JP2001160111A - Display control device and storage medium - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] An object of the present invention is to reduce the burden on a person who performs data processing by clarifying the boundary values when a plurality of numerical data are classified into several groups. Another object of the present invention is to provide a display control device and a storage medium that can improve convenience. SOLUTION: In a display control device 1, a plurality of numerical data are classified into a plurality of groups having a vertical relationship according to an attribute of interest. If two groups are specified, C
The PU 2 determines the upper / lower relationship, sets an ascending display for the group determined to be higher, and sets a descending display for the group determined to be lower, and belongs to each group in the set display order. Sort the data and display it in different display areas.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a display control device and a storage medium, and more particularly, to a display control device and a storage medium for classifying and processing data having numerical information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, with the advance of technology, the price of personal computers has been reduced, and their use in companies, schools, homes, and the like has rapidly advanced. Particularly, companies and schools need to process data with a large amount of information such as data management at high speed, and perform data processing using spreadsheet software or the like.

When performing data processing using the above-mentioned spreadsheet software or the like, the data is classified and managed by selecting the attribute of the data, arranging the data in ascending or descending order using sort, and displaying the data. Is common.

FIG. 4 shows a display example of conventional numerical data, in which results for each group are arranged and displayed in descending order. (A) is an example in which data is displayed in order from the beginning of numerical data, and (b) is a scroll bar 60.
Is an example of a case where the data display area is changed by dragging. If the number of data is large and not all data can be displayed in the display area, the display area is changed by dragging the scroll bar 60 to display the data to be viewed.

[0005]

However, the display method of the above-described display control device simply lists numerical data, and when those data are classified into a plurality of groups, it is difficult to determine where the boundary exists. It was hard to understand. Further, it is necessary to scroll the display area many times in order to determine the boundary, which increases the work load on the user and impairs the convenience of the display control device.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to reduce the burden on a person who performs data processing by clarifying the boundary values when a plurality of numerical data are classified into several groups, thereby improving convenience. The present invention provides a display control device and a storage medium that enable the above.

[0007]

The present invention has the following features in order to achieve the above object. In the following description of the means, a configuration corresponding to the embodiment will be exemplified by parentheses as an example. Reference numerals and the like are reference numerals and the like in the drawings described later.

The invention according to claim 1 is a classification means (for example, for classifying a plurality of data having numerical information into a plurality of groups having a hierarchical relationship according to an attribute of interest).
CPU 2 shown in FIG. 1 and step S2) shown in FIG. 3,
Designating means for designating two of the plurality of groups classified by the classifying means (for example, FIG. 1)
Input device 3) and determination means (for example, CPU 2 shown in FIG. 1 and step S5 shown in FIG. 3) for determining the vertical relationship between the two groups specified by the specification means.
And set the ascending order display for the group determined to be higher by this determination means, and set the descending order display for the group determined to be lower, and sort the data belonging to each group in the set display order Display control means (for example, C shown in FIG. 1)
PU2 and steps S6 to S12 shown in FIG. 3).

According to the display control device of the first aspect of the present invention, the plurality of data having numerical information are classified into a plurality of groups having a vertical relationship according to the attribute of interest by the classifying means. When two of the plurality of groups are designated by the designation means, the discrimination means discriminates an upper / lower relationship between the two groups designated by the designation means, and the display control means discriminates the higher rank by the discrimination means. An ascending display is set for the set group, and a descending display is set for the group determined to be lower. Data belonging to each group is sorted in the set display order and displayed in different display areas.

Therefore, only by comparing the heads of two groups of data arranged in different display areas,
It becomes clear at a glance what the boundary value is. In addition, by classifying a plurality of data into a plurality of groups, the length of data per group is shortened, and it is not necessary to scroll the display area many times.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, a boundary value setting means (for example, CPU 2 shown in FIG. 1 and step S1 shown in FIG. 3) for setting a boundary value for grouping a plurality of data having numerical information is set. The upper data having numerical information larger than the boundary value set by the boundary value setting means is extracted and sorted in ascending order, the lower data having numerical information smaller than the boundary value is extracted and sorted in descending order, and sorted. Display control means (for example, the CPU 2 shown in FIG. 1) for distinguishing and displaying the upper data and the lower data.
And steps S6 to S12 shown in FIG. 3).

According to the display control device of the second aspect of the invention, when the boundary value for grouping a plurality of data having numerical information is set by the boundary value setting means, the display control means is set. The upper data having numerical information larger than the boundary value is extracted and sorted in ascending order, the lower data having numerical information smaller than the boundary value is extracted and sorted in descending order, and the sorted upper data and lower data are sorted. Are displayed separately.

[0013] Therefore, sorting can be automatically performed only by setting a boundary value, and the data can be displayed, so that the work load of a person who performs data processing can be reduced. Further, in order to distinguish and display the upper data and the lower data,
It is possible to easily perform data grouping while making it obvious at a glance where the boundaries are. Furthermore, by classifying data having a plurality of numerical information into a plurality of groups, the length of one group of data is shortened, and it is not necessary to scroll the display area many times. Therefore, convenience is improved.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, an embodiment of a display control device 1 according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. First, the configuration will be described.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration of a display control device 1 according to one embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, a display control device 1 includes a CPU (Central Process).
ing Unit) 2, an input device 3, a display device 4, a printing device 5, a RAM (Random Access Memory) 6, a transmission control unit 7, a storage device 8, and a storage medium 9.
Each part except the storage medium 9 is connected by a bus 10.

The CPU 2 transmits an application program specified from various application programs corresponding to the display control device 1 stored in the storage device 8 and various instructions input from the input device 3 to a work memory area in the RAM 6. In accordance with the input instruction and the input data, and executes various processes in accordance with the application program stored in the RAM 6.
It is stored in the work memory area in the AM 6 and displayed on the display device 4. Then, the processing result stored in the work memory area is instructed by the input device 3 to the storage device 8.
Save to the save destination in.

The CPU 2 designates a boundary value for dividing numerical data stored in the storage medium 9 into a plurality of groups by a user in a boundary value display process (see FIG. 3) described later. Then, the data is classified into a plurality of groups having a vertical relationship based on the plurality of designated boundary values. Here, the upper / lower relation corresponds to, for example, ranking in terms of scores in the case of grades.
Therefore, data having a higher numerical value is higher and data having a lower numerical value is lower, and the priority is defined as higher and lower. Next, the group to be displayed on the display device 4 is changed in accordance with the display group change specification, and the groups with higher priorities are sorted in ascending order and the groups with lower priority are sorted in descending order and displayed on the display window 20 and the display window 30. (See FIG. 2).

FIG. 2 shows a specific example of a boundary value display window 100 for displaying a boundary value in the display control device 1. FIG.
3A, a boundary value display window 100 includes display windows 20 and 30 for displaying numerical data of a selected group, scroll bars 40 and 41 for moving the display areas of the display windows 20 and 30, It comprises selection buttons 50 and 51 for selecting a group to be displayed on the display windows 20 and 30. The data to be displayed in the display window 20 is the selection button 5
By selecting 0, the data displayed on the display window 30 is selected by the selection button 51.

That is, when the selection button 50 or the selection button 51 is clicked on with a mouse, a selection menu 200 shown in FIG. The selection menu 200 has a scroll bar 42, and a list of group names is selectably displayed. The group displayed on the display windows 20 and 30 can be switched by moving the scroll bar 42 by dragging the mouse and selecting a group name to be displayed on the display window 20 or the display window 30.

In FIG. 2A, the data displayed in the display window 20 is arranged in the ascending order and the data displayed in the display window 30 is arranged in the ascending order, and the data displayed in the display window 30 is arranged in the descending order. Further, at the initial setting position (default) after the display group is selected, the scroll bars 40 and 41 are positioned at the top. Therefore, by default, each display window 2
By comparing the data displayed in the top row in 0 and 30, the boundary value of the data can be made clear at a glance.

The input device 3 includes a mouse or a keyboard having cursor keys, numeric input keys, various function keys, and the like. The input device 3 outputs to the CPU 2 a pressing signal pressed by the keyboard and a mouse position signal.

The display device 4 is a CRT (Cathode Ray Tu).
be) or a liquid crystal display
A signal based on the display data input from U2 is generated to perform various displays.

The printing device 5 prints data and the like created by various application programs corresponding to the display control device 1.

The RAM 6 has a work memory area for storing designated application programs, input instructions, input data, processing results, and the like.

The transmission control unit 7 has a modem (MODEM: Mo
dulator / DEModulator) or terminal adapter (T
A: Terminal Adapter) and controls communication with an external device via a communication line such as a telephone line or an ISDN line. The modem modulates the digital data processed by the CPU 2 into an analog signal suitable for the frequency band of the telephone line in order to communicate with an external device such as a personal computer via the telephone line,
A device for demodulating an analog signal input via a telephone line into a digital signal.
This is a device that converts an existing interface into an interface corresponding to ISDN in order to communicate with an external device such as a personal computer via an ISDN line.

The storage device 8 has a storage medium 9 in which programs, data and the like are stored in advance, and this storage medium 9 is constituted by a magnetic or optical storage medium or a semiconductor memory. The storage medium 9 is fixedly provided in the storage device 8 or is detachably mounted. The storage medium 9 executes a system program, various application programs corresponding to the system, and a boundary value display process. To be processed, an array of numerical data to be subjected to table processing, data processed by each processing program, and the like.

The program, data, and the like stored in the storage medium 9 are partially or wholly received from the transmission control unit 7 from another device such as a server or a client via a transmission medium such as a network line. The storage medium may be configured to be stored, and the storage medium 9 may be a storage medium of a server constructed on a network. Further, the program may be configured to be transmitted to a server or a client via a transmission medium such as a network line and installed in these devices.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. First, the boundary value display processing executed by the CPU 2 will be described based on the flowchart shown in FIG.
Here, a program for realizing each function described in these flowcharts is stored in the storage medium 9 in the form of a readable program code.
The PU 2 sequentially executes an operation according to the program code. Further, the CPU 2 can also sequentially execute operations according to the above-described program codes transmitted via the bus 10. That is, an operation specific to this embodiment can be executed using a program / data externally supplied via the bus 10 in addition to the storage medium 9.

First, as preprocessing, the CPU 2 receives an array of numerical data to be displayed as a boundary value from the storage medium 9, pastes it on the RAM 6, and sorts the data in descending order.

In FIG. 3, when the user designates a plurality of boundary values to divide the array of numerical data into groups (step S1), the CPU 2 moves the data up and down based on the plurality of designated boundary values. It is classified into a plurality of related groups (step S2).

Next, the CPU 2 determines whether or not there is a designation to change the display group (step S3). If there is no designation to change the display group (step S3; NO), the CPU 2 executes steps S4 to S11 to be described later. The change designation setting is skipped, and if there is a designation to change the display group (step S3; YES), the group displayed in the display windows 20, 30 is changed to the designated group (step S4). The CPU 2 compares the priorities of the display groups of the display windows 20 and 30 (step S5), and if the priority of the group displayed in the display window 20 is higher, sets the display windows 20 in ascending order and sets the display windows 30 in descending order. Then, if the priority of the group displayed in the display window 30 is higher, the display window 20 is set in descending order and the display window 30 is set in ascending order (step S7).

Further, the CPU 2 extracts data belonging to the display group of the display window 20 and sorts the data in the order set in step S6 or S7 (step S8).
The data in the displayable range is displayed from the top of the display window 20 in the sorted order (step S9). Similarly, CPU 2
Data belonging to the display group of the display window 30 is extracted, sorted in the order set in step S6 or step S7 (step S10), and data in the displayable range is displayed from above the display window 30 in the sorted order (step S10). S1
1).

When the CPU 2 detects a drag operation of the scroll bar 40 or the scroll bar 41 provided in the display window 20 or the display window 30, the CPU 2 performs a display range changing process (step S12). Also, for example,
When an instruction to perform various data processing such as moving a group or printing a table is input, data processing according to the input instruction is performed (step S13). Also, it is determined whether or not to end (step S14), and if the boundary value display processing is to be continued (step S14; NO), the process returns to the display group change designation (step S3), and the boundary value display processing is not continued. If so (step S14; YES), the process ends.

An example of the processing result will be specifically described with reference to FIG. The array of numerical data to be subjected to boundary value display is grouped into groups A, B, C, D,... For which boundary values have been specified by the user, and is displayed on the selection menu 200 in FIG. You. Also, the display window 20 of the boundary value display window 100 in FIG.
The user designates a group, and designates the display window 30 as a group B with the selection button 51. In this case, since the group A specified in the display window 20 has a higher priority than the group B specified in the display window 30, the data in the display window 20 is sorted in ascending order, and the data in the display window 30 is sorted in descending order to form one line. It is displayed in order from the eyes. Therefore, the boundary value of the group becomes clear at a glance simply by comparing the data displayed in the top row of the A group and the B group.

As described above, according to the display control apparatus 1 of the present embodiment, the CPU 2 performs the boundary value display processing (see FIG. 3) on the basis of a plurality of boundaries for the user to group the array of numerical data. When a value is specified, the data is classified into a plurality of groups having a vertical relationship based on the plurality of specified boundary values. Then, by specifying the display group, the group to be displayed on the display windows 20 and 30 is determined. Further, the priority order of the groups specified in the display windows 20 and 30 is determined, and the data of the group having the higher priority order is set in ascending order, and the data of the group having the lower priority order is set in descending order. Then, data belonging to the display group of the display windows 20 and 30 is extracted, sorted in the set order, and data in a displayable range is displayed from the top of the display window in the sorted order.

Therefore, by prioritizing and sorting the data of each group, the boundary values can be made clear at a glance simply by comparing the data displayed in the top rows of the display windows 20 and 30. It becomes possible.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the contents of the above embodiment, and can be appropriately changed without departing from the spirit of the present invention. For example, in the above embodiment, Although the numerical data array is sorted in descending order, the array may be sorted in ascending order and grouped in order from lower data. Further, in the boundary value display processing of the above embodiment, the list of upper groups is arranged on the left and the list of lower groups is arranged on the right, but the reverse is also possible.

[0038]

According to the first and third aspects of the present invention, it is only necessary to compare the heads of two groups of data arranged in different display areas to determine what the boundary value is. It becomes obvious. In addition, by classifying a plurality of data into a plurality of groups, the length of data per group is shortened, and it is not necessary to scroll the display area many times.

According to the second and fourth aspects of the present invention, since sorting and automatic display can be performed only by setting a boundary value, the work load of a person who performs data processing can be reduced. Further, since the upper data and the lower data are displayed separately, it is possible to easily perform data grouping while making it clear at a glance where the boundary is. Furthermore, by classifying data having a plurality of numerical information into a plurality of groups, the length of one group of data is shortened, and it is not necessary to scroll the display area many times. Therefore, convenience is improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of a display control device 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a specific example of a boundary value display window 100 for displaying a boundary value in the display control device 1. (A) is an example of display windows 20 and 30 for displaying numerical data of a selected group, and (b) is an example of a selection menu 200 displayed on the display device 4.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a boundary value display process executed by a CPU 2;

FIG. 4 is a display example of numerical data in a conventional display control device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 display control device 2 CPU 3 input device 4 display device 5 printing device 6 RAM 7 transmission control unit 8 storage device 9 storage medium 10 bus 20 display window 30 display window 40 scroll bar 41 scroll bar 42 scroll bar 50 selection button 51 selection button 60 Scroll bar 100 Boundary value display window 200 Selection menu

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of data having numerical information,
Classifying means for classifying into a plurality of groups having a hierarchical relationship according to the attribute of interest; specifying means for specifying two groups among the plurality of groups classified by the classifying means; Discriminating means for discriminating the vertical relationship between the two groups; and setting the ascending order display for the group determined to be higher by the discriminating means, and setting the descending order display to the group determined to be lower by the discriminating means. A display control unit for sorting data belonging to each group in a display order and displaying the sorted data in different display areas. 2. A boundary value setting means for setting a boundary value for grouping a plurality of data having numerical information, and upper data having numerical information larger than the boundary value set by the boundary value setting means is extracted. Display control means for sorting lower order data having numerical information smaller than the boundary value, sorting the lower order data in descending order, and displaying the sorted upper order data and lower order data separately. A display control device characterized by the above-mentioned. 3. A storage medium storing a computer-executable program, the computer-executable program for classifying a plurality of data having numerical information into a plurality of groups having a hierarchical relationship according to an attribute of interest. A program code; a program code executable by a computer for designating two of the plurality of groups; and a computer executed by a computer for determining a hierarchical relationship between the two designated groups. Set the possible program codes and the ascending order display for the group determined to be higher, set the descending order display to the group determined to be lower, and display data belonging to each group in the set display order. Computer-executable program for sorting and displaying in different display areas A storage medium storing a program including a gram code and a program. 4. A storage medium storing a computer-executable program, comprising: a computer-executable program code for setting a boundary value for grouping a plurality of data having numerical information; Extracting upper data having numerical information larger than the set boundary value and sorting the data in ascending order; extracting lower data having numerical information smaller than the boundary value and sorting in descending order;
A storage medium storing a program including: a computer-executable program code for displaying the sorted upper data and lower data separately.