JP2702366B2 - Automatic data sharing method between programs - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic data sharing method between programs capable of sharing data between programs capable of data conversion without user intervention.

Computers, especially personal computers,
In workstations, word processors, etc., data users sometimes want to use data created by one program by another program, but this requires complicated operations and places a burden on users. .

[0003]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 5 is an explanatory view of a conventional example. This example is an explanatory diagram in a case where data is shared between two word processors A and B operated by different programs.

In FIG. 5, reference numeral 60 denotes a work processor A and reference numeral 64 denotes a word processor B, both of which are different hardware, but which have similar functions, for example, a program a having a function of processing a Japanese document.
And program b, each program a and program b
The data formats handled by are different and are not compatible.

When such a relationship is established, it is assumed that data is first created by the word processor A (60) and the data 61 of the word processor A is stored in the storage medium. When the user of the word processor B (64) operating with a different program b wants to use the data 61, it is necessary to convert the data for the word processor A into the data for the word processor B. For this purpose, a conversion process is performed by the conversion program 62 to obtain converted data 63 of the word processor B. A sentence is created and edited on the data 63 using the word processor B (64), and the edited word processor B ( 64) is obtained.

The data 65 is stored in the word processor B.
Although the data can be used in the same format later by (64), if it is desired to use it further by the word processor A, it is necessary to perform an inverse conversion of the data 65 for the word processor B into the data for the word processor A. In that case, the data 67 of the word processor A edited by performing the inverse conversion process by the inverse conversion program 66 is created. Using this data 67, the word processor A can process and edit the data. If the data 65 edited by the word processor B is finally required data, the reverse conversion program 66 does not perform the reverse conversion to the data 67.

[0007] As shown in the example of the word processor, conventionally, when a program for creating data by the user of the data (the program a) and a program for using the data (the program b) are different, a conversion program ( The conversion program 62) is selected, the original data is converted, and the data (data 65) is created using the result (data 63). When the data (data 65) is further used in the program a, reverse conversion is performed. Data (data 67) is created.

[0008]

As shown in the above example, conventionally, when a user of data uses a program that creates data and a program that uses data is different, the user selects a conversion program corresponding to the program to be used. Then, the original data is converted, the processing is performed using the result, and the processing result is further selected by an inverse conversion program to reflect the result on the original data. In this case, in addition to the original data (61 in FIG. 5), three data (63, 6 in FIG. 5) are used as data.
5, 67) is created, and it is necessary for the user to distinguish and use them.

In such a case, the original data and edited data are frequently erased by mistake, and it is often impossible to know the latest data.
In addition, since only the person who performed this series of operations knows the relationship between the respective data, there is a problem that if multiple people try to share the data, it becomes more difficult to handle the data.

[0010] It is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic data sharing method between programs capable of sharing data between programs capable of data conversion without user intervention.

[0011]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the principle of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a data processing device, 2 denotes a program name desired by a user and a designated data storage unit in which data to be processed is designated, 2a denotes a designated program name indicating a type of a program for processing data, 2b
Is a designated data name representing data to be processed, 3 is a program name and a program / data correspondence table for associating a program name with a data name to indicate which program created each data, and 4 is a program (a conversion source program). 7) is a conversion program table in which a conversion program for converting data created by the above method into data that can be processed by another program (conversion destination program) is stored in association with the data. 5 is a program / data correspondence table search unit, 6 is a comparison unit, 7 is a conversion program table search unit, and 8 is a data conversion unit. It is assumed that the program and data corresponding to each program name and data name are stored in a storage unit (not shown).

According to the present invention, when a combination of designated data and a designated program does not correspond to a program at the time of creating the data, the designated data is made to conform to the designated program. The conversion is performed by detecting the conversion program.

[0013]

In FIG. 1, the user sets a program name (Pi) and a specified data name (Di) to be used in the specified program name 2a and the specified data name 2b in the specified data storage unit 2. In response to this, the program / data correspondence table search means 5 searches the program / data correspondence table 3 for a program name corresponding to the designated data name 2b. When the program name (Pn) is searched,
Next, the comparing means 6 compares the specified program name Pi with the retrieved program name Pn. If the two data match by this comparison, it is known that the data of the designated data name Di has been created by the program of the designated program name Pi. Therefore, the designated data name Di is designated using the designated program name Pi.
The data processing 9a is executed for the data of. In addition,
In the data processing 9a, a process corresponding to the designated data name Di is performed by a program corresponding to the designated program name Pi.

When the data name of the data obtained as a result of the data processing is changed, it is registered in the program / data correspondence table 3. If the comparing means 6 detects that the two programs do not match, the conversion program table 4 is searched using the specified program name Pi and the searched program name Pn. In this search, a conversion program name whose conversion source program name is Pn and whose conversion destination program name is Pi is obtained. When the conversion program name is obtained, the data conversion means 8 extracts the conversion program from a storage unit (not shown) and performs data conversion on the data having the specified data name Di. Since the conversion data (Dc) obtained by this data conversion is data that can be processed by the program of the designated program name Pi, the designated program name Pc
The data processing 9b is performed on the converted data Dc using the program i.

The data name of the data obtained as a result of the data processing 9b can be registered in the program / data correspondence table 3, and the specified program name Pi is used as the program name.
Is set. When it is desired to convert the result of the data processing 9b into the data format of the program having the above-mentioned conversion source program name Pn, the conversion program table search means 7 shown in FIG. The name of the conversion program is taken out, and conversion is performed by the data conversion means 8 using the conversion program, thereby obtaining conversion data.

[0016]

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an embodiment, and FIG. 3 is an example of a table configuration of the embodiment. 2, reference numeral 20 denotes an automatic data sharing mechanism, reference numeral 21 denotes an automatic data sharing processing unit, reference numeral 22 denotes a table 1 (corresponding to the program / data correspondence table 3 in FIG. 1) and table 2 (corresponding to the conversion program table 4 in FIG. 1). Is a data processing unit for holding and processing data and programs, and 24 is an input / output unit.
These automatic data sharing mechanism 20, data processing unit 23,
The input / output unit 24 includes an information processing device such as a personal computer or a word processor. Note that FIG.
In the data processing unit 23, an example showing a relationship between a combination of data and a program and a conversion program is shown.

FIG. 3 is a structural example of the tables 1 and 2 of FIG. FIG. In the case of Table 1, D1, D2, D3, D4,.
2,... Dn are associated with each other.

FIG. , P2, PS2,... P
A conversion program name PC for converting each data created by Sm into data that can be handled by each conversion destination program name PD1, PD2,.
1, PC2,... PCm are set. These tables 1 and 2 are held as a database, and the contents of each are updated sequentially.

FIG. 4 shows the automatic data sharing mechanism 20 shown in FIG.
3 is a processing flow executed in the automatic data sharing processing unit 21 provided in the processing. When the user specifies a program name (Pi) and a data name (Di) from the input / output unit 24 in FIG. 2, the processing in FIG. 4 starts, and the table 1 is first searched by the input data name Di (40 in FIG. 4). ). When a program name (PS) corresponding to the input data name Di is detected in this search, it is determined whether or not the program name PS matches the input program name Pi (41). If they match, the program (program name Pi) specified by the user is started to the data processing unit 23 (FIG. 2) to start data processing for the data with the data name Di (42). The processing result data is held by the original data name Di in the data processing unit 23.

In the above step 41, if they do not match, the program 2 is searched from the table 2 for the program name Pi as the conversion destination program and the program name PS as the conversion source program, and the corresponding conversion program name (PC) is obtained. 43). It is determined whether or not the corresponding conversion program name is detected by this search (No. 44), and if not detected, a warning is output that the data cannot be converted (No. 45). In this case, the user stops the processing.

When the conversion program name PC is obtained, the data of the designated data name Di is converted by the conversion program (PC) program, and the conversion destination program (P
Data corresponding to i) (referred to as Di1) is obtained (at 46). Next, data processing is performed on the data Di1 by the program with the program name Pi, and data (referred to as Di2) is obtained as a processing result (47).

The data Di2 is data in a format corresponding to the designated program (program name Pi). When converting the data to data corresponding to the original program (program name PS) and saving the same, Is performed.

That is, the program name Pi and the program name PS are exchanged, the table 2 is searched with the conversion source program name as the program name PS and the conversion destination program name as the program name Pi, and the corresponding conversion program name P
C 'is taken out (48). Next, it is determined whether or not the conversion program name PC 'has been searched by this search (4).
9) If no search is made, a warning is output in the same manner as in the step 45. If a search is made, the data of the data name Di2 is converted by the program of the conversion program name PC '.
Conversion data is obtained (50). When the converted data is obtained, the data is replaced with the data of the data name Di specified first (51).

In the example shown in the data processing unit 23 of FIG. 2, data 1 and program B are specified. In this example, the data 1 is created by the program A, and when the data 1 is processed by the program B, the conversion program C for converting the data from the program A to the program B searches the table 2 When obtained, the data 1 is converted by the conversion program C. As a result, data 2 converted into a format that can be processed by the program B is obtained. Next, data processing is performed on the data 2 by the program B. When converting the data 2 whose contents have been changed by the data processing into the original data 1 format, a search is made for a conversion program that reversely converts the data of the program B into the data of the program A, and the obtained conversion program (not shown) ) Is used to inversely transform data 2 to obtain data in the same format as data 1 and retain that data.

The conversion source program and the conversion destination program include, for example, a word processing program for a certain model and a word processing program for another model. FIG. 3 above
The contents of Table 1 and Table 2 shown in (1) may be provided with a mechanism for automatically constructing the contents according to the user's use history, such as the use data name, use program name, conversion program registration, etc. it can.

[0026]

According to the present invention, the following effects can be obtained. Users are not aware of data conversion between programs,
Data is available. Data can be centrally managed, thereby preventing data destruction and data duplication due to a user's use error. The use of a database facilitates maintenance of two tables. Even when the present invention is not used, the original data can be used in the created program. That is, since it is not necessary to make data special in order to use the function of the present invention, it is not necessary to separately create data when using this function and when not using it.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a principle configuration diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a configuration example of each table in the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a processing flow of the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Data processing apparatus 2 Specified data storage part 2a Specified program name 2b Specified data name 3 Program data correspondence table 4 Conversion program table 5 Program data correspondence table search means 6 Comparison means 7 Conversion program table search means 8 Data conversion means

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A conversion program showing a correspondence between a program data correspondence table for associating a program name with a data name created by the program, and a conversion program for converting data of a conversion source program into data corresponding to a conversion destination program. and a table, with respect to instructions for processing the data of the designated data name by specifying the program name, and find the corresponding program name by searching the program data correspondence table with the specified data name, the detected program If the name and the specified program name are compared and they match, the specified program starts data processing for the specified data. If a mismatch is detected, the conversion program table is searched using the specified program name and the detected program name. According to the conversion program retrieved from the conversion program table, Convert the data, automatic data sharing method between programs in a data processing apparatus and performs data processing by the specified program name of the program for the transformed data. 2. The data according to claim 1, wherein the result data obtained by performing data processing on the data obtained by converting the specified data by the conversion program using a program having a specified program name is converted into data corresponding to an original program name. A search for a reverse conversion program name by reversing the source program name and the destination program name using the conversion program table, and converting the result data by the searched conversion program. An automatic data sharing method between programs in a data processing device characterized by the following. 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein Compare the detected program name with the designated program name
The specified data by the specified program
Data names for the data obtained by executing
When changing or when a mismatch is detected in the comparison
The conversion program searched from the conversion program table
Convert the specified data from For the converted data, the program with the specified program name
Data obtained by executing data processing using
Register the data name in the program / data correspondence table.
And an automatic data sharing method between programs.