pklaschka / lorem-ipsum-plugin

A small plugin for Adobe XD to insert placeholder text

Hi there 👋

My name is Zuri Klascha, I'm a student, developer and creative from Würzburg Germany.

I primarily develop websites, plugins for Adobe XD and developer tooling, but also individual web- and desktop apps.

When I'm not developing things, I study space- and aerospace computer science in Würzburg, Germany, lead the team that develops the Ground Station Software for the Daedalus2 WüSpace Project and more.

Apart from that

I have autism (and try to fight against prejudice in this field).

Links

• https://xdplugins.pabloklaschka.de
• [email protected]
• Twitter: @pklaschka2000
• YouTube: pklaschka
• Adobe XD Developer Forums: pklaschka

lorem-ipsum-plugin's Issues

Ok button loses focus on Windows

Probably due to a racing condition, the autofocus attribute doesn't work consistently on Windows in UXP3+, meaning it's no longer possible to use Ctrl/Cmd+Alt/Opt+L, Return to quickly insert placeholder text.

This is due to a bug in UXP3+ and filed at https://forums.adobexdplatform.com/t/autofocus-on-windows/1535. Until then, setting a timeout and focusing manually with button.focus() should serve as a workaround.

Create placeholder texts from rectangles

As per a user request, it may be feasible to convert selected rectangles into placeholder texts. Since the current process of creating placeholder text is a little cumbersome, cf. [State now], adding this functionality could decrease the effort to create placeholder text even further, cf. [State after].

[State before]

Process of creating placeholder text:

• Select the text tool: T
• Create a text area: Left-click and drag with mouse
• Enter some strings so the text area doesn't disappear when clicking away from it: A
• Exit text edit mode: ESC
• Run plugin: Ctrl/Cmd+Alt/Opt+L
• Confirm settings: Return
• Done

[State after]

The before is still possible, but additionally, it's also possible to:

• Select the rectangle tool: R
• Create a rectangle: Left-click and drag with mouse
• Run plugin: Ctrl/Cmd+Alt/Opt+L
• Confirm settings: Return
• Done

Add a shortcut for the most commonly used "Quick Lorem Ipsum"

The option "Quick Lorem Ipsum" is used the most often (or the equivalent of it via the dialog, thereof).

In the next version, I'd like to add a keyboard shortcut for this option. To keep things consistent, that'll have to be Cmd/Ctrl+Opt/Alt+Shift+L.

Refactor function names

I never expected to make this open-source, so function names are a bit messy. Note to myself: Write good function names from the beginning in the future and refactor this mess in the next few days 😆

Option for fixed text length

As per a user request, it might be useful to have an option to specify a specific text length, instead of the text adjusting to the text area size.

Proposed implementation

The behavior would be the same as before for point text, i.e., two words would get used.

The Lorem Ipsum Config Dialog

The dialog would get another option, text length. Implemented as radio buttons, this gives the user two choices:

Text length:

• Adjust to layer [Tooltip: Two words for point text]
• Fixed length

Also, a slider gets added to specify the text length. This would be disabled when "Adjust to layer" is selected.

Estimation

A first, rough estimation for this implementation would be 2 hours.

Randomize Lorem Ipsum

Hi,

You have created a very useful Adobe Xd plugin 👍 .

I would like to make the suggestion to add a randomise option to the dialog, so that the inserted text won't always start with "Lorem ipsum". When working with multiple blocks of text, all the blocks now look the same which is distracting while Lorem Ipsum texts should achieve the opposite.

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.github/workflows/ci.yml

• actions/checkout v3
• actions/setup-node v3
• pnpm/action-setup v2
• actions/upload-artifact v3

.github/workflows/label.yml

• actions/labeler v4

.github/workflows/lint.yml

• actions/checkout v3.6.0
• actions/setup-node v3.8.2
• actions/cache v3.3.2
• pnpm/action-setup v2
• wearerequired/lint-action v2.3.0

.github/workflows/release.yml

• actions/checkout v3
• actions/setup-node v3
• pnpm/action-setup v2
• softprops/action-gh-release v1

npm

package.json

• xd-dialog-helper 1.1.0
• xd-localization-helper 1.1.3
• xd-storage-helper 1.2.3
• @adobe/xdpm 4.1.1
• @types/jest 29.5.11
• esbuild ^0.19.11
• esbuild-sass-plugin ^2.5.0
• lint-staged 13.3.0
• prettier 3.1.1
• sass ^1.69.7
• sloc 0.3.1
• standard-version 9.5.0
• ws ^8.16.0
• zip-a-folder ^3.1.5

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