dude - sorry if you took offense. But windows sure as heck does have a FIND
utility that you can
run on any directory to find a snippet of text. And your coding a Swing app
so you sound like you're
capable of downloading some source, doing a find, commenting out a line and
recompiling instead
of whining.
-Chris
Jim Cobban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 01/08/2003 01:52:00 PM
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Subject: Re: Problem running HSSF eventmodel on multiple spreadsheets
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Subject: Re: Problem running HSSF eventmodel on multiple spreadsheets
> uh...yeah doing a global search for "creating " and then commenting out
that
> one line
> would sure be a huge hassle. Almost as much as writing that email you just
> sent ;)
First I would have to download all of the source for the level. That alone
is far more work than writing an e-mail.
Then I would have to install grep for doing the global search of the source
because I am working on Windows and it doesn't come with such a tool. So
you are going to come back with some stupid wisecrack about the wisdom of
working on Windows. However the whole point of this project is to deal with
files created on Windows! Furthermore the application I am developing is
intended to be run on Windows. If I were to do my application development
on UNIX just to gain access to grep (OK there are a lot of other good
reasons) then I would have to frequently reboot to switch back to Windows to
test if it still worked there or to create new test cases. That seems like
an awfully high overhead to me.
Finally I do not feel that I should be compelled to become an active
participant in the development of POI simply to read some damned Excel
spreadsheets! I have already had to patch two of the modules to fix
crashes! And when I reported the problem I was told that I would have to
use another UNIX only tool to submit the report, so I gave up. By the way
this thread is on the USERS mailing list, not the developers list.
The only reason I went to 1.8.0 was because I had a problem at the latest
level identified as "release" so it was recommended that I try the most
recent "development" level.
So your response is completely out of line. I feel I am due an apology.
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