Hey everyone! I'm playing around with KMPP + Compose (desktop + mobile) building a markdown editor a...

# compose-desktop

[Mo Sobhy]

Hey everyone! I'm playing around with KMPP + Compose (desktop + mobile) building a markdown editor and was looking at the Notepad example here and I'm wondering about this comment:
// TextField isn't efficient for big text files, we use it for simplicity
So what would be the most efficient component for large text files? 🤔
thank you color

[adte]

So what would be the most efficient component for large text files?

A "virtualized" control, so a control that only draws the text that's visible. (Kinda like a RecyclerView)
The basic text field control provided by ui frameworks always keeps all the text in memory and draws all the text when painting, even when it's not visible

[Mo Sobhy]

Thanks @adte, I appreciate the response.
Do you happen to have (or know of) an example of this being done. I think I get the concept, but not sure about best practices. gratitude thank you

[adte]

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-reimplementation this perhaps

[Adam Brown]

there is a BasicTextfield2 being worked on, but I don't think it addresses this specific concern.

[efemoney]

Feel free to add this as a feature request for future BasicTextField(/2) consideration/optimization. soft ping @Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD] 🙈

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

BTF rewrite probably won’t get this sort of feature for it’s initial release at least, there’s too many other issues to address first

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

But supporting editing large things is on the roadmap

[Adam Brown]

@Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD] is BTF2 going to be available in compose 1.5.0 as experimental?

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

only in the last alpha, and the 1.6 alphas. It’s not in the 1.5 beta+