Re: Re: retrieving saved String value of formula

2003-10-25 Thread Will Glass-Husain
Thanks Avik and Michael. Appreciate the info that this may have been recently added. However, can you be a little more direct? Which method do you call to get the String that is the result of a formula in an Excel created and saved document. (No macros have been used, just human entry). Specif

RE: Re: retrieving saved String value of formula

2003-10-25 Thread Michael Zalewski
If you load run the macro with the formula in Excel, then, yes, you will be able to retrieve the String result of the formula using HSSF. If you load or change the data with HSSF, then you will also be able to put the formula into the cell. But you will not be able to retrieve the result of that f

Re: Re: retrieving saved String value of formula

2003-10-25 Thread Avik Sengupta
I think we recently added in the ability to retrieve string forumula values. I dont remember if it was before or after 2.0pre3 .. which version are you using. ---Original Message--- > From: Will Glass-Husain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: retrieving saved String value of f

Re: retrieving saved String value of formula

2003-10-25 Thread Will Glass-Husain
Thanks. Actually it's the reverse I want. I have an Excel spreadsheet that contains a formula returning a String. I've a tool written in Java that imports the data into a database. My question is simple: how hard is it to implement the retrieval of the calculated String in Java. Is the calcula

RE: Event-based API for generating Excel files?

2003-10-25 Thread Robert Lowe
Sounds interesting--where would I find that? I tried browsing CVS, but it's not obvious where to look, i.e. which Java package. - Rob -Original Message- From: Danny Mui [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 8:03 PM To: POI Users List Subject: Re: Event-based API for

Re: Event-based API for generating Excel files?

2003-10-25 Thread Danny Mui
Have you checked out the HEAD? Andy put out the performance branch there that reduces memory usage as well increasing performance. It's a little broken right now but if it works for you... Cocoon uses the usermodel at the end of the day :) danny Robert Lowe wrote: I'm currently using POI to