>> showEllipsis would be a boolean style in LabelSkin. Creating a subclass >> just to avoid an if statement seems a bit much :-) > Yes, you have reason, but I was thinking at a simple way to avoid > adding if and calculations (the current length of the generated > string, when this has to be enabled, etc), so the current component > could be not modified and keep the best performances without having to > handle not-so-common cases ... > And could be useful also for us to see (and to show) how to extend our > components.
FWIW, I don't think this is a good use case for inheritance. I actually think it would be more difficult to implement this behavior in a sub-class.
