Difference between revisions of "Documentation/DevGuide/Spreadsheets/Cell Annotations"

Revision as of 10:25, 14 May 2009

A spreadsheet cell may contain one annotation that consists of simple unformatted Text.

Cell annotations

This service com.sun.star.sheet.CellAnnotation represents an annotation. It implements interfaces to manipulate the contents and access the source cell.

• The interface com.sun.star.sheet.XSheetAnnotation implements methods to query data of the annotation and to show and hide it. This interface is returned by the method getAnnotation() of the interface com.sun.star.sheet.XSheetAnnotationAnchor.
• The method getParent() of the interface com.sun.star.container.XChild returns the cell object that contains the annotation.
• The interface com.sun.star.text.XSimpleText modifies the text contents of the annotation. See Editing Text for details.

It is possible to access the annotations through a container object from the spreadsheet or directly from a cell object.

• The method getAnnotations() of the interface com.sun.star.sheet.XSheetAnnotationsSupplier returns the interface com.sun.star.sheet.XSheetAnnotations of the annotations collection of this spreadsheet.
• The method getAnnotation() of the interface com.sun.star.sheet.XSheetAnnotationAnchor returns the interface com.sun.star.sheet.XSheetAnnotation of an annotation object.

The service com.sun.star.sheet.CellAnnotations represents the collection of annotations for the spreadsheet and implements two interfaces to access the annotations.

• The interface com.sun.star.sheet.XSheetAnnotations is derived from com.sun.star.container.XIndexAccess to access and remove annotations through their index. The method insertNew() attaches a new annotation to a cell.
• The method createEnumeration() of the interface com.sun.star.container.XEnumerationAccess creates an enumeration object, represented by the service com.sun.star.sheet.CellAnnotationsEnumeration, to access the annotations sequentially.

The following example inserts an annotation and makes it permanently visible.

 public void doAnnotationSample(
         com.sun.star.sheet.XSpreadsheet xSheet,
         int nColumn, int nRow ) throws RuntimeException, Exception {
     // create the CellAddress struct
     com.sun.star.table.XCell xCell = xSheet.getCellByPosition(nColumn, nRow);
     com.sun.star.sheet.XCellAddressable xCellAddr = (com.sun.star.sheet.XCellAddressable)
         UnoRuntime.queryInterface(com.sun.star.sheet.XCellAddressable.class, xCell);
     com.sun.star.table.CellAddress aAddress = xCellAddr.getCellAddress();
   
     // insert an annotation
     com.sun.star.sheet.XSheetAnnotationsSupplier xAnnotationsSupp =
         (com.sun.star.sheet.XSheetAnnotationsSupplier) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
             com.sun.star.sheet.XSheetAnnotationsSupplier.class, xSheet);
     com.sun.star.sheet.XSheetAnnotations xAnnotations = xAnnotationsSupp.getAnnotations();
     xAnnotations.insertNew(aAddress, "This is an annotation");
 
     // make the annotation visible
     com.sun.star.sheet.XSheetAnnotationAnchor xAnnotAnchor =
         (com.sun.star.sheet.XSheetAnnotationAnchor) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
             com.sun.star.sheet.XSheetAnnotationAnchor.class, xCell);
     com.sun.star.sheet.XSheetAnnotation xAnnotation = xAnnotAnchor.getAnnotation();
     xAnnotation.setIsVisible(true);
 }