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What Are The Events In ALV

What are the events in alvs and which events not used in alvs?
Events in alv and their FM
these:

The main events in alv and their FM and why we use

1. SLIS_PRINT_ALV.
2. SLIS_T_LISTHEADER.
3. SLIS_T_EVENT.
4. SLIS_T_SORTINFO_ALV.
5. SLIS_T_LAYOUT_ALV.
6. SLIS_T_FIELDCAT_ALV.
and in classic reports what is the sequence of events: === Events are
At selection-screen output.
Initialization.
At selection-screen on field
At selection-screen on end of field
At selection-screen on Radiobutton Group R1. (If you have any radio buttons)
At selection-screen on block b1. (If you have any blocks)
Start-of-selection.
Get node. (if the data is retreived from a logical database)
Get node late. (if the data is retreived from a logical database)
Top-of-page. (if the write statement is in the end-of-selection event or we can say that
before the first write statement)
end-of-selection.
and fuction modules are
LISTHEADER - Is used to print the header information in the ALV List. Name, Date,
Time, ALV Name and other details are called as Header information. EVENT Basically this is the FM to handle Event's. When the user needs to do some event
operation like when double clicking the a particular field we need to perform some
operation. These events are captured by this FM. LAYOUT - This FM is used to
define the layout of the List. There are many options available in this FM to define the
Layout style. FIELDCAT - These are used to populate the List header. We can
change them according to our req.
User-defined Text Output Event
Application

print_end_of_list
Define output text to be printed at the end of the entire list
print_top_of_list
Define output text to be printed at the beginning of the entire list
print_end_of_page
Define output text to be printed at the end of each page
print_top_of_page
Define output text to be printed at the beginning of each page
subtotal_text
Define self-defined subtotals texts
Mouse-controlled Actions in the Grid Control Event
Application
button_click
Query a click on a pushbutton in the ALV Grid Control
double_click
Query a double-click on a cell of the ALV Grid control
hotspot_click
Query a hotspot click on columns defined for this purpose in advance
onDrag
Collect information when elements of the ALV Grid Control are dragged
onDrop
Process information when elements of the ALV Grid Control are dropped
onDropComplete
Perform final actions after successful Drag&Drop
onDropGetFlavor
Distinguish between options for Drag&Drop behavior
Processing of Self-defined and Standard Functions Event
Application
before_user_command
Query self-defined and standard function codes
user_command
Query self-defined function codes
after_user_command
Query self-defined and standard function codes
Definition of Self-defined Functions Event
Application
toolbar
Change, delete or add GUI elements in the toolbar
menu_button

Define menus for menu buttons in the toolbar

context_menu_request
Change context menu
onf1
Define self-defined F1 help
All of these can be found under type group SLIS.
* Events
SLIS_EV_ITEM_DATA_EXPAND
TYPE SLIS_FORMNAME VALUE
'ITEM_DATA_EXPAND',
SLIS_EV_REPREP_SEL_MODIFY
TYPE SLIS_FORMNAME VALUE
'REPREP_SEL_MODIFY', SLIS_EV_CALLER_EXIT_AT_START TYPE
SLIS_FORMNAME VALUE 'CALLER_EXIT',
SLIS_EV_USER_COMMAND
TYPE SLIS_FORMNAME VALUE
'USER_COMMAND',
SLIS_EV_TOP_OF_PAGE
TYPE SLIS_FORMNAME VALUE
'TOP_OF_PAGE',
SLIS_EV_DATA_CHANGED
TYPE SLIS_FORMNAME VALUE
'DATA_CHANGED',
SLIS_EV_TOP_OF_COVERPAGE
TYPE SLIS_FORMNAME VALUE
'TOP_OF_COVERPAGE',
SLIS_EV_END_OF_COVERPAGE
TYPE SLIS_FORMNAME VALUE
'END_OF_COVERPAGE',
SLIS_EV_FOREIGN_TOP_OF_PAGE TYPE SLIS_FORMNAME
VALUE 'FOREIGN_TOP_OF_PAGE', SLIS_EV_FOREIGN_END_OF_PAGE
TYPE SLIS_FORMNAME
VALUE 'FOREIGN_END_OF_PAGE',
SLIS_EV_PF_STATUS_SET
TYPE SLIS_FORMNAME VALUE
'PF_STATUS_SET',
SLIS_EV_LIST_MODIFY
TYPE SLIS_FORMNAME VALUE
'LIST_MODIFY',
SLIS_EV_TOP_OF_LIST
TYPE SLIS_FORMNAME VALUE
'TOP_OF_LIST',
SLIS_EV_END_OF_PAGE
TYPE SLIS_FORMNAME VALUE
'END_OF_PAGE',
SLIS_EV_END_OF_LIST
TYPE SLIS_FORMNAME VALUE
'END_OF_LIST',
SLIS_EV_AFTER_LINE_OUTPUT
TYPE SLIS_FORMNAME VALUE
'AFTER_LINE_OUTPUT', SLIS_EV_BEFORE_LINE_OUTPUT TYPE
SLIS_FORMNAME VALUE 'BEFORE_LINE_OUTPUT',

SLIS_EV_SUBTOTAL_TEXT
'SUBTOTAL_TEXT'.

TYPE SLIS_FORMNAME VALUE