year ago
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Miles_Endgame
asked in Ask the Community
Smart Animate seems busted after latest release... is anyone else seeing this?

I’ve been working through a fairly light file and all of a sudden as of yesterday when my local client updated I’ve been see really janky animations from smart animate. It looks like the animation for hiding and unhiding elements is computing their position incorrectly and then recomputing it, plus the hidden elements just snap in. I assume this is a bug?

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sarah67
1 year ago
Dan_Sullivan3
Dan_Sullivan3
asked in Ask the Community
Prototyping AI text generation

I want to prototype the generation of text that animates after submitting an AI prompt. In other words– when you type a prompt into Chat GPT and hit submit, the words begin to appear one after another as the response is created. I would like to understand an easy way to to this.

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Gayani_S
Figmate
1 year ago
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Fidel_Adinusa
asked in Ask the Community
An Object Inside Of A Component is Stretched On The Prototype

Hey, so i have a problem here where i designed a drop down field where the user can add up to 5 more dropdown fields. the main component works perfectly fine, but then when i combined the drop down component into another bigger component, the drop down design is stretched when i checked the prototype. but then if i take it out of the bigger component and try the prototype individually, it works perfectly fine. anyone knows why? and how to solve this? hopefully i explained it well enough for u guys to understand my problem. sorry if its a little confusing

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y_toku
Figmate
1 year ago
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Demacia
asked in Ask the Community
Adding 'gradient' color as variant

Hello, I am setting up bunch of colors as variants and then also using Semantics system to organize my color sets - so that I can work with the devs more easily. I have few gradient colors that I was able to set as variants but there is an issue with saving those gradient variants into Semantics. When I turn those gradient variants into Semantic, it just shows plain white instead of the correct colorway. Anyone with an idea or suggestion would be much appreciated! Thank you.

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y_toku
Figmate
1 year ago
vahid_kaheh
vahid_kaheh
asked in Ask the Community
Reporting BUG

My Problem is Layout Clutter for no Particular reason, so the layout clutter dosent go away until i make a change or move it. does anyone have a good solution?

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y_toku
Figmate
1 year ago
John_Shum
John_Shum
asked in Ask the Community
Saving variables from Figma user input to external api call

I’m wondering if there’s a way to collect user inputs by creating a form inside of Figma to send to an external system to save these variables. For example, collecting a name inside of Figma, then sending it to a Google Sheet. I’ve seen it work the other way.

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Gleb
1 year ago
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Tal_Givati
asked in Ask the Community
Does Anyone Have Experience with the "project.members_updated" Event in the Figma API?

I’m delving into the Figma API for a project and I stumbled upon a mention of an event called “project.members_updated.” However, I’m struggling to find concrete information or examples in the official documentation. I would greatly appreciate if anyone could share their insights on the following: Existence and Usage: Has anyone used or encountered the “project.members_updated” event in the Figma API? Can you confirm its existence and functionality? Practical Applications: If you have implemented this event, could you share how you used it and the benefits it provided in your projects? Resources or Examples: Are there any resources, code snippets, or examples available that demonstrate the use of this event?

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T
1 year ago
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Rosie_Morris-Grove
asked in Ask the Community
Multiple triggers for an action

I want to create a prototype for a bulk edit scenario. So when a usre has selected more than one checkbox then a bulk edit button turns from disabled to active. I’ve worked out how to enable it after one checkbox becomes enabled but haven’t been able to do it only after two have been selected. I’ve also started to look at the counter interaction but this only seems to be used for when you want to display numbers? Does anyone know if what i’m trying to do is possible and if so could they point me to how to do this? Thank you!

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dvaliao
Figmate
1 year ago
Pavel_Kiselev
Pavel_KiselevActive Member
asked in Ask the Community
Invalid format for effects

Today my plugin code stopped working. I am using plugin API to set layer blur effect on a selected layer const blur: BlurEffect = { type: "LAYER_BLUR", radius: radius, visible: true }; shadowLayer.effects = [blur]; And I am getting Uncaught (in promise) Error: in set_effects: Invalid format for effects Have no idea what has changed though, a few days ago the same code worked just fine Would appreciate any help

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Pavel_Kiselev
1 year ago
J_B
J_B
asked in Ask the Community
How does Figma always know the exact pixel

…i’m trying to resize to? I’ll be resizing a container to be 1 pixel wider, 10 pixels wider or 113 pixels wider. But no matter if it’s even or odd, if I hold down ‘control’ or not; a single pixel or many pixels – somehow Figma always knows the exact value i’m going for, waits for me to get near, then skips it. Is it SETI? Is it a consipracy? Is it just me? Or is anyone else experiencing this?

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J_B
1 year ago
Fabiano_Vila
Fabiano_Vila
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Did the auto-resize icon in the preview window disappear?

In the previous version of Figma, the preview window had a handy icon that allowed for automatically resizing the window to match the original layout size. I’ve recently noticed that this icon is no longer available. This feature was crucial to my workflow. I would like to know what happened to this functionality and if there is any way to reactivate or retrieve this icon.

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ksn
Figmate
1 year ago
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