I want to display a simple SnackBar
inside Flutter's Stateful widget. My application creates new instance of MaterialApp
with a stateful widget called MyHomePage
.
I try to show the SnackBar in showSnackBar()
method. But it fails with The method showSnackBar was called on null
.
What's wrong with this code?
class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return new MaterialApp(
title: 'Flutter',
theme: new ThemeData(
primarySwatch: Colors.blue,
),
home: new MyHomePage(),
);
}
}
class MyHomePage extends StatefulWidget {
MyHomePage({Key key}) : super(key: key);
@override
_MyHomePageState createState() => new _MyHomePageState();
}
class _MyHomePageState extends State<MyHomePage> {
final GlobalKey<ScaffoldState> _scaffoldKey = new GlobalKey<ScaffoldState>();
@override
void initState() {
super.initState();
showInSnackBar("Some text");
}
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return new Padding(
key: _scaffoldKey,
padding: const EdgeInsets.all(16.0),
child: new Text("Simple Text")
);
}
void showInSnackBar(String value) {
_scaffoldKey.currentState.showSnackBar(new SnackBar(
content: new Text(value)
));
}
}
SOLUTION:
class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return new MaterialApp(
title: 'Flutter',
theme: new ThemeData(
primarySwatch: Colors.blue,
),
home: new Scaffold(body: new MyHomePage()),
);
}
}
class MyHomePage extends StatefulWidget {
MyHomePage({Key key}) : super(key: key);
@override
_MyHomePageState createState() => new _MyHomePageState();
}
class _MyHomePageState extends State<MyHomePage> {
@override
void initState() {
super.initState();
}
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
showInSnackBar("Some text");
return new Padding(
padding: const EdgeInsets.all(16.0),
child: new Scaffold(
body: new Text("Simple Text")
)
);
}
void showInSnackBar(String value) {
Scaffold.of(context).showSnackBar(new SnackBar(
content: new Text(value)
));
}
}
There's three problems. The first is that you don't have a Scaffold anywhere, and the Scaffold widget is the one that knows how to show snack bars. The second is that you have a key for getting a hold of the scaffold, but you've put it on a Padding instead (and Paddings don't have any knowledge of snack bars). The third is that you've used the key before the widget that it's associated with has had a chance to be initialised, since initState is called before build.
The simplest solution is to change the home
line in your MyApp widget to:
home: new Scaffold(body: new MyHomePage()),
...and then remove all mention of _scaffoldKey
and instead use Scaffold.of(context)
where you currently have _scaffoldKey.currentState
.