How to programmatically access skin property value?

[daxxy]

I am generating a table using

<a4j:repeat>

  <tr>

    <td/><td/><td/>

  </tr>

</a4j:repeat>

(Please do not suggest switching to rich:dataTable -- I cannot use it for reasons I don't want to get into here.)

I want the row colors to alternate between "generalBackgroundColor" and "alternateBackgroundColor".  I have a rowColorSelector bean to return one or the other color depending on the value of "rowIndex".

From the view:

<a4j:repeat rowKeyVar="rowIndex">

<tr style="background-color: #{deviceTableStyleSelector.getStyleClass(rowIndex)}" >

Here is the color selector bean:

public class DeviceTableStyleSelector {
   
    String styleClass;

    public String getStyleClass(Integer index) {
        if (index == null ) {
            return null;
        }
        if (index % 2 == 1) {
            return Skin.additionalBackgroundColor;
        }
        else {
            return Skin.generalBackgroundColor;
        }
    }

}

Apparently :-) Skin.additionalBackgroundColor does not return the string that represents the color.  Rather it returns the string "additionalBackgroundColor".

How do I get the string that represents the actual color?  BTW -- I am using Seam.  Is there something I need to inject here? If so, what?

[ilya_shaikovsky]

could be solved just like there:

<tr style="background-color:#{(row mod 2 eq 0)? a4jSkin.generalBackgroundColor : a4jSkin.additionalBackgroundColor}">

[daxxy]

I like it!

Worked like a charm of course.

Thanks!

TDR