TextEdit Properties

The ID is a unique identification.

Activates access keys. Both users and administrators can personalize this property.

If property displayAsText is set, with adjustRowsToText the display of TextEdits is restricted to the text rows that actually exist.

Width of the TextEdit UI element as the number of characters. Note that the cols property can be overridden by the width property. This property can be personalized by administrators.

Assignment of the context menu Note that the context menu can be overwritten in the hook method WDDOONCONTEXTMENU in all cases.

ID for the context menu you have defined. You assign this ID to a UI element if the element itself and all the subelements below it are to get this context menu. For example, if you have defined a contextMenuId for a table, the context menu applies to the whole table and to all subelements.

Display of the TextEdit element. This property can be personalized by administrators.

Specifies whether (ToolBar)InputField is to look like a pure Textfeld when the focus is not set on it. When the mouse pointer is moved over the UI element, the UI element is highlighted. When the UI element is clicked on, it behaves like a normal (ToolBar)InputField, and the user can enter data.

• Specifies whether the user can edit the UI element or only display it.

  This property has almost the same function as readOnly. The differences are that the background of UI elements is white instead of gray, and any required asterisk is no longer displayed on the label after activation.

  The following figure shows this difference, using the RadioButton UI element as an example:

  

  This property can be personalized by administrators. In personalization, this property can be assigned the value: true

Specifies whether or not an event can be triggered by a user interaction. If the value is TRUE, the view elements positioned above it are used at runtime to determine the value. This means that if the surrounding container is not enabled, all the containers within this are also not enabled.

Help text displayed when the help mode is activated. This property can be personalized by administrators. More information: Explanation Property

The explanation property is only displayed if a Label exists for the corresponding UI element.

Note the following exception:

The explanation property of an AbstractTableColumn is always displayed. If the UI element appears in aTable, and therefore has no Label, then use a AbstractTableColumn.explanation as a replacement for an explanation for the respective UI element (for example InputField).

Height of the UI element; see also Methods and Properties of UI Elements. Note that this property overrides the rows property. This property can be personalized by administrators.

Specifies whether the height of the element can be changed. If you click on the textEdit UI element, a bar appears in the bottom area and you can use it to change the height.

Value	Visualization	Description
default		The height cannot be changed. But if it is inserted in a CTable, the height can be changed.
resizable		The height can be changed.

Control of the frontend IMS mode. IME (Input Method Editor) is a basic component for writing Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters. This system of writing has more characters than could be keyed in using a normal (restricted) keyboard. IME enables users to key in and edit Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters using a normal (restricted) keyboard.

Determines whether the input field can be edited or read only. This property can be personalized by administrators. In personalization, this property can be assigned the value: true

Height of the TextEdit UI element as a number of lines. Note that this property can be overridden by the height property. This property can be personalized by administrators.

Input status of the UI element. Read the note about the required asterisk for a Label in FormLayout under TTruncating Contents in the FormLayout. This property can be personalized by administrators.

With this property you can create your own style definitions to change the appearance of UI elements (for example, the font color of buttons). With interface IF_WD_CUSTOM_STYLE_MANAGER (method CREATE_CUSTOM_STYLE) you can create your own style classes. You define the various style definitions for a style class within objects of interface type IF_WD_CUSTOM_STYLE in the form of a name/value list. You can then assign these style definitions to specific UI elements. The value of parameter STYLE_CLASS_NAME of method CREATE_CUSTOM_STYLE must be the same as the value of property styleClassName of the UI element. This property can be personalized by administrators.

data l_style_manager  type ref to if_wd_custom_style_manager.
data l_style          type ref to if_wd_custom_style.

" Get the custom style manager
l_style_manager =
  wd_comp_controller->wd_get_api( )->get_application( )->get_custom_style_manager( ).

" Create a new custom style with name myButtonStyle for BUTTON elements
l_style =
  l_style_manager->create_custom_style( style_class_name = `myButtonStyle`
                                           element_type     = 'BUTTON' ).
" Set font color to red
l_style->add_style_property( name  = `fontColor`
                               value = `red` ).
" Add custom style
l_style_manager->add_custom_style( l_style ).

Text or writing direction. This enables labels of interface elements to be read in languages that have an RTL writing direction, such as Arabic or Hebrew, as opposed to LTR for languages like English. This property can be personalized by administrators.

Text to be displayed. The text can be edited. The attribute to be bound can be of type STRING or STRING_TABLE. With STRING_TABLE rows from TextEdit are stored as table rows. A line break is always stored as a line feed in the string (CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>NEWLINE, ASCII decimal 10). The Web Dynpro framework carries out the conversion for the client platform. Both users and administrators can personalize this Primary Property. You can also predefine values; refer to Methods and Properties of UI Elements.

Visibility of the interface element. Both users and administrators can personalize this property.

Width of the UI element. This property can be personalized by administrators. More information: Methods and Properties - General Information.

Specifies whether or not the texts can be wrapped to the next line. This property can be personalized by administrators.