Sapscript Legacy Text Editor

ECL Viewer 7.0 Controls for the SAPscript Legacy Text Editor (when patchlevel 5 of SAP GUI for Windows 7.40 or a newer patch is installed this component is automatically removed unless you have added it explicitly).
Type some text in the second line of the text editor as shown below. Be sure that it is on the second line and not the first. Do not worry about having a blank line at the top of the Long Text; SAP automatically rolls the text up so as to ignore the blank line. Now back out of the text editor by pressing F3 (or clicking the Back arrow).
If you are here, means that you encountered the slow performance when opening the text editor on smartforms, on the previous SAP ECC 6.0 System, you can apply Note OSS 22815 – SAPscript Legacy Text Editor, and then change the preference on rscpseteditor program.

If you are here, means that you encountered the slow performance when opening the text editor on smartforms, on the previous SAP ECC 6.0 System, you can apply Note OSS 2221815_2221815 – SAPscript Legacy Text Editor

2221815 - SAPscript Legacy Text Editor controls are not packed in SAP Windows GUI Installation As per SAP Note 2221815 - SAPscript Legacy Text Editor controls are not packed in SAP Windows GUI Installation Symptom SAP GUI for Windows Release 7.40 Compilation 2 (Patch 05) and higher will not contain the controls for SAPscript Legacy Text Editor. This means, that reports using the control CLGUISAPSCRIPTEDITOR no longer work. I use this control in a number of reports for inputting long formatted text and therefore need to replace it with what I think would be CLWORDSAPSCRIPTEDITOR (the workaround of installing an Addon to get the legacy textedit control back into SAP Gui is no.

, and then change the preference on

Free Text Editors

rscpseteditor program.

However, since you are using SAP S/4 Hana, you cannot do this anymore, regardless if you are using SAP GUI 7.4 or 7.5. you need some extra configuration a.k.a. Enhancement. How is it done?

Go to SE24
Open Class CL_COS_UTILITIES
Go to method IS_S4H
Create an enhancement at the end of the method
Insert the following code

The method is used by SAP to check whether the system is S/4 HANA or not, hence the enhancement tricks SAP GUI to tell that it is not S/4 HANA System when you open/use TCODE SMARTFORMS or SE71

SAP GUI for Windows 7.40 Patches

This page contains important information regarding the download of patches for SAP GUI for Windows 7.40 and related components.

SAP GUI for Windows 7.40 is available since 8th of October 2014 on a full installation medium with all initial patches. You can access the SAP GUI for Windows 7.40 installation here. The links to the different types of patches can be found below. More information about SAP GUI for Windows 7.40 can be found here.

Important Update: Please note that as of 7.40 Compilation 2 the following components are no longer delivered on the SAP GUI DVD:

ECL Viewer 7.0
Controls for the SAPscript Legacy Text Editor (when patchlevel 5 of SAP GUI for Windows 7.40 or a newer patch is installed this component is automatically removed unless you have added it explicitly).

Microsoft Text Editor Free Download

If you require these components you can download them with the respective links below and add them to your existing NWSAPSetup installation server in order to create a complete SAP GUI installation package.

Sapscript Legacy Text Editor Gui 750 Download

The following kinds of patches are available:

Sapscript Legacy Text Editor

Name of the component	Content	Location
SAP GUI for Windows 7.40 CORE	These patches contains corrections for the 'core' components of SAP GUI, the SAP GUI installation and for the SCM and SEM frontend addons.	Use this link.
SAP NetWeaver Business Client (NWBC) 5.0	SAP GUI for Windows 7.40 and SAP NetWeaver Business Client 5.0 are combined in a single delivery and installation. However patches can be applied independently.	Use this link.
KW Addon for SAP GUI 7.40	This patch contains the KW Addon which is required for running the Knowledge Workbench and other frontend tools related to SAP Knowledge Warehouse.	Use this link.
BI Addon for SAP GUI 7.40	This patch contains the BI Addon which is required for running Business Intelligence functions (BEX). Please note that only the BI 7.0 functions are included in this patch.	Use this link.
SAPSetup 9.0	This patch contains the installation framework used to deploy SAP GUI and other SAP Frontend Components.	Use this link.
SAPSPRINT 7.40	This patch contains SAPSprint which is a tool for server-based printing on Windows (see SAP Note 894444 for more information).	Use this link.
SAPPDFPRINT 7.40	This patch contains a component required for PDF pased printing (add-on to SAP GUI and SAPSprint).	Use this link.
SAP Screenreader Extensions	This patch contains the extensions required to use Screenreaders together with SAP GUI for Windows 7.30 and SAP GUI for Windows 7.40 (see SAP Note 740785 for more information).	Use this link.
ECL Viewer 7.0	This patch contains corrections for the ECL Viewer. This component was shipped together with SAP GUI for Windows 7.30 and SAP GUI for Windows 7.40 Compilation 1, but was removed as of SAP GUI for Windows 7.40 Compilation 2.	Use this link.
SAPConsole 7.30	This patch contains corrections for the 'standalone' SAPConsole 7.30. As of SAP GUI for Windows 7.10 the SAP Console was removed from the SAP GUI delivery (see SAP Note 1017827 for more information).	Use this link.
LEGACY SAPSCRIPT TEXT EDITOR	This patch contains legacy components required for using the SAPscript editor.	Use this link.