Update: I submitted this to the Sketch team as a bug report. They’ve responded that it should be fixed in the next version and is already fixed in the current Beta.
Update #2 (May 31, 2019): This issue is now fixed in Sketch (v55.1). Thanks!
I’ve noticed a bug in Sketch and I’ve documented it here in a quick screen-cast in hopes that it will get fixed and that others can understand and work around it.
To trigger the bug:
- Create two objects in a Sketch document
- Group those two objects
- Select one of those objects and move it with the keyboard in such a way that the group is now larger (for example, move the rightmost object further to the right)
- Click anywhere on the canvas to clear the selection and apply the keyboard move
- Select the group and notice that the width of the group is that from before the move – double-clicking on the portion of the moved object that is outside of the group has no effect
Now, to get Sketch to properly reflect the new larger size of the group, select one of the objects in the group and hit Escape. This seems to trigger Sketch to update the size of the group.
It sounds complicated when written out like that, but I’ve narrated a quick screen-cast to illustrate the issue: