Text Problems in ToolStripMenuItem

[Brent113]

Hello again,

I am programmatically creating ToolStripMenuItems and I have it all working except when I assign it text. I first pass a path to the PathEllipsis function to make it fit in a smaller space and then assign the return to the Text property.

My problem is that when I step through the code and check values I get correctly something like this:

.Text = "C:\Documents and Settings\...\asdf.txt"

But when I look at the menu it shows this:

"C:\Documents and Settings\...\asdf.txt r2\older3\folder4\asdf.txt"

where it first displays the shortened path followed by what's left of the full path.

I have no idea where it is even getting the full path because I never pass it that. Any ideas?

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Brent

 

[Brent113]

I guess for the record I'll say what I did to fix it.

I forgot that the TextRenderer.MeasureText makes a direct api call, and therefore you have to trim after the null char with something like:
Strings.left(result, instr(result, ControlChars.NullChar)-1)

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There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those that know binary and those that don't

Brent