How can I display a path to my projects with dots inside

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In my static text (in our startpage) in visual studio I can display path to my project like this below:
C:\MyProject\Something\FilesF...

I'd like to have dots inside the path to see the last catalogue.

What I have tried:

For my static text control I have set properties like this:
path ellipsis , word ellipsis ,End Ellipsis = true

Can I set this by properties or it should be done other way?

Posted 30-Nov-17 3:27am

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Updated 30-Nov-17 3:43am

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Member 13495762 1-Dec-17 7:35am

C:\MyProject\..\FilesForTeam

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Jochen Arndt · Answer 1 · 2017-11-30T03:43:00

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You should not set all three properties but only one of them because they are exclusive:

#define SS_ENDELLIPSIS      0x00004000L
#define SS_PATHELLIPSIS     0x00008000L
#define SS_WORDELLIPSIS     0x0000C000L
#define SS_ELLIPSISMASK     0x0000C000L

So setting all of them is the same as SS_WORDELLIPSIS which results in ellipses at the end with pathes that did not contain spaces.

If you want to do it manually you can use the Shell PathCompactPath function (Windows)[^] function.

Posted 30-Nov-17 3:43am

Jochen Arndt

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jeron1 30-Nov-17 11:05am

Jochen, my apologies, I had a brain fart and meant to vote 5.
[edit] Strange, it didn't let me alter my vote right away, it should be fixed now. [/edit]

Jochen Arndt 30-Nov-17 11:10am

No problem. I have enough points.

Thank you for voting up (now).

Member 13495762 1-Dec-17 7:34am

I need to have it this way:
C:\MyProject\..\FilesForTeam

Jochen Arndt 1-Dec-17 7:58am

Have you followed my advice to use SS_PATHELLIPSIS (set the corresponding property in the resource editor and unset the Word and End ellipsis properties)?

You can also do it programmatically by calling the member function ModifyStyle(SS_ELLIPSISMASK, SS_PATHELLIPSIS) of your static control.

However, that and the PathCompactPath() function will preserve as many characters as possible creating also something like " C:\MyProject\Some...\FilesForTeam".

If you don't want that, you have to write your own function.

Member 13495762 1-Dec-17 8:07am

I put in resourse.h
#define SS_PATHELLIPSIS 0x00008000L
In visual studio I set the static box properties - > false, and it didn't work

Jochen Arndt 1-Dec-17 8:21am

SS_PATHELLIPSIS is already defined in winuser.h. I provided the definitions so that you can see that using all styles behaves like Word ellipsis.

If you use the resource editor that will put the style into your projectname.rc file (you can open that file with a text editor).

Just set the properties accordingly in the resource editor. I have just tested it and even the resource editor is showing the text as expected with the dots in the middle.

Member 13495762 1-Dec-17 8:12am

When I use ModifyStyle(SS_ELLIPSISMASK, SS_PATHELLIPSIS) I get
C:\MyProject\File...\FileName.cpp instead of C:\MyProject\..\FilesForTeam

Jochen Arndt 1-Dec-17 8:25am

See my previous comment:

"However, that and the PathCompactPath() function will preserve as many characters as possible creating also something like " C:\MyProject\Some...\FilesForTeam".

If you don't want that, you have to write your own function."

But why do you want it to be different than used by Windows and therefore expected by users?

Jochen Arndt 1-Dec-17 8:29am

Also:
If you want to display a path without a file name you have to pass the path only to SetWindowText() and not the full path including the file name.