对于那些对完整例程感兴趣的人,这是我的答案:
/**
* Returns a string abbreviation
* example: "hello world" -> "...orld" or "hell..." or "he...rd" or "h...rld"
*
* style:
0: clip left
1: clip right
2: clip middle
3: pretty middle
*/
CString*
strabbr(
CDC* pdc,
const char* s,
const int area_width,
int style )
{
if ( !pdc || !s || !*s ) return new CString;
int len = strlen(s);
if ( pdc->GetTextExtent(s, len).cx <= area_width ) return new CString(s);
int dots_width = pdc->GetTextExtent("...", 3).cx;
if ( dots_width >= area_width ) return new CString;
// My algorithm uses 'left' and 'right' parts of the string, by turns.
int n = len;
int m = 1;
int n_width = 0;
int m_width = 0;
int tmpwidth;
// fromleft indicates where the clip is done so I can 'get' chars from the other part
bool fromleft = (style == 3 && n % 2 == 0)? false : (style > 0);
while ( TRUE ) {
if ( n_width + m_width + dots_width > area_width ) break;
if ( n <= m ) break; // keep my sanity check (WTF), it should never happen 'cause of the above line
// Here are extra 'swap turn' conditions
if ( style == 3 && (!(n & 1)) )
fromleft = (!fromleft);
else if ( style < 2 )
fromleft = (!fromleft); // (1)'disables' turn swapping for styles 0, 1
if ( fromleft ) {
pdc->GetCharWidth(*(s+n-1), *(s+n-1), &tmpwidth);
n_width += tmpwidth;
n--;
}
else {
pdc->GetCharWidth(*(s+m-1), *(s+m-1), &tmpwidth);
m_width += tmpwidth;
m++;
}
fromleft = (!fromleft); // (1)
}
if ( fromleft ) m--; else n++;
// Final steps
// 1. CString version
CString* abbr = new CString;
abbr->Format("%*.*s...%*.*s", m-1, m-1, s, len-n, len-n, s + n);
return abbr;
/* 2. char* version, if you dont want to use CString (efficiency), replace CString with char*,
new CString with _strdup("") and use this code for the final steps:
char* abbr = (char*)malloc(m + (len-n) + 3 +1);
strncpy(abbr, s, m-1);
strcpy(abbr + (m-1), "...");
strncpy(abbr+ (m-1) + 3, s + n, len-n);
abbr[(m-1) + (len-n) + 3] = 0;
return abbr;
*/
}