JP3033641B2 - Position check method on the editor - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a position check method on an editor, and more particularly to a position check method on an editor for checking the position of an element on a layout in a form layout editor.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a form layout editor only checks the syntax of an element defined at the time of defining the element, and checks whether the defined element is within a range to be defined. Does not perform error checking on the position of whether or not it overlaps with other elements, and the user will know the error only when an error is detected at compile time or when it is not printed correctly.

[0003]

In the above-described error check of the conventional form layout editor, it is determined whether or not a defined element falls within a range to be defined, and whether or not a defined element overlaps another element. Since the error check is not performed, the user compiles because the defined element does not fall within the range to be defined or an error does not occur even if the defined element overlaps with other elements, Even if a compile error occurs or the compile is completed without error, when the form is actually output to the printer, the image on the form layout screen may be different from the actual execution image.
Therefore, there is a disadvantage that the user has to re-start the form layout editor and redefine the element in which the error has occurred or the element which has not been printed.

[0004]

According to the present invention, there is provided a position check method on an editor for checking a position of an element on a layout of a form layout editor. Element information acquiring means for acquiring element information including the designated position and size of the first element, and the first information acquired by the element information acquiring means.
Element and designated by tree structurally pointer to this element of
Element range checking means for checking a range relationship of the element information with the second element to be performed, and an element for checking whether another element is not defined in the range obtained from the element information of the first element and check means overlap is constituted by organic and error display means for displaying the element range check means and the error information about errors detected by checking means this element overlapping the editor screen, before
The element range check means and the element overlap check means
Before compiling a statement containing element information,
Characterized that you display the detected error information.

[0005]

Next, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.
In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, a conventional syntax checking means 1 for performing a syntactical error check, an element information obtaining means 2 for obtaining element information including a designated position and a size of an element, element information A and an element of a defined element A An element B that is specified directly by a pointer in the tree structure with A (hereinafter referred to as being related)
Element range checking means 3 for checking whether the position and size of both elements are appropriate based on the two pieces of element information B and element information B. Element overlap checking means 4 for checking whether or not elements are defined overlapping, error information storing means 5 for storing error information when an error occurs during error checking, and error information storing means 5 after error checking. An error information display means 6 for displaying an error message on a form layout screen with reference to the error information stored by the system, and a form layout editor 10 including the above means.

First, the overall processing in the above configuration will be described. The user defines elements on a form layout screen. Then, the form layout editor 10 performs a syntax check on the defined element A by the syntax check unit 1. If no error has occurred in the syntax checking means 1, the element information A and the element information B of the element A associated with the element A defined by the element information obtaining means 2 are obtained. The element range checking unit 3 checks the range between the element A and the element B with reference to the two pieces of element information acquired by the element information acquiring unit 2. Thereafter, it is checked whether another element is defined in the range of the element information A of the element A defined by the element overlap checking means 4. If an error occurs during these error checks, the error information is stored in the error information storage means 5, and when the error check is completed, the error information display means 6 refers to the error information set by the error information setting means 5. And display an error message on the form layout screen. By displaying the error message, the user knows that an error has occurred during compilation or may not be printed. Next, the position check between elements will be further described. The element information acquisition means 2 acquires the element information A (position designation, size) of the defined element A. The element, the ruled line, and the fixed heading (hereinafter referred to as “print”) in which the element to be acquired is to be printed on the printer. In this case, the size of the element is determined by determining the designated position of the print item, the size of one character, and the number of digits. If the element to be obtained is a ruled line, the size of the element is obtained by obtaining the start position, the end position, and the line width. Also, when the element to be obtained represents a range of print items that cannot be printed by the printer (hereinafter, referred to as a component frame),
The starting position and the ending position of the component frame are obtained and set as the element size. Further, if there is an element related to the defined element A, the element information B (designated position, size) of the related element B is acquired. Next, the element range checking means 3 checks the range of the two elements with reference to the obtained two element information. FIG. 2 shows a case of an error in two related elements. In this example, the error information is stored by the error information storage means 5 because there is no print item to be included in the configuration frame. Next, the element overlap check unit 4 checks the overlap of the elements based on the range (size) of the element information A acquired by the element information acquisition unit 2. The element overlap checking means 4 checks whether there is an element other than itself defined within the range of the element information A of the defined element A, and if there is something other than itself, checks whether it can overlap. As shown in FIG. 3, when two print items overlap each other, the error information is stored by the error information storage unit 5 in the same manner as the element range check unit 3 if the print items do not overlap. After the error check, the error information display means 6 refers to the error information stored in the error information storage means 5 and displays an error message on the form layout screen.

[0008]

As described above, according to the present invention, by checking the position of an element at the time of defining the element, it is possible to detect a compile error or the discovery of an unprintable element at the time of execution. This has the effect of reducing the time required to create a specification including.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a definition example of elements for explaining the embodiment of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of definition of elements for explaining the embodiment of FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Syntax check means 2 Element information acquisition means 3 Element range check means 4 Element overlap check means 5 Error information storage means 6 Error display means 7 Form layout editor

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] In a position check method on an editor for checking the position of an element on a layout of a form layout editor, element information acquisition for acquiring element information including a designated position and a size of an element defined on the layout. element checking means, the relationship between the range for the element information of the first element and <br/> second element specified by the tree structure to pointer to this element this element information acquisition unit acquires Range checking means, element overlap checking means for checking whether or not another element is defined in the range obtained from the element information of the first element, element range checking means and the element overlap checking means and a error display means for displaying error information about an error in the editor screen, the element range check
Check means and element overlap check means
Before compiling, check in advance to get the detection error information.
Position check method on the editor and said that you display.