POI Developers, First of all, I would like to thank you for all your time and effort, since this very useful project that would not have come into existence without you, and especially the project founders.
I have a question regarding the Escher layer, and the recent 2.5 release. To the best of my knowledge (please correct me If I am wrong) the Escher layer was adopted from Excel 97 onwards as an office-wide drawing implementation. As such, would it be technically feasible to create a common library for POI, i.e. outside of HSSF? I do releaize that the XLS serialization of drawing objects distributes the Escher stream across multiple records, differing from the normal BIFF pattern. I am asking this questios mainly from a design perspective (something I am personally interested in) but believe these comments may be fruitful to discuss on POI-Dev. If a common library could be created, we could let HWPF and HSSF use the same core drawing code, but let the XLS and DOC serialization do that in their own ways. Could a common object model (and possibly API?), make sense for both HWPF and HSSF on this? Look forward to your comments on this issue, as the drawing library is something I would be keen to work on as a first releasable project, having not been able to commit any of my other POI contributions yet. -- Kais --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
