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Posted to user@poi.apache.org by Kevin Crocker <ke...@teq.net> on 2004/01/16 17:06:31 UTC
New to POI development
Hi,
I'm new to POI - in fact just found out about it yesterday. I've been
programming
Java for a bit now but would consider myself still learning (yeah, like
that will ever
be done).
I do have a project that I'm working on - I need to be able to read
PowerPoint files and
then I want to build an auto index capability based on a keyword file and a
topic index file.
anyway, I'm still a bit confused about POI even after reading the docs. the
first thing
I wanted to do was to just see what these files look like - so I figured
that I could
run the poibrowser and point it at a file - but apparently that doesn't work.
so obviously I'm doing something wrong or have misunderstood the purpose of
poi and
poibrowser.
Kevin
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Re: New to POI development
Posted by Kevin Crocker <ke...@teq.net>.
At 05:06 PM 1/16/2004, you wrote:
> > is this entire poi codebase
> > intended to be called via Java code and I have to write my own
> > readers/writers etc etc.
>
>Bingo, sorry for the misunderstanding. Hopefully one day we will have
>viewers for all the different file formats. Right now we're more of a
>developer library.
>
>-Ryan
ah - now I understand - ok - no problem - I'll have to dig in and write the
readers
and writers - now I understand why I didn't understand
Thanks a bunch
Kevin
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Re: New to POI development
Posted by Ryan Ackley <sa...@cfl.rr.com>.
> is this entire poi codebase
> intended to be called via Java code and I have to write my own
> readers/writers etc etc.
Bingo, sorry for the misunderstanding. Hopefully one day we will have
viewers for all the different file formats. Right now we're more of a
developer library.
-Ryan
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Re: New to POI development
Posted by Kevin Crocker <ke...@teq.net>.
At 04:04 PM 1/16/2004, you wrote:
>On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:06:31 -0500 Kevin Crocker <ke...@teq.net> wrote:
> > anyway, I'm still a bit confused about POI even after reading the docs.
> the
> > first thing
> > I wanted to do was to just see what these files look like - so I figured
> > that I could
> > run the poibrowser and point it at a file - but apparently that doesn't
> work.
> > so obviously I'm doing something wrong or have misunderstood the
> purpose of
> > poi and
> > poibrowser.
>
>Kevin,
>
>it would be helpfiul if you could explain in detail what you mean by
>"apparently that doesn't work". Anyway, poibrowser is specialized on
>displaying property set streams: the type of data POI's HPSF component
>deals with. It displays the first few bytes of any other file it finds in
>the POI filesystem but does not attempt to make anything useful out of
>those bytes.
>
>Best regards
>Rainer Klute
Rainer, thanks for the insight.
I guess then my perspective is in error. What I'm attempting to do is to
"read" a powerpoint file to the level where I can access the "text" inside
each slide, and then I want to do some analysis (regex comparison to two
index lists) and then generate output (not necessarily in powerpoint format
- actually text would be just fine).
Let me simplify my question: can I "run" poibrowser in a MS Win2K
environment (ie. like an application) or is this entire poi codebase
intended to be called via Java code and I have to write my own
readers/writers etc etc.
Kevin
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Re: New to POI development
Posted by Rainer Klute <kl...@rainer-klute.de>.
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:06:31 -0500 Kevin Crocker <ke...@teq.net> wrote:
> anyway, I'm still a bit confused about POI even after reading the docs. the
> first thing
> I wanted to do was to just see what these files look like - so I figured
> that I could
> run the poibrowser and point it at a file - but apparently that doesn't work.
> so obviously I'm doing something wrong or have misunderstood the purpose of
> poi and
> poibrowser.
Kevin,
it would be helpfiul if you could explain in detail what you mean by "apparently that doesn't work". Anyway, poibrowser is specialized on displaying property set streams: the type of data POI's HPSF component deals with. It displays the first few bytes of any other file it finds in the POI filesystem but does not attempt to make anything useful out of those bytes.
Best regards
Rainer Klute
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Re: New to POI development
Posted by Ryan Ackley <sa...@cfl.rr.com>.
What specifically doesn't work about the POI browser? I need to know this if
you want help.
-Ryan
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From: "Kevin Crocker" <ke...@teq.net>
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Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 11:06 AM
Subject: New to POI development
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to POI - in fact just found out about it yesterday. I've been
> programming
> Java for a bit now but would consider myself still learning (yeah, like
> that will ever
> be done).
>
> I do have a project that I'm working on - I need to be able to read
> PowerPoint files and
> then I want to build an auto index capability based on a keyword file and
a
> topic index file.
>
> anyway, I'm still a bit confused about POI even after reading the docs.
the
> first thing
> I wanted to do was to just see what these files look like - so I figured
> that I could
> run the poibrowser and point it at a file - but apparently that doesn't
work.
>
> so obviously I'm doing something wrong or have misunderstood the purpose
of
> poi and
> poibrowser.
>
> Kevin
>
>
>
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