[RESOLVED] Truncate Text in Dynamic Text Field?

[badaboom55]

To clarify further... I would want the text box to look like this:

+-------------------------+
| The Assasination of     |
| Jesse James by the ...  |
+-------------------------+
                                    <--- NO BELOW THE FOLD TEXT

Although, I suppose if I absolutely couldn't get the above, this would be acceptable as well, although, I fail to see how this would be possible and the above wouldn't:

+-------------------------+
| The Assasination of     |
| Jesse James by the ...  |
+-------------------------+
 Coward Robert Ford        <--- below the fold text

[badaboom55]

I swear to all that was mighty, that this wasn't working when I posted... now it is!

Ok, anyway, if this is the text box:

+-------------------------+
| The Assasination of     |
| Jesse James by the      |
+-------------------------+
Coward Robert Ford          <--- below the fold text

First I get the text from the last line, using bottomScrollV, and if then I can replace the last word/whitespace character with "..." and then append that to the end of the first line

In short:

var LastLineText_str:String = myTextField.getLineText(myTextField.bottomScrollV - 1);

// this gets me "Jesse James by the " in a string
// Then just run an operation to replace "the" or the " " character with an ellipse