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Changing Field Color in Dialog Programing

Former Member — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 01:47:05 GMT

Hi,

I would like to know how to change the field background color (red or green). I have seen there is an attribute called screen-color. But i am unable to find any difference in the program even i tried with values.

Screen-Color what is the exact usage ?

Giri

Re: Changing Field Color in Dialog Programing

Former Member — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 04:17:57 GMT

Hello Giri,

Seems like the field COLOR of the structure SCREEN is yet to be documented. The documentation , however says this much:

As of release 6.20, structure screen is described by data type SCREEN in the ABAP Dictionary. With release 6.10, it was determined by type syscr_screen of type group SYSCR. Before release 6.10, it was created system-internally with a bound data type.

I have done a quick where-used analysis for the field COLOR of the structure SCREEN, but have not found any results.

BTW, it has been discussed at length about the possibility of coloring a screen (or some screen elements like a table control's cells). And the conclusion in general is that it is not possible.

Regards,

Anand Mandalika.

Re: Changing Field Color in Dialog Programing

Former Member — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:37:48 GMT

ALV supports coloring the columns, rows and individual cells.

Dynamic Documents also support color.

Business Server Pages probably support color but that is all new to me.

As far as I know, you cannot color standard screen items. The design is that users control the screen colors at the presentation server and therefore the programmer should not be coloring the colors. As new features like ALV, Dynamic Documents, etc, this design is changing so that the programmers get control of the colors.

I can point out some documentation if you would like to follow up on any of these ideas.