CHANGELOG #

[4.0.0] - February 26, 2025 #

Refactored the code to utilize RichText widgets for rendering floated text instead of internally rendering it using TextPainters. This change offers several advantages, including reduced dependency on Flutter’s internal implementation of RenderParagraph and related selection features. Specifically, it enhances support for Flutter’s text selection capabilities, ensures compatibility with a wider range of Flutter versions, and significantly reduces code size by approximately one-third.

[3.0.0] - February 12, 2025 #

Added two new required methods to SelectableFragment class: int get contentLength and SelectedContentRange? getSelection(). These two new methods are defined in Flutter 3.29.0, so it is a breaking change.
Updated pubspec.yaml to depend on flutter: '>=3.29.0'.

[2.1.8] - August 7, 2024 #

Updated pubspec.yaml to use flutter: '>=3.24.0'.

[2.1.7] - August 7, 2024 #

Updated to compile with Flutter 3.24.0

[2.1.6] - June 27, 2024 #

Updated TextRenderer to handle the case where _painter.text is null to avoid a possible exception.

[2.1.5] - February 16, 2024 #

Another update to try to fix static analysis issues.

[2.1.4] - February 16, 2024 #

More updates to try to fix static analysis issues.

[2.1.3] - February 16, 2024 #

Updated to fix static analysis issue.

[2.1.2] - February 16, 2024 #

Fixed compile issue with Flutter 3.19.0 and other bug fixes and updates.

[2.1.1] - August 17, 2023 #

Fixed bug where if a Widget in a WidgetSpan changes its size, FloatColumn was not updating properly.

[2.1.0] - August 16, 2023 #

Updated so it builds with Flutter 3.13.0.

[2.0.1] - May 27, 2023 #

Fixed bug related to maxLines being set to a value greater than 1, and overflow being set to TextOverflow.ellipsis, where the text would not be layed out correctly.

[2.0.0] - May 11, 2023 #

Updated to support Dart 3 and Flutter 3.10.0.

[1.4.1] - February 8, 2023 #

Updated how text renderers are cached for quicker access.
Some code cleanup to RenderFloatColumn hitTestChildren and other code cleanup.

[1.4.0] - February 6, 2023 #

Added support for Flutter's selection functionality.

[1.3.3] - January 17, 2023 #

Added a copyWithTextSpan parameter to the defaultSplitSpanAtIndex extension method on the InlineSpan class.

[1.3.2] - January 17, 2023 #

Added optional an bool ignoreFloatedWidgetSpans = false parameter to the splitAt and splitAtIndex methods of SplittableMixin.

[1.3.1] - December 10, 2022 #

Updated to remove warnings related to latest Flutter version.

[1.3.0] - July 7, 2022 #

Updated FloatColumn to support children of type TextSpan, Text, and RichText.

[1.2.4] - July 6, 2022 #

Added TextOverflow overflow and int? maxLines to WrappableText class.

[1.2.3] - June 28, 2022 #

Fixed bug in the RenderObject extension method visitChildrenAndTextRenderers. It would not recursively visit children with VisitChildrenOfAnyTypeMixin. Now it does.

[1.2.2] - June 2, 2022 #

Code updates to fix warnings related to Flutter 3.0 release.
Fixed bug related to when markNeedsSemanticsUpdate is called. Since it can immediately result in a call to describeSemanticsConfiguration, it needed to be moved outside of the loop updating the cached WrappableTextRenderer list.

[1.2.1] - November 15, 2021 #

Fixed bug in RenderFloatColumn assembleSemanticsNode, it was using the [] operator of WrappableTextRenderer, when it should have been using the renderers getter.

[1.2.0] - November 15, 2021 #

Fixed #3 "WrappableText objects that contain TextSpans that have a recognizer (e.g. TapGestureRecognizer) aren't handled correctly, i.e. the recognizer is ignored for hit tests."
Updated RenderFloatColumn to support standard describeSemanticsConfiguration and assembleSemanticsNode methods.

[1.1.2] - November 13, 2021 #

Fixed bug in RenderFloatColumn visitChildrenOfAnyType.
Added example Mac app, and updated examples.

[1.1.1] - September 9, 2021 #

Updated to use flutter_lints_plus package and fix Flutter 2.5 lint warnings.

[1.1.0] - July 5, 2021 #

Added support for floated inline widgets using WidgetSpan with Floatable child.

[1.0.2] - July 4, 2021 #

Added code that shows overflow area and size in case of height overflow.

[1.0.1] - July 4, 2021 #

Fixed bug where the layout was incorrect in some cases if line-feed characters were in the text.

[1.0.0] - June 27, 2021 #

Updated README.md and released 1.0.0 version.

[0.1.5] - May 7, 2021 #

Updated so the textAlign parameter of WrappableText works correctly.

[0.1.4] - May 7, 2021 #

Updated so negative indent values work correctly.

[0.1.3] - May 2, 2021 #

Added RenderBox get renderBox and Offset get offset to RenderTextMixin.

[0.1.2] - May 2, 2021 #

Added support for visiting the children (render objects and text renderers) of a RenderFloatColumn, via the visitChildrenOfAnyType function.
Added support for getting detailed info about each text renderer child (via the RenderTextMixin), similar to RenderParagraph.
Fixed a bug relating to WrappableText and unique keys.

[0.1.1] - May 1, 2021 #

Added support for margins and padding to WrappableText and Floatable.

[0.1.0] - April 26, 2021 #

Removed debug print statements, added more examples to readme file.

[0.1.0-dev.3] - April 26, 2021 #

Fixed a bug where a child widget with a width of zero would cause an exception.

[0.1.0-dev.2] - April 26, 2021 #

Fixed a bug where a child widget with an unconstrained width would cause an exception.

[0.1.0-dev.1] - April 25, 2021 #

Prerelease version with basic functionality, and probably a lot of bugs.