>Does anyone have an equivalent
>function that I can use that is not so big?
Caveat Emptor. I'm sure there are cases where this won't work.
(ellipsis may be different on different OS versions, totally wrong
for multi-byte strings, etc.).
Regards,
Steve Mann
/***********************************************************************
* FUNCTION: UTTruncateString
*
* DESCRIPTION: Truncate a string to a maximum # of pixels.
*
* RETURNED: Nothing
***********************************************************************/
void UTTruncateString
(
Char * strP, // ( in/out ) the string to truncate
Int16 width, // ( in ) the max # of pixels to allow
FontID font // ( in ) the font to calculate the width in
)
{
Int16 strLength = StrLen ( strP );
Int16 strWidth = width;
FontID oldFont = FntSetFont ( font );
Boolean truncated;
// Get the max # chars that can be displayed
FntCharsInWidth ( strP, &strWidth, &strLength, &truncated );
FntSetFont ( oldFont );
// Truncate the title and add trailing ellipsis.
if ( strLength < StrLen ( strP ))
{
strP [ strLength - 1 ] = 24; // ellipsis
strP [ strLength ] = '\0'; // truncate
}
}
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