I’ve installed the plugin but I cannot use the @Pr...

# compose-desktop

[Frank]

I’ve installed the plugin but I cannot use the @Preview-Annotation nor do I see the preview icon:

[Alexander Kurasov[JB]]

You need:

import androidx.compose.desktop.ui.tooling.preview.Preview

[Alexander Kurasov[JB]]

after that you can use @Preview and icon will appear

[Frank]

I guess my project setup is wrong.

[Alexander Kurasov[JB]]

What’s the issue?

[Frank]

I’ve just created a plain project using IntelliJ. There is no gradlew - file either in the project directory. In a previous project it was there.

[Alexander Kurasov[JB]]

Without Gradle it will be pain… Can you create a project using Kotlin wizard?

[Alexander Kurasov[JB]]

You miss UI tooling library. Add to your dependencies {
....
implementation(compose.uiTooling)
}

[Alexander Kurasov[JB]]

it is in build.gradle.kts file

[Frank]

I’ve created it a second time using the wizard for Compose Desktop Apps in INtelliJ.

Now gradlew is there.

But the import is not working:

[Frank]

I’m pretty new to gradle. Only used maven so far.

[Frank]

implementation(compose.uiTooling) doesn’t work:

nt/build.gradle.kts2128: Unresolved reference: uiTooling

[Alexander Kurasov[JB]]

Could you share content of your build.gradle file here?

[Frank]

Here it is:

build.gradle.kts

[Alexander Kurasov[JB]]

change id(“org.jetbrains.compose”) version “0.4.0" to id(“org.jetbrains.compose”) version “0.5.0-build235" and refresh gradle (after you edit the file, the grey icons will appear to the left. press both - they will reload libraties)

[Alexander Kurasov[JB]]

Preview was done only in buil235

[Frank]

Thank you so much. It works now.