Select widget is reloading the app

[876arham]

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When i click on select widget mode in dart devtools, my app is reloaded and it navigates back to home screen , so technically i am not able to use select widget on any page other that home page because it is restarting the app and navigating back to the home page.

[kenzieschmoll]

Thanks for the report. As a workaround, once you enable Select Widget Mode from DevTools and your app hot restarts, there should be a little blue floating button in the bottom left corner of your app. You can navigate around in your app and once you are ready to select a widget, tap the blue floating button, and select the widget you want to inspect.

[876arham]

Thanks , it is a good work around, but can you explain why is this issue happening in my pc , while the same app works well for others in dartdevtools

[kenzieschmoll]

Are you saying that other people can enable select widget mode without triggering a hot restart in their development environment? Are you developing on windows? can you paste the output of flutter doctor -v here?

[kenzieschmoll]

This is a buggy experience for DevTools developers as well, since our app is also a Flutter app.

[definev]

I'm using go_router and facing the same issue. I'm using a global variable, so it is the same object. Devtools throws all previous screen states :( So frustrating when using widget select mode with Navigator 2.0.

[mozochek]

Any updates for this issue? It is does not depend on exact navigator api usage, it happen even in hello world app. Code sample is in duplicated issue https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/130385