improvenments to the rendered output, trunking of longer file names, no more dir sizes and indexes in lft and rgt

backend.c

@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ void get_dir_content(char *path, unsigned long *dir_file_count, file *dir_conten
 
 }
 
-void print_dir(WINDOW *win, unsigned long *line_width, unsigned long *dir_file_count, file *dir_content){
+void print_dir(WINDOW *win, char print_info, unsigned long *line_width, unsigned long *dir_file_count, file *dir_content){
 	/* i am not proud of this function */
 
 	char *bg = malloc(*line_width);
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ void print_dir(WINDOW *win, unsigned long *line_width, unsigned long *dir_file_c
 		offset_front = (snprintf(NULL, 0, "%ld", *dir_file_count)) + 1;
 	}
 	for (i = file_offset; i < *dir_file_count && i < terminal_height; i++) {
+		if (print_info) {
 			file_size = dir_content[i].file_size;
 			char size_index = 0;
 			while (file_size > 1) {
@@ -183,6 +184,7 @@ void print_dir(WINDOW *win, unsigned long *line_width, unsigned long *dir_file_c
 			} else {
 				offset_back = *line_width - (snprintf(NULL,0,"%0.2lf %c", printed_size, size_char) + 1);
 			}
+		}
 
 		if (dir_content[i].status & FILE_STATUS_SELECTED) {
 			is_selected = 1;
@@ -200,9 +202,43 @@ void print_dir(WINDOW *win, unsigned long *line_width, unsigned long *dir_file_c
 			wattron(win, A_REVERSE);
 		}
 
+		/* shortens the printed file name if it is too long
+		 * example input: aaaaaaaa.txt
+		 * example output: aaa~.txt 
+		 * if no extension is found, the name will truncate */
+		char *file_name;
+		if ((dir_content[i].file_name_width + offset_front + is_selected) > offset_back - 1) {
+			char *extension = strrchr(dir_content[i].file_name, '.');
+			if (extension) {
+				int char_offset = (dir_content[i].file_name_width + offset_front + is_selected) - (offset_back - 1) ;
+				if ((dir_content[i].file_name_width - char_offset - strlen(extension) - 1) > 1) {
+					file_name = malloc(dir_content[i].file_name_width - char_offset);
+					memcpy(file_name, dir_content[i].file_name, dir_content[i].file_name_width - char_offset);
+					memcpy(file_name + (dir_content[i].file_name_width - char_offset - strlen(extension)), extension, strlen(extension));
+					file_name[dir_content[i].file_name_width - char_offset - strlen(extension) - 1] = '~';
+					file_name[dir_content[i].file_name_width - char_offset] = '\0';
+				} else {
+					file_name = malloc(strlen(extension)+1);
+					file_name[0] = '~';
+					memcpy(file_name+1, extension, strlen(extension));
+					file_name[strlen(extension)] = '\0';
+				}
+			} else {
+				file_name = malloc(dir_content[i].file_name_width);
+				strcpy(file_name, dir_content[i].file_name);
+			}
+
+		} else {
+			file_name = malloc(dir_content[i].file_name_width);
+			strcpy(file_name, dir_content[i].file_name);
+		}
+
 		mvwaddstr(win, i, 0, bg);
+		if(print_info) {
 			mvwprintw(win, i, 0, "%ld", i);
-		mvwaddnstr(win, i, offset_front+is_selected, dir_content[i].file_name, *line_width);
+			mvwaddnstr(win, i, offset_front+is_selected, file_name, *line_width-offset_front-is_selected-2);
+			free(file_name);
+
 			if (dir_content[i].file_type == FILE_TYPE_DIR || dir_content[i].file_type == FILE_TYPE_SYMLINK) {
 				mvwprintw(win, i, offset_back, "%ld", dir_content[i].file_size);
 			}else if (size_char =='B') {
@@ -210,6 +246,10 @@ void print_dir(WINDOW *win, unsigned long *line_width, unsigned long *dir_file_c
 			} else {
 				mvwprintw(win, i, offset_back, "%0.2lf %c", printed_size, size_char);
 			}
+		} else {
+			mvwaddnstr(win, i, 0, file_name, *line_width);
+			free(file_name);
+		}
 
 		if (dir_content[i].status & FILE_STATUS_HOVER) {
 			wattroff(win, A_REVERSE);

backend.h

@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@
 
 unsigned long get_dir_size(char *path);
 void get_dir_content(char *path, unsigned long *dir_file_count, file *dir_content);
-void print_dir(WINDOW *win, unsigned long *line_width, unsigned long *dir_file_count, file *dir_content);
+void print_dir(WINDOW *win, char print_info, unsigned long *line_width, unsigned long *dir_file_count, file *dir_content);

window.c

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ void window_lft(WINDOW *win){
 	unsigned long local_height;
 	getmaxyx(win, local_height, local_width);
 	if (pthread_mutex_trylock(&mutex_lft) == 0) {
-		print_dir(win, &local_width, &lft_file_count, lft_content);
+		print_dir(win, 0, &local_width, &lft_file_count, lft_content);
 		pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex_lft);
 
 	} else {
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ void window_mid(WINDOW *win){
 		if (mid_file_count == 0) {
 			mvwprintw(win, 0, 0, "empty");
 		} else {
-			print_dir(win, &local_width, &mid_file_count, mid_content);
+			print_dir(win, 1, &local_width, &mid_file_count, mid_content);
 		}
 		pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex_mid);
 	} else {
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ void window_rgt(WINDOW *win){
 
 
 		} else {
-			print_dir(win, &local_width, &rgt_file_count, rgt_content);
+			print_dir(win, 0, &local_width, &rgt_file_count, rgt_content);
 		}
 		pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex_rgt);
 	} else {