Flatten Selection To Bitmap

[zjuwjf]

Is there an api do something like “Flatten Selection To Bitmap” ？

[zjuwjf]

Thank you for planning to add the api as enhancement 。 Could you give some suggestions of how to implement it， I really need it。

[nichenqin]

@zjuwjf You can try this:

const layers = document.selectedLayers.layers
const layer = layers[0]

const flattener = MSLayerFlattener.alloc().init();
flattener.flattenLayers(MSLayerArray.arrayWithLayers([layer.sketchObject]));

[zjuwjf]

It works， so cool！ @nichenqin

[mathieudutour]

Thinking a bit about it, I think we want a top-level method flatten similar to export. It would take either a single layer or an array of layers and return an Image

[nichenqin]

Can it return an Image? The flatten behavior looks not synchronous

[mathieudutour]

Indeed you are right. I'm wondering if we could return it in a callback or something. Will have to look at the code

[jayliu50]

Hi @mathieudutour, is there any update on this? Or is there any other similar way to synchronously get a flattened image?

I'm curious because I just want to name the resulting Bitmap layer. Setting it only ends up getting overwritten, because it's asynchronous, as you know.

Thank you!