[FormBuilderCheckboxList] Display FormBuilderFieldOption as Row instead of Column

[awhitford]

When presenting something like a Checkbox List of Weekdays (Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat), displaying them vertically is taking a lot of space, where I would prefer to see them horizontally.

I think this is controlled by this line, but there presently is no control over it.

Could a configuration be added to FormBuilderCheckboxList to control whether the FormBuilderFieldOption are displayed as a Column or a Row?

(I haven't really tried this, so it may sound easier than it actually is.)

[danvick]

Hi @awhitford,
I've been considering the use of grouped_checkbox package for this purpose but I think it may introduce one or more breaking changes for current users.

I'm therefore planning to introduce it in v4.0.0 which is in the works.
What are your thoughts?

[awhitford]

I've never used the grouped_checkbox package, but the flexibility that it seems to offer looks attractive.

If you introduced this as a new class like FormBuilderCheckboxGroup, and it behaved like FormBuilderCheckboxList, it could be (more or less) a drop-in replacement. (Like how transitioning from FormBuilderStepper to FormBuilderTouchSpin was trivial.)

(For my particular scenario that triggered this issue, I ended up using a row of CheckboxListTile widgets.)

Another thing that caught my eye looking at grouped_checkbox is those group borders. I remember I used to use <fieldset> back with HTML. Having a field-group widget might be nice. (I know, separate issue.)

[danvick]

Yeah. This seems like a great idea, which should be considered.

What I'm worried about is that since it's not really a bug, and it'll end up taking my already limited available time to work on v4 which aims to fix lots of bugs.

[awhitford]

Honestly, better checkbox fields are a relatively low priority for me. When I initiated this issue, I was thinking that this could be a trivial tweak by adding a layout setting.

(I'm actually much more interested in #177 and #54.)