SAP GUI Scripting Changes Between SAP GUI 7.40 PL 5 and PL7

[stefan_schnell]

Hello community,

since four days offers SAP a new patch level of the SAP GUI for Windows. With this patch level 7 SAP offers also a new version of the SAP GUI Scripting API (sapfewse.ocx). There are some notable changes:

• The following controls
  

  $CLSID_SAPFEWSELib_GuiListControl = GUID$("{CC75EA97-3DB1-4BDF-9791-89D09B1800A0}")
  
  $CLSID_SAPFEWSELib_GuiInputControl = GUID$("{31233701-DF39-49F7-A641-16CAB0C9C5F0}")

  
  are changed to
  

  $CLSID_SAPFEWSELib_GuiComboBoxControl = GUID$("{CC75EA97-3DB1-4BDF-9791-89D09B1800A0}")
  
  $CLSID_SAPFEWSELib_GuiInputFieldControl = GUID$("{31233701-DF39-49F7-A641-16CAB0C9C5F0}")

  
  Also the interfaces from
  

  $IID_SAPFEWSELib_ISapListControlTarget = GUID$("{6E824989-726A-45EE-9FF0-52DC1A41D8D4}")
  
  $IID_SAPFEWSELib_ISapInputControlTarget = GUID$("{D2C7FEC7-052E-4BA3-BE44-526D9E0925C4}")

  
  to
  

  $IID_SAPFEWSELib_ISapComboBoxControlTarget = GUID$("{6E824989-726A-45EE-9FF0-52DC1A41D8D4}")
  
  $IID_SAPFEWSELib_ISapInputFieldControlTarget = GUID$("{D2C7FEC7-052E-4BA3-BE44-526D9E0925C4}")

  
  


• It seems that the GuiListControl is now renamed to a GuiComboBoxControl with different methods.
  
  As far as I can see the methods
  

  SetSelectionID <1> (In i As Long<0>)
  
  GetSelectionID <2> () As Long
  
  GetSelectionText <3> () As WString
  
  GetTextFromID <4> (In idVal As Long<0>) As WString
  
  SetInputControlText <5> (In ISapListControlTarget As WString<0>) As Integer
  
  GetInputControlText <6> () As WString
  
  SetComboboxText <7> (In Text As WString<0>)
  
  GetLabelText <9> () As WString

  
  doesn't exists anymore and the method
  

  FireSelected <6> ()

  
  is new.


• It is the same with GuiInputControl and now GuiInputFieldControl.
  As far as I can see the methods
  

  SetInputControlText <1> (In ISapInputControlTarget As WString<0>) As Integer
  
  GetInputControlText <2> () As WString
  
  GetLabelText <4> () As WString
  
  GetButtonTooltip <5> () As WString
  
  GetNumberOfEntries <6> () As Long
  
  GetHistoryEntryText <7> (In ISapInputControlTarget As Long<0>) As WString
  
  IsHistoryOpend <8> () As Integer
  
  GetSelectedHistoryItem <9> () As WString

  
  doesn't exists anymore.

If you use this controls in your SAP GUI Scripting programs, be careful if you update to PL7.

Hint: I detect the GuiListControl class at the SAP GUI 7.30 PL6, you can find more information here. The class has never been documented. The renamed class GuiComboBoxControl is actually also not completely documented. The GuiInputControl class has never been documented too and the renamed class GuiInputFieldControl is actually also not completely documented too.

Cheers
Stefan