1.click new task button
2.enter a name.
3.examine display of task name.
4.move the mouse between the "Name" and "Begin date" column titles and notice 
the cursor change to a double arrow.  
5.hold down the left mouse button while dragging the mouse to the right until 
the column is resized to have enough space as you think would look good.  
6.examine display of task name.
7.move the mouse over the middle partition between the 2 left-right window 
panels that divide the task text (names, dates) from the graphic stuff.  
the cursor should change to a double arrow.
8.hold down the left mouse button while dragging the mouse to the right, until 
the panel is sized the way you think would have enough space for the text.
9. examine display of task name.

What do you see instead?
have to double click task and hit Esc key to make it display the task name 
without truncating the name with an ellipsis.  
this truncation does not go away if you resize the  task name section or the 

What is the expected output? 
applying an ellipsis should not be "sticky".  calculation of whether to replace 
"rest of string" with an ellipsis should be done on-the-fly during resizing to 
anything that is in the display window.
for large projects, it would cause too much useless cpu overhead in string 
processing to process extremely large projects that involve multiple project 
files, when you can simply if-then-else it out regarding the display window.

What version of the product are you using? 2.0.10

On what operating system? XP Pro sp3 32-bit, 3GB ram, pentium 4 HT (1 core 2 
threads)

Please provide any additional information below.
for a semi-java pseudocode example: 
if task[i] is in displaywindow then
    numChars = display.taskname.widthInPixels / font.widthInPixels //find out width of display taskname in characters
    if (task[i].text.length() <= numChars) then
        display.taskname.text = task[i].text
    else 
    /*not a 
        if (numChars <= 3) then
            display.taskname.text = "...".substr(0,numChars)
        else
            display.taskname.text = task[i].taskname.substr(0,numChars-3)+"..." //assuming 2nd arg of substr is number of characters rather than char position
        endif
    endif
endif
/* if the task is in the display window, then the following operations will be 
performed: