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get cursor: different behavior inside / outside TableControl

Former Member — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:07:26 GMT

Hi all,

I've got a dynpro with normal input-fields and pushbuttons on it as well as a table-control, equally with input-fields and pushbuttons in it. Whenever a button is pressed I want to find out which button it was.

I need the name of the dynprofield, I cannot use only SY-FCODE to determine the button.

So I'm using GET CURSOR FIELD ... LINE ...

Now my problem:

Let's say the user sets the cursor in an input-field (no matter, whether inside or outside the table-control) and then pushes a button inside the table-control. The dynpro-cursor moves to the button - and GET CURSOR gets me the name of the button. Exactly what I want.

But when the user pushes a button outside the table-control, the dynpro-cursor does not move to the button but remains on the input-field and thats the name I get!

Why doesn't the dypro-cursor move to the button outside the TC? Is there any other way to get the name of the pressed button?

Thanks and regards,

Uwe Kaiser

Re: get cursor: different behavior inside / outside TableControl

franois_henrotte — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:03:36 GMT

About pushbutton in TC:

The function code, which is no more than four characters long, can end

with up to three '%' characters. These percentage characters act as

placeholders for pushbuttons used in step loops and table controls. When

the user presses a pushbutton in the course of a transaction, the

placeholders are replaced by the number of the loop repetition (or the

table control line) before the function code is made available.

Example: Suppose the function code of a pushbutton in a step loop

is 'F%%'. If the user presses the pushbutton during the

eighth loop repetition, the system retrieves the function

code 'F08'.

For pushbutton outside of TC, you should use the sy-tcode. I really don't see why you would not be able to do so...

Re: get cursor: different behavior inside / outside TableControl

Former Member — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:28:13 GMT

Thank you for your answer, Francois. I didn't know about the automatic replacement of '%'-characters in the function code of pushbuttons in TC. Its going to be useful.

And I think eventually I will have to use the SY-TCODE for buttons outside the TC. Although I wouldn't have to, if GET CURSOR was working the same way outside like inside the TC.

Re: get cursor: different behavior inside / outside TableControl

franois_henrotte — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:56:00 GMT

GET CURSOR is intended to work with input fields (i.e. fields in which you can enter data)

Actually I am surprised that it works with a button inside a TC !