PPT Tables support is in progress. I'm going to commit it in a month
or so.
Can you open a bug in Bugzilla and attach your test ppt file and the
code snippet? I will include a test against it.
Yegor
> Hi, does anyone know the status on the ability to create tables with
> HSLF? I think this question was last asked by Prashanth Bhat and
> answered by Yegor Kozlov on Oct 24, 2006. I can create a ShapeGroup
> with TextBoxes and it looks like a table, but it doesn't act like a
> table.
> Also, I tried importing a PPT with a preexisting table (created with
> PowerPoint) and I ran into a problem; I tried looping through all the
> TextBoxes and writing into it, and it turned out that if I wrote into
> more than 22 TextBoxes, I would get this message when I tried to open
> the PPT file:
> "PowerPoint was unable to display some of the text, images, or objects
> on slides in the file, filename.ppt, because they have become
> corrupted. Effected slides have been replaced by blank slides…"
> When the PPT opens, I just get a blank slide. If I only write into 22
> TextBoxes or less, it works fine. No Exceptions are being thrown or
> anything, there is only a problem when I open the PPT file. Also, it
> seems to be only possible to edit a TextBox if it has text in it
> already. So I created my Table with a single zero (0) in each cell.
> Here is a code snippet of what I am doing:
> //aShapeGroup is a table created in PowerPoint with 52 cells, 13x4
> org.apache.poi.hslf.model.Shape[] shg = aShapeGroup.getShapes();
> //replace shg.length with 22 and 23 to test. 22 or less will work, 23
> or greater will not.
> for(int i=0; i < shg.length; i++) {
> if
> (shg[i].getClass().getName().equals("org.apache.poi.hslf.model.TextBox"))
> //all this does it write the index into the TextBox
> tb.setText(String.valueOf(i));
> }
> }
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