DataGridView cell format question

[Michael A. Covington]

How can I get excessively long strings in cells to be trimmed

"...like this"

instead of

"like this..."

?

That is, I want the beginning, not the end, of the displayable string to be
trimmed off. Getting it right-aligned is no problem but it still puts "..."
on the right, not the left.

Thanks!

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Michael,

Well, you aren't being too specific about ^what^ you are using to
generate this format to begin with. I mean, based on what you said, it's as
simple as calling Substring and tacking three periods to the beginning of
the string, but I don't think that is what you want.

 

[Michael A. Covington]

Michael,

Well, you aren't being too specific about ^what^ you are using to
generate this format to begin with. I mean, based on what you said, it's
as simple as calling Substring and tacking three periods to the beginning
of the string, but I don't think that is what you want.

Right, because it's not in a fixed-pitch font. If it were, that would be
perfect.

When a string is too long for a cell, it gets truncated on the right:
"abracadabra" becomes "abra..." to fit the physical width of the cell.

To my surprise, this remains the case if the cell is right-aligned rather
than left-aligned.

What I wish is that the analogous thing would happen on the left; thus
"...cadbra".

I'm displaying keywords in context, so I want to do things like:

| ...is the time for | all | good citizens to come to the aid... |

with left and right context of the word.