Bug 102511 Enhance Highlighting to support Banding
Using the highlight feature to create a banded report results in a messy report. To recreate, create a simple tabular report. In the designer, select the detail row, go to the Highlights tab on the Property Editor view. Add a new highlight, set its condition to be "row[0] % 2" "Equals" "0". Set the formatting for the highlight to have a gray background color. When the report is previewed, alternating rows have a background color for each cell. The issue is that the backgrounds for the cells are not contiguous, there are spaces between each cell's background, and if a cell has a null value there is no background color. In this situation the highlight should apply to the row, instead it is being applied to each cell. If I manually set the background of a detail row to be gray I get the effect I want.
engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/parser/EngineIRVisitor.java
setupReportItem( listing, handle );
		listing.setPageBreakInterval( handle.getPageBreakInterval( ) );
		
		
		
		
	}
	
	protected int toDteFilterOperator( String modelOpr )
	{
		if ( modelOpr.equals( DesignChoiceConstants.FILTER_OPERATOR_EQ ) )
			return IConditionalExpression.OP_EQ;
		if ( modelOpr.equals( DesignChoiceConstants.FILTER_OPERATOR_NE ) )
			return IConditionalExpression.OP_NE;
		if ( modelOpr.equals( DesignChoiceConstants.FILTER_OPERATOR_LT ) )
			return IConditionalExpression.OP_LT;
		if ( modelOpr.equals( DesignChoiceConstants.FILTER_OPERATOR_LE ) )
			return IConditionalExpression.OP_LE;
		if ( modelOpr.equals( DesignChoiceConstants.FILTER_OPERATOR_GE ) )
			return IConditionalExpression.OP_GE;
		if ( modelOpr.equals( DesignChoiceConstants.FILTER_OPERATOR_GT ) )
			return IConditionalExpression.OP_GT;
		if ( modelOpr.equals( DesignChoiceConstants.FILTER_OPERATOR_BETWEEN ) )
			return IConditionalExpression.OP_BETWEEN;
		if ( modelOpr
				.equals( DesignChoiceConstants.FILTER_OPERATOR_NOT_BETWEEN ) )
			return IConditionalExpression.OP_NOT_BETWEEN;
		if ( modelOpr.equals( DesignChoiceConstants.FILTER_OPERATOR_NULL ) )
			return IConditionalExpression.OP_NULL;