Wrapping long pathnames in narrow fields

[Terry Judd]

I think this is one of those situations where I really need the full path
showing (it's a file browser of sorts where collections of files from a
range of locations are displayed). I think I'm starting to lean towards
displaying the pathname below the list (which has multiple columns but is
wide enough in total to accommodate most pathnames) so that it is updated
when the user changes their selection either with the mouse or the arrow
keys.

Terry...


On 3/04/09 8:28 AM, "Mark Schonewille" <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com>
wrote:

> Hi Terry,
> 
> Usually, I only show the filename and set the tooltip to the complete
> path.
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> 
> Mark Schonewille
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> On 2 apr 2009, at 23:19, Terry Judd wrote:
> 
>> How do people deal with displaying long pathnames in Rev fields that
>> aren't
>> wide enough to display the entire string in one line? Is there any
>> solution
>> other than iteratively testing the formatted width of substrings and
>> inserting returns?
>> 
>> Terry...
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