New Features in Release 4.6 (SAP Library - SAP Automation GUI Interfaces (BC-FES-AIT))

New Features in Release 4.6

Release 4.6A

New flags for the connection functions ( It_NewConnection, It_NewGroupConnection, It_NewServerConnection in the GUI Library and in SapGuiFlags of the GUI Component) allow you to specify how the coordinates of controls on the screen are expressed: whether coordinates of a control are relative to its parent control or to the screen. The flags affect the treatment of coordinates for all events associated with the connection created with the connection function. See the description of the Connection Function Flags.

New GUI Library functions:

It_IsGuiRunning

ItEv_GetAccelerator

ItEv_GetControlTooltip

ItEv_SupportFlags

New GUI Component methods:

SendEventToFront
SupportFlags

Release 4.6B

No new features were introduced in release 4.6CB.

Release 4.6C

To accommodate SAPGUI screens with ActiveX controls on them, the GUI Library and the GUI Component provide a new connection flag, (SAPGUI_ACTIVEX in the GUI Library and SapGuiActiveX in the GUI Component).

Using this flag results in the correct display of ActiveX controls on the SAPGUI Front screen, and it allows the user's actions on ActiveX controls to be communicated back to the R/3 application server.

However, the support for ActiveX control in the two products is limited: the ActiveX control information bypasses the GUI Library and the GUI Component. As a result, your application may get information describing only part of the controls on the screen.

When using this flag your application can only get events. It cannot send events.

For a more detailed description of this feature, see Using Screens with ActiveX Controls.

The various connection functions/methods of the GUI Library and of the GUI Component now support multiple connections.

This means that you can issue multiple connection function calls thereby creating additional connections.

GUI Library connection functions (which now allow for multiple connections) are:

It_NewConnection, It_NewGroupConnection, It_NewServerConnection

GUI Component SapEvent connection methods (which now allow for multiple connections) are:

Connect, NewGroupConnection, NewServerConnection, NewServerConnectionEx

You can call different types of connection functions for the different connection, for example, you can call It_NewGroupConnection for one connection, and then use It_NewServerConnection to start a new connection.