Hello! Since many of us are
1) interested in Excel charts 2) busy I think that it would make sense to collect some ideas about making the first step towards a functioning Excel charts implementation before starting to code. So, in my opinion, we could discuss following issues: 1) Architecture Should this first attempt of POI-powered Excel charts be a clean solution (carefully designed and tested) or a quick and dirty solution? Pro clean solution: avoidance of hard to find errors Pro quick and dirty solution: flexibility - we know little about Excel chart format and should have the highest possible experimentation freedom 2) How to start We could write and publish a short overview over the coarse structure of this Excel chart interface. I mean, we (by "we" I mean POI users, not developers) should get at least a rough idea about how this Excel interface should work. This short overview could help us. 3) What chart types to implement first? 4) Make it bi-directional or uni-directional? Should the first prototype of the Excel chart interface just write the charts or read and write them? For my personal purpose, write-only solution is sufficient. 5) How to avoid hidden hindrances? I assume that other people attempted to implement Excel chart interface in the past. Since there is no such interface now, it is logical to assume that there were some serious difficulties in implementing it. What were these difficulties? How can we avoid them now? If someone of those pioneers is reading this message, please tell us your experiences and recommendations. Best regards dap --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
