Sorry, no. POI can be used to read, edit and write files that Excel can read, it cannot be used to manipulate the application itself.
If you want to do this sort of thing, you will be limited to using OLE/COM through a third party library such as JACOB or the Standard Widget Toolkit. OLE and COM are both Windows technologies and so you may be limited to running any application on only platforms running under Windows but there is a projec t called Wine that you may want to look into. It offers the possibility of emulating Windows dll funtionality on Linux (well any UNIX like platform) but I do not know what the current state of this project is. Yours Mark B PS if you do choose to go the OLE route, you should also be aware that yo will be manipulating an instance of Excel itself and the performance of the application - that is your application rather than Excel itself - can suffer as a result. jeffg-4 wrote: > > Is it possible to use POI to launch the Excel Text Import Wizard and then > use the selected parsed data for use in a Java project? Essentially, I > want > to utilize Excel's import wizard on my Java application. > > Thanks, Jeff > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Text-Import-Wizard-tp28758345p28763685.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]
