Hey guys! I have a question. Is there a reason why...

# compose

[Jeisson Sáchica]

Hey guys! I have a question. Is there a reason why creating a custom shape that uses the Outline.Rect where width or height are zero draws it with the whole width and height? Ex:

@Stable
val EmptyRectangleShape: Shape = object: Shape {
    override fun createOutline(size: Size, density: Density): Outline =
        Outline.Rectangle(Rect.Zero)
}

[Jeisson Sáchica]

I think @Leland Richardson [G] had this problem in one of the streams with the movie app when clipping using a custom shape like this, and in the cases where the width of the rect was zero it was drawing the shape as if it had the full width. Is this something that will be worked on or is it the expected behaviour on those cases?

[Leland Richardson [G]]

i believe this is “working as intended”, but whether or not it should be the intended behavior i think may still be up for debate

[Jeisson Sáchica]

Hmm I see. I do think it makes sense to respect the dimensions of the specified rect. I guess my use case is that for specific cases I needed an "empty" shape for clipping and basically not show the content on conditions that are off my scroll boundaries.

[Jeisson Sáchica]

I had to play with the opacity or straight up not show the composable whichh might make things out of sync, especially with animations. So to handle everything just with the clipping would be way easier

[Andrey Kulikov]

how do you use this shape afterwards? pass to modifier.clip()?

[Andrey Kulikov]

I think it worth filing a bug so we can double check if it works as expected

[Leland Richardson [G]]

i’m chatting w/ nader about this now

[Leland Richardson [G]]

if you use clipRect(0f,0f,0f,0f) { drawContent() } it works as you’d expect

[Leland Richardson [G]]

i think this behavior is specific to the Outline/Shape API.

[Andrey Kulikov]

I think the bug is in OutlineResolver#outline. there we have

return if (!outlineNeeded || cachedOutline.isEmpty) null else cachedOutline

and isEmpty is true when you pass empty rect

[Andrey Kulikov]

definitely a bug. could you please file?

[Jeisson Sáchica]

Yup sure! Will do now

[Jeisson Sáchica]

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/171492099