Listview column cut text direction

[Terenz]

Hello, is hard to examplain so i'll do it with images:

In a ListView you have a colum with a text:

If you make the column smaller then the text the three dots appear:

"My very long item" and the ... and "about AUTOIT!" is hidden

So the question is, is possible to "hide" the text on the left side instead on the right side, like the image?

"My very long item" is hidden, the ... and you can see "about AUTOIT!"

Thanks for all the help

[Melba23]

Terenz,

Adding the $WS_EX_LAYOUTRTL extended style to the ListView does that - but it also reverses the entire ListView so you will have to change the column order.

M23

[Terenz]

Melba thanks but doesn't seem like i have asked, the dots are always on the right side:

[Melba23]

Terenz,

It works when I add that extended style or I would not have suggested it. Please post the code you are using so I perhaps can why it is not working for you.

M23

[Terenz]

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <ListViewConstants.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#include <GuiListView.au3>

$Form = GUICreate("Form1", 443, 291, 197, 150)
$ListView = GUICtrlCreateListView("MYCAPTION", 8, 8, 289, 201, -1, $WS_EX_LAYOUTRTL)
GUICtrlSendMsg(-1, $LVM_SETCOLUMNWIDTH, 0, 100)
GUICtrlCreateListViewItem("My very long item about AUTOIT!", $ListView)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

While 1
    $nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $nMsg
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
    EndSwitch
WEnd

Edited February 5, 2014 by Terenz

[Melba23]

Terenz,

This is what I get:

But looking more closely I see that you still do not get the part of the text that you require.

M23

[BrewManNH]

That's normal Windows behavior, there's no DT_START_ELLIPSIS constant that would control that.

[Terenz]

Ok, i know is the normal behavor but do you think guys is possible or not?

[Melba23]

Terenz,

No, I do not believe that it is.* I think you had best rewrite the text to get the part you want to see at the beginning.

M23

* Just sticking my neck out so someone can come along and prove me wrong!

[BrewManNH]

Anything is possible, the question becomes how much effort are you willing to put in to make it. You can constantly monitor the column width with _GUICtrlListView_GetColumnWidth, get the text's width with StringLen, and when the StringLen is longer than the column width, completely redraw your listview with item text formatted the way you'd like it. Although, I'd think it would be terribly glitchy and would probably flicker like crazy if not done correctly.

[Terenz]

The problem is i can really "cut" the text because i need it in the entire way, but for a "matter of readability" if i can see the last part instead of all the text is better. Thanks to both for the suggestion

[Melba23]

Terenz,

Add another hidden column to the ListView which contains the entire text and then you can just display a partial text in the visible column:

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <GuiListView.au3>

$sFullText = "My very long item about AutoIt"
$sShortText = "..." & StringRight($sFullText, 7)

$Form = GUICreate("Form1", 443, 291, 197, 150)
$ListView = GUICtrlCreateListView("MYCAPTION|My very long item about AutoIt", 8, 8, 289, 201)
GUICtrlCreateListViewItem($sShortText & "|" & $sFullText, $ListView)

$cButton = GUICtrlCreateButton("Read item", 10, 250, 80, 30)

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

; Hide extra column
_GUICtrlListView_HideColumn($ListView, 1)

While 1
    $nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $nMsg
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case $cButton
            ; But you can still read it
            MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Read", _GUICtrlListView_GetItemText($ListView, 0, 1))
    EndSwitch
WEnd

Good enough?

M23