I may want to throw away data if I'm using the same ColumnText instance with both modes. That's more or less used with the default cell in PdfPTable and I use it in other cases. I don't want an exception thrown when I change modes.
Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Appling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 1:01 PM > To: Paulo Soares; Christian Lauer > Cc: iText Mailing List > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] RE: ColumnText & PdfPCell patch > > I think I agree with Christian on this. If you must support > two "modes" in ColumnText and can't > make the non-rectangular columns work with Elements, then it > seems appropriate to throw an exception > instead of just throwing away data. I don't think a user of > ColumnText would ever want you to throw > away data, that should always indicate that the user of the > API made a programming mistake. > Regardless of how well it is documented in the javadoc, I > think it will help people catch their > mistakes and avoid emails with more "idiotic questions". > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paulo Soares" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Christian Lauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "iText Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 7:01 PM > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] RE: ColumnText & PdfPCell patch > > > > An exception is too radical. The behavior is described in > the javadocs and > > that should be enough. Those that don't read the javadocs > will always find > > some excuse to post this or other idiotic question. > > > > Best Regards, > > Paulo Soares > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
