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Does anyone know if it is possible to constrain the number of letters in a message box?

I'm using a message box to read (and display) the file name of a buffer using info~ for my GUI, but for display reasons I would like to limit the display to only the first 10 characters (and spaces) of the file name. Right now if the file name is long it causes the message box to expand and spill (visually) onto some of my other GUI elements.

Example of how I would like it to deal with long file names:

Any tips or suggestions on how to achieve this?

Does anyone know if it is possible to constrain the number of letters in a message box?
I'm using a message box to read (and display) the file name of a buffer using info~ for my GUI, but for display reasons I would like to limit the display to only the first 10 characters (and spaces) of the file name. Right now if the file name is long it causes the message box to expand and spill (visually) onto some of my other GUI elements.

Example of how I would like it to deal with long file names:
original: "kick low dirty.wav"
truncated: "kick low d..."

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Would the umenu object in label mode not be adequate for this?

limit the number of letters possible in a message/comment