If your goal is to read/write MS Office files with C/C++ then your best bet would be either to use the MS APIs (if your solution is Windows only) or use the Open Office API (if you want a cross-platform solution).
Hope this helps, Mark Fortner blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/jroller/ideafactory On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:37 PM, MSB <[email protected]> wrote: > > As nobody else has answered this, I will have a go. > > Firstly, I cannot comment on the languages used/targetted by most of the > projects collected under the Apache umbrella, that question may be better > directed at the ASF themselves. For now, take a look here for a list of the > projects - http://www.apache.org/ - most have hyperlinks that you can > click > for further information. > > With regard to POI, I believe an attempt was made some time ago to port the > api to C++ as I found the following with a simple Google search - > http://osdir.com/ml/jakarta.poi.devel/2002-05/msg00147.html - but I do not > know if it came to anything and, as you can see, that message is quite old. > > Yours > > Mark B > > > Ramon F. Herrera wrote: > > > > > > I just re-discovered POI after several years (to be honest, I had > > given up on it) and it looks like you folks have been really busy. > > Thanks for all your hard and productive work... > > > > The progress POI has made is remarkable! > > > > Anyway... > > > > I have been researching a way to handle spreadsheets programmatically > > in C++, but my search has been fruitless. All I found is "ExcelFormat" > > which has many shortcomings. To begin with, it doesn't handle XML. > > > > Questions: > > > > Is there some POI or POI-like project based on C++? > > > > Out of curiosity: > > Are most/all Apache projects based on Java? > > > > Notice that I am not complaining, I have developed in Java in the > > past, love the language, and just have to un-rust my Java skills. > > > > TIA, > > > > -Ramon > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Are-all-most-Apache-projects-based-on-Java--Is-there-a-C%2B%2B-POI--tp28185906p28200273.html > Sent from the POI - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
