Coloring Cells

Use

You can color cells in the grid control different colors and in this way highlight data in the list. With this process it is also possible to color whole rows however this is more time-consuming than described under Coloring Rows.

Process

1. Define the Layout Structure of type LVC_S_LAYO.

2. Add a color table of type LVC_T_SCOL to your output table, as shown in the example below:

   DATA: BEGIN OF GT_OUTTAB OCCURS 0.
           INCLUDE STRUCTURE <DDIC-Struktur>.
   DATA: CT TYPE LVC_T_SCOL. "Table for colors
   DATA: END OF GT_OUTTAB.

3. Select your data and copy it into the output table.

4. Read one row of the output table at a time in a loop. A row of the color table has three fields. If the NOKEYCOL field is set you can change the color or key fields. Complete the remaining fields as follows:

   • If you want to color the entire row, assign the relevant values to the fields of the structure COLOR. Field fname does not receive a value in this case.

   • If you only want to color specific columns, you must append one row for each column to the color table. Assign the fname field the name of the required column and the fields of the COLOR structure the relevant values.

5. Assign the name of the internal table to the field CTAB_FNAME of the layout structure (which, in our case, is 'CT', see step 2).

6. Pass the layout structure and the output table with method et_table_for_first_display.