Can't get button press to work in flutter

Question

Ok I\'m pretty new to flutter/ dart so go easy on me. I\'m just trying to make a very simple app where when you press a button some text updates telling you how many times

Answer 1

Your problem is that you didn't pass a callback to RaisedButton, you invoked your callback.

new RaisedButton(
  onPressed: _buttonWasPressed(), // invokes function
  child: new Row(children: [new Text("Press meh")]),
);

To pass a callback to another widget you have two choices:

Pass a tear-off

 new RaisedButton(
   onPressed: _buttonWasPressed, // no `()`,
   child: ...
 )

Pass a closure

 new RaisedButton(
   onPressed: () {
     // do something.
   },
   ..
 )