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

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