Re: POI/HSSF default cell formatting

Hi Peter,

With my search here today, trying to find something for helping you,
and educating myself... I have seen your notes before - on my search 
tour :)

The link I added was more of interest for others, because you and
your problem was there and might be to help to other ppl. trying out
POI HSSF.

Well... I think you have solved your problem, and I know an address, 
where I can get (maybe ;) some help in the future with new (hopefully) 
upcomming POI HSSF projects.

Thanks to you, Scott Klement and Peter Colpeart

Leif
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Dow (ML)" <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 21. juli 2005 19:56
Subject: 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