Text Clipping and TextMetric

[Patrick Long]

I want to call DrawString on some text and when I am goign to run over the
edge i want to truncate the text with elipsis ("...") The full .NET
Framework allows the stringformat argument to be passed to DrawString but
the CF does not.

I was looking at maybe P/Invoking GetTextExtent and TextMetrics to gte the
number od charcaters i need to chop out of my string and doing it myself.

Any ideas?

TIA

Pat Long

 

[Serg Kuryata [MS]]

You can use Graphics.MeasureString() to get string's width and calculate
how many characters needs to be truncated.

Best regards,
Sergiy.

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| I want to call DrawString on some text and when I am goign to run over the
| edge i want to truncate the text with elipsis ("...") The full .NET
| Framework allows the stringformat argument to be passed to DrawString but
| the CF does not.
|
| I was looking at maybe P/Invoking GetTextExtent and TextMetrics to gte the
| number od charcaters i need to chop out of my string and doing it myself.
|
| Any ideas?
|
| TIA
|
| Pat Long
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