Scrolling Through Interactive Lists

From within the program, you can scroll through lists vertically and horizontally. To do this, you use the keyword SCROLL . Scrolling from within the program is useful, for example, if you want to scroll to certain pages as a reaction to user input.

You can only use the SCROLL statement for completed lists. If you place this statement before the first output statement of a list, it does not affect this list. If you place it after the first output statement of a list, it affects the entire list, that is, all subsequent output statements as well.

After each SCROLL statement, you can query sy-subrc whether scrolling was successful. sy-subrc is 0 if the system successfully scrolled, and 4 if scrolling was not possible, because it would exceed the list boundaries. If you are working with several list levels, sy-subrc may also be 8, indicating that the list level you specified does not exist (see Scrolling Through Interactive Lists ).

The SCROLL statement allows you to do the following: