UIElement 

Along with the ViewElement class, the UIElement class is one of the abstract base classes of all UI elements. All UI elements that can be used within Web Dynpro have three generic properties that the UIElement object passes on to the UI element subclasses. This abstract UI element also allows you to access the LayoutData object that can be used to describe the alignment of one UI element with another UI element.

The term UI element stands for a stand-alone user interface element that can be stored in a general container. Whereas view element also stands for subelements of composite UI elements. For instance, TabStrip is a UI element. The subelement Tab is a view element because it cannot be used independently. It is only used to build up a TabStrip UI element. The subelement Tab is therefore not a UI element.

The UIElement is an abstract UI element.

Runtime Class

CL_WD_UIELEMENT

 

Properties in the View Designer

Name	Type	Initial Value	Bindable
ID	STRING	(automatic)	No
enabled	WDY_BOOLEAN	true	Yes
tooltip	Translatable text		Yes
visible	WDUI_VISIBILITY	visible	Yes

Other properties that can be inherited are defined in the associated higher-level classes. The associated UI element is ViewElement.

Dynamic Programming

For dynamic programming, the same properties, events and aggregations are available as in the View Designer. Bear in mind the different spellings.

Dynamic Programming of Properties

View Designer Name	Runtime Name	Type
enabled	ENABLED	WDY_BOOLEAN
tooltip	TOOLTIP	WDY_MD_TRANSLATABLE_TEXT
visible	VISIBLE	WDUI_VISIBILITY
visible: none	CL_WD_UIELEMENT=>E_VISIBLE-NONE
visible: visible	CL_WD_UIELEMENT=>E_VISIBLE-VISIBLE