Open and editor windown from a dialog screen.

Question

Hi,
Does anybody know how to open an editor window to write large text notes (1,000 chars or more) from a dialog screen?
Then how this data is stored on a table?
I need to save large amounts of text and I have seen this on SAP transactions.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Orlando.

Answer 1

Oh, I see.  I would not suggest using a sapscript editor. I would use the text editor that I mentioned early.  If you really want that functionality of the sapscript editor, you can do that.  Either way you will need to create a custom text object/id to save your text to the db.  Here is an example of using the sapscript editor.
report zrich_0002.
data: header type THEAD.
data: txt_lines type table of tline with header line.
header-TDOBJECT = 'AUFK'.
header-TDNAME   = '001000000001'.
header-TDID     = 'LTXT'.
header-TDSPRAS  = sy-langu.
header-TDLINESIZE = 70.
* First read the text, if there is any.
call function 'READ_TEXT'
  exporting
*   CLIENT                        = SY-MANDT
    id                            = header-tdid
    language                      = sy-langu
    name                          = header-tdname
    object                        = header-TDOBJECT
*   ARCHIVE_HANDLE                = 0
*   LOCAL_CAT                     = ' '
* IMPORTING
*   HEADER                        =
  tables
    lines                         = txt_lines
* EXCEPTIONS
*   ID                            = 1
*   LANGUAGE                      = 2
*   NAME                          = 3
*   NOT_FOUND                     = 4
*   OBJECT                        = 5
*   REFERENCE_CHECK               = 6
*   WRONG_ACCESS_TO_ARCHIVE       = 7
*   OTHERS                        = 8
if sy-subrc <> 0.
* MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
*         WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
endif.
* throw editor, allow user to change
call function 'EDIT_TEXT'
  exporting
*   DISPLAY             = ' '
*   EDITOR_TITLE        = ' '
    header              = header
*   PAGE                = ' '
*   WINDOW              = ' '
    SAVE                = 'X'
*   LINE_EDITOR         = ' '
*   CONTROL             = ' '
*   PROGRAM             = ' '
*   LOCAL_CAT           = ' '
* IMPORTING
*   FUNCTION            =
*   NEWHEADER           =
*   RESULT              =
  tables
    lines               = txt_lines
* EXCEPTIONS
*   ID                  = 1
*   LANGUAGE            = 2
*   LINESIZE            = 3
*   NAME                = 4
*   OBJECT              = 5
*   TEXTFORMAT          = 6
*   COMMUNICATION       = 7
*   OTHERS              = 8
if sy-subrc <> 0.
* MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
*         WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
endif.
* When user comes back from editor, save the text
call function 'SAVE_TEXT'
  exporting
    CLIENT                = SY-MANDT
    header                = header
*   INSERT                = ' '
*   SAVEMODE_DIRECT       = ' '
*   OWNER_SPECIFIED       = ' '
*   LOCAL_CAT             = ' '
* IMPORTING
*   FUNCTION              =
*   NEWHEADER             =
  tables
    lines                 = txt_lines
* EXCEPTIONS
*   ID                    = 1
*   LANGUAGE              = 2
*   NAME                  = 3
*   OBJECT                = 4
*   OTHERS                = 5
if sy-subrc <> 0.
* MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
*         WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
endif.
So for your case, you must create a custom Text Object and ID via SE75.
REgards,
Rich Heilman