On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 23:47, Corey Nelson wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Marc [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 9:18 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Fast loading and saving? > > > > Corey Nelson wrote: > > > > >Are you guys sure? > > > > > > > I think we have a concensus here, yeah :-D > > > > > > > >Just kidding. ;) Thanks guys. > > > > > >What about just the reading part? Could one read page 935 without loading > > >the whole file into memory? That doesn't seem like it should be hard to > > >do... just read some sort of index and skip to the part you need. Surely > > >they got that much right. > > > > > >Corey > > > > > > > Take a look at the event-driven APIs for POIFS and HSSF -- yes, I'm sure > > that much can be done. Bear in mind, I'm not personally involved in the > > HDF implementation at the moment, and I'm assuming we can create a > > similar API ... I could be wrong about that. > > > > You have a high regard for the company that invented these file formats > > ... perhaps you need your medication levels adjusted? :-D > > > [Corey Nelson] :) Oh, gawd no! I've got no love or respect for that > company! (fear maybe, but not respect...) > > The reason I asked in the first place is I couldn't figure out how > it could be possible. But file systems aren't my forte so I thought I'd ask > the experts. I think I must have of misunderstood the person who was telling > me about it. > > I wish I had a choice of using another format but the desicion was > made by my seniors many years ago and now it's my job to deal with it. > However, we are discussing updating our file format soon. Rest assured I'll > do my best to make sure it has nothing to do with OLE 2 CDF. If I'm having > trouble convincing them maybe I'll get them on the phone with Andy and let > Andy rant at them a bit. ;) >
+1 - I'll throw that one in for free.. Just FYI, I only get like this when I have to do GUI programming. . (Think of GUI programming especially in Java, as being to me what to you would be like standing in a dirty elephant barn all day long after feeding them diaretics and laxatives would be to you) > You guys rock. :) > Thanks. > Corey > -- http://www.superlinksoftware.com http://jakarta.apache.org - port of Excel/Word/OLE 2 Compound Document format to java http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html - fix java generics! The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -Ambassador Kosh
