RE: POI/HSSF default cell formatting

Hi Leif,

Definitely in progress and learning a lot, although in a pretty haphazard
way.  Here are some items:

- the Eclipse IDE has a CVS (Change Version System? - change management
software) client built in, useful for looking a the latest source for a
project.

- the Eclipse IDE also has some way to apply patches to source.  If you look
at the Bugzilla bug tracking website, you'll find they actually post source
code patches.  The Eclipse IDE can apply these patches to the original
source so you don't have to do it manually.

- the How to Build site (http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/howtobuild.html)
points out the tools required to do a build, but doesn't help very much in
telling one how to use them.

- the Java source for these projects is stored with a single linefeed as a
record delimiter (a Unix standard I believe) which Windows Notepad does not
recognize, since it expects a 2-character record delimiter consisting of a
carriage return and a linefeed.  I used NoteTab Light; other suggestions
were the Eclipse IDE, TextPad, cygwin (a bash shell for Windows) which lets
you use vi, gvim.sf.net (graphical vi), on OS X
you can use Fink and Fink Commander.

- the POI developers are still active and very helpful. Andy Oliver's
explanations helped a lot, and Amol Deshmukh, who reported the original
issue (#35799), patched it, and even emailed me the patched source files
when neither of us could find the nightly builds and CVS was down.

If I'm not mistaken, the Eclipse IDE is the basis for the WDSC editor that
some people on the list really like, so it looks like a good idea to learn
it until I can get WDSC.

Btw, the site you mentioned, http://java2.5341.com/3.html, looks like a
search of the poi-user mail list archive, which I was just search yesterday
in an attempt to find the location of the nightly builds.  Wish I'd had your
link then!  Thanks.

Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
www.dowsoftware.com
909 793-9050 voice
909 793-4480 fax


> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Leif Guldbrand
> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:23 AM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: POI/HSSF default cell formatting
>
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> I was searching the net, and can see your not muddling along,
> but are in progress...
>
> >The fix was committed to CVS today, so if you
> >have checked out the source anytime after noon, you already
> >have the 'patched' version. (The reason I added the patch to
> >the issue anyway was in case it was desired to reverse the
> >changes due to the patch...)
>
> It's an interesting site http://java2.5341.com/3.html btw.
>
> Leif
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Dow (ML)" <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: 20. juli 2005 19:35
> Subject: RE: POI/HSSF default cell formatting
>
>
> >
> > If you have any clue on how to use the Ant stuff to build the
> HSSF stuff,
> > I'd really appreciate some pointers.  Until then, I'm muddling along.
> >
> > Peter Dow
>
>
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