signed_spacing_flex

Description:

signed spacing flex

Modified versions of Flutter's Flex, Column and Row widgets that can space their children with positive or negative spacing.

Features #

✅ All the bells and whistles of Flutter's original Flex, Column and Row widgets.
✅ Space the children apart with positive spacing.
✅ Cause the children to overlap with negative spacing.
✅ Set the order in which the children should be stacked when they overlap.
❌ MainAxisAlignment.spaceAround, MainAxisAlignment.spaceBetween and MainAxisAlignment.spaceEvenly or not supported. (There's no need for them here. Just use Flutter's original widgets.)

Getting started #
Install it:
flutter pub add signed_spacing_flex
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Import it:
import 'package:signed_spacing_flex/signed_spacing_flex.dart';
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Usage #
Checkout Flutter's guides to the Flex, Column and Row widgets. This package is basically same just with some added features.

Replace Flex, Column or Row with SignedSpacingFlex, SignedSpacingColumn or SignedSpacingRow.

// Flex(
SignedSpacingFlex(
children: [],
)

// Column(
SignedSpacingColumn(
children: [],
)

// Row(
SignedSpacingRow(
children: [],
)
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Use spacing to space the children apart or cause them to overlap:

SignedSpacingColumn(
spacing: 25, // Creates a 25px tall gap between the children.
children: [],
)

SignedSpacingColumn(
spacing: -25, // Makes the children overlap eachother by 25px.
children: [],
)
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Use stackingOrder to set the order in which the children should be stacked when they overlap:

SignedSpacingColumn(
spacing: -25, // Makes the children overlap eachother by 25px.
stackingOrder: StackingOrder.firstOnTop // The children will be rendered first to last - top to bottom.
children: [],
)

SignedSpacingColumn(
spacing: -25, // Makes the children overlap eachother by 25px.
stackingOrder: StackingOrder.lastOnTop // The children will be rendered first to last - bottom to top.
children: [],
)
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Additional information #
These are modified versions of Flutter's flutter/packages/flutter/lib/src/widgets/basic.dart and flutter/packages/flutter/lib/src/rendering/flex.dart files.
I am not the original author of this code.