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You need to change it to ownerdrawn. Then you can test the size of the full string and display only the right hand part. &nbsp;
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You need to change it to ownerdrawn. Then you can test the size of the full string and display only the right hand part.  

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You can send a WM_SETSEL message to the control passing position of last character. Something like:<br />
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CString text = &quot;c:\\your main folder\\your subfolder\\additional folder\\the file.txt&quot;;<br />
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yourControl.SetWindowText(<wbr />text);<br />
yourControl.SetSel(text.Ge<wbr />tLenght(),<wbr /> text.GetLenght());<br />
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You can send a WM_SETSEL message to the control passing position of last character. Something like:

CString text = "c:\\your main folder\\your subfolder\\additional folder\\the file.txt";

yourControl.SetWindowText(text);
yourControl.SetSel(text.GetLenght(), text.GetLenght());



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Correction:<br />
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void CTestDlgDlg::ShowFilePath(<wbr />const CString&amp; strPath, UINT idcEdit)<br />
{<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;CWnd* &nbsp; &nbsp; pEdit = GetDlgItem(idcEdit);<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;...<br />
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Regards, Alex
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Correction:

void CTestDlgDlg::ShowFilePath(const CString& strPath, UINT idcEdit)
{
     CWnd*     pEdit = GetDlgItem(idcEdit);
     ...


Regards, Alex

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I have an MFC text box that contains a file path. I'm running short on screen real estate, and the text box is smaller than the path. I want to have the text box display the end of the filepath instead of the beginning. Is there an easy way to do this?
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I have an MFC text box that contains a file path. I'm running short on screen real estate, and the text box is smaller than the path. I want to have the text box display the end of the filepath instead of the beginning. Is there an easy way to do this?

Forcing Read-only text field to the right

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