custom_text 1.4.0

Highly customisable text widget and controller to enable styling and gesture actions.

1.4.0

• Add preBuilder to CustomText. (#44)
• Add rebuildKey to definitions. (#45)
• Add missing selectionColor to CustomText.
• Avoid rebuilding irrelevant spans when definitions are updated. (#43)
• Bump text_parser version to 2.3.0.
• Refactorings.
• Improve documentation.

1.3.1

• Fix a potential issue where text was not shown quickly if it was given later than initial build.
• Extract span builder as a single class for a feature being planned for a future version.
• Improve span builder to apply gesture callbacks only when necessary.
• Improve handling of DefaultTextStyle.
• Other refactorings.
• Bump text_parser version to 2.2.1.
  • Matchers with empty RegExp pattern are now allowed.

1.3.0

• Add the CustomText.spans constructor. (#36)
  • This is useful if you already have styled spans and want to apply additional decoration.
• Deprecate textScaleFactor. (#38)
  • textScaler will be added at a future major version.
• Bump text_parser version to 2.1.1.

1.2.1

• Fix a potential bug that could cause an empty span in edge case.
• Fix bugs of CustomTextEditingController.
  • Text style specified in controller was not used during initial parsing.
  • Text style specified in editable text was not used depending on the timing.
• Add an example of how to make real hyperlinks for the web.

1.2.0

• Refactor and improve handling of gestures.
  • Behaviours triggered by gestures is now more stable and natural.
    • e.g. Text style is no longer lost for an instant on tap when hoverStyle is specified and tapStyle is not.
• Add parameters to SpanDefinition to be equivalent to other definitions. (#34)
  • Text style, mouse cursor type and gesture handlers are applied to the InlineSpan and its children created by the builder function.
  • Text style is also provided to WidgetSpans via DefaultTextStyle.
• Make text invisible during initial parsing. (#37)
  • It should be only a tiny moment, so won't have an impact.
  • This does not affect the cases where preventBlocking is enabled or only TextDefinitions are used.
• Improve documentation.

1.1.0

• Bump text_parser to 2.1.0.
• Support definitions with a matcher of the same type. (#31)

1.0.0

• Bump text_parser to 2.0.0.
  • Contains a breaking change in UrlMatcher.
    • UrlMatcher no longer matches URLs not starting with http(s).
    • Use the new UrlLikeMatcher instead if necessary.
• Add support for using an external parser.
• Add typedef for gesture callbacks.
• Improve tests, documentation and example app.
• Update the note about using lookbehind assertions on Safari.

1.0.0-dev.2

• Bump text_parser to 1.2.0-dev.2.
  • Contains a breaking change in UrlMatcher.
    • UrlMatcher no longer matches URLs not starting with http(s).
    • Use the new UrlLikeMatcher instead if necessary.
• Update the example app.
• Update the note about using lookbehind assertions on Safari.

1.0.0-dev.1

• Add support for using an external parser.
• Add typedef for gesture callbacks.
• Bump text_parser to 1.2.0-dev.1.
  • No workaround is necessary any more to use lookbehind assertions.
• Add and improve tests.
• Improve documentation.

0.8.0

• Breaking:
  • Raise minimum Flutter SDK version to 3.7.0.
  • Remove CustomText.selectable that had been deprecated since 0.6.0. (#24)
  • Handler functions now get GestureDetails object instead of matcher type and text. (#25)
    • This is for supporting wider use cases.

      onTap: (details) {
        print(details.element.matcherType);
        print(details.actionText);
                
        // or more
        print(details.shownText);
        print(details.gestureKind);
        print(details.globalPosition);
        ...
      }
      

      instead of

      onTap: (type, text) {
        print(type);
        print(text);
      }
      

  • Integrate CustomTextEditingController into custom_text.dart.
    • Use

      import 'package:custom_text/custom_text.dart';
      

      instead of

      import 'package:custom_text/custom_text_editing_controller.dart';
      

• New:
  • Add onGesture. (#27)
    • This handler supports secondary and tertiary buttons and mouse enter and exit events.
• Expose the base definition class.
• Expose the typedefs of builders of SelectiveDefinition and SpanDefinition.
• Internal refactorings.

0.7.0

• Raise minimum Flutter SDK version to 3.3.0.
• Refactor TextSpanNotifier to make it easier to add features in future versions.
• Remove an inappropriate condition from didUpdateWidget.
• Add screenshots to pubspec.yaml.

0.6.1

• Fix Definition and ParserOptions to use also runtimeType for hashCode calculation.
• Remove override of toString() from ParserOptions.
• Make sure that null is not passed to the following parameters:
  • labelSelector of SelectiveDefinition
  • builder of SpanDefinition
• Use text_parser 0.4.2.
• Update example app.

0.6.0

• New:
  • Add CustomText.selectable. (#16)
    • Deprecated. (#19)
    • Will be removed in the future in favour of SelectionArea.
  • Add CustomTextEditingController. (#17, #20)
• Maybe breaking:
  • Use hoverStyle while being pressed if tapStyle is not provided.
• Many bug fixes, improvements and major refactors. (eb0e6f7, 760cb45, #12, #15, etc)
  • Please see the history of dev versions for details.
• Require Flutter >=3.0.0.
• Bump text_parser to 0.4.1.
• Depend on meta.
• Update dependencies.

0.6.0-dev.6

• Bump text_parser to 0.4.0.
• Fix issue where changes of some properties were not reflected. (#22)

0.6.0-dev.5

• Maybe breaking:
  • Use hoverStyle while being pressed if tapStyle is not provided.
• Suppress error caused by updates of value after dispose().
• Add test for behaviour on hover without hoverStyle.
• Improve documentation, example app, etc.

0.6.0-dev.4

• Require Flutter >=3.0.0.
• Deprecate:
  • CustomText.selectable constructor is now deprecated. (#19)
    • Use SelectionArea on Flutter 3.3 and above.
    • If SelectionArea is insufficient, use CustomTextEditingController and TextField with readOnly: true.
• New (experimental):
  • Add debounceDuration to CustomTextEditingController for somewhat better performance with long text. (#20)
• Fix behaviour of CustomTextEditingController when text spans are rebuilt while one of them is hovered/pressed on.
• Discard gesture recognizers more thoroughly.
• Add tests for CustomTextEditingController.
• Minor refactoring.

0.6.0-dev.3

• Add tests for CustomText.selectable.
• Suppress warnings in Flutter 3.
• Minor refactoring.
• Update lint rules.
• Update and improve the example app.
• Improve documentation.

0.6.0-dev.2

• Fix issue of persistent hover style.
• Update text_parser to 0.3.3.
• Minor improvements.

0.6.0-dev.1

• Bug fixes and major refactors. (eb0e6f7, 760cb45, #12, #15)
• New (experimental):
  • Add CustomText.selectable. (#16)
  • Add CustomTextEditingController. (#17)
• Depend on meta.
• Require Flutter >=2.8.0.

0.5.1

• Bump text_parser to 0.3.2.
• Minor improvements.

0.5.0

• Fix an issue of tap and hover inactive in a rare condition. (#7)
• Fix issues of setState() called after dispose(). (#8, #10)
• Remove deprecated onLongTap.
• Minor refactoring.
• Improve documentation of definition classes.

0.4.0

• New:
  • Add ParserOptions for tweaking RegExp settings.
  • Add parserOptions parameter to CustomText.
  • Add LinkMatcher.
• Depend on text_parser >=0.2.0.

0.3.1

• Fix to allow dynamic update of text.

0.3.0

• Breaking change:
  • Use the mouseCursor property of TextSpan for changing the mouse cursor. (#4)
    • cursorOnHover, which was experimental, was removed from CustomText.
    • mouseCursor was added to TextDefinition and SelectiveDefinition.
• Deprecate:
  • onLongTap is now deprecated; use onLongPress instead.
• New:
  • Add hoverStyle to CustomText, TextDefinition and SelectiveDefinition.
• Refactoring and enhancement:
  • Improve management of tap state.
  • Prevent unnecessary rebuilds and duplicate recognizer creations.
  • Update example project.

0.2.0

• Fix the error of undefined SystemMouseCursor on Flutter 2.2. (#2)
  • Requires Flutter >=2.2.0.
• Several minor changes.

0.1.2

• Fix and improve documentation.

0.1.1

• Fix to properly dispose of TapGestureRecognizer.
• Remove note on web limitations.
• Refactoring and some improvements.
• New (experimental):
  • Add feature to change mouse cursor on hover over clickable element.

0.1.0

• Bump text_parser to 0.1.2.
• Migrate to null safety.

0.0.3

• Add tests.
• Bump text_parser to 0.0.5.
• Change minimum Dart SDK version to 2.8.1 to match text_parser.
• Workaround for Flutter issue.
• Improve documentation and examples.

0.0.2

• Fix broken links in README files.

0.0.1

• Initial version.