What is the proper way to do something like absolutely positioned elements? I'm trying to make a sel...

# compose-desktop

[Cody Mikol]

What is the proper way to do something like absolutely positioned elements? I'm trying to make a selection drop down. Another window element seems like it could work, but doesn't seem like the right choice.

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Positioned and fully contained within the same window, or can it go outside the original window bounds?

[Cody Mikol]

Contained in the window

[Abdelilah El Aissaoui]

What about Popup? Setting the popupPositionProvider you can decide where to display it

[Cody Mikol]

Looks like PopUp can't go outside the window bounds

[Abdelilah El Aissaoui]

Didn't you want it contained in the window?

[Cody Mikol]

I mispoke, my bad 😅

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Then it has to be hosted in its own window

[Cody Mikol]

Ah, ok

[Abdelilah El Aissaoui]

Ah 😂 then not sure if a Dialog can be an option, otherwise Window is the only other option I am aware of

[Cody Mikol]

I noticed that was causing some weird behavior in window previews on linux

[Cody Mikol]

Not sure how to phrase this question, but is there a way to hint to the OS that the extra window shouldn't be previewed?

[Cody Mikol]

sorry if that doesnt make sense 😅

[Cody Mikol]

And thank you both for your help

[Abdelilah El Aissaoui]

Yeah, I know what you mean. Not sure tbh, I guess it's sth that depends on the window manager or display server (no idea tho)

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Try this

[Cody Mikol]

That seems to have done the trick!

[Cody Mikol]

thank you

[Cody Mikol]

should I be creating that via AwtWindow ?

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

I don't follow the question

[Cody Mikol]

I was following your advice along with this documentation here. They wrap the ComposableWindow in something like

AwtWindow(creeate = { /* ComposableWindow Here */ }, dispose = {})

[Cody Mikol]

Without that the ComposableWindow isn't rendered to the screen, but I'm not sure if this is the correct way to do things

[Cody Mikol]

or what I should provide to the dispose argument

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

If you're doing an explicit ComposeWindow, you're in charge of configuring everything, including the size, position, and calling isVisible = true on it

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

You would also need to track clicks outside of its bounds and Escape key hits to dismiss the popup