topic Re: SELECTION-SCREEN COMMENT in Application Development and Automation Discussions

SELECTION-SCREEN COMMENT

Former Member — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:15:57 GMT

Hello Gurus !! Does anyone know of a way around the length of 79 restriction on SELECTION-SCREEN COMMENTS ? I have a sentence that I would like to be all be on one line that is about 110 characters, but the 79 restriction won't allow me to do it. Thanks for any help.

Mike

Re: SELECTION-SCREEN COMMENT

TuncayKaraca — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:48:47 GMT

Michael,

You can use multiple lines.

Check this Selection screen Comment Maximum length 79 ???

Re: SELECTION-SCREEN COMMENT

Former Member — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:31:39 GMT

Hi Tuncay.....The strict requirement is all of the sentence on one line and not multiple lines. Do you still know of a way besides multiple lines ?

Thanks,

Mike

Re: SELECTION-SCREEN COMMENT

TuncayKaraca — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:38:09 GMT

Hi Michael,

I don't know any way!

Tuncay

Re: SELECTION-SCREEN COMMENT

RaymondGiuseppi — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:46:49 GMT

Could you split your comment text in two, giving a code like

SELECTION-SCREEN BEGIN OF LINE.
SELECTION-SCREEN COMMENT 01(50) text-001.
SELECTION-SCREEN COMMENT 51(50) text-002.
SELECTION-SCREEN END OF LINE.

Regards,

Raymond

Re: SELECTION-SCREEN COMMENT

Former Member — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:28:41 GMT

Hi Michael ,

You can use this below code snippet ....

But only issue it is taking some spaces in between two texts as you can see in the above screen shot.

Hope this will help ....

Regards,

AKS

Re: SELECTION-SCREEN COMMENT

jrg_wulf — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:44:43 GMT

Hi Michael,

the only way i see around this, would be to make it a dialogue transaction and create your own selection screen. Then you can define your comment-field as long as the screen can take.

That would mean of course, you'ld have to build up the selection logic and all elements (including the extensions of select-options) on your own.

Regards

Jörg

Re: SELECTION-SCREEN COMMENT

jrg_wulf — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:20:42 GMT

There's one other way, but I'm not sure it meets your requirement.

It's not really a comment and it will not show the whole of your sentence at once, but you can scroll thru it and it will be displayed competely on mouse hover.

So this is what you have to do.

...

SELECTION-SCREEN begin of LINE.

parameters: p_long type c length 135.

SELECTION-SCREEN end of LINE.

... your code here ...

INITIALIZATION.
p_long = {your sentence}

  LOOP AT screen.
    IF screen-name = 'P_LONG'.
      screen-input = 0.
      screen-output = 1.
      screen-display_3d = 0.
      MODIFY SCREEN.
    ENDIF.
  ENDLOOP.

Regards

Jörg

Re: SELECTION-SCREEN COMMENT

Former Member — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:58:50 GMT

Hi Raymond.....Thanks for your reply.....Yes, I tried this, but it leaves a 10 char gap between the 2 groups......I tried various scenarios regarding this technique.....Can't get rid of the gap.....

Thanks,

Mike

Re: SELECTION-SCREEN COMMENT

Former Member — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:04:01 GMT

Hi Amit....Thanks for your reply.....I tried this approach with 2 TEXT symbols, but would always get the 10 char gap regardless...

Thanks,

Mike

Re: SELECTION-SCREEN COMMENT

Former Member — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:08:15 GMT

Hi Jorg....Thanks for your reply......I'll try this out.....The actual requirement is for a sentence to display that is larger than 79 char. The sentence is part of a legend for the selection screen. The user does not want this sentence to wrap to multiple lines, but the "Hover Over" technique might be acceptable. I'll try it and report back !!

Thanks,

Mike

Re: SELECTION-SCREEN COMMENT

Former Member — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:04:04 GMT

Hi Jorg......The "Hover Over" code works great, but the user decided to go with truncating the sentence at 79.....

Thanks for your help !!

MIke