Don't shorten text too much in wxControl::Ellipsize().

If the allowed width is so small that nothing reasonable can fit it,
overlap it. Ellipsized text must always contain "..." to indicate that
it was shortened, it isn't acceptable to omit it.

See #11360.

git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@66872 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775

diff --git a/interface/wx/control.h b/interface/wx/control.h
index 3c77c72a9ad19a0cf878c038e3110d6dc6add328..1f98daebe00dc8fa53d4777f510ab58b25390bb7 100644 (file)
--- a/interface/wx/control.h
+++ b/interface/wx/control.h
@@ -179,11 +179,11 @@ public:     // static functions
 
     /**
         Replaces parts of the @a label string with ellipsis, if needed, so
 
     /**
         Replaces parts of the @a label string with ellipsis, if needed, so

-        that it doesn't exceed @a maxWidth.
-        
-        Note that this functions is guaranteed to always returns a string
-        whose rendering on the given DC takes less than @a maxWidth pixels
-        in horizontal.
+        that it fits into @a maxWidth pixels if possible.
+
+        Note that this function does @em not guarantee that the returned string
+        will always be shorter than @a maxWidth; if @a maxWidth is extremely
+        small, ellipsized text may be larger.

 
         @param label
             The string to ellipsize
 
         @param label
             The string to ellipsize

diff --git a/src/common/ctrlcmn.cpp b/src/common/ctrlcmn.cpp
index 444e0163e8d6313a54b181eea1912359d070e292..d08cb255dc75cebd570ba01efe1d6e7787fb7e98 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/common/ctrlcmn.cpp
+++ b/src/common/ctrlcmn.cpp
@@ -397,20 +397,7 @@ wxString wxControlBase::DoEllipsizeSingleLine(const wxString& curLine, const wxD
     wxString ret(curLine);
     ret.erase(initialCharToRemove, nCharsToRemove);
 
     wxString ret(curLine);
     ret.erase(initialCharToRemove, nCharsToRemove);
 

-    int removedPx;
-    if (initialCharToRemove >= 1)
-        removedPx = charOffsetsPx[initialCharToRemove+nCharsToRemove-1] - charOffsetsPx[initialCharToRemove-1];
-    else
-        removedPx = charOffsetsPx[initialCharToRemove+nCharsToRemove-1];
-    wxASSERT(removedPx >= excessPx);
-
-    // if there is space for the replacement dots, add them
-    if ((int)totalWidthPx-removedPx+replacementWidthPx <= maxFinalWidthPx)
-        ret.insert(initialCharToRemove, wxELLIPSE_REPLACEMENT);
-
-    // if everything was ok, we should have shortened this line
-    // enough to make it fit in maxFinalWidthPx:
-    wxASSERT(dc.GetTextExtent(ret).GetWidth() <= maxFinalWidthPx);
+    ret.insert(initialCharToRemove, wxELLIPSE_REPLACEMENT);

 
     return ret;
 }
 
     return ret;
 }