Instance Utils

About this plugin

Gives you ultimate control over nested instances, tweak ◇s around without detaching.

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Major Update Highlights:

Tuesday, Dec, 26th, 2023

1. Major speed optimizations.
2. Added the full "integrated slot" workflow.
3. Updated UI to include a setting page, as well as slot creation and slot consumption pages.

Monday, Aug, 8th, 2022

1. Added back Table (row based) control function
2. ^Works on all table instances as long as its direct children are ◇rows, and the direct children of each ◇row are ◇cells.
3. If the table contain a table header, make sure the name of the header row includes letter 'h'

Thursday, May, 26th, 2022

1. Brought back the seamless slot edit functionality, and made it more bug-prove, also changed the matching rule to ◇'s ❖ name must include 'slot'(case insensitive).

Sunday, May, 22th, 2022

1. Added the ability to assimilate nearby instance by pressing the directional arrow button while holding ⌥

Saturday, May, 21th, 2022

1. Rewrote the whole plugin using React
2. Fixed all known bugs
3. Reworked algorithms
4. Supports multi-copy and multi-paste
5. Supports Dark mode

Monday, September 27th, 2021

1. Added support for ".slot" naming

Sunday, September 26th, 2021

1. Added the ability to Swap the main components on 2 instances only, triggered by clicking on the arrow button while holding down ⌥(alt) key

Wednesday, September 15th, 2021

1. Added Mutual variants
2. Added ability to paste Component only

Friday, September 10th, 2021

1. Added Seamless workflow with ◇Slot

Thursday, August 5th, 2021

1. Now the pasted instance will take on the former instances' auto layout attributes

Saturday, May 1st, 2021

1. Copy is now stored in the plugin, you can close the plugin without losing your last copy.
2. Minor UX improvements
3. Added support for setting up "Table (Row Based)"

Tuesday, March 29th, 2021

1. Added the ability to quickly assimilate adjacent instance, triggered by clicking on the arrow button while holding down ⌥(alt) key

Tuesday, March 9th, 2021

1. Added the ability to edit a instance in place (locally)
2. Fixed some layer's visibility issue.

Thursday, February 16th, 2021

1. Addressed an edge case where missing fonts could cause fatal runtime errors
2. Addressed an edge case where hidden layers could cause unbelievable slowness

Thursday, February 13th, 2021

1. Improved UI Logic

Thursday, February 11th, 2021

1. Rewrote the algorithm, 5x overall performance improvement on average, and up to 20x more responsive.
2. Fixed a bug where the auto-layout resizing mode and paddings would not be transferred. Now everything works as expected.

Feature Roadmaps:

1. Finer control over which property to be transfered.