[ODFTOOLKIT-115] Setting syle like bold, font size, is too hard/complicated

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: odfdom-0.8.5
• Component/s: java
• Environment: Operating System: All; Platform: All
• Bugzilla Id: 184
• Assignee: Svante Schubert
• Reporter: kelvin
• Created: 15/Jun/10 18:08
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:28

Description

The convenience API does not make the setting of style easy enough. Too much of the underlying ODF style model has to be learned and understood by the user.

Additional APIs are needed to hide this complexity.

For example, to make a table cell bold, I want something like:

cell.setStyle( BOLD, true ) ;

or cell.makeBold( true ) ;

Under the covers, the toolkit should map these APIs to the appropriate lower level API calls but the user should not have to learn them.

For me this is a major inhibitor to using the Toolkit more.

Issue Links

• depends upon: ODFTOOLKIT-49 Refactoring of DOM style implementation