is there a bug in Row() that doesn’t prioritize the sizes correctly when using Overflow on text? Sim...

# compose

[Mikael Alfredsson]

is there a bug in Row() that doesn’t prioritize the sizes correctly when using Overflow on text?
Simplest example, with 2 texts (one text and one Icon will do the same.
It only clips the text if its the last item in the row.

[Stylianos Gakis]

What would you expect to happen here instead?

[Mikael Alfredsson]

if any text allows for clipping (ir. textOverflow is set ) that one should only be given the remaining space and then clip

[Mikael Alfredsson]

its worse when I have a text and an Icon, since the icon actually have a specific size, but the text will push out the icon before it starts clipping

[Stylianos Gakis]

So would Row need to know the internals of its children to pick up if they have TextOverflow set in order to measure them accordingly? That would be quite confusing for it to be the default behavior no?

[Stylianos Gakis]

Could you try and instead be explicit about what you want from your row?
If there is an item which wants to be measured last, after the rest of the components are already laid out in the available space, you can put a weight(1f) on it. That way row will place the other items, and will give all of the remaining space to the item with the weight

[Stylianos Gakis]

If potentially both of those two texts(or whatever) can go over the other one, and you do not want either one to “trample over” the other one, consider using a layout like this https://github.com/HedvigInsurance/android/blob/4eeb8aee6c28bba871551e2ac005bc411f[…]ig/android/core/ui/text/HorizontalItemsWithMaximumSpaceTaken.kt instead

(Original solution by Albert here https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/CJLTWPH7S/p1650525026461549?thread_ts=1648467352.438719&cid=CJLTWPH7S)

[Mikael Alfredsson]

but weight 1 will always take up the rest of the space. If I want the text to be packed together if they are short, but one should be clipped if one takes to much space, then weight(1f) wont work

[Mikael Alfredsson]

I guess the issue is that Row does not have a modifier that fits here .

[Mikael Alfredsson]

if row had a priority modifier, then I could resort the calculation order.

[Albert Chang]

Modifier.weight(1f, fill = false) is what you want.

[Mikael Alfredsson]

oh, forgot about the fill.. let me check.

[Stylianos Gakis]

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[Mikael Alfredsson]

👍 Thanks, that will help me with this