Is there any way to set the width of an EditText in characters?

# compose

[Daniel]

Is there any way to set the width of an EditText in characters?

[Halil Ozercan]

Wouldn't just trimming the string work?

Text(
  text = myString.take(limit)
)

[Daniel]

Sorry, by text field I meant EditText

[Halil Ozercan]

oh sorry, my mistake 🤦‍♂️ Again similarly you have the ability to ignore anything longer than what you want

var text by remember { mutableStateOf("") }
TextField(
  value = text,
  onValueChange = {
    text = it.take(limit)
  }
)

[Halil Ozercan]

argument names might be wrong, haven't used TextField in a while

[Daniel]

Yeah, but I want to set the visible width such that it wraps the amount of text in the EditText. As in if value = "0.000" I don't want a bunch of whitespace on the right, I want it to end after the last 0

[Halil Ozercan]

Hmm, that's an interesting challenge. Your best bet might be onTextLayout and figuring out how much space your TextField should allocate.

[Halil Ozercan]

This might cause you to lose a frame tho

[Daniel]

Thanks for the suggestion. It's good to know there's no great solution. If it's numbers with sane fonts I think I can rely on the fact 1em is slightly larger than the width of a zero, so that might work