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<@U010Q6P7AQ5> is there anything extra I have to do to get dropdowns to work? For some reason they render fine except for the text. This doesn't seem to be the case with other controls.

<@U0596RQ2DBK> are you passing an `ItemVisualizer` to the `Dropdown`? or just giving it a list of data? `Dropdown` uses an `ItemVisualizer` to render the data it holds. the default is to use one that creates a `Label` with the `toString` value for each item.

so you’ll need to include a behavior to render those labels if you’re using the default. add `basicLabelBehavior()` from the `Themes` library to your app module list if you are using the default.

otherwise you’ll need to make sure any custom Views used to visualize items are rendering. 

The `basicLabelBehavior()`  is what I was looking for. That fixed the problem.

Where can I find the default implementation for the `ItemVisualizer` ?

edit: I found it

How does the context parameter in `ItemVisualizer`  work?

it lets different controls pass custom data to the visualizer without having to require different visualizer types. so `List` passes the item’s index and selection state. but you can still use a visualizer with `List` that doesn’t care about these values. this is how <https://github.com/nacular/doodle/blob/169aae25e0b692af45a8127e40afa893507d6b49/Controls/src/commonMain/kotlin/io/nacular/doodle/controls/ItemVisualizer.kt#L46|StringVisualizer> works and what let’s it be used for a variety of controls.