It’s happening…

# compose-desktop

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

It’s happening…

[spierce7]

is 1.5 a big deal?

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Every core Compose drop comes with quite a few good chunks of new functionality

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

And specifically for desktop, i’m quite interested to see what https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform-core/pull/601 can enable

[Igor Demin]

i’m quite interested to see what https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform-core/pull/601 can enable

Note, that this feature is under development. Hardware acceleration works only on macOs at the moment. Windows/Linux hardware acceleration is planned.

[Adam Brown]

fixing the resizing behavior is fantastic, will make apps feel much more native

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

Desktop unit testing framework will be in this release 😄

[Adam Brown]

does anyone know if ExposedDropdownMenuBox made it in?

[Adam Brown]

that and the search bar are two i've been waiting on

[Adam Brown]

my crude versions don't look very nice...

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

I think that’s still waiting on popup/dialog commonization, which is in progress.

[Adam Brown]

ah darn

[Adam Brown]

ya that'll be very nice

[Adam Brown]

my multiplatform dialog solution also sux 😂

[Arkadii Ivanov]

What is also important, there are various fixes for movableContentOf .

[Stefan Oltmann]

For me it’s https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/pull/3340 🙂

[John O'Reilly]

trying out 1.5.0-beta01 ...just to confirm....looks like you need to set compose.swing.render.on.graphics explicitly to enable that change?

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

Indeed

[John O'Reilly]

also, should it be sufficient to just to likes of following or do I need to set in gradle like the PR

fun main() = singleWindowApplication(
    title = "BikeShare",
    state = WindowState(size = DpSize(1000.dp, 600.dp))
) {
    LaunchedEffect(Unit) {
        System.setProperty("compose.swing.render.on.graphics", "true")
    }

[John O'Reilly]

just hacked that there but not sure if correct....project uses Swing component and not sure if I'm seeing it taking effect or not (perhaps issue wasn't applying here.....)

[John O'Reilly]

this is the code fwiw (hasn't got that setProperty yet) https://github.com/joreilly/BikeShare/blob/main/compose-desktop/src/main/kotlin/main.kt

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

Better set it at the start of main, or as a JVM property with -Dkey=value

[John O'Reilly]

I tried following in build.gradle.kts but doesn't seem to take effect for some reason

application {
    applicationDefaultJvmArgs = listOf("-Dcompose.swing.render.on.graphics=true")
    mainClass.set("MainKt")
}

[John O'Reilly]

System.getProperty("compose.swing.render.on.graphics") is null when I check in start of main

[John O'Reilly]

if I explicitly call setProperty and then check it then it's returning true so can just use that I guess