org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel
Interface RichTextString

All Known Implementing Classes:

HSSFRichTextString, XSSFRichTextString

public interface RichTextString

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

Author:

Glen Stampoultzis (glens at apache.org), Jason Height (jheight at apache.org)

Method Summary

void	applyFont(Font font) Sets the font of the entire string.
void	applyFont(int startIndex, int endIndex, Font font) Applies a font to the specified characters of a string.
void	applyFont(int startIndex, int endIndex, short fontIndex) Applies a font to the specified characters of a string.
void	applyFont(short fontIndex) Applies the specified font to the entire string.
void	clearFormatting() Removes any formatting that may have been applied to the string.
int	getIndexOfFormattingRun(int index) The index within the string to which the specified formatting run applies.
java.lang.String	getString() Returns the plain string representation.
int	length()
int	numFormattingRuns()

Method Detail

applyFont

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

Applies a font to the specified characters of a string.

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

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

Applies a font to the specified characters of a string.

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

void applyFont(Font font)

Sets the font of the entire string.

Parameters:

font - The font to use.

clearFormatting

void clearFormatting()

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

getString

java.lang.String getString()

Returns the plain string representation.

length

int length()

Returns:

the number of characters in the font.

numFormattingRuns

int numFormattingRuns()

Returns:

The number of formatting runs used.

getIndexOfFormattingRun

int getIndexOfFormattingRun(int index)

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

Parameters:

index - the index of the formatting run

Returns:

the index within the string.

applyFont

void applyFont(short fontIndex)

Applies the specified font to the entire string.

Parameters:

fontIndex - the font to apply.