Repost: DrawString and ellipsis problem ... please help

From: Herve Bocuse (cadilhac_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/07/05 

Date: 7 Jan 2005 05:04:30 -0800

Hi,

I posted some time ago in December the following message and got no
answer. It is very important to me to solve this problem and I wish
that MVP people or anyone else could study with me this problem. It
could give birth to a wonderful custom control ;)

Thanks in advance, here it is :

I come from the MFC world and I can't get the same behaviour I add in
my old app with a new dotnet app written in C#.

I have a rectangle with a string inside and the user can drag the mouse
on the right side of the rectangle to shrink its width. While
shrinking, a string "abcd" is progressively displayed as:

abcd
abc...
ab...
a...
a..
a.

With the StringTrimming.EllipsisCharacter flag set in C# I get:

abcd
abc...
ab...
a...
abc
ab
a

It means that as soon as the "..." characters can't be displayed
completely, then the string is displayed again (at least the characters
that fit in the rectangle).
Any idea ?

Thanks a lot for your help

Herve

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