Talking ABAP

Just for fun, you can make sap talk to the user or, for more serious work, you can give hearing aids to alert the users for some event or to help them be more aware of what is happening.

report ytest_lq00. class lcl_speech definition. public section. methods: constructor, speak importing i_text type string. private section. data: w_voice type ole2_object. endclass. class lcl_speech implementation. method constructor. data: begin of l_data, ole type ole2_object, voice type ole2_object, end of l_data. clear: w_voice. free: w_voice.. create object w_voice 'SAPI.SpVoice'. endmethod. method speak. data: l_ole type ole2_object. clear: l_ole. free: l_ole. if not w_voice is initial. call method of w_voice 'Speak' = l_ole exporting #1 = i_text. free object l_ole. endif. clear: l_ole. free: l_ole. endmethod. endclass. start-of-selection. data: l_speech type ref to lcl_speech. clear: l_speech. free: l_speech. if not l_speech is bound. create object l_speech. endif. if l_speech is bound. l_speech->speak( 'Hello!' ). l_speech->speak( 'Let''''s speak a little bit.' ). l_speech->speak( 'Goodbye!' ). clear: l_speech. free: l_speech. endif.
As a final thought, I should say that, this is a simple example. As most of the times, you have plenty of room to improve.
Don't forget that this is an instanciation of a windows object. It will only work with SAP Gui for windows.

Remark: depending on the security settings of your SAP GUI configuration, a popup can appear asking for authorization to instanciate a windows object.