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Hi Steve...
Obvously you are busy these days...
if you'll find some time to help
here is a tricky problem:

I'd like to modify the css of a table row
(I know how to do that) by a condition.
Usually the rows are swiched from odd to even.
I was wondering if it was possible to group
entries with the same Date by applying the same
background color.

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[b]!!pseudocode[/b]

function css__tableRowClass(&$record){
    if ( $record->val('date') == '$record->val('date') of a previous record' ){
        return 'bgcolor of the previous entry with the same date';
    }else return ''; }



for this the function in the table delegate class
has to be aware of its own status "odd/even"
and as if this wasn't complicated
enough, $record->val('date') has to be compared to the
other rows...
mmhh...
I must confess I am not clever enough for that challenge
but maybe you are provoked by my dilettantism

thanks and cheers
martin

Hi Martin,

This is a bit of a hack, but you could "hope" that this function is called once per row. You could then use a static variable to track the date of the previous row:

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function css__tableRowClass(&$record){
    static $even = false;
    static $prevDate = -1;
    if ( $record->strval('date') != $prevDate ){
        $prevDate = $record->strval('date');
        $even = !$even;
    }
    return ($even?'even':'odd');
}


Or something along those lines.

Hi Steve
Thanks for the hack...
it was'nt working reliable out of the box but
i'll experiment with the static variable to get this working

cheers
Martin