Reading from xls or xlsx - with style

[zryip theSlug]

Matthias, if by tooltip, you meant the comment associated to a cell,
yes this is something potentially possible, too.


On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 9:52 PM, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode
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> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
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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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