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Support text selection programmatically for the SelectableText widget #69460

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pedromassango opened this issue Oct 31, 2020 · 3 comments
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Support text selection programmatically for the SelectableText widget #69460

pedromassango opened this issue Oct 31, 2020 · 3 comments
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a: text input Entering text in a text field or keyboard related problems c: proposal A detailed proposal for a change to Flutter f: material design flutter/packages/flutter/material repository. framework flutter/packages/flutter repository. See also f: labels. P3 Issues that are less important to the Flutter project team-framework Owned by Framework team triaged-framework Triaged by Framework team

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pedromassango commented Oct 31, 2020 •
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Flutter currently does not provide a way to select text programmatically for the SelectableText widget.

On Android we do that using the Spannable API, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/41760489/9185192
On iOS we a property to define a selection range, see https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uitextview/1618615-selectedrange

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It would be great to have this capability in Flutter to help native developers easily migrate their apps to Flutter. I suggest to have this capability on SelectableText widget since it is the only one text visualizer that support text selection.
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It would be great if you could elaborate on this proposal along with a practical use case.
Thanks.

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pedromassango commented Nov 2, 2020 •
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I've updated the issue description. There are plenty of use-cases but I will not mention any as this is a proposal for capabilities that are present on some native platforms (Android/iOS).

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