How can I set content paddings to a BasicTextField? If i try to apply some padding to the inner tex...

# compose

[Alex Styl]

How can I set content paddings to a BasicTextField?

If i try to apply some padding to the inner text field then the padding is not scrolled along with the text if it is too long

[Alex Styl]

Wrapping into a horizontalScroll() inside of the inner text field does have the visual effect I want, but it doesn't scroll while I type text (which is to be expected).

cant figure out how material does this

[Alex Styl]

Oh, never mind. Material3 doesn't really do this. it clips the text too

[Alex Styl]

Turns out it's not supported.

There is a feature request at https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/302599627?ref=blog.zachklipp.com&pli=1

Also found @Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]’s article that does something similar https://blog.zachklipp.com/basictextfield-bubble-wrap

I think I can work around it

[Halil Ozercan]

r.android.com/3572469

I'll try to squeeze it into 1.9 alphas

[Alex Styl]

@Halil Ozercan awesome. looks solid. havent looked at the dependencies yet. do u think it's something i can copy paste in my project?

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

You'd have to copy/paste BasicTextField, it's implemented as a modifier inside that component.

[Alex Styl]

@Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD] I am aware. what i dont have time to check right now is whether the specific overload uses compose internals. would i need to copy 1 file or a whole chunk of the framework?

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

`BasicTextField`'s implementation is spread over a few files, it would be very annoying to copy at least, assuming it doesn't use any other internal Foundation APIs (i can't remember if it does)

[Halil Ozercan]

it will be substantially more than 1 file.

[Alex Styl]

yeah that makes sense. thanks folks