Bug 25496

Summary:	HSSFSheet.getDefaultColumnWidth bug
Product:	POI	Reporter:	macaw zhang <gheorghe_zhang>
Component:	HSSF	Assignee:	POI Developers List <dev>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	1.5.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	other

Description macaw zhang 2003-12-13 08:10:23 UTC

The return value of HSSFSheet.getDefaultColumnWidth is 8.
According the document "get the width (in units of 1/256th of a character 
width ) ", it should be 8*256=2048.

Comment 1 macaw zhang 2003-12-13 09:05:18 UTC

The return value of HSSFSheet.getDefaultColumnWidth is 8.
According the document "get the width (in units of 1/256th of a character 
width ) ", it should be 8*256=2048.

Comment 2 Yegor Kozlov 2008-04-02 03:27:34 UTC

HSSFSheet.getDefaultColumnWidth() returns the width measured in characters.
HSSFSheet.getColumnWidth() returns the width in units of 1/256th of a character width.

Regards,
Yegor