This would cut off overlong names and the handling for status bars with protruding elements was far too simplistic and worse, making assumptions based on game mode.
It now uses a virtual function to query the status bar itself for returning this information so it can be overridden and uses V_BreakLines to split the text if it is wider than the display.
This is necessary because the hardware accelerated renderers will hide the problem, but with pure software rendering to a locked hardware surface, like DirectDraw can result in a crash.
Note that ANY mod that gets caught in this did something wrong!