Introduction

There are three types of screens within the SAP R/3 system, namely dialog screens, list, and the selection screen. Selection screens are used for taking input from the user. They are formed by using ABAP statements without the screen painter. A selection screen may comprise of input fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, tabstrips, and list boxes.

This chapter explores useful recipes that will help you in building better selection screens for your programs as well as allow the addition of certain features for improving the user experience. We will start with the first recipe that will show how to add toolbar buttons to your program's selection screen. Then, we will see how tabstrips and list boxes may be added on screens. Next, a recipe that will show how radio button inputs may be used to hide or unhide other screen fields.

We will also see how standard function modules may be used to provide a browsing facility to the user and take as input names of folder and files residing on...