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JasperReports export to Excel uses only last set background color

Im pretty pretty new to Dynamic-Jasper, but due to work i had to add a new feature to our already implemented solution.
My Problem
The Goal is to add a Column to a report that consists only out of a background-color based on some Information. I managed to do that, but while testing I stumbled upon a Problem. While all my Columns in the html and pdf view had the right color, the Excel one only colored the fields in the last Color.
While debugging i noticed, that the same colored Fields had the same templateId, but while all Views run through mostly the same Code the Excel one showed different behavior and had the same ID in all fields.
My Code where I manipulate the template
for(JRPrintElement elemt : jasperPrint.getPages().get(0).getElements()) {
if(elemt instanceof JRTemplatePrintText) {
JRTemplatePrintText text = (JRTemplatePrintText) elemt;
(...)
if (text.getFullText().startsWith("COLOR_IDENTIFIER")) {
String marker = text.getFullText().substring(text.getFullText().indexOf('#') + 1);
text.setText("ID = " + ((JRTemplatePrintText) elemt).getTemplate().getId());
int rgb = TypeConverter.string2int(Integer.parseInt(marker, 16) + "", 0);
((JRTemplatePrintText) elemt).getTemplate().setBackcolor(new Color(rgb));
}
}
}
The html view
The Excel view
Temporary Conclusion
The same styles uses the same Objects in the background and the JR-Excel export messes something up by assigning the same Object to all the Fields that I manipulated there. If anyone knows of a misstake by me or potential Solutions to change something different to result the same thing please let me know.
Something different I tried earlier, was trying to set the field in an evaluate Method that was called by Jasper. In that method we assign the textvalue of each field. It contained a map with JRFillFields, but unfortunatelly the Map-Implementation denied access to them and just retuned the Value of those. The map was provided by dj and couldn't be switched with a different one.
Edit
We are using JasperReports 6.7.1

I found a Solution, where I replaced each template with a new one that was supposed to look exactly alike. That way every Field has its own ID guaranteed and its not up to chance, how JasperReports handles its Data internaly.
JRTemplateElement custom =
new JRTemplateText(((JRTemplatePrintText) elemt).getTemplate().getOrigin(),
((JRTemplatePrintText) elemt).getTemplate().getDefaultStyleProvider());
custom.setBackcolor(new Color(rgb));
custom.setStyle(((JRTemplatePrintText) elemt).getTemplate().getStyle());
((JRTemplatePrintText) elemt).setTemplate(custom);

How to correct a display problem when inserting a row in a JavaFX grid?

I want to insert a new JavaFX bean in a grid using an "insert" button. Everything is fine, except for a display problem. After insertion, a "ghost selection" is displayed lower in the grid, as shown in this screenshot. In this example, a fourth section bean was added and selected as requested. But a fake selection appears 10 lines under the last real bean, where no bean is set for this row.
Has anyone experienced this kind of behavior? Any clue how get rid of this ghost selection? Here is what the code for the insert button looks like:
#FXML
private Button insert;
...
insert.setOnAction(event -> {
JfxBean newBean = createBean();
tableView.getItems().add(newBean);
int index = tableView.getItems().indexOf(newBean);
tableView.getSelectionModel().clearSelection();
tableView.requestFocus();
tableView.scrollTo(index);
tableView.getSelectionModel().focus(index);
tableView.getSelectionModel().select(index);
};

According to javaFX-8 documentation, SelectionModel.java does not expose any focus() method. FocusModel.java does instead. Therefore JVM will fail to compile your presented code.
Below is a possible solution:
insert.setOnAction(event -> {
JfxBean newBean = createBean();
tableView.getItems().add(newBean);
int index = tableView.getItems().indexOf(newBean);
tableView.getSelectionModel().clearSelection();
tableView.requestFocus();
tableView.scrollTo(index);
// below line is the amendment
tableView.getFocusModel().focus(index);
tableView.getSelectionModel().select(index);
};

Finally, adding tableView.refresh() corrected this weird behavior. No more ghost selection.

Best Vaadin component for a list of String

My issue is I have a simple List of Strings say
List<String> names = List.of("Frank","Joe","Eva");
All I want is display it on the UI. With some simple code like
ListComponent lc = new ListComponent.setItems(names);
I have tried it with Table which seems to work but code behind it is a bit boilerplate for this simple task(7-8 line of code).
I have tried also the Grid component and it works well when I want to bind a POJO to it , but with String.class type its a nightmare.
Grid<String> listGrid= new Grid<>(String.class) ;
listGrid.setItems(names);
it doesnt work because I have to provide getters for the column, which String.class doesnt have for the value. So I did this:
Grid<String> listGrid= new Grid<>(String.class) ;
listGrid.setItems(names);
listGrid.addColumn(String::toString).setCaption("name");
It works! However unspecified columns also appear in the grid, so now I have 3 columns Byte,Empty,name. And I dont know why. Where are these comes from?

What are the requirements for displaying them? Just to get them on the screen? Is Label enough?
for(String name: names) {
mylayout.addComponent(new Label(name))
}
If you need selection, then maybe ListSelect or ComboBox are the go-to’s.

If you want to avoid the additional columns, one way is to do as was pointed out in a comment, i.e. do removeAllColumns() before you go on creating your own columns.
Another approach would be to do new Grid<>() instead of new Grid<>(String.class). The main difference is that the second constructor uses reflection on the provided class and automatically configures columns for anything that looks like regular Java bean properties.

I would highly prefer to use grid.removeColumnByKey rather than removeAllColumns()
You can also use grid.setColumns to specify order of columns.
I will add link to vaadin documentantion for grid with java examples which is realy helpfull. enter link description here

I did something similar to adding the Strings in TextAreas. Because I needed some formatting, I added the text using StringBuilder.
List<String> details = getDetails();
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
for (String detail : details) {
TextArea ta = new TextArea();
ta.setSizeFull();
ta.setMaxHeight("100px");
ta.setValue(builder.append(detail).toString());
((Span) content).add(ta);
((Span) content).add(new Hr());
}
The result is like this:

Try out this
final Grid<String> grid = new Grid<>();
grid.setItems(new ArrayList<String>());
grid.addColumn(item -> item).setHeader("Value");

Vaadin-8 ComboBox click has no effect

I have a ComboBox in my Vaadin 8 code.
allAtts here is a Set of Attendant-s, and the field theAtt in there is of type String:
private ComboBox<Attendant> theCB = new ComboBox<Attendant>(null,allAtts);
theCB.setEmptySelectionAllowed(false);
Binder<SearchArgs> binder = new Binder<SearchArgs>(SearchArgs.class);
binder.setBean(sas);
binder.forField(theCB).bind("theAtt");
..
VerticalLayout vl = new VerticalLayout(theCB, rb, deleteBtn);
What's more - this exact flow of theCB is a copy-paste from another class i wrote, on the very same type Attendant.
The problem here is the drop-down click on theCB is not working. That is, clicking that little chevron-down icon on the ComboBox is producing no effect. What could this be!?
I tried removing the other items, rb, deleteBtn in vl. Still didn't work.
Nothing else happening to theCB anywhere else.
TIA.
EDIT:
theCB is otherwise functional. typing in the field is allowed, brings the choices and returns the selection accurately.
EDIT-2
https://github.com/vaadin/vaadin-combo-box/issues/680 is not the issue. nothing changing when i pass a non-null label value to the constructor. Besides, it's working fine with null label in that other place in the code.
EDIT-3
Attendant contains several fields, one of which is String att.
SearchArgs composes Attendant in a its field theAtt. Attendant.toString() returns att only.
Once again - this exact same logic is working, as i'm typing these, in another part in the code.
Also note: i since also tried the following without success:
binding theCB on a separate binder, i.e. declare a second binder on sas and use that one for binding theCB
cloning the Attendant objects that go into theCB as data-provider.

smartgwt add blank row in ComboBoxItem or allow user to set blank value

I am trying to add blank row with null value in ComboBoxItem of smartgwt which is already bind to data source coming from database.
I have tried changes in service layer, controller layer and database too, but that was not recommended by my senior.
All I need to do changes on UI layer only.

Take a look at the Special Values ComboBox SmartGWT showcase demo. I think it does what you want.
Here is an extract taken from that demo's code (although I recommend you to look at it and study the code to see what's best in your case):
LinkedHashMap<String,String> hashMap = new LinkedHashMap<String,String>();
hashMap.put("**EmptyValue**", "None");
hashMap.put("-1", "Not Applicable");
ComboBoxItem comboBoxItem = new ComboBoxItem();
comboBoxItem.setName("filteredCombo");
comboBoxItem.setTitle("Choose an item (ComboBox)");
comboBoxItem.setAddUnknownValues(false);
comboBoxItem.setOptionDataSource(ItemSupplyXmlDS.getInstance());
comboBoxItem.setDisplayField("itemName");
comboBoxItem.setValueField("itemID");
comboBoxItem.setPickListWidth(300);
comboBoxItem.setPickListFields(skuField, itemNameField);
comboBoxItem.setSpecialValues(hashMap);
comboBoxItem.setSeparateSpecialValues(true);