Support for TextSpans about styled_widget HOT 5 CLOSED

I havent thought about that yet! I am always open for suggestions on how to do anything.

The implementation would be something like this:

Text.rich(TextSpan(children: [
  TextSpan(text: 'some text')
    .bold(),
  TextSpan(text: 'more text')
    .italic(),
])

I havent used TextSpan myself before so i am open to other suggestions.

I cannot guarantee that i actually will implement this feature eighter. At the moment i am developing the package by myself and my time is somewhat limited.
It is very easy to learn how the package works and to implement it by yourself if you want the feature, or want to contribute. I am very open for pull requests

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Ok cool, I have experimented already a bit.

The Text widget has 2 (mutual exclusive) constructors which makes this a bit harder since extensions can't have constructors, so I tried some things using static methods to achieve a 'short' API:

extension StyledTextWithSpans on Text {
  static Text withSpans(List<TextSpan> children) => Text.rich(TextSpan(
        children: children,
      ));
}

extension StyledTextSpan on TextSpan {
  ...
}

StyledTextWithSpans.withSpans([
  TextSpan(text: 'Regular text, and '),
  TextSpan(text: 'bold text').textColor(Colors.green).bold(),
]),

However, I realise that the static utility method might not be suitable to be included in this library (maybe in the Flutter framework itself or just in my own code), so it indeed comes down to the API you suggested.

I'll see if I can make a PR out of just the TextSpan extension.

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Its best to keep it as close to "native flutter" as possible and only changing whats really needed. With the example i gave above the only thing that has to be implemented is the styled methods for TextSpan. And these method would basicly be the same as the styled methods for Text. Eighter you could just copy most of the methods from the Text extension, or they could share the same methods by having a common mixin which both of them include. I dont think the last option is currently possible.

If you just use Text.rich() it would make it a bit easier i think. As i said, rely as much as possible on the flutter framework.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

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Thanks for helping out on this so quickly! 👍

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#13 Feature implemented

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