Reading from xls or xlsx - with style

[Matthias Rebbe]

As i wrote “ at least i am not aware of it” ;)

good to know. That this is possible.

Btw.: Do you know if it is also possible to read/get the tooltip of a cell of better said of a range of cells?

Regards
Matthias


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> Am 16.01.2018 um 21:32 schrieb zryip theSlug via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>:
> 
> In the Excel Lib, the command XCEL_Range_FontStyle_Get is returning
> the style of the whole cell or range. We have no function to read the
> style of each char, at this moment.
> However, both VBA and AppleScript are offering this possibility, so
> this is a function we can add. A possible solution would consist to
> explore the style of each chars in a cell, then return the result in
> html to have it directly usable in LiveCode. I'm not sure of the
> performances of this approach, though. It will depend on how many
> cells the sheet have and how many text each cells are containing.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:23 PM, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode
> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
>> Ben,
>> 
>> i am uising Spreadlib and Excel Libary. Both do not take care for text format.
>> At least i am not aware of it.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Matthias
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Matthias Rebbe
>> Tel +49 5741 310000
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>>> Am 16.01.2018 um 19:10 schrieb Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>>:
>>> 
>>> I'm aware that there are a couple of libraries floating around for reading Excel documents - do any of them allow the formatting of runs of text within cells to be read? I want to import some data where some of the text in a cell may contain some parts which are in italics or bold. Are there existing libraries that support this use?
>>> 
>>> Many thanks,
>>> 
>>> Ben
>>> 
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