Group/band background color.

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By: targjack - targjack

Group/band background color.

2004-05-05 16:58

Is there a way to set the background color of a group or a band.

 

The problem is that for table heading fields the background color is set to blue. When a heading field strecthes, only the field that strecthed has a blue background.

 

In this example the space between the lines is in blue. (which is very un attractive)

 

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Multi One Line |

Line |-----------------

Heading |

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A solution would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

 

 

 

By: Mark Engstrom - me2kme

RE: Group/band background color.

2004-05-07 07:15

 

May be you could put a rectangle around your text field and use the stretchType="RelativeToTallestObject" option.

 

If you look at the attached code this draws a coloured box around some text when the text can stretch and overflow.

 

<rectangle>

<reportElement x="0" y="0" width="802" height="8" backcolor="#FF9696">

<printWhenExpression>new Boolean($F{_Background_}.equals("0xFF5050"))</printWhenExpression>

</reportElement>

<graphicElement stretchType="RelativeToTallestObject" pen="None"/>

</rectangle>

 

<textField isBlankWhenNull="true" isStretchWithOverflow="true">

<reportElement x="186" y="0" width="26" height="8"/>

<textElement textAlignment="Left" lineSpacing="Single">

<font reportFont="Serif_Normal" size="6"/>

</textElement>

<textFieldExpression>$F{Type}</textFieldExpression>

</textField>

 

 

Hope it helps.

 

 

 

 

By: targjack - targjack

RE: Group/band background color.

2004-05-07 08:19

That works nicely.

 

Thanks.