Can I detect taps outside of a component? I want t...

# compose

[Daniel]

Can I detect taps outside of a component? I want to have a dropdown collapse itself on tap outside of it, without needed to require every parent to listen for tap events and tell it to close

[zoha131]

You can use 'DropDown' composable for this usecase

[Daniel]

Are you talking about DropDownMenu? If so, that's what I'm wrapping. I'm finding it quite finicky

[Louis Pullen-Freilich [G]]

DropDownMenu already should dismiss when you tap outside. Are you setting expanded to false in onDismissRequest ?

[Daniel]

I was asking because I've needed to do this other places and assumed I'd need to do it for DropDownMenu as well

[Daniel]

I actually haven't managed to get DropDownMenu to display anything to the screen yet @Louis Pullen-Freilich [G]

[Daniel]

Nevermind, the issue was the DropDownMenu doesn't show up in the preview

[Louis Pullen-Freilich [G]]

Ah yeah, DropDownMenu is a popup window, and I think popup windows and dialogs don't yet show up in the preview