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
addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.WIDOWS_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.WORD_SPACING_PROP, handle );
		
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.DISPLAY_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.MASTER_PAGE_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.PAGE_BREAK_AFTER_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.PAGE_BREAK_BEFORE_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.PAGE_BREAK_INSIDE_PROP, handle );
		
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.FONT_FAMILY_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.COLOR_PROP, handle, true );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.FONT_SIZE_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.FONT_STYLE_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.FONT_WEIGHT_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.FONT_VARIANT_PROP, handle );
		
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.TEXT_LINE_THROUGH_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.TEXT_OVERLINE_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.TEXT_UNDERLINE_PROP, handle );
		
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.BORDER_BOTTOM_COLOR_PROP, handle,
				true );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.BORDER_BOTTOM_STYLE_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.BORDER_BOTTOM_WIDTH_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.BORDER_LEFT_COLOR_PROP, handle,
				true );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.BORDER_LEFT_STYLE_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.BORDER_LEFT_WIDTH_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.BORDER_RIGHT_COLOR_PROP, handle,
				true );