fit_text 0.2.1

Text that shrinks to fit its box, correctly. Works inside Expanded, Row, IntrinsicHeight and unbounded constraints, where LayoutBuilder-based auto-sizing gives up.

0.2.1

Widened the SDK constraint, which was wrong rather than merely strict.

The pubspec declared sdk: ^3.13.0 next to flutter: '>=3.32.0'. Dart 3.13 ships with Flutter 3.47, so the two disagreed: the Flutter line advertised 3.32 while the Dart line quietly refused anything below 3.47. Anyone on a Flutter between those saw a resolution failure that the stated support range said should not happen.

Nothing here needs either. The only version-sensitive API in the package is TextScaler, in Flutter since 3.12. The floor is now Flutter 3.24 / Dart 3.5, matching the rest of this monorepo, and it was verified by analysing lib/ against a real 3.24.0 SDK rather than inferred from the source.

No code changes.

0.2.0

An audit of every package in this repo found five defects here, two of which broke things this package specifically promises.

Fixed

• A GestureDetector around a FitText never fired. RenderFitText did not implement hitTestSelf, so the box reported no hit and every wrapping gesture detector — and every TextSpan.recognizer inside a FitText.rich — was silently dead. RenderParagraph implements it; this did not.
• IntrinsicHeight around a baseline-aligned Row threw in debug. computeDryBaseline was not overridden, so the framework fell back to a real layout to answer a dry baseline query and asserted. Working inside IntrinsicHeight is the headline reason this package exists — auto_size_text cannot — so the one combination it was built for was broken.
• TextOverflow.fade was a complete no-op. Text that did not fit at minFontSize painted straight over its neighbours. It is now treated as clip, which contains it; the trailing gradient is still not implemented, and the dartdoc says so rather than implying otherwise.
• A WidgetSpan in FitText.rich threw from inside TextPainter with nothing naming FitText as the cause. Fitting measures the span at candidate sizes and a placeholder has no size until its child is laid out, so this cannot work — it is an assertion that says so now, and the constructor documents it.

0.1.3

Documentation only — no API changes.

• README code blocks now parse. Several listed variants one per line without terminating semicolons, so copying a block gave a syntax error even though each individual line was fine. Every snippet in this README is now checked through the analyser.

0.1.2

Documentation only.

• Adds a recording to the README and the pub.dev page: the same sentence in a box that narrows from 460 to 150 pixels, with FitText above and a plain Text below. At the narrow end FitText still shows every word and Text reads "The qui…".

0.1.1

Packaging only — no API or behaviour changes.

• Added .pubignore. Previous versions shipped the package's own test/ directory to everyone who depended on it.

0.1.0

Initial release.

• FitText and FitText.rich shrink text to the largest size that fits, fitting inside a render object rather than a LayoutBuilder.
• Works inside IntrinsicHeight, IntrinsicWidth, Table cells and baseline alignment, all of which measure children before laying them out and so throw for LayoutBuilder-based auto-sizing.
• FitTextGroup makes several labels settle on one shared size.
• minFontSize, maxFontSize, stepGranularity, and presetFontSizes for staying on a type scale.
• Both constructors are const, like Text.
• overflowReplacement swaps in another widget when nothing fits, inside the same layout pass rather than a frame later.
• wrapWords: false keeps long words whole and shrinks until the longest fits.
• Bisection over the candidate range: roughly six text layouts for the defaults rather than dozens.