I'm trying to deal with the degenerate "longer tha...
# composet
Travis Griggs
09/22/2023, 4:35 PMI'm trying to deal with the degenerate "longer than expected label/name" field case. I can specify maxLines = 1 and overflow = TextOverflow.Ellipses to some effect. But I was hoping that TextOverflow had options for tightening letter spacing and/or shrinking font to a point before elipsing. iOS has fields for this right in the designer. Is there a technique one can go about to achieve a similiar result? Builtin solutions would be preferrable (to me)
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ephemient
09/22/2023, 4:47 PMhttps://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/compose-roadmap
Support autosize Text
ephemient
09/22/2023, 4:48 PMnothing built-in at the moment and I generally think auto-sizing is a poor solution to the problem too
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Travis Griggs
09/22/2023, 4:53 PMwhat do you think is a better solution then?
Travis Griggs
09/22/2023, 4:54 PMi did admit it was the "degenerate case..."
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
09/22/2023, 5:03 PMYou could build something using TextMeasurer
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ephemient
09/22/2023, 5:12 PMin my team's case, we've simply forced all our designers to take long texts into account
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Travis Griggs
09/22/2023, 5:18 PMGiven that I allow users to input a name for a given shared asset, and many devices will view that name, from little to big, I'm not sure how I would enforce that or ask designers to cope gracefully with it. What happens, when for grins, someone names one of their irrigation plans by copying in the preamble to the declaration of independence? For grins.
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ephemient
09/22/2023, 5:19 PM<marquee>ephemient
09/22/2023, 5:20 PMin our case we have reasonable name length limitations but still use maxLines=3 when displaying many simple fields such as name
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Travis Griggs
09/22/2023, 5:21 PMit's nice to see (looking at that roadmap) that Autosize Text is an "in focus" thing. Not sure what that really means though