Flutter: Fill Textfield with text (repeat string) - string

Question

I want to fill a text-field with the same string until it is full.
My current approach
Widget filled(String text) {
for (int i = 0; i <4; i++) {
text = text + text;
}
return Text(text);
}
works, but not for every string (only those with 3 chars) and not for every device size.
I know this is ugly, but i found no other way..

Answer 1

String can repeat with * , such as "abcd" * 10 times
To fit max length, calculate floor and substring
and populate with textContorller
code snippet
final myController = TextEditingController();
int _maxLength = 10;
int mul = 0;
String str = "abcd";
int strLength = 0;
int diffLength = 0;
void _incrementCounter() {
strLength = str.length;
mul = (_maxLength/strLength).floor();
diffLength = _maxLength - (mul*strLength);
print( 'mul ${mul}' );
print( 'diffLength ${diffLength}' );
setState(() {
myController.text = str * mul + str.substring(0,diffLength);
full code
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'dart:core';
void main() => runApp(MyApp());
class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
// This widget is the root of your application.
#override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return MaterialApp(
title: 'Flutter Demo',
theme: ThemeData(
// This is the theme of your application.
//
// Try running your application with "flutter run". You'll see the
// application has a blue toolbar. Then, without quitting the app, try
// changing the primarySwatch below to Colors.green and then invoke
// "hot reload" (press "r" in the console where you ran "flutter run",
// or simply save your changes to "hot reload" in a Flutter IDE).
// Notice that the counter didn't reset back to zero; the application
// is not restarted.
primarySwatch: Colors.blue,
),
home: MyHomePage(title: 'Flutter Demo Home Page'),
);
}
}
class MyHomePage extends StatefulWidget {
MyHomePage({Key key, this.title}) : super(key: key);
// This widget is the home page of your application. It is stateful, meaning
// that it has a State object (defined below) that contains fields that affect
// how it looks.
// This class is the configuration for the state. It holds the values (in this
// case the title) provided by the parent (in this case the App widget) and
// used by the build method of the State. Fields in a Widget subclass are
// always marked "final".
final String title;
#override
_MyHomePageState createState() => _MyHomePageState();
}
class _MyHomePageState extends State<MyHomePage> {
int _counter = 0;
final myController = TextEditingController();
int _maxLength = 10;
int mul = 0;
String str = "abcd";
int strLength = 0;
int diffLength = 0;
#override
void dispose() {
// Clean up the controller when the widget is removed from the
// widget tree.
myController.dispose();
super.dispose();
}
void _incrementCounter() {
strLength = str.length;
mul = (_maxLength/strLength).floor();
diffLength = _maxLength - (mul*strLength);
print( 'mul ${mul}' );
print( 'diffLength ${diffLength}' );
setState(() {
myController.text = str * mul + str.substring(0,diffLength);
// This call to setState tells the Flutter framework that something has
// changed in this State, which causes it to rerun the build method below
// so that the display can reflect the updated values. If we changed
// _counter without calling setState(), then the build method would not be
// called again, and so nothing would appear to happen.
_counter++;
});
}
#override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
// This method is rerun every time setState is called, for instance as done
// by the _incrementCounter method above.
//
// The Flutter framework has been optimized to make rerunning build methods
// fast, so that you can just rebuild anything that needs updating rather
// than having to individually change instances of widgets.
return Scaffold(
appBar: AppBar(
// Here we take the value from the MyHomePage object that was created by
// the App.build method, and use it to set our appbar title.
title: Text(widget.title),
),
body: Center(
// Center is a layout widget. It takes a single child and positions it
// in the middle of the parent.
child: Column(
// Column is also a layout widget. It takes a list of children and
// arranges them vertically. By default, it sizes itself to fit its
// children horizontally, and tries to be as tall as its parent.
//
// Invoke "debug painting" (press "p" in the console, choose the
// "Toggle Debug Paint" action from the Flutter Inspector in Android
// Studio, or the "Toggle Debug Paint" command in Visual Studio Code)
// to see the wireframe for each widget.
//
// Column has various properties to control how it sizes itself and
// how it positions its children. Here we use mainAxisAlignment to
// center the children vertically; the main axis here is the vertical
// axis because Columns are vertical (the cross axis would be
// horizontal).
mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
children: <Widget>[
TextField(maxLength: _maxLength,controller: myController),
Text(
'You have pushed the button this many times:',
),
Text(
'$_counter',
style: Theme.of(context).textTheme.display1,
),
],
),
),
floatingActionButton: FloatingActionButton(
onPressed: _incrementCounter,
tooltip: 'Increment',
child: Icon(Icons.add),
), // This trailing comma makes auto-formatting nicer for build methods.
);
}
}