On 6/12/13 8:14 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
Has anyone created a routine that will truncate text in a field to given
pixel width, and append ellipses?
I found one that limits text based on character count, but I'm looking to
limit based on available space.
I did this ages ago, like back in MC. I used a real field, but now that
I know better I'd use the templatefield instead. It's ugly, but since
you can only measure text width from a field, you have to loop. The
pseudocode is something like:
store the original text somewhere for reference later
put it into a field
repeat until the formattedwidth of the text is <= the column:
delete last char of the field
put "..." into last char of the field
end repeat
Even with a "real" field it was still pretty fast. Probably would be
faster with the templatefield. The "..." isn't three periods, it needs
to be the real elipsis character so that the "last" character includes
all three visual dots.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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