since LazyColumn doesn't support Long for indices ...

# compose

[Trejkaz]

since LazyColumn doesn't support Long for indices (sad)... what's the recommended way to get something that does, if I wanted to?

[Ian Lake]

I am scared to ask why you think you need 2^31 indices

[Trejkaz]

not that I "need" it as such but I'm writing a hex viewer component

[Trejkaz]

so I dunno, the file is potentially that large, what would you suggest as a suitable index for "somewhere inside a file"?

[Trejkaz]

the same question came up 10-15 years ago when I did the same component for Swing

[Trejkaz]

people were like "why do you need an index so large for a scrollbar?"

[Trejkaz]

I was like, I don't really, but I'm writing a hex viewer and the user wants to scroll it

[Trejkaz]

so of course I'm going to look to the available components to do what I want first, and if something that can render rows like a table doesn't support long, I'm going to ask them what decade they were living in when they wrote that API

[Trejkaz]

so here, I would ask Google what decade they were living in when they wrote this API, because personally, I learned this mistake when I saw it in Swing, and wouldn't have implemented an API restricted to Int if I wrote it after seeing the pain I saw getting this to work in Swing. I also thought it was stupid when JavaFX came out with exactly the same limitation after we thought the world had already learned from this mistake the first time.

[Trejkaz]

so what's the alternative here, have LazyColumn but each row is actually multiple rows and then Column{} inside each row?

[Trejkaz]

I still want things like selection to work consistently across multiple columns too

[Trejkaz]

i.e. I can select whatever range of data I want in the hex column, or in the ASCII column, without that selection bleeding across