Re: [css3-ui] Support cropping in the middle of texts using 'text-overflow'

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh
<ph.wittenbergh@l-c-n.com> wrote:
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> Le 19 juil. 2013 à 07:09, Kenneth Auchenberg <kenneth@auchenberg.dk> a écrit :
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>> Do we know of similar middle text truncation is implemented in platforms,
>> like Mac OSX?
>
> OS X certainly does. For example, labels (file name) in the Finder, or page title, URL in Safari's bookmark manager.
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> Philippe Wittenbergh
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>

Windows also does this via DrawText(,,, DT_PATH_ELLIPSIS) API.

In Sciter [1] I've implemented similar algorithm as:

    text-overflow:path-ellipsis;

If it is interesting attached test .htm file can be viewed in Sciter
(on Windows 7 and above):

[1] http://www.terrainformatica.com/sciter2


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