I like the idea of letting “thin” characters count as half a character. Simple and a good approximation. The main issue with most ellipsizings however, are (imho) that they chop of words in the middle. Here is a solution taking word-boundaries into account (but does not dive into pixel-math and the Swing-API). private final static … Read more
Spudley, you could achieve the same thing by writing a small JavaScript using jQuery: var limit = 50; var ellipsis = “…”; if( $(‘#limitedWidthTextBox’).val().length > limit) { // -4 to include the ellipsis size and also since it is an index var trimmedText = $(‘#limitedWidthTextBox’).val().substring(0, limit – 4); trimmedText += ellipsis; $(‘#limitedWidthTextBox’).val(trimmedText); } I understand … Read more
Try this JS function, passing the span element as argument: function isEllipsisActive(e) { return (e.offsetWidth < e.scrollWidth); }
text-overflow:ellipsis; only works when the following are true: The element’s width must be constrained in px (pixels). Width in % (percentage) won’t work. The element must have overflow:hidden and white-space:nowrap set. The reason you’re having problems here is because the width of your a element isn’t constrained. You do have a width setting, but because … Read more
//The simple version for 10 Characters from the beginning of the string $string = substr($string,0,10).’…’; Update: Based on suggestion for checking length (and also ensuring similar lengths on trimmed and untrimmed strings): $string = (strlen($string) > 13) ? substr($string,0,10).’…’ : $string; So you will get a string of max 13 characters; either 13 (or less) … Read more
The following CSS only solution for truncating text on a single line works with all browers listed at http://www.caniuse.com as of writing with the exception of Firefox 6.0. Note that JavaScript is totally unnecessary unless you need to support wrapping multiline text or earlier versions of Firefox. .ellipsis { white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; … Read more
There are also several jquery plugins that deal with this issue, but many do not handle multiple lines of text. Following works: http://pvdspek.github.com/jquery.autoellipsis/ http://dotdotdot.frebsite.nl/ http://keith-wood.name/more.html http://github.com/tbasse/jquery-truncate There also some preformance tests.
This is what your code created It’s a list where the first and last elements are pointing to two numbers (1 and 2) and where the middle element is pointing to the list itself. In Common Lisp when printing circular structures is enabled such an object would be printed as #1=#(1 #1# 2) meaning that … Read more
Those are Java varargs. They let you pass any number of objects of a specific type (in this case they are of type JID). In your example, the following function calls would be valid: MessageBuilder msgBuilder; //There should probably be a call to a constructor here 😉 MessageBuilder msgBuilder2; msgBuilder.withRecipientJids(jid1, jid2); msgBuilder2.withRecipientJids(jid1, jid2, jid78_a, someOtherJid); … Read more
I read answers and comments and I see that few things weren’t mentioned: data.frame uses list(…) version. Fragment of the code: object <- as.list(substitute(list(…)))[-1L] mrn <- is.null(row.names) x <- list(…) object is used to do some magic with column names, but x is used to create final data.frame. For use of unevaluated … argument look … Read more