At first sight it is rather difficult to find all the relevant data for the selected customer. For example, you have to scroll through the address table to find telephone and fax number at the bottom of the table. It would be convenient to have all the data nicely formatted at one glance.

This can be done by using GuiXT viewer to  insert a rtf or html file as a template and displaying the data via GuiXT variables.

SAP R/3 screen FO37 to display customer data

Here the customer data are displayed by a rtf file. You can freely choose fonts and font sizes and format your text. This makes your R/3 screen better legible.

You first delete all the original screenelements and replace them by a rtf file as a template. Your GuiXT script looks as follows:

The corresponding rtf file customer.rtf.

You use GuiXT variables with fieldnames and/or coordinates. The variables will be replaced at runtime by the input values of the current screen.

Look at your GuiXT screen elements window to find the position of the input values you want to display.

If you prefer to keep the original R/3 screen and to display customer data in an additional window you can use the view command with the "-floating" option. The rtf file is then displayed in a separate window which can be closed and moved as any other window on the screen.

The GuiXt script with the "-floating" option is rather simple: