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Sun, 23 January 2011 13:47

Eclipse User

Hi,

A Text nicely shows an ellipsis in the form of three dots "..." when the displayed text is too long. A MultiText simply breaks the shown string at a word boundary but does not show the ellipsis when the string is too long. As this is a valuable clue for the user, it would be nice if the MultiText would show the ellipsis as well. Is there a way to make this happen, or is this not in the Graphiti framework ?

Jos

Re: Text versus MultiText [message #650296 is a reply to message #650249]

Mon, 24 January 2011 04:54

Eclipse User

Hi Jos,
currently this is not supported by Graphiti.

The three dots in a single line text are provided by the underlying Draw2d.

But for a multitext Draw2d doesn't provide such a behaviour.

We discussed this in the team, whether we can solve this in Graphiti, but currently we don't have a suitable solution.

Matthias

Re: Text versus MultiText [message #651158 is a reply to message #650296]

Thu, 27 January 2011 23:16

Eclipse User

I too wanted exactly the same feature 'ellipse in the multitext', but as it is not available in graphiti, I have implemented a work around to show the '...' in the text based on the text length and container shapes size.

It would be nice if the framework can provide a solution here.

Regards,
Panneer

Re: Text versus MultiText [message #651196 is a reply to message #651158]

Fri, 28 January 2011 05:11

Eclipse User

Panneer,

please open an enhancement bugzilla regarding this. Maybe you could also add
parts of your workaround coding this bugzilla?

Thanks,
Michael

"Panneer Selvam" wrote in message news:ihtfk8$ajh$1@news.eclipse.org...

I too wanted exactly the same feature 'ellipse in the multitext', but as it
is not available in graphiti, I have implemented a work around to show the
'...' in the text based on the text length and container shapes size.

It would be nice if the framework can provide a solution here.

Regards,
Panneer

Re: Text versus MultiText [message #651428 is a reply to message #651158]

Sun, 30 January 2011 15:31

Eclipse User

Panneer,

If you would like to share your code, that would be very helpful to me.

Jos

Re: Text versus MultiText [message #658899 is a reply to message #650249]

Thu, 10 March 2011 05:54

Eclipse User

Hi,
Lets say a shape is of size width 90,height 30

It can at max show around 11-13 characters per line(of width 90)

Doing the math we find that , (assuming 12 chars )

no.of.chars.possible = (h/15) * (w(12) / 90 )
Ex 1:: w = 90, h = 30
no.of.c.p = 24.

Ex 2:: w=120 h=45
n.of.c.p= 3 * 16 = 48

I then check if the name i am displaying has more than n.of.c.p and if it exceeds , use substring of name and display with ... in the end or beginning where ever u like it.

Re: Text versus MultiText [message #659293 is a reply to message #650249]

Fri, 11 March 2011 16:40

Eclipse User

Hi Mak,

Thanks fro your answer. You are using a rough estimate, which will probably work most of the time. I was hoping for some code that actually takes the font and character sizes in account.

Regards, Jos

Re: Text versus MultiText [message #659484 is a reply to message #650249]

Mon, 14 March 2011 05:11

Eclipse User

HI Jos,

Had the Font been even (all characters are of same size)
this would have worked all the time . Neverthless, Graphiti would be providing a solution very soon i believe.

You can make if work all the time by limiting the factor(12) to 10 or 9 chars per line.. in the eqn above. Cool

BR,
Maqsood.

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