This example plugin illustrates how to listen for the SelectionChanged action, and to do something whenever the user changes the selection.

It was created using skpm. For a detailed explanation on how things work, checkout the skpm Readme.

Usage

Download the example or clone the repo:

curl https://codeload.github.com/sketch-hq/SketchAPI/tar.gz/develop | tar -xz --strip=2 SketchAPI-develop/examples/selection-changed
cd selection-changed

Install the dependencies

Once the installation is done, you can run some commands inside the project folder:

To watch for changes:

Debugging

To view the output of your console.log, you have a few different options:

• Use the sketch-dev-tools
• Open Console.app and look for the sketch logs
• Look at the ~/Library/Logs/com.bohemiancoding.sketch3/Plugin Output.log file

Skpm provides a convenient way to do the latter:

The -f option causes skpm log to not stop when the end of logs is reached, but rather to wait for additional data to be appended to the input