Is there any guide with useful compose desktop tips? for example, after a lot of research, I can't f...

# compose-desktop

[Pablo]

Is there any guide with useful compose desktop tips? for example, after a lot of research, I can't find even a simple thing as displaying the window centered on the screen. Also I see that in the sample project generated by the wizard, I don't have folders for theme, styles, texts... and whould be nice to have them, like in android. But I'll need a little help about how to create them and use them manually... or maybe doing things differently. Anything that can help will be appreciated.

[Michael Paus]

You can find some desktop-specific information here: https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/tree/master/tutorials

[Pablo]

thank you Michael, I already navigated that section, but can't find there how to center the window on the screen

[Pablo]

also can't find there how to manage theme, styles, texts... etc

[Pablo]

in android we got folders for texts, resources etc..., and kt files with themes and styles

[Pablo]

we got the xml for the texts

[Pablo]

here does not exist, and I wonder how to manage these kind of things on compose desktop

[Michael Paus]

Resources are described here for example: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/kotlin-multiplatform-dev/compose-multiplatform-resources.html

[Pablo]

that's nice, I wonder why is not activated by default in any KMP project or Compose Desktop project

[Pablo]

maybe do you have any info about how to manage themes/styles and how to center window on the screen?

[Michael Paus]

In your main where you create the window you just have to specify the desired alignment:

val windowState = rememberWindowState(size = DpSize(1200.dp, 900.dp), position = WindowPosition(Alignment.Center))

For the theming you can have a look here:
https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/compose/designsystems/material
(By default desktop is still using material 2)

[Pablo]

thank you very much for centering trick, they should add it to the documentation

[Pablo]

about the theming, that link is for Android, you mean that if I create the theme.kt, type.kt, color.kt files and use them in the same way as in Android in composables, it will be the same?

[Pablo]

thank you!

[Pablo]

I'm starting a new thread

[Michael Paus]

Resources are handled slightly different (e.g., Res vs R) but that’s described in the documentation.

[Pablo]

But it was not possible for me to find how to do this, I was not possible without your help

[Pablo]

the organization of everything

[Pablo]

wait a second I'm starting a new thread here