Textfield reportElement backcolor

[gervor]

Hi all..

I have a textfield and I want to set the backColor from a paramater.

I know this works in the text field expression:
"<style backcolor='"+$P{thisColor}+"'>"+$P{categoryName}+"</style>"

The problem with the above is that only the text itself has the correct backcolor.
I want the whole textfield width to have the backcolor.

I can force my categoryName parameter to have some spaces after it,
that looks fine in the preview, but when I open the generated pdf, then you dont see the extra spaces anymore.
Why is this?

So basically, is it possible to set a backcolor on the reportElement with something like this:
<reportElement isPrintRepeatedValues="false" mode="Opaque" x="0" y="0" width="495" height="18" backcolor="$P{thisColor}"/>

Thanks in advance..

Post Edited by gervor at 08/10/2009 09:40

[rwolverton]

I solved this problem by using rectangles behind the text field and a print when statement. Not elegant but pretty easy and provides good control.

[gervor]

Thanks for the info.

Did you also set the backcolor of the rectangle using a parameter of field, if so, please can you show me how you did it?

Regards