The SAPGUI Screen and the GUI Library (SAP Library - SAP Automation GUI Interfaces (BC-FES-AIT))

The SAPGUI Screen and the GUI Library

The GUI Library divides the R/3 SAPGUI screen into the following major parts:

Part	Represents
Menus	The menu bar
PFKeys	The toolbar and its buttons
Screen	The area inside the screen with the various controls and fields

The following diagram shows the parts of the SAPGUI screen:

The Event Structure and the SAPGUI Screen

The GUI Library uses a structure, called the event structure (IT_EVENT), and several related structures to store the state of the SAPGUI screen and its data.

Your application communicates with

The szNormTitle in the diagram above is a member of the IT_EVENT structure containing the string of the title of the screen.

The szMessage member of the IT_EVENT structure contains the string of the message at the bottom of the R/3 SAPGUI screen.