Comments on: Truncating text in the Flex Label control using the truncateToFit property

By: DevSachin

DevSachin — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:04:30 +0000

example for previous comment
%lt;mx:Label text={txtname}%gt;

By: DevSachin

DevSachin — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:01:08 +0000

It is not working, When i am binding text in mx:Label in flex 4. With .text property it is working fine.

Any solution?

Sachin Dev tripathi

By: walv

walv — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 08:32:43 +0000

If you have width=”100%” and you need to have correct truncation on resize,
use
mx:Label
truncateToFit=”true”
text=”{str}”
minWidth=”0″

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:04:34 +0000

Hi,

I am facing an issue while scaling a Label with truncateToFit property as true. While zooming in/out, sometimes the text which is truncated is displayed without ellipses or 1 or 2 ellipses sometimes. I tried setting fontAntiAliasType=”animation” thinking that it might solve the issue.
But it didnt :-(

Please find the code below:

 xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" xmlns:local="*">
    
        
            private function zoom():void
            {
                c.scaleY = slider.value / 100;
                c.scaleX = slider.value / 100;
            }
        ]]>
    
     id="c" x="109" y="111" width="156" height="41" scaleX="0.5" scaleY="0.5">
         id="l1" x="28" y="10" text="Labelgettingtruncatedddddddddd" width="100" truncateToFit="true" fontAntiAliasType="animation"/>
    >
     id = "slider"
                minimum = "5"
                maximum = "200"
                value = "100"
                snapInterval = ".001"
                liveDragging = "true"
                change = "zoom();"/>
>

Could anyone of you help me finding whats going wrong here?

Thanks in Advance,Srilatha

By: Shilpa

Shilpa — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:33:49 +0000

I have seen the problem with appending null at the end. Seen it on Linux with flash player debug version 9. Once we upgraded to flash player debug version 10, that problem went away. It isn’t related to the locale stuff cos I dont even use any of the inbuilt locale flex provides.
Hope this helps.
Shilpa

By: Peter deHaan

Peter deHaan — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:29:08 +0000

Adrian,

I believe Adobe closed the enhancement as unable to reproduce. If you have a test that shows a truncated label where truncation shouldn’t be happening, can you please attach it to that bug?

For example, the following example shows a button label that does not truncate itself:

"1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml">
 
     label="The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" />
 
>

As far as I know, a Button should not truncate its label unless you give the Button control an explicit width or set a left/right constraint. But if you have an example that shows otherwise, please attach it to the JIRA bug and Adobe can investigate.

Thanks,
Peter

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:52:26 +0000

Perhaps slightly off topic:

As far as I know, there is no way to prevent a button from truncating its text, and Adobe have closed the issue without fixing it:

http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-12992

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:45:08 +0000

Inside the UITextField you can find the code:
truncationIndicatorResource = resourceManager.getString(“core”, “truncationIndicator”);
So I suppose this is missing within my application because I have my own resource bundle (named differently)…
I will add one with the name “core” and add at least the missing “…” to it again.

Best wishes

By: Leandro

Leandro — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:44:11 +0000

Hi,

Anne and Sohil,
I had this problem too, I found a solution for me… maybe it works fo you…
In the resourceManager.localeChain, I put two locales:

resourceManager.localeChain = ['pt_BR', 'en_US'];

Flex try to use the first locale, what is not found in the first, is used from the second

(Sorry for my english)

By: Sohil

Sohil — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:15:41 +0000

Hey Anne ,

Did you find answer to your question ?
I m also stuck with same problem

Thanks