The ALV Grid hides inside itself possibility to use ASCII symbols. All you need to do is to mark the one of fields in field-catalog as symbol and then use constants defined in TYPE-POOL SYM in order to display one of them. The image bellow shows few of them, of course they are not that nice like the ICONS, there is also not many of them, but it's good to know that such symbols exists, although I so far I've not used them at work.
You can check the abaulable symbols on your system, but I doubt they vary between old and new releases.
Here you can find the sample program to display all that I have found on 7.50 SP2 NW system.
report zab_alv_symbols.
parameters: dummy as checkbox.
initialization.
data(grid) = new cl_gui_alv_grid( i_parent = new cl_gui_docking_container(
side = cl_gui_docking_container=>dock_at_left
extension = 600
repid = sy-repid
dynnr = sy-dynnr ) ).
data(fcat) = value lvc_t_fcat(
( fieldname = 'SYMBOL' symbol = abap_true )
( fieldname = 'NAME' )
).
types: begin of t_symbol,
symbol type char01,
name type string,
end of t_symbol.
data symbols type standard table of t_symbol.
symbols = value #(
( symbol = sym_space name = 'SYM_SPACE ' )
( symbol = sym_plus_box name = 'SYM_PLUS_BOX ' )
( symbol = sym_minus_box name = 'SYM_MINUS_BOX ' )
( symbol = sym_plus_circle name = 'SYM_PLUS_CIRCLE ' )
( symbol = sym_minus_circle name = 'SYM_MINUS_CIRCLE ' )
( symbol = sym_filled_square name = 'SYM_FILLED_SQUARE ' )
( symbol = sym_half_filled_square name = 'SYM_HALF_FILLED_SQUARE' )
( symbol = sym_square name = ' SYM_SQUARE ' )
( symbol = sym_filled_circle name = 'SYM_FILLED_CIRCLE ' )
( symbol = sym_half_filled_circle name = 'SYM_HALF_FILLED_CIRCLE' )
( symbol = sym_circle name = 'SYM_CIRCLE ' )
( symbol = sym_filled_diamond name = 'SYM_FILLED_DIAMOND ' )
( symbol = sym_diamond name = 'SYM_DIAMOND ' )
( symbol = sym_bold_x name = 'SYM_BOLD_X ' )
( symbol = sym_note name = 'SYM_NOTE ' )
( symbol = sym_document name = 'SYM_DOCUMENT ' )
( symbol = sym_checked_document name = 'SYM_CHECKED_DOCUMENT ' )
( symbol = sym_documents name = 'SYM_DOCUMENTS ' )
( symbol = sym_folder name = 'SYM_FOLDER ' )
( symbol = sym_plus_folder name = 'SYM_PLUS_FOLDER ' )
( symbol = sym_minus_folder name = 'SYM_MINUS_FOLDER ' )
( symbol = sym_open_folder name = 'SYM_OPEN_FOLDER ' )
( symbol = sym_bold_minus name = 'SYM_BOLD_MINUS ' )
( symbol = sym_bold_plus name = 'SYM_BOLD_PLUS ' )
( symbol = sym_checkbox name = 'SYM_CHECKBOX ' )
( symbol = sym_radiobutton name = 'SYM_RADIOBUTTON ' )
( symbol = sym_left_triangle name = 'SYM_LEFT_TRIANGLE ' )
( symbol = sym_right_triangle name = 'SYM_RIGHT_TRIANGLE ' )
( symbol = sym_up_triangle name = 'SYM_UP_TRIANGLE ' )
( symbol = sym_down_triangle name = 'SYM_DOWN_TRIANGLE ' )
( symbol = sym_left_hand name = 'SYM_LEFT_HAND ' )
( symbol = sym_left_arrow name = 'SYM_LEFT_ARROW ' )
( symbol = sym_right_arrow name = 'SYM_RIGHT_ARROW ' )
( symbol = sym_up_arrow name = 'SYM_UP_ARROW ' )
( symbol = sym_down_arrow name = 'SYM_DOWN_ARROW ' )
( symbol = sym_check_mark name = 'SYM_CHECK_MARK ' )
( symbol = sym_pencil name = 'SYM_PENCIL ' )
( symbol = sym_glasses name = 'SYM_GLASSES ' )
( symbol = sym_locked name = 'SYM_LOCKED ' )
( symbol = sym_unlocked name = 'SYM_UNLOCKED ' )
( symbol = sym_phone name = 'SYM_PHONE ' )
( symbol = sym_printer name = 'SYM_PRINTER ' )
( symbol = sym_fax name = 'SYM_FAX ' )
( symbol = sym_asterisk name = 'SYM_ASTERISK ' )
( symbol = sym_right_hand name = 'SYM_RIGHT_HAND ' )
( symbol = sym_sorted_up name = 'SYM_SORTED_UP ' )
( symbol = sym_sorted_down name = 'SYM_SORTED_DOWN ' )
( symbol = sym_cumulated name = 'SYM_CUMULATED ' )
( symbol = sym_delete name = 'SYM_DELETE ' )
( symbol = sym_executable name = 'SYM_EXECUTABLE ' )
( symbol = sym_workflow_item name = 'SYM_WORKFLOW_ITEM ' )
( symbol = sym_caution name = 'SYM_CAUTION ' )
( symbol = sym_flash name = 'SYM_FLASH ' )
( symbol = sym_large_square name = 'SYM_LARGE_SQUARE ' )
( symbol = sym_ellipsis name = 'SYM_ELLIPSIS ' ) ).
grid->set_table_for_first_display(
changing
it_fieldcatalog = fcat
it_outtab = symbols
exceptions
others = 1 ).
Cheers
