[ipxe-devel] truncate menu title

[Christian Hesse]

Michael Brown <mbrown at fensystems.co.uk> on Wed, 2012/04/11 23:34:
> On Wednesday 11 Apr 2012 22:30:48 Christian Hesse wrote:
> > Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> on Wed, 2012/04/04 11:37:
> > > Hello everybody,
> > > 
> > > if menu title is longer than 80 characters it is not displayed at all.
> > > This patch truncates it at MENU_COLS.
> > 
> > A lot of stuff has been submitted to git. What about this patch, any
> > comments? (Hope this is not because I missed the [PATCH]-tag in
> > subject...)
> 
> Not lost; it just takes me some time to work through the patch backlog.  In 
> the case of this particular patch, I'd like to find an alternative way to 
> implement it, since this way involves hardcoding knowledge of the UI into
> the command implementation (which is currently UI-agnostic).  I'd prefer to
> keep the command implementation as-is, and have the truncation handled
> entirely within the UI code.

Agreed. ;)

So more like this?
-- 
Best regards,
Chris
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