ClipRect Widget
Demonstrates using ClipRect to clip child content to a specified width and/or height without ellipsis.
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pkgs/artisanal_widgets/example/clip_rect/main.dart
// ClipRect Widget Example
import 'package:artisanal_widgets/artisanal_widgets.dart';
//
// Demonstrates using ClipRect to clip child content to a specified
// width and/or height without ellipsis.
//
// Run with: dart run example/clip_rect/main.dart
import 'package:artisanal/style.dart' hide Padding, Align;
import 'package:artisanal/tui.dart' as tui;
import 'package:artisanal_widgets/widgets.dart' as w;
void main() async {
final app = WidgetApp(ClipRectExample());
await tui.runProgram(
app,
options: const tui.ProgramOptions(
altScreen: true,
mouseMode: tui.MouseMode.allMotion,
),
);
}
class ClipRectExample extends w.StatefulWidget {
ClipRectExample({super.key});
w.State createState() => _ClipRectExampleState();
}
class _ClipRectExampleState extends w.State<ClipRectExample> {
final w.WidgetScrollController _scrollController = w.WidgetScrollController();
w.Widget build(w.BuildContext context) {
final theme = widget.theme;
final label = theme.labelSmall.copy()..foreground(theme.onBackground);
return w.Container(
child: w.Scrollbar(
controller: _scrollController,
thickness: 1,
gap: 1,
enableHover: true,
trackChar: ' ',
thumbChar: ' ',
trackUsesBackground: true,
thumbUsesBackground: true,
trackGradient: w.ScrollbarGradient.background(
start: w.hasDarkBackground
? const BasicColor('#2f363d')
: const BasicColor('#e3e7eb'),
end: w.hasDarkBackground
? const BasicColor('#1f252a')
: const BasicColor('#d3d9e0'),
),
thumbGradient: w.ScrollbarGradient.background(
start: w.hasDarkBackground
? const BasicColor('#3fb2ff')
: const BasicColor('#2f7df6'),
end: w.hasDarkBackground
? const BasicColor('#7c5cff')
: const BasicColor('#6e55f5'),
),
hoverThumbGradient: w.ScrollbarGradient.background(
start: w.hasDarkBackground
? const BasicColor('#79ddff')
: const BasicColor('#4f93ff'),
end: w.hasDarkBackground
? const BasicColor('#b18bff')
: const BasicColor('#836bff'),
),
hoverThumbChar: ' ',
child: w.ScrollView(
controller: _scrollController,
handleKeys: true,
child: w.Column(
gap: 1,
children: [
w.Text('ClipRect Widget', style: theme.titleLarge),
w.Text('q: quit', style: label),
w.Divider(width: 50),
// Width clipping
w.Text('Width clipping:', style: theme.titleMedium),
w.Row(
gap: 2,
children: [
w.Column(
children: [
w.Text('Original:', style: label),
w.Text('Hello, World! This is a long string.'),
],
),
w.Column(
children: [
w.Text('Clipped to 15:', style: label),
w.ClipRect(
width: 15,
child: w.Text('Hello, World! This is a long string.'),
),
],
),
w.Column(
children: [
w.Text('Clipped to 5:', style: label),
w.ClipRect(
width: 5,
child: w.Text('Hello, World! This is a long string.'),
),
],
),
],
),
w.Divider(width: 50),
// Height clipping
w.Text(
'Height clipping (5 lines to 3):',
style: theme.titleMedium,
),
w.Row(
gap: 4,
children: [
w.Column(
children: [
w.Text('Original:', style: label),
w.Column(
children: [
w.Text('Line 1'),
w.Text('Line 2'),
w.Text('Line 3'),
w.Text('Line 4'),
w.Text('Line 5'),
],
),
],
),
w.Column(
children: [
w.Text('Clipped:', style: label),
w.ClipRect(
height: 3,
child: w.Column(
children: [
w.Text('Line 1'),
w.Text('Line 2'),
w.Text('Line 3'),
w.Text('Line 4'),
w.Text('Line 5'),
],
),
),
],
),
],
),
w.Divider(width: 50),
// Both width and height
w.Text(
'Both width (10) and height (2):',
style: theme.titleMedium,
),
w.ClipRect(
width: 10,
height: 2,
child: w.Column(
children: [
w.Text('A very long first line of text'),
w.Text('A very long second line of text'),
w.Text('Third line — clipped away'),
],
),
),
w.Divider(width: 50),
// ClipRect inside a DecoratedBox
w.Text('Inside a DecoratedBox:', style: theme.titleMedium),
w.DecoratedBox(
decoration: w.BoxDecoration(border: Border.rounded),
child: w.ClipRect(
width: 20,
child: w.Text(
'This text is clipped to 20 columns inside a border',
),
),
),
],
),
),
),
);
}
tui.Cmd? handleUpdate(tui.Msg msg) {
if (msg is tui.KeyMsg && msg.key.char == 'q') {
return tui.Cmd.quit();
}
return null;
}
}
Run it
dart run pkgs/artisanal_widgets/example/clip_rect/main.dart