org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel
Class HSSFRichTextString

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFRichTextString

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Comparable<HSSFRichTextString>, RichTextString

public final class HSSFRichTextString
extends java.lang.Object
implements java.lang.Comparable<HSSFRichTextString>, RichTextString

Rich text unicode string. These strings can have fonts applied to arbitary parts of the string.

Note, that in certain cases creating too many HSSFRichTextString cells may cause Excel 2003 and lower to crash when changing the color of the cells and then saving the Excel file. Compare two snippets that produce equivalent output:

  HSSFCell hssfCell = row.createCell(idx);
  //rich text consists of two runs
  HSSFRichTextString richString = new HSSFRichTextString( "Hello, World!" );
  richString.applyFont( 0, 6, font1 );
  richString.applyFont( 6, 13, font2 );
  hssfCell.setCellValue( richString );
 

  //create a cell style and assign the first font to it
  HSSFCellStyle style = workbook.createCellStyle();
  style.setFont(font1);

  HSSFCell hssfCell = row.createCell(idx);
  hssfCell.setCellStyle(style);

  //rich text consists of one run overriding the cell style
  HSSFRichTextString richString = new HSSFRichTextString( "Hello, World!" );
  richString.applyFont( 6, 13, font2 );
  hssfCell.setCellValue( richString );
 

Excel always uses the latter approach: for a reach text containing N runs Excel saves the font of the first run in the cell's style and subsequent N-1 runs override this font.

For more information regarding this behavior please consult Bugzilla 47543: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47543

NO_FONT

public static final short NO_FONT

Place holder for indicating that NO_FONT has been applied here

See Also:

Constant Field Values

HSSFRichTextString

public HSSFRichTextString()

HSSFRichTextString

public HSSFRichTextString(java.lang.String string)

applyFont

public void applyFont(int startIndex,
                      int endIndex,
                      short fontIndex)

Applies a font to the specified characters of a string.

Specified by:

applyFont in interface RichTextString

Parameters:

startIndex - The start index to apply the font to (inclusive)

endIndex - The end index to apply the font to (exclusive)

fontIndex - The font to use.

applyFont

public void applyFont(int startIndex,
                      int endIndex,
                      Font font)

Applies a font to the specified characters of a string.

Specified by:

applyFont in interface RichTextString

Parameters:

startIndex - The start index to apply the font to (inclusive)

endIndex - The end index to apply to font to (exclusive)

font - The index of the font to use.

applyFont

public void applyFont(Font font)

Sets the font of the entire string.

Specified by:

applyFont in interface RichTextString

Parameters:

font - The font to use.

clearFormatting

public void clearFormatting()

Removes any formatting that may have been applied to the string.

Specified by:

clearFormatting in interface RichTextString

getString

public java.lang.String getString()

Returns the plain string representation.

Specified by:

getString in interface RichTextString

length

public int length()

Specified by:

length in interface RichTextString

Returns:

the number of characters in the text.

getFontAtIndex

public short getFontAtIndex(int index)

Returns the font in use at a particular index.

Parameters:

index - The index.

Returns:

The font that's currently being applied at that index or null if no font is being applied or the index is out of range.

numFormattingRuns

public int numFormattingRuns()

Specified by:

numFormattingRuns in interface RichTextString

Returns:

The number of formatting runs used. There will always be at least one of font NO_FONT.

See Also:

NO_FONT

getIndexOfFormattingRun

public int getIndexOfFormattingRun(int index)

The index within the string to which the specified formatting run applies.

Specified by:

getIndexOfFormattingRun in interface RichTextString

Parameters:

index - the index of the formatting run

Returns:

the index within the string.

getFontOfFormattingRun

public short getFontOfFormattingRun(int index)

Gets the font used in a particular formatting run.

Parameters:

index - the index of the formatting run

Returns:

the font number used.

compareTo

public int compareTo(HSSFRichTextString r)

Compares one rich text string to another.

Specified by:

compareTo in interface java.lang.Comparable<HSSFRichTextString>

equals

public boolean equals(java.lang.Object o)

Overrides:

equals in class java.lang.Object

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Overrides:

hashCode in class java.lang.Object

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Returns:

the plain text representation of this string.

applyFont

public void applyFont(short fontIndex)

Applies the specified font to the entire string.

Specified by:

applyFont in interface RichTextString

Parameters:

fontIndex - the font to apply.