EDIT: Solved this, solution in :point_right: :thread: I'm integrating a `TextField` and `DropDownMe...

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[darkmoon_uk]

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I'm integrating a TextField and DropDownMenu to make a fairly standard drop-down selection for a form.
For this I want to suppress the standard text-editing interaction with the TextField and just respond to clicks by opening the menu. Found this becomes a bit of a catch 22 though:
• Keeping the TextField enabled, and trying to apply an overriding clickable modifier to it, or its parent, does not stop the TextField from capturing user interaction and behaving normally, as hoped.
• Disabling the TextField and applying clickable to its parent gives desired behaviour, but then of course the colours look disabled too, which I don't want. So I'm trying to apply new TextFieldColors to it, that maintain the enabled appearance. However I'm not finding this straightforward either - trying to reference the existing default colors gets you tangled up in interaction sources and stuff which does not feel necessary to be doing.
Any 3rd way I'm missing?

[darkmoon_uk]

Looking at the TextFieldColors interface again; this seems to be a fairly robust way of optionally forcing an 'always enabled' appearance.
Using remember to avoid re-wrapping an unchanged normalTextFieldColors at every recomposition.

GetTextFieldColors_kt.kt

[darkmoon_uk]

Usage:

Usage_kt.kt

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

Seems like it would be more straightforward to just use a Text and a border instead of trying to disable a TextField

[Sean McQuillan [G]]

Agreed with Zach, that's my recommended solution as well

[darkmoon_uk]

While I see the pro's of doing that; our design calls for the hint, icons and other elements of the standard TextField to be present in this 'Drop Down' control. This also paves the way for a potential 'combo' control. In this instance, the path of least resistance still seems to be to base efforts on a `TextField`; otherwise we're faced with recreating & maintain the exact L&F of those secondary TextField elements, in sync with the original.

[Sean McQuillan [G]]

Makes sense

[Sean McQuillan [G]]

Carry on