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Posted to user@poi.apache.org by xa...@ic.lu on 2010/07/20 13:31:25 UTC

Get the REAL background color of an excel cell

Hi,

My question is very simple. Is it possible to get the REAL background color of an excel cell ?
I've already checked the javadoc and seen lots of posts but the getCellStyle().getFillBackgroundColor() does not return the background color but the color of the pattern for filling the background ! This is not the same, for example you can tells excel to fill the cell  with a grid pattern in red and background color in yellow.
It seems that there's a confusion between these two different information.

Xavier