jxl.biff
Interface DisplayFormat

All Superinterfaces:

Format

All Known Implementing Classes:

FormatRecord, NumberFormats.BuiltInFormat, DateFormat, DateFormats.BuiltInFormat, NumberFormat

public interface DisplayFormat

extends Format

The interface implemented by the various number and date format styles. The methods on this interface are called internally when generating a spreadsheet

Method Summary

int	getFormatIndex() Accessor for the index style of this format
void	initialize(int pos) Initializes this format with the specified index number
boolean	isBuiltIn() Accessor to determine whether or not this format is built in
boolean	isInitialized() Accessor to see whether this format has been initialized

Methods inherited from interface jxl.format.Format

getFormatString

Method Detail

getFormatIndex

public int getFormatIndex()

Accessor for the index style of this format

Returns:

the index for this format

isInitialized

public boolean isInitialized()

Accessor to see whether this format has been initialized

Returns:

TRUE if initialized, FALSE otherwise

initialize

public void initialize(int pos)

Initializes this format with the specified index number

Parameters:

pos - the position of this format record in the workbook

isBuiltIn

public boolean isBuiltIn()

Accessor to determine whether or not this format is built in

Returns:

TRUE if this format is a built in format, FALSE otherwise