Hi Ryan Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but it appears that what has been comittied is a some Escher records, and a graphics objects, all within HSSF + some examples. Am I wrong -- or is there a standalone package somewhere, that can be reused, and e.g. plugged into HWPF?
-- Kais -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Ackley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 March 2004 19:57 To: POI Developers List Subject: Re: HWPF and HSSF common code? I think the common library was the plan from the start. I haven't looked at the package structure. -Ryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kais Dukes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "POI Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 2:33 PM Subject: HWPF and HSSF common code? > > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
