ABAP_to_the_Future

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Web Dynpro ABAP and Floorplan Manager
Figure 12.11 WDA Version of the Screen Painter
First of all, there is still a lot of battl eship gray, a color that SAP developers find
exciting. Just like the DYNPRO Screen Painter, there are lots of UI element things
in a list to the left of the main screen. In the traditional Screen Painter, the list of
properties of the current field floats in its own pop-up box; here, it’s on the righthand-side
of the screen. There are far more options in the WDA equivalent.
Defining the Button that Triggers the Search
You need a button to trigger the database selection once the user has entered his
requirements. Your cursor is still on the ROOTUIELEMENTCONTAINER, so right-click
again; this time, choose Insert Element. A tiny pop-up box appears with two
fields: what you’re going to call the new element (in this case, FIND_MONSTERS)
and what sort of element this is (when you use the (F4) search, you can see that
there are many things you can choose; this time, choose Button).
Now, we all love pressing buttons, but a button that doesn’t do anything is no
sort of button at all. As it turns out, your newly created button element has a
property near the bottom of its list of properties called onAction, next to an icon
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