From 49448123e13ff30ffe21095ddbd5445e67b5900f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yegor Kozlov Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:16:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Bug 48408: Improved documentation for Sheet.setColumnWidth git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk@1137656 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml | 1 + .../apache/poi/hssf/usermodel/HSSFSheet.java | 36 +++++++++++++++- .../org/apache/poi/ss/usermodel/Sheet.java | 42 ++++++++++++++++++- .../apache/poi/xssf/usermodel/XSSFSheet.java | 36 +++++++++++++++- 4 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml index 77ba26574c..00bf441446 100644 --- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml +++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ + 48408 - Improved documentation for Sheet.setColumnWidth 51390 - Added handling of additional properties to HWPF ParagraphSprmCompressor 51389 - Support for sprmPJc paragraph SPRM in HWPF 48469 - New Case Study for PI web site diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/usermodel/HSSFSheet.java b/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/usermodel/HSSFSheet.java index e9bd4cf4d5..92b5220356 100644 --- a/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/usermodel/HSSFSheet.java +++ b/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/usermodel/HSSFSheet.java @@ -429,15 +429,47 @@ public final class HSSFSheet implements org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Sheet { /** * Set the width (in units of 1/256th of a character width) + * *

* The maximum column width for an individual cell is 255 characters. * This value represents the number of characters that can be displayed - * in a cell that is formatted with the standard font. + * in a cell that is formatted with the standard font (first font in the workbook). + *

+ * + *

+ * Character width is defined as the maximum digit width + * of the numbers 0, 1, 2, … 9 as rendered + * using the default font (first font in the workbook). + *
+ * Unless you are using a very special font, the default character is '0' (zero), + * this is true for Arial (default font font in HSSF) and Calibri (default font in XSSF) + *

+ * + *

+ * Please note, that the width set by this method includes 4 pixels of margin padding (two on each side), + * plus 1 pixel padding for the gridlines (Section 3.3.1.12 of the OOXML spec). + * This results is a slightly less value of visible characters than passed to this method (approx. 1/2 of a character). *

+ *

+ * To compute the actual number of visible characters, + * Excel uses the following formula (Section 3.3.1.12 of the OOXML spec): + *

+ * + * width = Truncate([{Number of Visible Characters} * + * {Maximum Digit Width} + {5 pixel padding}]/{Maximum Digit Width}*256)/256 + * + *

Using the Calibri font as an example, the maximum digit width of 11 point font size is 7 pixels (at 96 dpi). + * If you set a column width to be eight characters wide, e.g. setColumnWidth(columnIndex, 8*256), + * then the actual value of visible characters (the value shown in Excel) is derived from the following equation: + * + Truncate([numChars*7+5]/7*256)/256 = 8; + * + * + * which gives 7.29. * * @param columnIndex - the column to set (0-based) * @param width - the width in units of 1/256th of a character width - * @throws IllegalArgumentException if width > 65280 (the maximum column width in Excel) + * @throws IllegalArgumentException if width > 255*256 (the maximum column width in Excel is 255 characters) */ public void setColumnWidth(int columnIndex, int width) { _sheet.setColumnWidth(columnIndex, width); diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/poi/ss/usermodel/Sheet.java b/src/java/org/apache/poi/ss/usermodel/Sheet.java index 349c42cbdf..090c25150d 100644 --- a/src/java/org/apache/poi/ss/usermodel/Sheet.java +++ b/src/java/org/apache/poi/ss/usermodel/Sheet.java @@ -118,19 +118,59 @@ public interface Sheet extends Iterable { /** * Set the width (in units of 1/256th of a character width) + * *

* The maximum column width for an individual cell is 255 characters. * This value represents the number of characters that can be displayed - * in a cell that is formatted with the standard font. + * in a cell that is formatted with the standard font (first font in the workbook). + *

+ * + *

+ * Character width is defined as the maximum digit width + * of the numbers 0, 1, 2, … 9 as rendered + * using the default font (first font in the workbook). + *
+ * Unless you are using a very special font, the default character is '0' (zero), + * this is true for Arial (default font font in HSSF) and Calibri (default font in XSSF) *

* + *

+ * Please note, that the width set by this method includes 4 pixels of margin padding (two on each side), + * plus 1 pixel padding for the gridlines (Section 3.3.1.12 of the OOXML spec). + * This results is a slightly less value of visible characters than passed to this method (approx. 1/2 of a character). + *

+ *

+ * To compute the actual number of visible characters, + * Excel uses the following formula (Section 3.3.1.12 of the OOXML spec): + *

+ * + * width = Truncate([{Number of Visible Characters} * + * {Maximum Digit Width} + {5 pixel padding}]/{Maximum Digit Width}*256)/256 + * + *

Using the Calibri font as an example, the maximum digit width of 11 point font size is 7 pixels (at 96 dpi). + * If you set a column width to be eight characters wide, e.g. setColumnWidth(columnIndex, 8*256), + * then the actual value of visible characters (the value shown in Excel) is derived from the following equation: + * + Truncate([numChars*7+5]/7*256)/256 = 8; + * + * + * which gives 7.29. + * * @param columnIndex - the column to set (0-based) * @param width - the width in units of 1/256th of a character width + * @throws IllegalArgumentException if width > 255*256 (the maximum column width in Excel is 255 characters) */ void setColumnWidth(int columnIndex, int width); /** * get the width (in units of 1/256th of a character width ) + * + *

+ * Character width is defined as the maximum digit width + * of the numbers 0, 1, 2, … 9 as rendered + * using the default font (first font in the workbook) + *

+ * * @param columnIndex - the column to set (0-based) * @return width - the width in units of 1/256th of a character width */ diff --git a/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xssf/usermodel/XSSFSheet.java b/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xssf/usermodel/XSSFSheet.java index 204b4492fb..6ebd49432e 100644 --- a/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xssf/usermodel/XSSFSheet.java +++ b/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xssf/usermodel/XSSFSheet.java @@ -1899,15 +1899,47 @@ public class XSSFSheet extends POIXMLDocumentPart implements Sheet { /** * Set the width (in units of 1/256th of a character width) + * *

* The maximum column width for an individual cell is 255 characters. * This value represents the number of characters that can be displayed - * in a cell that is formatted with the standard font. + * in a cell that is formatted with the standard font (first font in the workbook). + *

+ * + *

+ * Character width is defined as the maximum digit width + * of the numbers 0, 1, 2, … 9 as rendered + * using the default font (first font in the workbook). + *
+ * Unless you are using a very special font, the default character is '0' (zero), + * this is true for Arial (default font font in HSSF) and Calibri (default font in XSSF) + *

+ * + *

+ * Please note, that the width set by this method includes 4 pixels of margin padding (two on each side), + * plus 1 pixel padding for the gridlines (Section 3.3.1.12 of the OOXML spec). + * This results is a slightly less value of visible characters than passed to this method (approx. 1/2 of a character). + *

+ *

+ * To compute the actual number of visible characters, + * Excel uses the following formula (Section 3.3.1.12 of the OOXML spec): *

+ * + * width = Truncate([{Number of Visible Characters} * + * {Maximum Digit Width} + {5 pixel padding}]/{Maximum Digit Width}*256)/256 + * + *

Using the Calibri font as an example, the maximum digit width of 11 point font size is 7 pixels (at 96 dpi). + * If you set a column width to be eight characters wide, e.g. setColumnWidth(columnIndex, 8*256), + * then the actual value of visible characters (the value shown in Excel) is derived from the following equation: + * + Truncate([numChars*7+5]/7*256)/256 = 8; + * + * + * which gives 7.29. * * @param columnIndex - the column to set (0-based) * @param width - the width in units of 1/256th of a character width - * @throws IllegalArgumentException if width > 65280 (the maximum column width in Excel) + * @throws IllegalArgumentException if width > 255*256 (the maximum column width in Excel is 255 characters) */ public void setColumnWidth(int columnIndex, int width) { if(width > 255*256) throw new IllegalArgumentException("The maximum column width for an individual cell is 255 characters."); -- 2.39.5