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
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.CellHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.ColumnHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.DataItemHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.DataSetHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.DesignElementHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.DesignVisitor;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.DimensionHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.ExtendedItemHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.FactoryPropertyHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.FreeFormHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.GraphicMasterPageHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.GridHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.GroupHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.HideRuleHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.HighlightRuleHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.ImageHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.LabelHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.ListGroupHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.ListHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.ListingHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.MapRuleHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.MasterPageHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.MemberHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.ParamBindingHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.ParameterGroupHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.PropertyHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.ReportDesignHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.ReportElementHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.ReportItemHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.RowHandle;