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Long cells in table/tree - truncate from left? [message #640879]

Tue, 23 November 2010 12:55

Andrey

Messages: 10
Registered: May 2010

Junior Member

Hi,

I've got an SWT Table or Tree and its cell values can be longer than cells widths. By default, no matter what text alignment in cell is, text is truncated from right, e.g. "Very long" will be truncated to "Very l...".

But for my values, the ending is the most important part. Is there a way I can make Table/Tree truncate text from the left, e.g. - "Very long" will be truncated to "...y long"?

Thanks in advance

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Re: Long cells in table/tree - truncate from left? [message #641175 is a reply to message #640879]

Wed, 24 November 2010 13:34

Lakshmi P Shanmugam

Messages: 279
Registered: July 2009
Location: India

Senior Member

Hi,

There is no SWT API to control which part of the text gets truncated. What you are seeing is the platform behavior and I'm not sure if Windows provides a way to control this.

I think you can try to do this use Custom drawing though. You can prevent the native text drawing and then draw your own text with the ellipsis.
Useful Article on Custom Drawing --> http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-Cus tomDrawingTableAndTreeItems/index.html
You can find example snippets on custom drawing here --> http://eclipse.org/swt/snippets/

HTH,

Lakshmi P Shanmugam

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