Cool, I think that is what I was trying to remember. Might have a write a small funciton that finds out how long the string will be when rendered and slowly shrinking it till it fits with an '...' at the end.
Nahum. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote on > > Its a flag thats part of the DrawText API call....bt thats all I can > remember. Take a look a that. > > Jeremy > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Nahum Wild" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:32:17 +1300 > Subject: [DUG]: Ellipsis truncation > >> Does anybody know of a good way of shortening a capition shown on >> screen to X pixels and putting an '...' at the end? I seem to >> recall that there might be an API call that'll do it, but I can't >> remember it's name. >> >> >> Cheers, >> Nahum. >> >> > -------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- >> ---- >> New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: >> http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" >> Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
