Visible text versus actual text

Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to programmatically tell if the text in a given cell is being truncated (trimmed). I am working on something base on your EllipsisCell example, but I only want to show the ellipsis button if the text in that cell is indeed longer than what can be shown. This is in a data-bound grid, if it matters. TIA.

You will have to measure teh string yourself. One place you can try to do this is to add an OnDraw override to the EllipsisCellRenderer class. Here is a try at it. It probably needs tweaking some.

protected override void OnDraw(Graphics g, Rectangle clientRectangle, int rowIndex, int colIndex, GridStyleInfo style)
{
	Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(clientRectangle.X, clientRectangle.Y, clientRectangle.Width + this.Model.ButtonBarSize.Width, clientRectangle.Height);
	int width =  (int) g.MeasureString(style.Text, style.GdipFont).Width;
			
	if(width < rect.Width)
	{
		style.ShowButtons = GridShowButtons.Hide;
		GridStaticCellRenderer.DrawText(g, style.Text, style.GdipFont, clientRectangle, style, style.TextColor, false); 
	}
	else
		base.OnDraw (g, clientRectangle, rowIndex, colIndex, style);
}

Thanks Clay! Didn''t even need to modify your code!