ABAP_to_the_Future

Building the WDA Application 12.2
that looks like a piece of paper. If you click that icon, then a pop-up box appears
in which you can give your action a name (Figure 12.12). This is not that radically
different from adding an icon to the ap plication toolbar in the traditional DYN-
PRO Screen Painter.
Figure 12.12 Defining an Action
The first thing you do when adding a buton in the old DYNPRO Screen Painter is
give it an icon. Naturally, you can do that as well here by via a dropdown on the
Image Source property field. You also want to fill in the text and tooltip fields, in
order to make the button a proper button that can hold its head up high in polite
society. You can choose a standard SAP GUI icon, choose one from the new list
that WDA gives you, or add your own.
In traditional DYNPRO, you then add some code to your USER COMMAND routine.
Here, a method to handle your newly created action is automatically created for
you inside the view. You’ll code this a bit later, but what you’ll be doing is telling
the controller that the butto n has been clicked. Anything else is outside of the
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