When building an `AnnotatedString` how do you specify an alpha span without specifying the color? `C...

# compose

[Mark]

When building an AnnotatedString how do you specify an alpha span without specifying the color? Color.Unspecified.copy(alpha = alpha) doesn’t work. Note, I’m not building the AnnotatedString in a Composable, so I don’t have access to LocalTextStyle

[Mark]

BTW, I tried the other SpanStyle constructor that takes a Brush and alpha but that doesn’t seem to work (alpha ignored) when Brush is set to null. Judging by the docs, a non-null Brush is needed, but how to hack it for standard Brush behavior? Obviously, can’t use SolidColor(color) because I don’t have the color (and Color.Unspecified) doesn’t work there either.

[saket]

Interesting. You could add string annotations to your text and apply the color later when you have access to a theme.

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

We don’t currently support configuring the alpha separately from the rest of the color. Feel free to file a feature request

[Mark]

I created a new issue, but for some reason got this: New issue created: 316188062 (view access not granted)

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

Weird, that bug just says the description has been deleted

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

oh it was flagged as abuse somehow

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

i unflagged, linking to this thread

[Mark]

The only thing I did differently from normal was to select the “Create / In Same Component” button, so it’s possible that it’s related to that.

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

The component looked right. Idk what happened. Buganizer shmuganizer