Grid Display Colors

[Former Member]

Hi,

Is it possible to change the colors of alternate lines in the Grid display time for better readability.

Thanks,

Mahwish

[Former Member]

Actually, one of our customers requested this functionality.

I created a JS utility function for iGrids that gets called on Update Events. I don't recommend doing this as there is a bit of over head for only cosmetic gains. But, here it is:

/*=========================================================
// NAME:	formatGrid(objApplet)
// AUTH:	Ryan Miller at Infodatinc dot com
// DATE:	2007.03.20
// DESC:	Alternates row color of the referenced iGrid object
//===========================================================
// Revision History:
// #2007.03.20:rm - initial version
//=========================================================*/
function formatGrid(myApplet) {
	var myGrid = myApplet.getGridObject();
	var rowCount = myGrid.getRowCount();
	var colCount = myGrid.getColumnCount();
	
	for (var i=2; i<=rowCount; i=i+2) {
		for (var j=1; j<=colCount;j++) {
			myGrid.setCellBackgroundColor(i,j,myApplet.createColor("230,230,230"))
		}
	}
	myApplet.updateGrid(false);	
}

[erik_schrampf]

Mahwish,

This is not currently an option built into the xMII Grids. A workaround would be to add another column to your dataset with either a 0 or 1 and then use the color contexting tab to match only the 0's to a certain color. You can then hide this column in the Grid template and this will give you the effect you want.

Erik