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Enable aligning a dropdown button's width with its menu's width #14849

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By default dropdown menus are wider than their dropdown button: 16.0 pixels wider on the left, and 24.0 pixels wider on the right.

Setting ButtonThemeData.alignedDropdown to true makes dropdown menus the same width as their button. The button's label is padded 16.0 on the left so that the button and menu item labels line up.

new ButtonTheme(
  alignedDropdown: true,
  child: new DropdownButton( ... ),
)

Fixes #14785

@HansMuller HansMuller changed the title Make dropdown geometry more flexible [WIP not for review] Enable aligning a dropdown button's width with its menu's width Mar 2, 2018
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maybe add something like "has no effect on buttons other than [DropdownButton]" or something?

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Hixie commented Mar 6, 2018

LGTM if you decide this is the right solution.

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HansMuller commented Mar 6, 2018

I do think this is the right solution. It's backwards compatible, since by default dropdown menu geometry doesn't change. And it makes it simple to enable the new and improved menu geometry with the material theme's button theme.

@HansMuller HansMuller merged commit e1c38aa into flutter:master Mar 7, 2018
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jhionan commented Jul 11, 2019

Thank you for this PR, but next time please use a nicer commit messages, checkpoint is not a commit!

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DropdownMenuItem widget is wider than the Dropdown itself

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