[ipxe-devel] [resending] truncate menu title

[Christian Hesse]

Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> on Tue, 2012/07/03 16:15:
> Michael Brown <mbrown at fensystems.co.uk> on Tue, 2012/07/03 14:21:
> > On Thursday 28 Jun 2012 11:26:41 Christian Hesse wrote:
> > > I have sent this to the list about two month ago, but as the last patch
> > > was neither committed nor commented I am resending.
> > > 
> > > This truncates menu title when it is longer than menu width. Otherwise
> > > no title is displayed at all in this case.
> > > 
> > > This has been reworked to not touch the menu code but handle the
> > > truncation within ui code instead.
> > 
> > Applied, with some modifications:
> > 
> >   http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/b3adabd
> > 
> > Thanks, and sorry for the delay.
> 
> Sorry, but this does not work... MENU_COLS + 1 is too much, the string is
> truncated but it is still not shown as it is one byte too long.
> 
> I would suggest the attached patch, this leaves a blank left and right of
> the menu title.
> This is like menu items behave, they always have a blank at the end as well.

Stupid me... Please ignore my last patch.
The attached one should be correct. We should not count the null byte.
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