Hello Al,
Sorry to say that I do not have an answer for you but rather a couple of
questions.
When you say that they are all instances of HSSFTExtbox, how do you know?
Have you done a getClass().getName() (shapeList.get(i).getClass().getName())
on the contents of the shapes list?
Secondly, I do wonder if - in order to contain text - you have to deal with
the HSSFTextbox class. I cannot find anyweher in the javadoc that, for
example, an HSSFPolygon can contain text. With this in mind, I do wonder if
the HSSFPolygo contains an HSSFTextbox and the textbox holds the text. If
that is the case, it may be that you need to see if the shape has a parent
and, if so, what type of object that is. There is a getParent() method
defined and it could be wirth iterating up the chain to see what you
encounter.
This could all be complete rubbish of course as I have never had to deal
with shapes in a worksheet before so do feel free to ignore this post.
Yours
Mark B
Al Vargas wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I'm having some trouble trying to read back some shapes from a
> spreadsheet. I'm
> mostly interested in reading back the type of shape and the text within
> it. So
> far my code looks like this:
>
>
> FileInputStream myInput = new FileInputStream(fileName);
>
> POIFSFileSystem myFileSystem = new POIFSFileSystem(myInput);
>
> HSSFWorkbook myWorkBook = new HSSFWorkbook(myFileSystem);
>
> HSSFSheet mySheet = myWorkBook.getSheetAt(1);
> HSSFPatriarch x = mySheet.getDrawingPatriarch();
>
> List<HSSFShape> shapeList = x.getChildren();
>
> for (int i=0; i <shapeList.size(); i++)
> {
> HSSFTextbox types = (HSSFTextbox) shapeList.get(i);
> System.out.println(" Shape #"+i+"Text
> is"+types.getString().getString());
> }
>
> But types.getString().getString() always returns an empty string even
> though the
> shape has text in it. And also all the shapes returned by x.getChildren()
> are
> HSSFTextbox
>
> Thanks!
>
> Al
>
>
>
>
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