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.... -- M E R Goulding Software development services Bespoke application development for vertical markets mergExt - There's an external for that! _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
