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90 per cent of the stack overflow responses on `@Composable invocations can only happen from the context of a @Composable function` refer to `onClick()` , instead i get this error every time i try to extract some long code from a composable function for instance a `Canvas`  I cannot find IN GENERAL what this error means and so I am not able to solve my case

you can't call composable functions from inside Canvas onDraw either

In general, you can't call any composable functions from callbacks

Here it is i reproduced the issue cutting a lot of code:  give you version 1 not refactored that works, and version 2 that does not work

```Canvas(modifier = modifier) {
    val spacePerHour = (size.width - spacing) / infos.size
    (0 until infos.size - 1 step 2).forEach { i -&gt;
        val info = infos[i]
        val hour = info.date.hour
        drawContext.canvas.nativeCanvas.apply {
            drawText(
                hour.toString(),
                spacing + i * spacePerHour,
                size.height - 5,
                textPaint
            )
        }
    }
}```


You can press CTRL Q on the opening bracket of any lambda to print its signature, if it doesn't say @Composable, then you can't call composable functions

version 2(gives `@Composable invocations` error):
```Canvas(modifier = modifier) {
        val spacePerHour = (size.width - spacing) / infos.size
        (0 until infos.size - 1 step 2).forEach { i -&gt;
            val info = infos[i]
            val hour = info.date.hour
            drawContext.canvas.nativeCanvas.apply {
                BuildXAxis(this, hour, spacing, i, spacePerHour, this, textPaint)
            }
        }
    }


@Composable
private fun BuildXAxis(
    canvas: NativeCanvas,
    hour: Int,
    spacing: Float,
    i: Int,
    spacePerHour: Float,
    drawScope: DrawScope,
    textPaint: Paint
) {
    canvas.drawText(
        hour.toString(),
        spacing + i * spacePerHour,
        drawScope.size.height - 5,
        textPaint
    )
}```


where i extracted `BuildXAxis` method to make it the long function more readable

remove `@Composable` from the function if you want to use it in that position

<@UJQB4DJF7> it works, thanks, now i understand where the error is! <@UFGCACPE0> thank you for your tip of using ctrl+Q and also <@U03M3G2TX9A> for the simple english explanation about callbacks!