How to make a plug-in tab alternate row colors

Sorry if the post title seems like a "how to", but it'll make for a good search (hopefully) once this gets answered and maybe it will be a "how to" in the end. For now, it's a technical question.

I have written a plug-in tab that I would like to seamlessly integrate into the "right-middle" section of the CB profile. That section uses Joomla's alternating sectiontableentry1/2 styles.

I found the use of the global variable $_CB_OneTwoRowsStyleToggle in comprofiler.class.php, which sure seemed at first to be the ticket to picking up where the color alternating left off. But alas, it always seems to give my plug-in the value 1. I believe it should alternate between 1 and 2 during the processing of user-defined fields, and had hoped my code would either get the next value or the last one.

Perhaps I am using it wrong. Or, perhaps it's not yet possible for the first row of my plug-in tab to be the opposite of the one adjacent to it, no matter what. That's what I am trying to find out. Can it be done? If so, how?

Thanks in advance.
Bruce

Hihi this little piece of code was actually contributed to me by Viames who shortened the way i wrote it initially..

[code:1]is_int(@$counter++/2) ? $class='sectiontableentry1' : $class='sectiontableentry2';[/code:1]

then just use class=$class in ur rows..

Hey Trail,

Thanks for the code snippet, but it's not the logic I am after. It's the previous (presumably global) variable value I need so I can pick up where the CB field processing left off. That very logic is also in comprofiler.class.php in their updating of that global variable I mentioned. But as I indicated, every time my plug-in gets called, that variable contains the value 1.

Ciao!