Functionality to end text if length exceeds width?

[EdAROC]

Is there a function or technique to truncate and add ... to text when the length is going to exceed the width of the text box?
Example:
The big brown fox jumped over the fence
in a 1" width text box would be:
The big brown fo...
(Note not "drawn to scale".)

 

[SeeThru]

Yuo could use a fixed width font and the len() function, but it would not look nice....

 

[EdAROC]

LOL - That's good thinking. I should have thought of that one. My programming days go back to the 70s, when all we had were fixed width printers (band and dot matrix) and CRTs ("Green Screens").

Thanks. While it won't be the solution here, it's something to tuck in the back of my mind - the concept will be needed someday.