Auto scale height to minimum. Why cant i use constrainedBox with a maxheight?

[Jesse-Abruzzo]

Is there a way to use fittedbox with this widget? I have it wrapped in a constraintedbox with a max height. but if its smaller that that max height, i see this leftover blank unused space. i want to use fittedbox to auto scale it smaller to fit the min height. gives me an error when i try it.

[Jesse-Abruzzo]

Just commenting to correct my description. i really just want to use constrainedBox not fittedbox. if i set a max height of the box, why doesnt it minimize the size if its smaller than the max height?

[plchekspend]

Hi @Jesse-Abruzzo I guess you have to use layout builder and use it's builder's constraints property like this,

SizedBox(
  height: constraints.maxHeight,
  child: PaginatedDataTable2(),
)

I guess it'll work out for you, because it's working perfectly for me..

[fedpinx]

@Jesse-Abruzzo were you able to make it work? I'm in the same situation, reading their README.md they say there MUST be a constrained parent, so I'm starting to think it is impossible, at least for the paginated data table. I would also like to make the table shrink to the amount of rows, also, it does know each row height and the heading height.