First of all big thanks for Figma for providing many great updates, especially for prototyping mode. But not all new updates are good, at least not for me.
I have been resizing frames manually (typing numbers in the Width, height box) since forever. But now it seems I am no longer able to do that, or suddenly I am doing something wrong.
This is what happens when I click on the height box to resize the height.
Usually I click here and change the numbers, if I want to increase the height for 16 pixels, I add two numbers or 849+16.
Or sometimes when I work on mobile size with 16px margins, I quickly draw another frame inside and immediately type 343 width size for that frame and then centered it.
Thank you for clarifying that though I checked in the desktop app and browser again and was able to calculate two numbers using ‘+’ in the width and hight fields.
Possibly check your keyboard layout in the ‘?’ icon in the bottom right of the file and then select “Change keyboard layout”. When I enter in the ‘+’ value I hold shift down but do notice not holding shift which is ‘=’ will open the library popup.
@Merzuk — From looking at your screenshot, you’ve selected the variables icon which produces the panel shown in your image. Just select the input like we always have and you can still do everything.
I am using desktop client. I don’t know about the keyboard layout. On system level I am using Croatian on Figma I have checked unter ‘?’ icon and it the keyboard layout is Generic.
For me the plus sign still does not work in input boxes. I’ll try to upload video showin when it happens and you’ll see that plus sign works fine when I am typing inside the frame as a text. Ignore the asterix sign.
It seems that the issue might be related to the keyboard layout you have configured, possibly at the OS level. The Croatian keyboard layout differs from mine, as the key that includes ‘+’ on your keyboard also includes ‘=’ on mine. To enter ‘+’, I need to hold the shift key. Maybe test switching your keyboard layout out to US at the OS-level.
Before the last update, we could use the’ +’ or ‘-’ keys to sum or minus the width and height fields. Now, with Variants, ‘+’ key has been remapped to use variants and can’t sum. Is there a way to include ‘+’ in the text so we can sum pixels and adjust width and height?
Since the variables update I can longer add up to x/y position or width/height values with the + key, since it now opens up the variables search. In the screenshot, I tried 142+24 but that apparently doesn’t work anymore.
I noticed that with the new update, I can’t use the “+” sign in calculations. Instead, the shortcut for the Library opens up. For example, if I want to resize the whole frame, which is 2000px in height, I want to do this: “2000-1000+128”. After the update, I can only do “2000-1000” and then go back and add the “+128” to the height. If I want to do the whole calculation, it opens the Library for variables. Is this working as intended or not?
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