Create a screen for user input in BI

Hi Experts,
I want to know can i creat a screen for user input in BI with module pool programing
and i want to store the data in ztable in SAP-BI.
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Edited by: Thomas Zloch on Dec 10, 2010 8:37 PM

I'm afraid that I cannot get it. I had a look at the docs you suggested before posting, and still, no luck (...)
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(dialog, "Please input info");Can you please tell me what I'm doing wrong and I cannot add the JDialog to the JOptionPane?Re-read the API and tutorial. JOptionPane is meant specifically to spare you from instantiating manually a JDialog. The showXxxDialog(...) methods do create a JDialog of their own, based on the contents supplied as arguments.
In particular, using the 2-arguments variation showMessageDialog(Component parentComponent, Object message):
- The first argument parentComponent is not be the dialog you want to display, but the component over which you want the dialog to appear. The most typical value are this or null.
- The second argument is the "message" to display, but as described in the API, it can be a JComponent, that is, even a JPanel with child widgets (in a word, a JPanel containing the specific form you'd display in the dialog if you were writing the dialog manually).
Again, at the risk of insisting densely, I'm only quoting the API an tutorial, so please read them attentively.
Edited by: jduprez on Nov 2, 2009 2:29 PM - Sorry Kevin, hadn't seen you latest reply. I completely subscribe to the thought process you recommend.
Edited by: jduprez on Nov 2, 2009 2:32 PM
Thinking about it further, I don't completely subscribe... Indeed it looks like a bad idea to make the OP wonder about dialog.setVisible() when JOptionPane enables him to forget about the hand-made dialog. I stand by my own advice ("JDialog" should not even appear in this code extract).

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