I have a .NET 1.1 textbox that displays a file name with path. When the
path+name is too long to fit in the textbox, I would like to display only the
right-most characters (the filename, truncating the path part, but still
horizontally scrollable).

Setting the TextAlign property to "Right" doesn't really help much, because
when the path+name is short enough to fit completely in the textbox, it
really looks weird to have it right-justified, with blank-fill on the left.

I guess what I would really like is, in effect, the ability to left-justify
when the text fits, but right-justify when it doesn't.

If there isn't a variant of the TextBox or RichTextBox that does this,  
could I inherit TextBox and maybe override its Paint (or some other method)
to do what I want? Is there a source of examples of inheriting TextBox to do
something similar?  I've only inherited a control and over-ridden its Paint
method once, and that was based on an example, so while I understand the
concept, the details of directly drawing the control are still a bit fuzzy...

Thanks for any advice,

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