Truncate Text Based On Available Space?

[Scott Rossi]

Yeah, a little kludgy but workable maybe with some labor (was hoping to
avoid labor though).

Thanks & Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 6/12/13 6:44 PM, "dunbarx at aol.com" <dunbarx at aol.com> wrote:

>Scott.
>
>
>This is a Kluge and a half, but I filled a field with some text. In a
>button script:
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>
>on mouseUp
>   ask "What length to trunc?"
>   if it is not an integer then exit mouseup
>   click at the left of fld 1 + it & "," & the top of fld 1 + 12
>   put "..." into char (word 2 of the selectedChunk)  to 10000 of fld 1
>end mouseUp
>
>
>Is this anything like you wanted? Of course the subsequent text is lost,
>though it could be saved somewhere. And I only dealt with the first line,
>since I hard coded the vertical dimension (12) of the click location. But
>I can see it being extended anywhere in the field.
>
>
>Craig Newman
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com>
>To: LiveCode Mail List <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
>Sent: Wed, Jun 12, 2013 9:15 pm
>Subject: Truncate Text Based On Available Space?
>
>
>Has anyone created a routine that will truncate text in a field to given
>pixel width, and append ellipses?
>
>I found one that limits text based on character count, but I'm looking to
>limit based on available space.
>
>Thanks & Regards,
>
>Scott Rossi
>Creative Director
>Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
>
>
>
>
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