JP2006244093A - Display information generating apparatus, program, and computer-readable recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily increase or decrease display items.
A function MarkerFile is introduced, and the number of display items is increased or decreased simply by correcting (editing) the MarkerFile. On the display screen (Fig. 2 (a)) of the original application to which the function MarkerFile1-1 is applied, selectable functions 1, 2, and 3, the File and Edit menu, and the function MarkerFile management list are displayed. The The display screen (FIG. 2 (b)) of the application with the function MarkerFile1-2 applied and the functions restricted from the original application is reduced to functions 1 and 2 and a menu of only File is displayed. The function MarkerFile1-2 is created by editing the function MarkerFile1-1. This realizes an application that can easily create a package whose function is changed without compiling the GUI module. When creating a reduced function version of an application package, it is possible to easily hide the function simply by modifying the function MarkerFile.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a display information generation apparatus that generates display information, a program used in the apparatus, and a recording medium on which the program is recorded.

In a conventional general Windows (registered trademark) application or GUI (Graphic User Interface) of a Web application, the displayed functions, buttons, menus, and the like are often created fixedly for each application. As a conventional technique related to the GUI, for example, there is a software design support method and a software design support apparatus disclosed in Patent Document 1.
JP 10-105389 A

As described above, in the conventional GUI, the functions, buttons, menus, etc. to be displayed are often fixed for each application, so when creating a reduced function package of an application package, the original package It was necessary to create a new GUI with the function reduced from the GUI, and to create an installer for the package including the GUI module compiled.
It is an object of the present invention to easily change display information simply by introducing definition information and editing the definition information.

Further, as a conventional method for realizing an integrated application in which a plurality of functions are integrated, generally, a method of constructing an application that can be plugged into a base application package is generally used. However, it has been difficult to realize an application in which a plurality of application packages can operate independently, and when the applications are installed at the same time, the applications can operate in cooperation with each other.
It is an object of the present invention to realize an application capable of function cooperation when a plurality of definition information for generating display information exists.

  The display information generating device according to the invention of claim 1 is a management means for managing a plurality of definition information in which display information displayed on a display device is defined in a data format independent of a display application, and editing for editing the definition information Means, data holding means for holding data necessary for generating the display information, and definition information managed by the management means in response to an acquisition request for display information to be displayed. And a generation unit that generates display information by acquiring data necessary for generating the defined display information from the data holding unit.

  A display information generating apparatus according to a second aspect of the present invention is the display information generating apparatus according to the first aspect, wherein the editing means adds or reduces display items by editing the number of functions of the definition information.

  The display information generation device according to the invention of claim 3 generates a plurality of definition information that defines display information displayed on the display device in a data format independent of a display application, and generates the display information. The data holding means for holding the data necessary for the display and the definition information managed by the management means in response to an acquisition request for the display information to be displayed, and the logical sum of the display information defined by the corresponding definition information It is characterized by comprising calculation means and generation means for generating display information by acquiring data necessary for generating display information obtained as a result of the logical sum from the data holding means. .

  A program according to the invention of claim 4 is a management process for managing a plurality of definition information in which display information displayed on a display device is defined in a data format independent of a display application; an editing process for editing the definition information; The acquisition process for acquiring the data necessary for generating the display information defined by the corresponding definition information with reference to the definition information to be managed in response to the display information acquisition request to be displayed, The computer executes a generation process for generating display information based on the acquired data.

  According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a program according to a management process for managing a plurality of definition information in which display information displayed on a display device is defined in a data format independent of a display application, and in response to an acquisition request for display information to be displayed. Refers to the definition information to be managed, performs arithmetic processing for calculating the logical sum of the display information defined by the corresponding definition information, and holds data necessary for generating the display information obtained as a result of the logical sum. The computer executes a generation process for acquiring display information and generating display information.

A recording medium according to a sixth aspect of the invention is a computer-readable recording medium on which the program according to the fourth aspect is recorded.
A recording medium according to a seventh aspect of the invention is a computer-readable recording medium on which the program according to the fifth aspect is recorded.

According to the first, fifth, and sixth aspects of the invention, the display information can be easily changed simply by editing the definition information such as the function MarkerFile.
According to the second aspect of the present invention, the display items can be easily increased / decreased simply by editing the number of functions of the definition information.
According to the third, fourth, and seventh aspects of the invention, an integrated application can be obtained simply by taking a logical sum of a plurality of definition information.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a system configuration of a display information generating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a client, which is a PC used by a user who uses a display application. In the present embodiment, a Web browser is particularly used. Reference numeral 2 denotes httpd (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Deamon), which is a daemon program on the Web server that accepts requests from browsers. Reference numeral 3 denotes a WebPage generation unit that generates a WebPage to be displayed on the browser in response to a request from httpd2. Reference numeral 4 denotes a function manager, which manages the functions MarkerFile1, 2,. In addition, information obtained by ORing information of all existing function MarkerFiles is generated and provided to the WebPage generation unit 3. Reference numeral 5 denotes a Front End section, which acquires information necessary for generating a WebPage by the WebPage generation section 3 from the function service group 6 and processes it into data for generating a Page as necessary. Reference numeral 6 denotes a function service group, which is a collection of services that provide information management, search, various operations, and the like, and has functions Service1, 2, 3,. The function MarkerFile is definition information that defines display information displayed on the display device in a data format independent of the display application.

Next, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described.
In this embodiment, a function MarkerFile that describes a list of functions, buttons, menus, etc. displayed on the GUI is prepared, and when the application is installed in the system, the function MarkerFile is installed in a specific location. The present invention relates to an application characterized in that a function manager that returns information on what functions MarkerFile has to an application is arranged, and a UI (User Interface) is created based on information from the function manager.

  FIG. 2A shows a screen on which display information by the original application (an application to which the function MarkerFile1-1 is applied) is displayed. As shown in the figure, three selectable functions 1, 2, and 3 and a menu of File and Edit are displayed. In addition, the management list of the function MarkerFile is displayed.

  FIG. 2B shows a screen on which display information is displayed by an application whose function is limited compared to the original application (an application to which the function MarkerFile1-2 is applied). As shown, the two selectable functions are reduced to functions 1 and 2, and the menu is only File. The function MarkerFile1-2 is created by editing (modifying) the function MarkerFile1-1. This editing is performed by, for example, a vendor instead of a general end user. By performing this editing, an installation package can be created.

Next, an example of the data structure of the function MarkerFile1-1 and the function MarkerFile1-2 is shown.
・ Function MarkerFile1-1
[Package]
;; Describe the package to which this Marker applies ;;
PackageName = Normal Application

[Services]
;; List Service to connect with this Package ;;
Service = Function Service1, Function Service2, Function Service3, Function Service4

[Functions]
;; Lists the functions realized in this Package ;;
Function = Function 1, Function 2, Function 3

;; After this, separate each section by function ;;
;; IsExistList: Indicates whether this function has a List or not ;;
;; Menu: List the menu to be displayed ;;

[Function 1]
IsExistList = true
Menu = File

[Function 2]
IsExistList = true
Menu = File

[Function 3]
IsExistList = true
Menu = File, Edit

・ Function MarkerFile1-2
[Package]
;; Describe the package to which this Marker applies ;;
PackageName = Limited Application

[Services]
;; List Service to connect with this Package ;;
Service = Function Service1, Function Service2, Function Service3, Function Service4

[Functions]
;; Lists the functions realized in this Package ;;
Function = Function 1, Function 2

;; After this, separate each section by function ;;
;; IsExistList: Indicates whether this function has a List or not ;;
;; Menu: List the menu to be displayed ;;

[Function 1]
IsExistList = true
Menu = File

[Function 2]
IsExistList = true
Menu = File

  To increase / decrease (add / reduce) the function of the function MarkerFile, edit the "~" part of Function = ~ in [Functions]. In the example of the function MarkerFile1-1, Function = function 1, function 2, and function 3 in [Functions] are edited and reduced to Function = function 1 and function 2 in [Functions] of the function MarkerFile1-2. As specific examples of each function, function 1 is log, function 2 is device management, and function 3 is job management. By editing as described above, functions can be easily increased or decreased.

  In addition, when increasing / decreasing each function itself, the portion of Menu = ˜ such as [Function 1] is edited. In the example of the function MarkerFile1-1, Menu = File, Edit of [Function 3] is deleted. However, since [Function 3] is deleted, the menu is only File in the screen of FIG.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described.
In this embodiment, there is a plurality of function MarkerFiles on a system in which a plurality of packages in which a function MarkerFile exists for each package is installed, and the function Manager returns information obtained by ORing the information of the plurality of function MarkerFiles to the application. It relates to the featured application.

FIG. 3A shows a screen on which display information by the original application 1 (an application to which the function MarkerFile2-1 is applied) is displayed. There are two functions 1 and 2 as shown, and the menu has File and Edit.
FIG. 3B shows a screen on which display information by the original application 2 (an application to which the function MarkerFile2-2 is applied) is displayed. As shown in the figure, there are three functions 1, 3, 4 and the menu has File and Tool.

FIG. 4 shows a screen on which display information is displayed by an application in which the applications 1 and 2 are integrated (an application to which both the function MarkerFile2-1 and the function MarkerFile2-2 exist and are applied). As shown in the figure, there are four selectable functions 1, 2, 3, and 4, and the menus are File, Edit, and Tool.
Such an integrated application can be created by performing an OR (logical sum) between the applications 1 and 2 in the function manager unit 4.

Next, an example of the data structure of the functions MarkerFile2-1 and MarkerFile2-2 will be shown.
・ Function MarkerFile2-1
[Package]
;; Describe the package to which this Marker applies ;;
PackageName = Application1

[Services]
;; List Service to connect with this Package ;;
Service = Function Service1, Function Service2, Function Service4

[Functions]
;; Lists the functions realized in this Package ;;
Function = Function 1, Function 2

;; After this, separate each section by function ;;
;; IsExistList: Indicates whether this function has a List or not ;;
;; Menu: List the menu to be displayed ;;

[Function 1]
IsExistList = true
Menu = File

[Function 2]
IsExistList = true
Menu = File, Edit

・ Function MarkerFile2-2
[Package]
;; Describe the package to which this Marker applies ;;
PackageName = Application2

[Services]
;; List Service to connect with this Package ;;
Service = Function Service1, Function Service3, Function Service4

[Functions]
;; Lists the functions realized in this Package ;;
Function = Function 1, Function 3, Function 4

;; After this, separate each section by function ;;
;; IsExistList: Indicates whether this function has a List or not ;;
;; Menu: List the menu to be displayed ;;

[Function 1]
IsExistList = true
Menu = File

[Function 3]
IsExistList = true
Menu = File, Tool

[Function 4]
IsExistList = true
Menu = File, Tool

  Accordingly, by taking the OR of the function MarkerFile2-1 and the function MarkerFile2-2, an integrated application in which both exist can be obtained.

FIG. 5 is a sequence chart showing the operation of the first and second embodiments.
First, the operation of the first embodiment will be described.
When the client 1 is activated (1), httpd2 requests the WebPage generation unit 3 to display an initial screen (2). The web page generation unit 3 requests acquisition of a function list from the function manager unit 4 (3). The function manager unit 4 acquires a list of each function MarkerFile (4), acquires information in each function MarkerFile (5), and passes the function list to the WebPage generation unit 3 (6). The WebPage generation unit 3 generates each function Tree on the screen (7), and generates each Menu on the screen (8). Next, the WebPage generation unit 3 requests the Front End unit 5 to obtain the management list of the first function (9), and the Front End unit 5 requests the management list from the function service group 6 (10). This is acquired (11) and passed to the WebPage generation unit 3 (12). The WebPage generation unit 3 generates the management list on the screen (13). The WebPage generation unit 3 passes the initial display screen to httpd2 (14), and httpd2 causes the client 1 to display the initial display screen of FIG. 2B (15).

  As described above, according to the first embodiment, the number of display items can be increased or decreased simply by introducing the function MarkerFile and correcting (editing) the function MarkerFile. As a result, an application that can easily create a package whose function is changed without compiling the GUI module can be realized. When creating a reduced-size package of an application package, it is possible to easily hide the function simply by modifying the function MarkerFile.

Next, the operation of the second embodiment will be described.
In the second embodiment, after the above (1) to (5) are performed, the function manager unit 4 performs an operation of ORing information in all the function marker files managed (16), and the operation result The function list is transferred to the WebPage generation unit 3 (6). Based on this, (7) to (14) are performed to display the initial display screen of FIG. 4 (15).

  As described above, according to the second embodiment, when there are a plurality of function MarkerFiles, an integrated application capable of function cooperation of a plurality of applications is realized by ORing the functions. be able to.

  Note that the program for the CPU in the computer system to execute the processing based on the sequence chart of FIG. 5 constitutes a program according to the present invention. The recording medium for recording the program constitutes a computer-readable recording medium according to the present invention. As this recording medium, a semiconductor storage device, an optical and / or magnetic storage device, or the like can be used. By using such a program and recording medium in a system having a configuration different from the above-described embodiments and causing the CPU to execute the program, substantially the same effect as the present invention can be obtained. .

It is a block diagram which shows the system configuration | structure of the display information generation apparatus by embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the example of the display screen by the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the example of the display screen by the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the display screen by the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a sequence chart which shows the operation | movement by 1st, 2nd embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

1 Client 2 httpd
3 WebPage generation part 4 Function Manager part 5 Front End part 6 Function Service group

Claims (7)

A management means for managing a plurality of definition information in which display information displayed on a display device is defined in a data format independent of a display application;
Editing means for editing the definition information;
Data holding means for holding data necessary to generate the display information;
Refers to definition information managed by the management means in response to an acquisition request for display information to be displayed, acquires data necessary for generating display information defined by the corresponding definition information from the data holding means, A display information generating apparatus comprising: generating means for generating display information.   The display information generating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the editing unit adds or reduces display items by editing the number of functions of the definition information. A management means for managing a plurality of definition information in which display information displayed on a display device is defined in a data format independent of a display application;
Data holding means for holding data necessary to generate the display information;
A calculation means for referring to definition information managed by the management means in response to an acquisition request for display information to be displayed, and calculating a logical sum of the display information defined by the corresponding definition information;
A display information generation apparatus comprising: generation means for generating display information by acquiring data necessary for generating display information obtained as a result of the logical sum from the data holding means. Management processing for managing a plurality of definition information in which display information displayed on a display device is defined in a data format independent of a display application;
An editing process for editing the definition information;
An acquisition process for referring to the definition information managed in response to an acquisition request for display information to be displayed, and acquiring data necessary for generating display information defined by the corresponding definition information from the data holding unit;
A program for causing a computer to execute a generation process for generating display information based on the acquired data. Management processing for managing a plurality of definition information in which display information displayed on a display device is defined in a data format independent of a display application;
A calculation process for referring to the definition information managed in response to a display information acquisition request to be displayed, and calculating a logical sum of the display information defined in the corresponding definition information;
A program for causing a computer to execute a generation process for generating display information by acquiring data necessary for generating display information obtained as a result of the logical sum from a data holding unit.   A computer-readable recording medium on which the program according to claim 4 is recorded.   A computer-readable recording medium on which the program according to claim 5 is recorded.

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