Screen Painter and Menu Painter

• Screens and Menus make up the graphical interface of an ABAP/4 application.

Screen Painter:

• The ABAP/4 Development workbench provides special tool known as the Screen Painter to design and maintain the screen and its elements.
• Screen Painter is a tool that allows the user to creates GUI screens for the transactions.
• A Screen is also known as a DynPro (Dynamic Program).
• A Dynpro is a combination of a screen and the associated flow logic.
• The Screen Painter is available in two modes.

1.  Graphical
2.  Alphanumeric modes.

• To use the screen painter enter SE51.
• A Screen is made up of different elements like the push buttons, radio buttons, check boxes, labels etc.
• Each of these elements are associated with:

Attributes

• Describe a screen. Screen attributes include things like a description, a type, and position.

Layout

• Refers to the arrangement of elements on a screen.

Field attributes

• Describe an element. For example, a particular field accepts only character input.

Flow logic

• Describes the relationship between a screen element and its underlying application. Flow logic is a series of instructions.

Menu Painter:

• Using the Menu Painter,we can design the interface components.
• The Menu Painter components are as follows:

Status

• Defines the combination of menu bars, menu lists, F-key settings, and functions available to an interface. For example, an Editor application might have two statuses: edit and view. In edit status, the cut function is available and with the view status the cut function is unavailable.

Menu bars

• Define functions available to the user. Where the functions appear depend on the dialog. If the dialog is modal, the functions appear at the bottom of the interface as a row of buttons. In the primary window, the functions can appear both as a row of menus and as buttons in a tool bar.

Menu list

• Lists the items in a specific menu. For example, an edit menu might contain items like copy, cut, and replace.

F-key settings

• Define keyboard keys associated with a particular interface function.

Functions

• Define individual functions such as cut, copy, and replace.

Titles

• Define window titles for an interface.