ABAP WD: Dynamic UI programming for controlling font size

Question

Hi,
I have a table with 2 columns: TreeByNestingTableColumn which has textview with ID 'NAME1' and ordinary table column which has textview with ID 'VALUE1'.
I am using the event OnLoadChildren for populating TreeByNestingTableColumn.
Everything works fine, except that I need to show the value of textview 'NAME1' within TreeByNestingColumn in different fonts based on the value in column 'VALUE1'.
I figured out I would have to use WDDOMODIFYVIEW for this.
I guess I would have to access the TABLE UI element, get the rows, loop at each row, get the value of column 'VALUE1' and set the font of 'NAME1' based on its value.
My code looks something like this:
data: text_view1 type ref to CL_WD_TEXT_VIEW,
  text_objecttype  type ref to CL_WD_TEXT_VIEW,
  text_table type ref to CL_WD_TABLE,
  element type ref to IF_WD_CONTEXT_ELEMENT,
  ui_value type string,
  wd_table_column type ref to cl_wd_table_column,
  wd_table_columns type standard table of ref to cl_wd_table_column.
text_table ?= view->GET_ELEMENT( ID = 'COURSEDETAILS' ).
wd_table_columns = text_table->get_columns( ).
loop at wd_table_columns into wd_table_column.
      text_view1      ?= view->GET_ELEMENT( ID = 'NAME1' ).
      text_objecttype ?= view->GET_ELEMENT( ID= 'VALUE1' ).
ui_value = text_objecttype->GET_TEXT( ).
CONDENSE ui_value.
      if ( ui_value <> 'L' ).
        text_view1->SET_DESIGN( VALUE = '09' ).
      endif.
    ENDLOOP.
  endif.
The problem is that I do not need columns, but I need rows and I have not been able to figure out how to get rows and in this example 'VALUE1' always gets the value of first row.
1) Could you please give me a sample code how to do it?
2) In my case the code within WDDOMODIFYVIEW has to be always called (I can not use if first_time = abap_true)since I fetch the data in the table through OnLoadChildren event and in that case I would have to always loop through table contents in the WDDOMODIFYVIEW. Is there a better way than this?
Regards,
Srini.

Answer 1

Hi Srini,
ok, in that case you must use cell-variants. In the column element there is a property called selectedCellVariant. This is bound to a new attribute of the context-node to which the table bounds. Fill the attribute with unique id for each element(row). Then, in wddomodify()
1) loop over the context
2) determine the row you like to change
3) create a new view element and set the design
4) create a new cell and pass the variant key
5) add the new view element to the cell object
6) add the cell object to the column
Following find some code for a linkToAction element
   lr_lta = cl_wd_link_to_action=>new_link_to_action(
                        view       = view
                        on_action = 'GO'
                        text      = ls_data-default_value ).
   lr_standard_cell = cl_wd_table_standard_cell=>new_table_standard_cell(
                       view        = view
                       variant_key = ls_data-variant ).
   lr_standard_cell->set_editor( lr_lta ).
   lr_table_column->add_cell_variant( lr_standard_cell ).
regards, Ulli