David O'Brien asks:
> Anyone know how to get a string with the '...' replacing long path names?
>
> I'm sure there is a function to do it but don't know where to look.
>
> i.e
> c:\my documents\the quick brown fox\freds stuff\fred.doc
> =
> c:\my documents\...\fred.doc
I think you are looking for the DrawTextEx Win32 API call, using the
DT_MODIFYSTRING and DT_PATH_ELLIPSIS formatting options. This will do
exactly what you want as long as you know the spave into which you want to
present the string.
Cheers, Max.
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