Re: How to figure out position of ellipse in ellipsized text?

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 07/13/2009 09:38 AM, Stefan Landvogt wrote:
> Let's assume, that the PangoLayout is ellipsised at the end with
> PANGO_ELLIPSIZE_END.
>
> Now the text ist too long and pango_layout_is_ellipsized
> (m_PangoLayout) actually returns true.
>
> How do I figure out, where the actual ellipse is located, and where my
> text in that line ends?
>
> When I iterate through the lines of text and look at a line with
> PangoLayoutLine *pangoLayoutLine = pango_layout_get_line_readonly(
> m_PangoLayout, line );
> and then retrieve
> pangoLayoutLine->start and pangoLayoutLine->length,
> then I get a longer text, then actually displayed.

All the rest of the text is put in one cluster, mapping to the glyph (or 
glyphs) for the ellipsis.

> The weird thing is: The graphems that are not displayed anymore have
> the width of 2.255
>
>
> Any hint on how to figure out, where the ellipse is actually located
> is creatly appreciated!

This is not exposed right now.  Question is, why do you need that exactly?

behdad

> Kind regards,
> Stefan