[reportlab-users] Zebra Stripes and the Table Flowable

[shawn a]

Robin, thanks.. that did the trick. Where can i find these sample scripts?

Thanks,
Shawn

On Jan 14, 2008 12:52 PM, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:

>

> shawn a wrote:

> > Hello,

> >

> > I am looking for a way to give my table flowables a "zebra striping"

> > effect. I.E every other row is light gray.

> >

> > If i was drawing an HTML table i would simply do a

> > if(rowNum mod 2 == 0):change style

> >

> > It doesn't look like i can get that level of control during the table draw.

> > I'm sure someone has figured this out. Any insight would be greatly appreciated

> >

> > thanks,

> > -shawn

> .......there is a setting that does exactly this that does this. See

> test_platypus_tables.py

>

>

>

>

> ######################

>         lst.append(Paragraph('Trying colour cycling in background',

> styleSheet['Heading1']))

>         lst.append(Paragraph("This should alternate pale blue and uncolored by row",

> styleSheet['BodyText']))

>         data=  [['001', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05'],

>                         ['002', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05'],

>                         ['003', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05'],

>                         ['004', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05'],

>                         ['005', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05'],

>                         ['006', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05'],

>                         ['007', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05'],

>                         ['008', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05'],

>                         ['009', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05'],

>                         ['010', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05'],

>

>                         ]

>         t=Table(data,style=[

>                                         ('GRID',(0,0),(-1,-1),0.5,colors.grey),

>                                         ('ROWBACKGROUNDS', (0, 0), (-1, -1), (0xD0D0FF, None)),

>                                         ])

>         lst.append(t)

>         lst.append(Spacer(0,6))

>         lst.append(Paragraph("And this should pale blue, pale pink and None by column",

> styleSheet['BodyText']))

>         data=  [['001', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05'],

>                         ['002', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05'],

>                         ['003', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05'],

>                         ['004', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05'],

>                         ['005', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05'],

>                         ['006', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05'],

>                         ['007', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05'],

>                         ['008', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05'],

>                         ['009', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05'],

>                         ['010', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05'],

>

>                         ]

>         t=Table(data,style=[

>                                         ('GRID',(0,0),(-1,-1),0.5,colors.grey),

>                                         ('COLBACKGROUNDS', (0, 0), (-1, -1), (0xD0D0FF, 0xFFD0D0, None)),

>                                         ])

>         lst.append(t)

> ######################

> --

> Robin Becker

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