[TYPO3-english] Cropping a filelinks module

[Enrique Moreno Tent]

Hello guys. Ive built a module with a filelinks like this:

            MAIN < tt_content.uploads

, but i want to use "crop" on the title of each file, so that it doesnt
surpass 16 chars. Any idea how could this be done? Some poeple suggested I
override the userFunc from css_styled_content, but Ive looked at it and its
quite complicated. isnt there an easier way?

thanks