It seems that since 1.0.0-alpha05, `Text` is no longer selectable by default. How can we make it sel...

# compose

[louiscad]

It seems that since 1.0.0-alpha05, Text is no longer selectable by default. How can we make it selectable again?

[Siyamed]

Add a SelectionContainer around the tree that you want to be selectable

[louiscad]

I wrapped with SelectionContainer(selection = null, onSelectionChange = {}) { … } but while I can select the text, I can't do anything with it, there's no popup/toolbar appearing above… why is it not there by default and is there a way to get that popup/toolbar?

[Siyamed]

The answer to why it is not enabled by default would be complicated for me. I am on the same school of thought that it should be enabled by default.

[Siyamed]

I will add a simpler api but for now you should not set selection to null

[Siyamed]

It should be like TextField etc where you get rhe selection on the callback and set the value that was passed

[Siyamed]

As long as you can add SelectionContainer to any component tree that has text, they will be selectable. (If there is not a specific bug)

[louiscad]

It's unclear which value I should pass to selection though since I just want text from the composition to be selectable, regardless of what it is.

[Siyamed]

The value you get from onSelectionChange goes into selection attribute?

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

var selection: Selection? by remember { mutableStateOf(null) }
SelectionContainer(selection = selection, onSelectionChange = { selection = it }) { … }

IIRC

[louiscad]

Why don't we simply have a EnableTextSelectionByDefault { … } or alike wrapper if Text is no longer selectable by default?
Having to declare a variable and configuring the thing isn't very intuitive to me

[Siyamed]

https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/CJLTWPH7S/p1603837816246200?thread_ts=1603836986.245500&cid=CJLTWPH7S :o

[Siyamed]

:)

[louiscad]

Your snippet works, Zach (granted I import the getValue + setValue from compose runtime), but I see only the "Copy" option in the popup, no translate and all options… it's not invoking the text selection from the system?

[louiscad]

Thank you Siyamed! Feel free to ping me if you're undecided about the naming 🙂

[Siyamed]

It doesn't use system

[Siyamed]

It is not integrated to smart selection

[Siyamed]

If there is nothing to paste wont show paste

[louiscad]

Is there a way to integrate it to system selection to get smart selection, translate and other niceties we got since Android 6?

[louiscad]

Maybe something in the onSelection callback for the non smart selection related things?

[louiscad]

BTW, I see that selection can cross components, like it's possible on webpages. That's very nice!

[Siyamed]

We will integrate, right now i am not aware of such away