Does the preview tool actually work for others? It stopped working for me the instant I split things...

# compose-desktop

[David W]

Does the preview tool actually work for others? It stopped working for me the instant I split things into multiple Composable methods/files.

[mcpiroman]

It does not for me - after Rendering... is gone nothing is shown in the preview winodw

[olonho]

cc: @alexey.tsvetkov

[olonho]

Please report an issue with reproducer

[David W]

Thanks. I honestly didn't realize it was expected to be working :S

[David W]

just to double-check, i'm not doing anything obviously wrong here, right?

[David W]

compose plugin is installed and up to date, function is marked as @Preview, and there's no preview gutter icon nor tab.
this is the latest stable version of IntelliJ Ultimate and compose 1.0.0

[Asapha]

In your particular example, it doesn’t work due to the function’s receiver parameter, no?

[David W]

You appear to be right...maybe I have a fundamental misunderstanding of things, then. How do we pass information to a @Composable function without being able to use a receiver parameter or arguments, since those disable previewing?

[David W]

Or are you just SOL if your composable needs params?

[Asapha]

You can create a @Preview that passes the necessary params to the “real” @Composable

@Composable
fun MyAwesomeComposable(text: String) {
    Text(text)
}

@Preview
@Composable
fun MyAwesomeComposablePreview() {
    MyAwesomeComposable("Hello there")
}

[Cody Mikol]

I do the same as the above and it seems to work fine

[David W]

oh, that's a clever workaround

[Cody Mikol]

I don't think its so much a workaround, its the intended use for @Preview

[Kebbin]

Interesting! Thanks.

[mcpiroman]

Actually I was checking with some recent RC and it did not work but now with 1.0 it does!