Purpose of text element in scripts

1. What is the purpose of text element in scripts. When do we use it ?
2. Is text element window specific or only pertaning to main window ?

Hi,
text elements control the output of all data in sapscript forms windows.
A text element starts with /E in the format column (switch to 'old' non-visual tect-editor to see) and has a name in the text line.
The print program will fill the variables used as &symbols& in sapacript and then call the function WRITE_FORM for the element.
In the main window, elements can be called repeatedly to output table-like data - usually the text elements are called something like ITEM_LINE then.
Every window has a so-called default text element that has no name and is triggered without function call when the window is displayed. The default text element is the first one in the window. It is not preceded by /E. In other words: What you find on top of the window, before the first /E text element, is the default text element and is output without WRITE_FORM function call.
It is quite well explained in documentation
<a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/d6/0db44e494511d182b70000e829fbfe/frameset.htm">BC SAPscript: Printing with Forms</a>
Regards,
Clemens

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