Cant access fills

Plugin and Widget API Questions
1

hey,

I am trying to access the color value of an instance. However, when I try to access the first Paint object with node.fills[0] I get the following error.

My code:
var node = Figma.currentPage.selection[0];
var e = (node).fills;
e[0] ← error here

Element implicitly has an ‘any’ type because expression of type ‘0’ cannot be used to index type ‘readonly Paint | unique symbol’.
Property ‘0’ does not exist for type ‘readonly Paint | unique symbol’.

hope someone can help

2

Are you getting this error in your IDE? Are you using TypeScript? Specify in code what type of node should be. Add a condition to check the existence of the fills property and its array length.

3

yes in IDE and im using TS. It is specified as InstanceNode

4

I don’t see it in the code you provided.

5 
var nodes = figma.currentPage.selection
nodes.forEach(n => {
    if (n.type == "INSTANCE") {
        var fill = n.fills[0]
    }
})

thats my code

6

You don’t check for the length of the array. For example, one InstanceNode has fill at index 0, and the second InstanceNode has no fill, so index 0 cannot be found in that node.

7

Nope, the error is about the mixed type fill. You need to check if it’s mixed because if it is, you can’t iterate it like an array.

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