I think all things left to do in HSSF are basically easy, but what do I know. Glen probably knows the most. I wrote a few low level records for it.
I'll also hint you on a little something. No one is going to be REALLY helpful (I mean we'll answer specific questions) until you've submitted at least a competent patch. Its kind of like I guess the interview process. We get lots of offers to help but very few of them result in actual work being done (regardless of how helpful we are). My suggestion is attempt to answer your own questions up front. Play with the org.apache.poi.hssf.dev.BiffViewer. Start following the "getting involved" instructions. Look at what is there and then play with some files that have charts. Then you'll have specific questions. Go look at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.SSTRecord. Everything is easy compared to it. -Andy -- Andrew C. Oliver http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI http://jakarta.apache.org/poi For Java and Excel, Got POI? The views expressed in this email are those of the author and are almost definitely not shared by the Apache Software Foundation, its board or its general membership. In fact they probably most definitively disagree with everything espoused in the above email. > From: "Kais Dukes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "POI Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 00:49:31 -0000 > To: "POI Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Support for Images and charting > > Hi Andrew > > Thanks for the reply. "All things in HSSF are easy?" Surely not. OLE2 > structured storage (and the Java POISF implementation) is an algorithm which > is now well documented. A lot of work went into it, and its great. But > charting? Im not sure we can say its easy, even next to POIFS. > > However, POIFS and HSSF are of course great starting points for the charting > layer. > > Is this an indication that I should just "get on with it?" :-) > > I was more interested in seeing what others had done, i.e. build on there > knowledge and continue rather than starting from scratch. Should I assume > nothing has been done at all? At least in the public domain? > > Perhaps what I'm also asking is, who is the best person within the group to > speak to about this? > > Kind Regards > > -- Kais > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 January 2004 14:19 > To: POI Developers List > Subject: Re: Support for Images and charting > > > It isn't really that hard dude. Next to SST and POIFS, all things in HSSF > are easy. > -- > Andrew C. Oliver > http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp > Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI > > http://jakarta.apache.org/poi > For Java and Excel, Got POI? > > >> From: Avik Sengupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Organization: Itellix Software Solutions Pvt Ltd >> Reply-To: "POI Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 21 Jan 2004 17:40:31 +0530 >> To: POI Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: Support for Images and charting >> >> On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 11:31, Kais Dukes wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I had been following discussions on charting and images last month, but > am >>> interested in helping out. I have some knowledge in the escher layer and >>> charting (which are made up of drawing shapes). I need to know >>> >>> (1) What is the current situation with charts and images (i.e. over the >>> last month) Is someone working on this? >>> (2) If the answer to (1) is yes, is there a rough deadline? (i.e. are we >>> talking weeks/months) or until something happens? >>> (3) If no one else is working on it, is there any documentation? >> There is some docs on the POI site on charting. Other than that, there >> is the Excel developer kit book. The reason why charting is so >> frustrating is the lack of any decent documentation. >>> (4) Has something already been stubbed in CVS for this? >> Many of the low level chart records are in CVS. Higher level >> functionality is missing. >> >>> >>> -- Kind Regards >>> >>> Kais >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
