I'd like some cell to be a Blue "ABCDE". Here's come code thatv tries various values for pattern_for_colour and font.colour_index, to no avail.
Can anyone suggest the right way to set colours? Thanks! Gerry ====================== from pyExcelerator import * w = Workbook() ws = w.add_sheet('alpha') style = XFStyle() fore_colour = style.pattern.pattern_fore_colour back_colour = style.pattern.pattern_back_colour ws.write (1, 1, "fore_colour") ws.write (1, 2, fore_colour) ws.write (2, 1, "back_colour") ws.write (2, 2, back_colour) text = "ABCDE" row = 5 for offset in range(-32,512): row += 1 style.font.colour_index = fore_colour + offset ws.write(row,3, fore_colour + offset, style) ws.write(row,5,text, style) style.pattern.pattern_fore_colour = fore_colour + offset ws.write(row,6,text, style) w.save('test.xls') ===================== shows no colour variation for any of these values of offset. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list