Displaying a Striped List

It is quite common for lists of information displayed in a web page to present a striped color pattern.  Such a pattern is useful for enhancing the reader's ability to keep track of what is written in a single line.

The picture bellow is a screenshot of an application that is using this technique.

It is quite easy to produce such an effect using a Morfik continuous form, by adding a few lines of code to a server side event of the Detail Band.  The basic trick is to have a Rectangle control behind everything that is on the Detail band and then make it visible or not, on a per row basis.

The following code snipped, assigned to the band's OnBeforePrint event does exactly that.

Procedure ListArticles.DetailBeforePrint(Sender: TWebControl; Canvas: TWebCanvas; Var Print: Boolean);

Begin

    If LineNo mod 2 = 0 then

        DetailStripedBackground.Visible := true

    else

        DetailStripedBackground.Visible := False;

End;