sliver_text 1.0.0

Text as a sliver. A drop-in Text equivalent for CustomScrollView that needs no SliverToBoxAdapter - with rich text, selection, semantics and gradient fill.

1.0.0

SliverText is now a full Text equivalent for slivers, with tests - the package previously shipped an empty test file.

Breaking

• Long text wraps instead of being truncated. overflow defaulted to TextOverflow.ellipsis, which collapsed any text longer than one line into a single ellipsized line: the same string measured 800x14 in a SliverText and 800x80 in a Text. The default is now TextOverflow.clip, as in Text.
• direction renamed to textDirection, and it now defaults to the ambient Directionality instead of hard-coded left-to-right.
• style is now nullable and merges with the ambient DefaultTextStyle. Previously the widget ignored the surrounding text style entirely.
• SliverTextAdapter renamed to RenderSliverText; the old name remains as a deprecated alias.

Added

• Full Text parameter parity: strutStyle, locale, softWrap, textScaler, semanticsLabel, textWidthBasis, textHeightBehavior and selectionColor.
• SliverText.rich for InlineSpan trees, including per-span styles and gesture recognizers. WidgetSpan is rejected with an explanatory assert.
• gradient, painting the glyphs through a gradient via a shader mask. The shader spans the painted bounds of the text rather than its box: a sliver forces its child to the full cross axis extent, so a box-wide shader would spend most of its range on empty space.
• Text selection inside a SelectionArea.
• SliverRichText, the low-level sliver counterpart of RichText.
• debugFillProperties on the widgets and the render object, so the text shows up in the widget inspector.

Fixed

• The user's text scale setting is honoured. The paragraph was built without a textScaler, so the widget ignored the accessibility font size completely.
• maxPaintExtent reports the full extent of the text instead of the part currently painted. While scrolling it fell below scrollExtent, which scrollbars and viewport calculations rely on.
• The RenderParagraph is created once and updated in place. Every property setter used to build a new one and drop the previous without disposing it.
• The paragraph is disposed with the render object.
• The bold-text accessibility setting is applied.

Other

• Requires Dart 3.8 / Flutter 3.32; flutter_lints 6.
• 21 tests covering layout, inherited configuration, the render object lifecycle, rich text, semantics, gradient and selection.

0.0.2

• pubspec update.
• docs update.

0.0.1

• Initial release.