I'm trying to implement editable Text myself, and I'm stuck right at the beginning - how to show the...

# compose-desktop

[Karlo Lozovina]

I'm trying to implement editable Text myself, and I'm stuck right at the beginning - how to show the cursor when the user clicks somewhere in the text? ClickableText gives me the index of the clicked character, but that's not enough to show the cursor - I need the pixel position and the height of the cursor to display. Any pointers appreciated...

[Karlo Lozovina]

It seems that BasicTextField and onTextLayout should do the trick... mabye?

[Sean Proctor]

If not, you could see how it is implemented. https://cs.android.com/androidx/platform/frameworks/support/+/androidx-main:compose/[…]Main/kotlin/androidx/compose/foundation/text/CoreTextField.kt

[Karlo Lozovina]

thanks, will take a look at that as well!

[Karlo Lozovina]

ClickableText.kt is actually pretty illuminating! It might actually work 😉