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jedashford
Channel Surfer
10 years ago

Label.isTextEllipsized always returns false

I found a buried roku forum message from 8 months ago where others complained isTextEllipsized always returns false: viewtopic.php?f=34&t=88621&p=520504&hilit=isTextEllipsized#p520504

I'm also experiencing this with firmware 7.1 . Anyone know if there is a work around or if Roku is working on fixing it?

I need to add an indicator to view 'more' of a description only if its more than a certain amount of lines. This looks to be the only way to find this. 

'always returns FALSE
m.top.findNode("description").isTextEllipsized
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  • jedashford's avatar
    jedashford
    Channel Surfer
    10 years ago
    Thought this was fixed in Firmware 7.2, but appears it is not. Anyone else think of a way to tell if a block of text is truncated? Really makes for a poor UI experience without this.
  • Techie's avatar
    Techie
    Visitor
    8 years ago
    isTextEllipsized is set once the text is loaded. Correct way is to observe this field. Once it will be set callback will be triggered and there you can update your UI