CharacterParticle class

A character/emoji particle painter.

Renders particles as text characters or emojis, allowing for expressive and customizable flow visualizations.

Example:

// Emoji particle
ParticleEffect(
  particlePainter: CharacterParticle(
    character: '🚀',
    fontSize: 16.0,
  ),
  particleCount: 3,
  speed: 1,
)

// Text particle
ParticleEffect(
  particlePainter: CharacterParticle(
    character: '→',
    fontSize: 20.0,
  ),
  particleCount: 5,
  speed: 2,
)

Implemented types

• ParticlePainter

Available extensions

• ParticlePainterExtension

Constructors

CharacterParticle({String character = '●', double fontSize = 12.0, Color? color})

Creates a character/emoji particle painter.

Properties

character → String

The character or emoji to display

final

color → Color?

Optional color override for the particle (null = use connection color) Note: For emojis, this may not have an effect as emojis render with their own colors

final

fontSize → double

The font size in pixels

final

hashCode → int

The hash code for this object.

no setter, inherited

isBuiltIn → bool

Available on ParticlePainter, provided by the ParticlePainterExtension extension

Check if this is a built-in particle

no setter

runtimeType → Type

A representation of the runtime type of the object.

no setter, inherited

size → Size

The size of the particle. Used for layout calculations and bounds checking.

no setter, override

Methods

noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) → dynamic

Invoked when a nonexistent method or property is accessed.

inherited

paint(Canvas canvas, Offset position, Tangent tangent, Paint basePaint) → void

Paints the particle at the given position along the connection path.

override

toString() → String

A string representation of this object.

inherited

Operators

operator ==(Object other) → bool

The equality operator.

inherited