[TIMOB-19357] iOS: Add Ellipsize support for AttributedString

GitHub Issue	n/a
Type	Improvement
Priority	High
Status	Closed
Resolution	Fixed
Resolution Date	2015-08-25T15:06:24.000+0000
Affected Version/s	n/a
Fix Version/s	Release 5.0.0
Components	iOS
Labels	attributedString
Reporter	Chee Kiat Ng
Assignee	Eric Merriman
Created	2015-08-17T04:58:52.000+0000
Updated	2017-03-21T19:26:57.000+0000

Description

Refer to this link http://iosdevelopertips.com/user-interface/truncate-string-adding-ellipsis-at-front-middle-or-end.html

Comments

Shawn Lipscomb 2015-08-17

Android and mobileweb support the ellipsize property of Ti.UI.Label directly, without having to use the AttributedString property. Please add support for ellipsize under iOS as well, as requested in TIMOB-13398, which was resolved as a duplicate of this ticket. I don't really think these are exact duplicates.
Neville Dastur 2015-08-17

May I suggest that closing an old ticket for a duplucate is not the most helpful thing. All the old history / suggestions and watchers are on the older ticket number
Shawn Lipscomb 2015-08-18

^ I agree. The old ticket was not an exact duplicate anyway. I think it should be reopened.
Chee Kiat Ng 2015-08-24

PR here: https://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile/pull/7062
Hans Knöchel 2015-08-24

[~cng] Can you provide demo code?

Chee Kiat Ng 2015-08-25

Sample code here:

   var win = Titanium.UI.createWindow({
       backgroundColor: '#ddd',
   });
   
   win.open();
   
   var text =  'Bacon ipsum dolor Appcelerator Titanium rocks! sit amet fatback leberkas salami sausage tongue strip steak.';
   
   var attr = Titanium.UI.createAttributedString({
       text: text,
       attributes: [
           {
               type: Titanium.UI.ATTRIBUTE_LINE_BREAK,
               value: Titanium.UI.ATTRIBUTE_LINE_BREAK_BY_WORD_WRAPPING,
   //            value: Titanium.UI.ATTRIBUTE_LINE_BREAK_BY_CHAR_WRAPPING,
   //            value: Titanium.UI.ATTRIBUTE_LINE_BREAK_BY_CLIPPING,
   //            value: Titanium.UI.ATTRIBUTE_LINE_BREAK_BY_TRUNCATING_HEAD,
   //            value: Titanium.UI.ATTRIBUTE_LINE_BREAK_BY_TRUNCATING_TAIL,
   //            value: Titanium.UI.ATTRIBUTE_LINE_BREAK_BY_TRUNCATING_MIDDLE,
               range: [0, text.length]
           }
       ]
   });
   
   var label = Titanium.UI.createLabel({
       left: 20,
       right: 20,
       height: 30,
       attributedString: attr
   });
   
   win.add(label);

Hans Knöchel 2015-08-25

PR approved & merged!
Lee Morris 2017-03-21

Closing ticket as fixed.

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