Question

Are there any automatic methods for trimming a path string in .NET?

For example:

C:\Documents and Settings\nick\My Documents\Tests\demo data\demo data.emx 

becomes

C:\Documents...\demo data.emx 

It would be particularly cool if this were built into the Label class, and I seem to recall it is–can’t find it though!

Answer 1

Use TextRenderer.DrawText with TextFormatFlags.PathEllipsis flag

void label_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e) {   Label label = (Label)sender;   TextRenderer.DrawText(e.Graphics, label.Text, label.Font, label.ClientRectangle, label.ForeColor, TextFormatFlags.PathEllipsis); } 

Your code is 95% there. The only problem is that the trimmed text is drawn on top of the text which is already on the label.

Yes thanks, I was aware of that. My intention was only to demonstrate use of DrawText method. I didn’t know whether you want to manually create event for each label or just override OnPaint() method in inherited label. Thanks for sharing your final solution though.