Hallo Olaf,

im Prinzip ja.

But I couldn't find implementation of .Windows in GDI+X.
Your link seems to show DrawText of GDI not GDI+

My copy of MSDN states for GDI+

ModifyString Has no effect on the drawn text.

Hm. Do you mean to use DrawText followed by ToString? This is the only idea I see to get the string back.

I have no idea to implement this. ::(


Danke

Agnes
>>AFAIK, the trimming in reports is done outside the reportoutput.app, IOW it will work even if you provide an empty listener to REPORT FORM
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>Still all reports, even legacy types, are drawn with GDI+ by VFP9.
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>There is no other way to get the same functionality. But I see The GDI+ DrawText function accepts the following flags in it's uFormat parameter:
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>a) DT_MODIFYSTRING to get back the shortened string. Which is what you need mainly.
>b) DT_END_ELLIPSIS, DT_PATH_ELLIPSIS or DT_WORD_ELLIPSIS to determine which kind of ellipsis.
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>see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533909(VS.85).aspx
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>You don't need to draw on the form, you just need a Graphics Object. I think this will be quite easy with GDIPLUSX from VFPX.
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>Bye, Olaf.