12.12    Summary

In this chapter, we discussed how to develop dialog applications. You’ve seen how to work with Screen Painter to design screens in SAP, and we discussed various screen elements that can be used in SAP screens, from simple elements like I/O fields to more complex elements like table controls and custom controls.

You should now understand how screen processing is controlled by the ABAP runtime environment by calling various screen events. We also discussed how dialog modules can be called from the screen flow logic.

The concepts discussed in this chapter should help you get started with dialog programming. Of course, it takes hands-on experience to feel comfortable with dialog programming and confident to handle business requirements. We highly recommend that you complete the assignment given in the last section before proceeding further in this book. This assignment should help you feel more comfortable following along with the remainder of the topics in this book.

We’ll continue our discussion of screens in the following chapters. Now that you have a good understanding of the general screen, we’ll explore list screens in the next chapter.