Directionality class

A widget that determines the ambient directionality of text and text-direction-sensitive render objects.

For example, Padding depends on the Directionality to resolve EdgeInsetsDirectional objects into absolute EdgeInsets objects.

Inheritance

Constructors

Directionality({Key? key, required TextDirection textDirection, required Widget child})
Creates a widget that determines the directionality of text and text-direction-sensitive render objects.
const

Properties

child Widget
The widget below this widget in the tree.
finalinherited
hashCode int
The hash code for this object.
no setterinherited
key Key?
Controls how one widget replaces another widget in the tree.
finalinherited
runtimeType Type
A representation of the runtime type of the object.
no setterinherited
textDirection TextDirection
The text direction for this subtree.
final

Methods

createElement() InheritedElement
Inflates this configuration to a concrete instance.
inherited
debugDescribeChildren() List<DiagnosticsNode>
Returns a list of DiagnosticsNode objects describing this node's children.
inherited
debugFillProperties(DiagnosticPropertiesBuilder properties) → void
Add additional properties associated with the node.
override
noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) → dynamic
Invoked when a nonexistent method or property is accessed.
inherited
toDiagnosticsNode({String? name, DiagnosticsTreeStyle? style}) DiagnosticsNode
Returns a debug representation of the object that is used by debugging tools and by DiagnosticsNode.toStringDeep.
inherited
toString({DiagnosticLevel minLevel = DiagnosticLevel.info}) String
A string representation of this object.
inherited
toStringDeep({String prefixLineOne = '', String? prefixOtherLines, DiagnosticLevel minLevel = DiagnosticLevel.debug}) String
Returns a string representation of this node and its descendants.
inherited
toStringShallow({String joiner = ', ', DiagnosticLevel minLevel = DiagnosticLevel.debug}) String
Returns a one-line detailed description of the object.
inherited
toStringShort() String
A short, textual description of this widget.
inherited
updateShouldNotify(covariant Directionality oldWidget) bool
Whether the framework should notify widgets that inherit from this widget.
override

Operators

operator ==(Object other) bool
The equality operator.
inherited

Static Methods

maybeOf(BuildContext context) TextDirection?
The text direction from the closest instance of this class that encloses the given context.
of(BuildContext context) TextDirection
The text direction from the closest instance of this class that encloses the given context.