Fix minimum width to a Widget which needs to expand in Flutter - flutter

Question

I need to fix a minimum width to my Column Widgets. Inside each of them, I have Text Widgets which can be very short or very long. I need to fix a minimum width to them in order to have an acceptable size of Column even if the text is short. The other Column need obviously to adapt himself.
Row(children: [
Column(
children: [
Container(
constraints: BoxConstraints(minWidth: 80), // do not work
child: Text("short text"),
),
],
),
Column(
children: [
Container(
constraints: BoxConstraints(minWidth: 110), // do not work
child: RichText(
text: TextSpan(
text:"very very longggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg text")),
),
],
),
],
)

Answer 1

There's probably a dozen ways to do what you want. And likely none of them straightforward or easy to understand. (The subject of constraints & sizes is quite complicated. See this constraints page for more examples & explanations.)
Here's one potential solution.
This will set a minimum width for the blue column (based on stepWidth), but will expand/grow if the text (child) inside wants to.
The yellow column will resize to accommodate the blue column.
class ExpandedRowPage extends StatelessWidget {
#override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return Scaffold(
appBar: AppBar(
title: Text('Expanded Row Page'),
),
body: SafeArea(
child: Center(
child: Row(
children: [
IntrinsicWidth(
stepWidth: 100,
// BLUE Column
child: Container(
color: Colors.lightBlueAccent,
child: Column(
children: [
//Text('Short'),
Text('shrt')
],
)
),
),
// YELLOW Column
Flexible(
child: Container(
alignment: Alignment.center,
color: Colors.yellow,
child: Column(
children: [
Text('Very lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng texttttttttttttt'),
],
)
),
)
],
)
),
),
);
}
}
You could do the above without a Flexible yellow column, but a very long text child would cause an Overflow warning without a Flexible or Expanded wrapping widget.
A Row widget by itself has an infinite width constraint. So if a child wants to be bigger than screen width, it can, and will cause an overflow. (Try removing Flexible above and rebuild to see.)
Flexible and Expanded, used only inside Row & Column (or Flex, their superclass), checks screen width and other widgets inside a Row, and provides its children with a defined constraint size instead of infinite. Children (inside Flexible/Expanded) can now look up to parent for a constraint and size themselves accordingly.
A Text widget for example, will wrap its text when it's too wide for constraints given by Flexible/Expanded.

Answer 2

use FittedBox();
suppose Example:
Row(
children: [
Column(
children: [
Container(
constraints: BoxConstraints(minWidth: 80), // do not work
child: Text("short text"),
),
],
),
Column(
children: [
Container(
constraints: BoxConstraints(minWidth: 110), // do not work
child:
FittedBox(
child: RichText(
text: TextSpan(
text:
"very very longggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg text")),
),
),
],
),
],
);