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Obsolete Processing of Step Loops
Step loops are the predecessors of table
controls and are defined without individual descriptions in
Screen Painter . A step loop contains
screen elements that, unlike table controls, can occupy multiple rows,
grouped together in one group that can be repeated multiple times within
the step loop on the screen . The attributes of
the screen elements of the first group define the attributes of the
whole step loop. For this reason, the fields of a group can only be
created once in each of the dynpro and the
ABAP program.
In Screen Painter, you can also determine whether the size of the step
loop is fixed or variable. For each screen, you can define more than one
fixed step loop, but only one variable step loop. If the user changes
the vertical size of the window, this also changes the vertical size of
the variable step loop, whereby the PAI event is
triggered.
Processing of step loops and table controls is based on the step loop
technique, whose main features are the statements
LOOP ... ENDLOOP
in the dynpro flow logic . These
statements produce a loop pass across the step loop rows displayed on
the screen and a data transport between the ABAP program and dynpro for
all like-named data objects.
Independent step loops are obsolete and are replaced by table controls,
which are based on step loop but encapsulate them. Accordingly, the
listed variants of the LOOP statement
are obsolete in the dynpro flow logic. The LOOP statement of the
dynpro flow logic should only be used with the WITH
CONTROL addition, which assigns a table control to the statement.
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