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#!/usr/bin/ruby -w
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

#######################################################################
#
# Example of how to set Excel worksheet tab colours.
#
# reverse('©'), May 2006, John McNamara, [e-mail]
#
# original written in Perl by John McNamara
# converted to Ruby by Hideo Nakamura, [e-mail]
#

require 'rubygems'
require 'writeexcel'

workbook   = WriteExcel.new('tab_colors.xls')

worksheet1 =  workbook.add_worksheet
worksheet2 =  workbook.add_worksheet
worksheet3 =  workbook.add_worksheet
worksheet4 =  workbook.add_worksheet

# Worsheet1 will have the default tab colour.
worksheet2.set_tab_color('red')
worksheet3.set_tab_color('green')
worksheet4.set_tab_color(0x35) # Orange

workbook.close

workbook.close

Version data entries

5 entries across 5 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
writeexcel-0.5.0	examples/tab_colors.rb
writeexcel-0.4.3	examples/tab_colors.rb
writeexcel-0.4.2	examples/tab_colors.rb
writeexcel-0.4.1	examples/tab_colors.rb
writeexcel-0.4.0	examples/tab_colors.rb