unit of sheet.getColumnWidth()

[Jochen Welle <jo...@fit.fraunhofer.de>]

Hi,

I have a problem regarding the column width. I want to calculate the 
width in pixel from sheet.getColumnWidth(colNr). The problem I 
encountered is, that the value returned by getColumnWidth seems to be in 
units of a character width if the width equals getDefaultColumnWidth and 
otherwise it is in units of 1/256th of a character width (as said in the 
documentation).
Why does the unit change dependent on the value? Or am I doing something 
wrong?

I am using poi-2.5.1-final-20040804.jar.

I have a workaround for the behaviour (see below), but i think it is a bug.
Here is a code sample with my workaround:
private int getWidth(short colNr, HSSFSheet sheet)
{
   width = sheet.getColumnWidth(colNr) * 8;
   if (width != sheet.getDefaultColumnWidth())
       width /= 256;
   return width;
}

regards
Jochen

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