Hi All, GSoC 2012 is on the way and it is a good change to draw more attention to the POI project and attract new contributors / potential committers.
If there are no objections, I would like to submit a proposal. I've already registered as a mentor and if any one else fancy , please go ahead and register. So far I have two ideas: (1) Improve drawing support in HSSF. The main issue is that HSSF can create new drawings from scratch but cannot modify existing ones. This means that you cannot add graphic elements such as pictures, shapes and cell comments to sheets that already have drawings. This drawback is frequently reported on the mailing lists and the fix is in high demand. The student will need to have deep knowledge of the Excel Binary (Biff8) and MS Drawing (Escher) formats and current architecture of HSSF. (2) Support extraction of VBA macro code from both binary and OOXML documents. The goal is to read VBA code as text. It will be a new module and a new format parser and I guess a lot of low-level hacking. Armed with the spec ([MS-OVBA].pdf ), it should be feasible to implement within a month or two. Regards, Yegor --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
