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consolejoker Junior Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 74 Joined: Dec 17^th, 2007	Trimming doesn't seem to be working Mar 18^th, 2008 at 8:49pm	Print Post
	I have in my table cell the 2nd column with values that are too long to fit. I tried using the StringTrimming options, I would like it to cut short and add a few "..." to the end to signify that it's cut short. However none of the trimming option values seem to be providing this behavior. All my values are technically one word, with underscores in them.


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Trimming doesn't seem to be working Reply #1 - Mar 19^th, 2008 at 9:29am	Print Post
	The text formatting algorithm used with EnableStyledText supports only StringTrimming.Word and StringTrimming.Character. If you need just the underline, you can specify it as an attribute of the cell.Font, instead of using styled text and <u></u> tags. In that case the table would use the standard DrawString method, which supports the StringTrimming.Ellipsis* values as well. Stoyan


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consolejoker Junior Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 74 Joined: Dec 17^th, 2007	Re: Trimming doesn't seem to be working Reply #2 - Mar 20^th, 2008 at 12:28pm	Print Post
	Stoyo wrote on Mar 19^th, 2008 at 9:29am: The text formatting algorithm used with EnableStyledText supports only StringTrimming.Word and StringTrimming.Character. If you need just the underline, you can specify it as an attribute of the cell.Font, instead of using styled text and <u></u> tags. In that case the table would use the standard DrawString method, which supports the StringTrimming.Ellipsis* values as well. Stoyan let me back up a bit, i'm finding that it has nothing to do with underscores. Its just that if I have a long word that exceeds the width of the cell, it will not get shortened with elipses, it just runs off the cell and gets clipped by the table border.


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Trimming doesn't seem to be working Reply #3 - Mar 20^th, 2008 at 1:03pm	Print Post
	Disable the StyledText property and set the cell's TextFormat.StringTrimming to EllipsisCharacter; then the text will be shortened with ellipsis.


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consolejoker Junior Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 74 Joined: Dec 17^th, 2007	Re: Trimming doesn't seem to be working Reply #4 - Mar 20^th, 2008 at 5:19pm	Print Post
	Stoyo wrote on Mar 20^th, 2008 at 1:03pm: Disable the StyledText property and set the cell's TextFormat.StringTrimming to EllipsisCharacter; then the text will be shortened with ellipsis. Ah very cool. Can the same thing be done for captions? Guess not since I don't see a TextFormat for the caption.


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consolejoker Junior Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 74 Joined: Dec 17^th, 2007	Re: Trimming doesn't seem to be working Reply #5 - Mar 20^th, 2008 at 5:20pm	Print Post
	Actually I found the format for Caption, but it seems if I exceed the width of the caption area it just wraps around onto a 2nd line and breaks up everything.


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Trimming doesn't seem to be working Reply #6 - Mar 21^st, 2008 at 11:08am	Print Post
	You should also enable the NoWrap format flag: TableNode table = new TableNode(diagram); table.EnableStyledText = false; table.CaptionFormat.Trimming = StringTrimming.EllipsisCharacter; table.CaptionFormat.FormatFlags = StringFormatFlags.NoWrap; table.Caption = "this is a very long caption text"; diagram.Nodes.Add(table);


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