Re: Applying a data format to a style for one cell affects other cells?

2009-01-09 Thread David Fisher
If it is working go ahead. The code I quoted from is from a special class of ours that we use to manage Styles in our XLS creation process. It helps to remind everyone that styles are stored in the workbook and then later associated with a cell. It really helps to manage your styles as quic

Re: Applying a data format to a style for one cell affects other cells?

2009-01-09 Thread Mark Hansen
Thank you for your help, David. Are you saying that I should not close the style using the cloneStyleFrom() method on the HSSFCellStyle object? This method is in the 3.2-FINAL release I'm using and seems to be working. Is it going to be removed in a later release? Thanks, David Fisher wrote: >

Re: Applying a data format to a style for one cell affects other cells?

2009-01-09 Thread David Fisher
problem as you. Also, this lisst seems to be regularly visited by the people who created and maintain the API, never a bad thing IMO. --- On Fri, 1/9/09, Mark Hansen wrote: From: Mark Hansen Subject: RE: Applying a data format to a style for one cell affects other cells? To: user@poi.apach

RE: Applying a data format to a style for one cell affects other cells?

2009-01-09 Thread Mark Hansen
exactly the same problem as you. > Also, this lisst seems to be regularly visited by the people who created > and maintain the API, never a bad thing IMO. > > --- On Fri, 1/9/09, Mark Hansen wrote: > From: Mark Hansen > Subject: RE: Applying a data format to a style for one ce

RE: Applying a data format to a style for one cell affects other cells?

2009-01-09 Thread Anthony Andrews
cell. I believe I used the setting of a date value in my original example. I'm going to try reorganizing my code as mentioned above, and will post back with my results. Thanks for all the time you've put into this. I really need to get this working soon. --- On Thu, 1/8/09, Mark Hansen wro

RE: Applying a data format to a style for one cell affects other cells?

2009-01-09 Thread Mark Hansen
as mentioned above, and will post back with my results. Thanks for all the time you've put into this. I really need to get this working soon. --- On Thu, 1/8/09, Mark Hansen wrote: From: Mark Hansen Subject: RE: Applying a data format to a style for one cell affects other cells? To: us

Re: Applying a data format to a style for one cell affects other cells?

2009-01-09 Thread Anthony Andrews
OK Mark, here is one very simple example - well in the attached files there is. If you look first at the Excel temple file, you will see that it contains five columns each with a title in the topmost cell. The cell in row two of each column has been formatted - a date, an integer, a floating poi

RE: Applying a data format to a style for one cell affects other cells?

2009-01-09 Thread Anthony Andrews
rmine type and then populate a worksheet. If you want, I can post it for you later today, just let me know. --- On Thu, 1/8/09, Mark Hansen wrote: From: Mark Hansen Subject: RE: Applying a data format to a style for one cell affects other cells? To: user@poi.apache.org Date: Thursday, January 8,

RE: Applying a data format to a style for one cell affects other cells?

2009-01-08 Thread Mark Hansen
Winarto-2 wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > As far as I understand, style is available in workbook level, and hence > when you're doing "HSSFStyle localStyle = cell.getCellStyle()" you're > actually getting the style reference from the workbook that is applied > to the particular cell. So If you get the

RE: Applying a data format to a style for one cell affects other cells?

2009-01-08 Thread Winarto
nd modify it, you're actually modifying the style of all cells in the workbook that is using that style. Cheers, Winarto -Original Message- From: Mark Hansen [mailto:nab...@mehconsulting.com] Sent: Friday, 9 January 2009 07:46 To: user@poi.apache.org Subject: Re: Applying a data forma

Re: Applying a data format to a style for one cell affects other cells?

2009-01-08 Thread Mark Hansen
Mark Hansen wrote: > > I'm using POI 3.2-FINAL on Windows/XP SP3. > My program is opening an Excel template file (.xlt - 2003 version) and > creating rows/cells to fill the work sheet with data which comes from a > separate system. > The feature allows my customer to export there data to .xls,