[news.eclipse.birt] Re: Report Design: Changing CellHandle Color Propert

[Jason Weathersby <jasonweathersby@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Shellie,

Do you have to create the report using the de api?  You can set the cell 
color using a highlight rule or using an onCreate script.

If you have to use the de api, try backgroundColor instead of color

Jason

shellie wrote:
> I'm creating a report with a XML datasource. The XML has <value> and 
> <valuecolor> elements. I'm trying to dynamically set the "value" 
> elements cell color to the value of the dataSetRow[\"valuecolor\]". I'm 
> not having much luck. Each row is being printed out, but I don't know 
> the syntax to add the dynamic color instead of the hard-coded "red" value.
> Any ideas? Thanks
>
>
> cs3 = StructureFactory.createComputedColumn( );
>
> cs3.setName("Node");
> cs3.setExpression("dataSetRow[\"value\"]");//$NON-NLS-1$
> computedSet.addItem( cs3 );
>
> RowHandle detail3 = (RowHandle) table.getDetail( ).get( 0 );
> tcell = (CellHandle) detail3.getCells( ).get( 2 );
> tcell.setStringProperty("color", "red"); DataItemHandle data3 = 
> elementFactory.newDataItem( null );
> data3.setResultSetColumn( cs3.getName( ) );
> tcell.getContent( ).add( data3 );