I’m struggling to make a “quote indent” component ...

# compose

[Drew Hamilton]

I’m struggling to make a “quote indent” component where a bar on the left expands to the full height of X lines of text.

Like Slack’s.

This is what I was expecting to work:

Row {
    ColoredRect(
        color = (+MaterialTheme.colors()).onSurface.copy(alpha = 0.12f),
        width = 4.dp
    )
    Space(Width(8.dp))
    Text(toDo.text)
}

But what happens is that the ColoredRect expands infinitely in height, pushing any elements below the row out of sight.

I’m using it as the text element in an AlertDialog. What am I doing wrong?

[Adam Powell]

Can you show the code that's calling it?

[Drew Hamilton]

The code calling the AlertDialog?

[Drew Hamilton]

@Composable fun Popup(model: Model) {
    val context = +ambient(ContextAmbient)
    AlertDialog(
        ...
        title = { Text("Title") },
        text = <earlier snippet>,
        buttons = ...

[Drew Hamilton]

That's the function that calls it directly. I can paste where that is called from too if it's relevant. Similar to how Jetnews shows an AlertDialog though