text_autosize 1.2.2

Automatically resize text to fit its bounds: shrink the font until the text fits the available width, height and maxLines. TextScaler-aware, API-compatible with auto_size_text.

1.2.2

• The three textScaleFactor deprecations now name the release that removes them, 2.0.0, instead of "a future release". A deprecation without a version is a promise with no date: it tells a caller to move but not when they have to, and it makes the major impossible to plan.

1.2.1

• A chart for the claim the package is built on. "Handles TextScaler correctly, including nonlinear system font scaling" describes a function, and a function is a shape: the two lines meet where the factor was sampled and nowhere else. At a 2.0x setting a label starting at 40 pt and fitting to 14 is out by seven points if you hold one factor. Generated by tool/scaler_curve_figure.dart.

1.2.0

• The README now answers, in its first screen, why to reach for this rather than the zero-dependency route or the package that already owns the category. Both answers carry the file and line, or the issue number, that a reader can check. A "reach for it when" list and a sentence on when to skip it follow, because a page that only argues for itself is not useful for deciding.

1.1.0

• AutoSizeText.rich handles a WidgetSpan. It used to reach the assertion widget_span.dart: 'dimensions != null': is not true, because a TextPainter needs the size of every placeholder before it can lay one out and nothing was giving it one. Each placeholder is now measured as a square of the font size being tested, which is what an inline icon wants: it shrinks with the sentence around it and it counts against the width while the size is chosen.
• The child is painted into that same square through a FittedBox. A text scaler resizes glyphs and leaves widgets alone. Without this the icon would keep its intrinsic size while the words shrank, and the fit found by the probes would not be the fit on screen. Two tests pin the agreement, and removing either half fails them.
• placeholderSize takes a callback for anything that is not square, returning a Size for a given span and font size. The same value is used for the probes and for the painted box.
• Rich text with no WidgetSpan in it takes the same path it always did. auto_size_text still throws here; its issue 61 has been open since June 2020, answered by the maintainer with "I failed with my attempt to support WidgetSpans".

1.0.3

• Stop shipping build/ inside the published archive. pub replaces .gitignore with .pubignore per directory rather than layering the two, so a .pubignore at the repository root switched the root .gitignore off for the whole tree — and build/ is named only in .gitignore. That is how it shipped: 1.0.2 on pub.dev is 28,948,750 bytes compressed, and of its 93,096,279 uncompressed bytes, 92,770,749 are under build/, with two test-cache .dill files accounting for 92,643,992 of those. It is flutter test that writes them, so the size tracked whatever happened to be in the working tree at publish time. The rule now lives in doc/.pubignore, beside the directory it governs, where there is no .gitignore for it to shadow. Checked with a 44 MB build/ present rather than a clean tree, since absence would prove nothing: the archive is 298 KB, the dry-run listing names no build/ entry, and doc/blog/ is still excluded while doc/banner.png is still included. Nothing under lib/ changed — this is what pub get downloads and leaves in the pub cache, not what the widget does.
• Open the example app on a panel showing why a fitted size has to be measured with the TextScaler instead of with a scale factor sampled from it, and say so in README.md, which had claimed the fit is scaler-aware in a bullet and left it there. Both sides of the panel get the same string, style, box, minFontSize and step size, and differ only in how they consult the scaler. Under a 2.0x nonlinear scale the measured fit settles on 11 pt and renders at 22 pt inside the box, while the sampled factor settles on 15 pt expecting 22.5 pt, renders at 30 pt and spills out of the box it was fitted to; at 1.0, or under a linear scaler, the two agree exactly. Each side reports the size it settled on by reading it back from the Text that was built rather than recomputing it, so the figures quoted in README.md are the ones the panel produces. doc/scaler.png is the output of example/test/scaler_capture_test.dart, CI runs that test so the figure stays something the code can still make, and the image is also declared as a pub.dev screenshot. Docs and example only; no library change.

1.0.2

• Add example/README.md for pub.dev's Example tab. It describes what the demo app shows — single line, wrapping, a minFontSize floor with ellipsis, and an AutoSizeGroup — with the demo gif and the key widget snippets. Docs only.

1.0.1

• Correct the measured numbers in the code comment and the 0.3.2 note. Both said the degenerate NaN-size layout collapses to width 0.0, height 1.0; re-instrumenting the shipped fit check shows the opposite — a zero height, not a zero width: 'hello' measures width 1.25, height 0.0, and the width grows with the text while the height stays 0.0. The mechanism is otherwise unchanged (a zero-height box within the width limit passes the check), and an empty string is the exception worth noting: it lays out to a NaN height, which the check waves through too. Docs only; no code change.

1.0.0

The API is stable. This release adds no features and changes no behaviour; it settles the one question that was still open, so the surface can be frozen.

• Document and pin how an AutoSizeGroup settles. Each member measures itself against its own constraints alone, never against what the group has already agreed on, so reporting a size can only lower the group's minimum. The fixed point is therefore reached one frame after the members first appear, and a rebuild cannot feed back into a member's own candidate size — there is no oscillation to damp. The cost is that first frame: members build in tree order, so one that builds before a more constrained sibling lays out at its own larger size until the next frame. Tests now pin all three properties (settles by the second frame, stays settled across further frames, and grows back when the member setting the minimum is removed).
• textScaleFactor remains available and @Deprecated, for source compatibility with auto_size_text. It can be removed in a 2.0.0.

AutoSizeGroup is final. AutoSizeText is deliberately left open, because auto_size_text and Flutter's own Text are, and this package is meant to be a drop-in for the first.

0.3.2

• Correct the mechanism in the 0.3.1 note, which said each fit check "accepted the resulting NaN metrics because comparisons against NaN are false". I instrumented the shipped fit check to check that, and it is not what happens. The scaled font size is indeed NaN (0 × Infinity), but for ordinary text Flutter does not lay that out to NaN metrics: it collapses the degenerate layout to a zero-height one (measured for 'hello': width 1.25, height 0.0), and the fit check accepts it the ordinary way — a zero-height box within the width limit fits — so the search stops at the smallest candidate and renders at that size. The NaN never reaches the comparison. (An empty string is the exception: it lays out to a NaN height, which the check also accepts, since NaN > maxHeight is false — the very hazard below.) The observed defect (fontSize: 0 rendering at 4.0 instead of 0.0, with minFontSize: 4) and the fix are unchanged; only the explanation was wrong, and it came from an unverified guess about what the engine does with a NaN size. The > comparison against NaN is a genuine hazard, but it is not the one this bug hit.

0.3.1

• Correct the description of the 0.3.0 fix. That entry said the NaN layout could leave a later, ordinary AutoSizeText unable to return from layout. I took that from a bug report without reproducing it myself, and I cannot: removing the guard again and pumping a degenerate widget followed by an ordinary one — separately, in one tree, and with a 5000-character string — finishes in seconds every time. The claim was not mine to make and it is withdrawn.

  What 0.3.0 actually fixed, measured before and after: with TextStyle(fontSize: 0), minFontSize: 4 and maxFontSize: 40, the widget used to render at 4.0 — it divided by the zero base, every probe scaled the span by an infinite ratio, and each fit check accepted the resulting NaN metrics because comparisons against NaN are false, so the search returned a size the caller never asked for. It now renders at 0.0, which is exactly what a plain Text does with the same style. Silently substituting a different size in a package whose contract is "behaves like Text" is the real defect, and it is fixed; nothing was hanging.

0.3.0

• Fix a hang reachable from a legal style. TextStyle(fontSize: 0) — which a plain Text renders without complaint — made every fit probe scale the span by candidate / 0. The resulting infinite ratio laid out text at NaN sizes, and because each fit check compares against NaN (where every comparison is false) the probe reported that it fitted. Worse than the wrong answer, that NaN layout left the text engine in a state where a later, ordinary AutoSizeText could stop returning from layout entirely. A zero, negative or infinite base now skips the ratio machinery and renders at the size the caller asked for, which is what Text does. Covered by tests, including one that pumps an ordinary widget afterwards to prove nothing is wedged.
• Mark AutoSizeGroup as final. Its entire contract is private, so an external implements AutoSizeGroup compiled but was guaranteed to fail with NoSuchMethodError the moment a widget used it. AutoSizeText is deliberately left open: it is a drop-in for auto_size_text, whose AutoSizeText is open, as is Flutter's own Text, and subclassing a text widget to preset its style is a real pattern this should not break.
• Remove a stray # Changelog heading from the middle of this file.

0.2.0

• Add back a deprecated textScaleFactor parameter on AutoSizeText and AutoSizeText.rich. The 0.1.0 release dropped it, which broke the drop-in claim: any call site that set textScaleFactor failed to compile. It now compiles again and maps to TextScaler.linear(factor). Prefer textScaler; textScaleFactor is deprecated and will be removed later. Setting both asserts in debug builds.

0.1.3

• Install instructions now say pub add instead of pinning a version. The pinned number was stale by several releases and would have been stale again after the next one: the README ships frozen in the archive, so a hand-edited version line is wrong the moment anything is published. This one cannot go out of date.

0.1.2

• Docs: tightened the README wording and visuals.

0.1.1

• Expand the package description to name what the package does in the words people search for. No code changes.

0.1.0

Initial release. The API follows auto_size_text 3.0.0, with these changes:

• textScaler replaces textScaleFactor. The fitted font size accounts for the ambient MediaQuery scaler, including nonlinear scalers.
• Rich text is measured with the fully resolved style, matching how Text.rich renders it.
• Measurement resolves textAlign and textDirection like the rendered Text instead of assuming left-aligned, left-to-right text.
• A single TextPainter is reused for all fit measurements of a widget.
• textWidthBasis, textHeightBehavior and selectionColor are passed through to the built Text.
• presetFontSizes are asserted to be in descending order.