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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32562 ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-05-31 16:10 ------- I've been thinking about this myself and although I agree with the idea that POI is basically a file format translator, this is also one of the desirable features, especially when creating new workbooks. (For instance when you want a summary table at the top that has dynamic num of rows - hence it is unpredictable how many rows it will occupy - and consists of formulas based on cells below, which in turn have formulas...) IMHO, POI should allow ways for external classes to hook into the FormulaParser and add such features. Currently, since FormulaParser can be only contructed with a Workbook instance, it isnot possible for HSSF client classes to parse formulas. With a clean way to hook into the FormulaParser api, I imagine it should not be too much of an effort to emulate excel's shift row/columns functionality (AFAIK, All CellReferences are shifted by an X,Y offset by excel when insert col/row is performed). Ofcourse, I'm not suggesting that such a functionality be a part of POI main, but seems like it would be a good addition to 'contrib' or 'examples'. -- Configure bugmail: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi The Apache Jakarta POI Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
