On 6/12/13 9:57 PM, Monte Goulding wrote:
On 13/06/2013, at 12:47 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
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.
Cool... wouldn't it be nice if there was a field property to get it to do that
automatically....
You bet. And while you're at it, make it so we can optionally insert the
elipsis into the middle of the string too, like Apple does it. :)
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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