Werner Froidevaux wrote:

>>I plan on writing a formula evaluator at some point.  It 
>>depends on some 
>>of the commercial work on when I do this.  
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>Great. Could you give at least a place/hook where I could put
>my implementation in the meantime (see last mail) (BTW: I also
>need a calculator in Java because I don't want to do native calls).
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Oh no dude, go right ahead if you're game to go on this.  My statement 
was more of a "I support doing this and will contribute to the effort" 
and a +1.  If you've got the will to implement it, go for it and I'll 
commit the changes and offer what help I can.

-Andy

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>>challanges involved especially for some of the use cases I intend it 
>>for.   (evaluate formulas to be displayed in HTML 
>>representations, etc) 
>> It will most likely make it in as a part of HSSF by default, 
>>but it may 
>>be more of a general purpose tool than necessarily Excel format 
>>specific...I think.
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>>For the record (about "using OLE 2 Automation") I'll be -1ing 
>>lock and 
>>barrel any calls to native code in POI.  Thats totally not what this 
>>project is about.  If it won't run on UNIX/Linux....forget it!  (I'm 
>>sure this goes without saying but just in case it doesn't)
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>>-Andy
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>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Avik Sengupta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>>>Sent: Montag, 27. Mai 2002 13:33
>>>>To: POI Developers List; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>Subject: Re: recalc for sheets
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>>>>Werner,
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>>>>Thanks for your patches.
>>>>
>>>>Abt recalc .. actually, poi does not have any "calc"
>>>>functionality as yet. The 
>>>>idea (at least mine :) is that poi is an api for reading and 
>>>>writing Excel/OLE2 
>>>>files, and not a functional replacement for Excel/Word etc. 
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>>>>As per this philosophy, poi at the moment just writes the
>>>>formulas in a string 
>>>>as per the excel format, but does not actually calculate the 
>>>>result value of 
>>>>the formula. the cell value record is set to 0  (of course, 
>>>>we need to change 
>>>>that for string formulas .. but thats another story). We 
>>>>depend on Excel 
>>>>automatically recalculating the sheet on open. (This happens 
>>>>on office 2000+, 
>>>>there is a record we can set to ensure it happens on 97 as well. )
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>>>>I dont know if it should be any other way. do we want to have
>>>>an implementation 
>>>>of MMULT for example in poi? 
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>>>>That having been said, if you have a better idea, please, fire away.
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>>>>Regards
>>>>-
>>>>Avik
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>>>>Quoting Werner Froidevaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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>>>>>Is there a way to recalc() a sheet? I've found some
>>>>>hints in the FormulaRecord class but I'm not sure
>>>>>whether this is the right place to look at.
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>>>>>If there is no recalc() function yet, where is the
>>>>>right place to add it.
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>>>>>-werner.
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