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Questions tagged [flutter-desktop]
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How to customize the window frame of my flutter desktop application
working on flutter desktop application and I want to customize my application window's look like hide title bar. I am using this plugin https://pub.dev/packages/bitsdojo_window to do so but when I run my application it gives this error…

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I need to know if a key was down (pressed) while the user clicked on a button
In a Flutter Desktop app, I want to know if, when a user clicks on a button with the mouse, they were also holding down a key (like Shift, Control, Alt etc).
How can this be done?
EDIT
My initial question wasn't clear enough.
I have a dynamic list…

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"Unable to establish connection on channel" error while trying to play video using the video_player package
I'm using Flutter to develop a desktop app that is supposed to play a video in it and therefore I have added the video_player flutter package to my pubspec.yaml file by adding the following:
dependencies:
flutter:
sdk: flutter
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missingpluginexception(no implementation found for method firebase#initializecore on channel plugins.flutter.io/firebase_core)
Error Description
I am running my flutter app on windows desktop
I am using master channel in android studio in order to run it on desktop.
I have integrated firebase to my app, and login signup is working fine, but when I try to add or get data…

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Flutter macOS Desktop project release artifact location
I want to build a macOS app from the Flutter project. I can build it and run fine from Android Studio and command line using the following command:
flutter build macos
flutter run -d macos
The documentation says the '.app' file is self-contained…

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How to get host name in flutter for windows?
I am working on a flutter application that connects to the MQTT client on the desktop it is opened on. I want to dynamically get the host name of the desktop and connect to it instead of the user having to enter it manually.
Thanks in advance.

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Flutter Desktop: How to handle Native Code editing in an IDE (Intellisense, Autocompletion, etc.)?
I am an absolute beginner to C++. I am working with a Flutter Desktop Plugin. Everything is fine just I am unable to configure native code editing properly (Intellisense, Autocompletion, etc.) as it's just acting as a plain text. I have a linux…

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Conditional package import for desktop in Flutter
I know that the availability of dart.library.html can be used as the condition for web, but what about desktop?
Although I suppose you can import a particular package for desktop and not for mobile if you create and use a new package in which…

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How to change Flutter Desktop cursor pointer?
I want to change the cursor pointer on hover a certain widget, but I can't find how to achieve this.
Looking to this comment seems like they already have it for macOS, but I can't find anything about how to implement.
How can I change my cursor on…

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DataTable column width issues
I'm trying to build a full width DataTable in Flutter with a fixed width column on the left and two other columns which should divide the remaining with.
However, even if the left header text is truncated, the middle and right column don't take the…

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Flutter Desktop - flutter-desktop-embedding how to save file to a hard drive
I am working with the Flutter desktop for a while and everything is going fine with the implementation. Till now I was only implementing the UI, networking and in-memory cache. Now I started to face a real problem that I am not able to to find the…

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Firebase Authentication plugin for Flutter Desktop Embedding
I'm trying to integrate Firebase Authentication for Flutter Desktop Embedding. Is there any Flutter plugin for Firebase Authentication for development in case Desktop Embedding.
I have tried using the Flutter plugin, firebase_auth plugin. But this…

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Unable to open large size (500MB) image in flutter image widget
I am developing an image viewer desktop app using flutter. The images which I am trying to open using flutter Image.file('largeImage.jpg') but it fails to load the image with following error:
══╡ EXCEPTION CAUGHT BY IMAGE RESOURCE SERVICE…

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How can I fix the focus on a ListView item in Flutter?
I have a listview that I want to enable shortcuts like Ctrl+c, Enter, etc this improves user experience.
The issue is after I click/tap on an item, it loses focus and the shortcut keys no longer work.
Is there a fix or a workaround for this?
import…

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Firebase authentication in desktop application
After the announcement of Flutter v2.10, I start working on my desktop application and I want to implement firebase authentication but unfortunately, firebase_auth packages don't support desktop till now so is there any way to authenticate the user…

Rohit Singh
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