RE: Custom colors in Excel with POI XSSF

I'm not sure I fully understand what you're saying, but I think you're implying that I would go to every Excel client install that might receive this, and change their default settings. That's not an option for me inside my company, and even more impossible for external customers.


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From: RPG400-L <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 4:47 PM
To: RPG programming on IBM i <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Custom colors in Excel with POI XSSF

Would it be easier to create your own named theme(s), and fuss with these kinds settings once, in Excel's settings, where there is a pretty good color picker?


On 3/20/2019 2:57 PM, Darren Strong wrote:

I'm being asked to add some color to my RPG generated spreadsheets that call the POI Java tools to generate spreadsheets. I know how to specify some colors, using the HSSF tools that Scott Klement wrote, but, those are pre-selected colors and they're pretty horrid for things like creating alternate row colors. I need a much more muted palette.

Does anyone have an example where they have perhaps specified the RGB values of a color. If you do send an example, please also include any special prototypes you had to create to make it happen.

Thank you.


P.S.
Here is an example of what I'm doing now with the preselected colors:

RowColor(2)=COLOR_GREY_25;
RowColor(3)=COLOR_PALE_BLUE;

// Regular number
for idx1=1 to MaxColors;
RegNum(idx1) = SSWorkbook_createCellStyle(book);
SSCellStyle_setFont(RegNum(idx1): RegFont);
SSCellStyle_setAlignment(RegNum(idx1): ALIGN_RIGHT);
callp $SetColor(RegNum(idx1):RowColor(idx1));
endfor;

//**************************************************************
dcl-proc $SetColor;
//**************************************************************
dcl-pi *n;
inStyle like(ssCellStyle);
Index int(5) const;
end-pi;

//************
if Index<>0;
ssCellStyle_setFillForegroundColor(inStyle: Index);
ssCellStyle_setFillPattern(inStyle: SS_PATTERN_SOLID_FOREGROUND);
endif;

return;
end-proc;

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