Compact paths?

[Dominik Reichl]

Hello! I'm looking for a function which I can give a file path and a number of pixels. The function should remove enough characters of the path and replace them by "..." to fit into the given amount of pixels. The PathCompactPath Win32 API function does this, but is there also a managed equivalent in the .NET framework? Thanks and best regards Dominik

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_outp(0x64, 0xAD); and __asm mov al, 0xAD __asm out 0x64, al do the same... but what do they do?? ;) (doesn't work on NT)

[Werdna]

If you're drawing your text using GDI+, you can use StringFormat class and set Trimming to EllipsisCharacter. If you need it in a control, you can easily create custom control that does all the drawing and uses appropriate Trimming flag.