I'm currently upgrading my project to Kotlin 1.6.21 and Compose/MP 1.2.0.alpha. I see a newer version in the repo that is not "released" on GitHub: https://maven.pkg.jetbrains.space/public/p/compose/dev/org/jetbrains/compose/compiler/compiler/1.2.0-alpha01-dev703/ Should I use it or it is intentionally not a "public" release? Thanks.

I'm trying to make

example-cef-compose

work. I have fixed most things but I'm still stuck in a problem with skiko-awt HardwareLayer, that is used to render the browser. The problem is that that class is internal, so the code has no access to it. Any solution for that?

internal open class HardwareLayer(
    externalAccessibleFactory: ((Component) -> Accessible)? = null
) : Canvas() {

Hey I have two questions about the LazyVerticalGrid. I have this grid:

LazyVerticalGrid(
        columns = GridCells.Adaptive(246.dp),
        contentPadding = PaddingValues(
            start = 12.dp,
            top = 16.dp,
            end = 12.dp,
            bottom = 16.dp
        ),
        content = {
            items(result.size) { index ->
                //draw item
            }
        }
    )
}

Now the scroll state of the grid is always like in the end or in the middle so it doen't start at the top and I don't know why. Also how to save the scroll state when the lazyverticalgrid leaves the composition?

@Jan I didn’t know there was a

LazyVerticalGrid

. Is this in an external library?

It's part of compose 1.2...

Hello, I am newer for compose-jb, how to fix it:

de.undercouch.gradle.tasks.download.org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException: Forbidden (HTTP status code: 403, URL: https://bintray.com/jetbrains/skija/download_file?file_path=jcef-runtime-macos.zip)

Continuing with my try to make

example-cef-compose

work. I'm trying to get the HardwareLayer component. As

AppManager

no longer exist, I pass the

window

from the App.kt to the browserView. The problem is that this window has only one component that is not a HardwareLayer. Any idea of how to get the HardwareLayer?

Kotlin is commonly used for writing server-side, multiplatform, and Android apps, but there are tons of lesser known use cases. Among them are Minecraft plugin development, writing software for robots, or even creating PowerPoint presentations using Compose for Desktop - from this post. Anybody got a link for this one?

@Igor Demin -

dev703

is crashing for me on startup with https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/issues/2101 - maybe there's a mismatch between the different modules somewhere?

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Hey folks, I have a question regarding testing on Compose Desktop. I have a scenario where I'm trying to test if a Dialog box opens, but the test is unable to detect the dialog even though it works in the actual code. I've posted a reproducible example in this StackOverflow question here: https://stackoverflow.com/q/72507535/3477606. If it happens to be something that's unimplemented, I can open an issue on the GitHub repository to keep track of it.

What's the best way to debug a CfD test? For instance, the node I'm looking for isn't getting found, and I want to see what the window would look like at that point in the test so I can figure out where the node is.

Hey folks 🙂 Back to some coding with compose, so nice to do it again! This time I’ve got tired of building layouts with trial and error and wanted to visualize what do I actually get on screen without messing with preview widgets and such. So I thought, what if I can mimic the browser inspector where you point somewhere and relevant element is highlighted, along with its modifiers? Would be cool, right? So I did it. Unfortunately, this requires quite a bit of reflection to pick into the details of LayoutNode tree and thus very fragile. However, almost everything is already there in the public API, except 3 things: • ability to get root

LayoutInfo

, e.g. from

Window

• ability to get children of said

LayoutInfo

, and since node and info is the same instance, just expose

children

from node into the info interface • ability to get the outer coordinates from

LayoutInfo

, not affected by modifiers.

coordinates

property is “content area” after paddings and such, and to properly hit-test and highlight the node I need outer coordinates (it’s all there in outerLayoutNodeWrapper, just needs to be exposed) If we had this, we could build very nice tooling for ourselves. WDYT? Worth creating an issue, or is it too much into inner kitchen horrors?

last year there was some talk of JetBrains releasing the CfD UI component library they built Toolbox with. does anyone know if they are still planning to release that?

Receiving

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'int androidx.compose.ui.unit.Constraints.getMaxWidth()'
	at androidx.compose.ui.window.DesktopPopup_desktopKt$PopupLayout$6$composition$1$1.measure-3p2s80s(DesktopPopup.desktop.kt:184)

when trying to Expand a simple DropdownMenu. Using version 1.1.1

DropdownMenu(
            expanded = viewModel.expanded.value,
            onDismissRequest = { viewModel.expanded.value = false },
        ) {
            DropdownMenuItem(onClick = {  }) {
                Text("A")
            }
            DropdownMenuItem(onClick = { }) {
                Text("B")
            }      
            DropdownMenuItem(onClick = {  }) {
                Text("C")
            }
        }

Any clues?

Was just pleasantly surprised to see that

Modifier.scroll

seems to automatically keep the focused element in view. Very nice.

I'd like to build multiple uber jars from a single project with different main classes. For regular Gradle-based projects, I can just create multiple Jar tasks and set a different mainClass attribute. I think to make this work with compose I'd need to create multiple packageUberJarForCurrentOS tasks somehow. Any idea if that's possible yet?

a stackoverflow question up for grabs 🙂 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72565263/how-to-preserve-canvas-state-in-jetpack-compose-for-desktop

Hello, I've created this simple library for Compose on Windows to support mica, acrylic, and other backdrops. It is basically flutter_acrylic for Compose, but currently only limited to Windows https://github.com/MayakaApps/ComposeBackdrop

I have an Android app (regular kotlin-android; not multiplatform) that is using the

org.jetbrains.compose

plugin and the Jetbrains compose artifacts (which should redirect to the Google artifacts). I started writing some tests for it, but the compose artifacts aren't visible in the test code. For example, if I have

implementation(compose.material)

,

android.compose.material.Text

doesn't resolve in a test file in the IDE, even though it runs fine. Adding

testImplementation(compose.material)

doesn't work either. I have to explicitly depend on the Google artifacts in order for the IDE to resolve the type. I'm using Electric Eel latest alpha.

Hello, new to compose, is there a way to make an app content resize automatically when resizing the window? Constraint Layout maybe? I'm using Column at the moment (very basic hello world app sort of). When I start the app it is always cropped, I have to manually resize.

Hey, I'm trying to use

drawBehind

in conjunction with

drawLine

to draw lines at a fixed distance to the right of the window. I've noticed that this distance is different between Mac and Linux. Is this a bug, or is there a more precise way to set this distance?

Seems I have a redrawing problem. I have

val value by stateFlow.collectAsState()
println("Value: $value")
Text(
    text = value
)

and a new value is getting printed, but the old value is displayed until something else in the window is redrawn.

Hey folks, is there a concept of viewModel in compose desktop?

Hi, I'm using Compose for internship and we have to build up our case for any decision we make. My question is: is there a real difference between the exe and the MSI, generated by Compose? I found some points which I believe do not apply: • The GUI can be customised a lot more -> the GUI's are the same? • Multiple MSI can be installed with one EXE -> I belief this isn't used • Because of the possibility to customize, it is more difficult to program -> we don't program • It can run without admin-rights in certain circumstances -> when just copying files, granted file is trusted But as it seems EXE uses the MSI file, this isn't used either. Therefor my question: is there a real difference, between MSI and EXE, or did I miss something? Thanks

I want to create a tablet app that can also run on desktop. I have some experience using compose for mobile. Can an android app be easily made to target desktop like Flutter? Thanks

which compose version works with 1.7.0?

Has anyone got mac JVM desktop apps compiling with fastlane?

Are there any sample about using compose desktop with R8?

How can you control the initial window size of a native (mac) compose desktop application? For the JVM variant you can do that via the WindowState but what do you use for native? Another related question is how to make the window resizable. (I am just playing with the experimental falling-balls-mpp example.)