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
HighlightRule.COLOR_MEMBER ) );
		style.setFontSize( getMemberProperty( highlight,
				HighlightRule.FONT_SIZE_MEMBER ) );
		style.setFontStyle( getMemberProperty( highlight,
				HighlightRule.FONT_STYLE_MEMBER ) );
		style.setFontWeight( getMemberProperty( highlight,
				HighlightRule.FONT_WEIGHT_MEMBER ) );
		style.setFontVariant( getMemberProperty( highlight,
				HighlightRule.FONT_VARIANT_MEMBER ) );
		
		style.setBorderBottomColor( getMemberProperty( highlight,
				HighlightRule.BORDER_BOTTOM_COLOR_MEMBER ) );
		style.setBorderBottomStyle( getMemberProperty( highlight,
				HighlightRule.BORDER_BOTTOM_STYLE_MEMBER ) );
		style.setBorderBottomWidth( getMemberProperty( highlight,
				HighlightRule.BORDER_BOTTOM_WIDTH_MEMBER ) );
		style.setBorderLeftColor( getMemberProperty( highlight,
				HighlightRule.BORDER_LEFT_COLOR_MEMBER ) );
		style.setBorderLeftStyle( getMemberProperty( highlight,
				HighlightRule.BORDER_LEFT_STYLE_MEMBER ) );
		style.setBorderLeftWidth( getMemberProperty( highlight,
				HighlightRule.BORDER_LEFT_WIDTH_MEMBER ) );
		style.setBorderRightColor( getMemberProperty( highlight,
				HighlightRule.BORDER_RIGHT_COLOR_MEMBER ) );
		style.setBorderRightStyle( getMemberProperty( highlight,
				HighlightRule.BORDER_RIGHT_STYLE_MEMBER ) );
		style.setBorderRightWidth( getMemberProperty( highlight,
				HighlightRule.BORDER_RIGHT_WIDTH_MEMBER ) );
		style.setBorderTopColor( getMemberProperty( highlight,
				HighlightRule.BORDER_TOP_COLOR_MEMBER ) );