JP4890051B2 - Browser screen display device and program therefor - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention collectively copies data in a plurality of areas from a browser screen having a plurality of areas into which data can be input, and batches the data from other applications to a plurality of areas in the browser screen. The present invention relates to a browser screen display device that can be pasted and a program therefor.

  Displayed on the screen of a display unit of a computer widely used today. W. W. When pasting data using a copy and paste operation on a WEB browser screen (hereinafter referred to as the browser screen) using (World Wide Web) etc., only the number of items in the browser screen where data can be entered For each item, you can copy the text data created by another application or paste it from the browser screen to the other application via the clipboard, which is the internal memory of the computer. The input (paste operation) has been completed.

  Patent Document 1 discloses a technique for changing text data on a browser screen using a font color or size designated by a user. At that time, the text data displayed on the browser screen is changed by updating the parameter regarding the font of the DOM (Document Object Model) of the text data. More specifically, the user edit request is detected (601), the requested edit is saved (602), the edit request is replaced with a substitute and the DOM is updated (603), and the updated DOM is accessed. Then, the DOM is corrected in accordance with the user's editing request (605). Thus, according to patent document 1, a browser screen is changed by changing DOM directly.

JP-T-2005-537540 (see claims, paragraph numbers [0015] to [0019], [0037] to [0042] of the specification and [FIG. 1] and [FIG. 6] of the drawings and abstract).

If the number of items in the browser screen is large, the following problems arise because it is necessary to repeat copy and paste for each item.
(1) If there are many items, operation will be troublesome and operation will take time.
(2) The greater the number of items, the easier it is to make operational mistakes due to transcription during copy and paste operations.
The technique described in Patent Document 1 describes a general technique for changing the browser screen by directly changing the DOM, and does not consider such a problem at all.
Therefore, the present invention solves the above-described problem, and can copy data from a browser screen having a plurality of areas (items) where data can be input and paste the data into the browser screen at once. It is an object of the present invention to provide a browser screen display device, a copy method, a paste method, and a program therefor.

  Inside the browser program, the display screen data of the browser screen is held as an object (DOM: Document Object Model) that is an analysis result of HTML. Even in the pasting operation for each display item on the browser screen, the value of the display item is changed by changing the value of this object.

  Therefore, at the time of batch copying, a plurality of areas, that is, items in which data can be input are derived from the object structure of the browser screen, and data for each item set in the plurality of derived items is sequentially stored in the storage unit. When batch pasting, the entire browser screen is created by reading the data for each item that has been created in advance by another application or batch copying, and sequentially entering the read data into the object structure items of the browser screen. I thought about a mechanism to complete the data input (paste operation).

Viewing device achieve the above object, separated in a display device for displaying on the basis of the browser screen in HTML with a plurality of text areas possible data input, data to be input to the plurality of text areas, the text area units Means for storing in the storage unit as text data delimited by characters, means for storing the text data stored in the storage unit in a table in order for each text area unit delimited by the delimiters;
When the HTML object that displays the browser screen is analyzed and the object object has a predetermined property when the object is traced from an upper hierarchy and reaches the element object hierarchy, it is determined as one of the plurality of text areas. Means for detecting the plurality of text regions and corresponding the detected plurality of text regions to the table in the detected order, and storing the plurality of text regions in the table each time the plurality of text regions are detected. Means for sequentially transferring the text data in units of text areas.

ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, it can paste collectively with respect to the value of the whole some display item contained on a browser screen.
In addition, according to the present invention, it is also possible to copy the values of all of the plurality of display items included on the browser screen in a batch.
For example, by combining the present invention and a spreadsheet such as EXCEL, it is possible to copy and paste between data for one row of the spreadsheet and a plurality of display items on the browser screen. Compared with every posting work, the efficiency of the posting work can be greatly improved.

  Regardless of whether the application program has a function for copying and pasting data from the clipboard or spreadsheet, the URL (Uniform Resource Location) of websites such as “Favorites” and “Bookmarks” is stored. This function is performed by a script called bookmarklet, and the URL of the program that executes batch copy or batch paste is stored, so that instead of inputting the program every time it is necessary, the browser " The batch copy or paste operation can be performed by specifying the URL previously stored in “Favorites” or “Bookmark” and executing the batch copy or paste program.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of a browser screen displayed on a display device according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 shows a browser screen for a record book of information relating to a failure of a specific product in a window frame 100. There are areas 101 to 106 where data can be input and areas where data cannot be input. These areas where data can be input are called items. Therefore, areas other than items on the browser screen are areas where data cannot be input.

The items include items 101 to 105 called text capable of inputting data for one line and items 106 called textarea capable of inputting data of a plurality of lines. One browser screen includes the entire display area that can be viewed by moving up and down and left and right by a scroll operation.
The present invention provides a browser screen display device that can collectively copy data input to each item in the browser screen and paste the data in a batch to each item in the browser screen.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the structure of an object of display screen data held internally by the browser program. In FIG. 2, the object indicated by a rectangle is an object. Each object is composed of a set of items called properties (attributes) and a set of programs called methods. For example, the tag (1) below (a special character string embedded with additional information enclosed in <>) is an element object, and is composed of two properties (attributes), a type property and a value property, and one onclick method. The
<Inputtype = “button” value = “input” onclick = “func ()”> (1)

  The substance of the object is a pointer, and points from the property of the upper layer to the property of the lower layer. Properties can be pointers in addition to numbers and characters.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the basic object structure is common to one or more frame objects 21 i (i = 1 to r): (first layer) under the window object 201 and under each frame object. Document object 220: (second hierarchy), and one or more form objects 23j (j = 1 to s): (third hierarchy) below the document object 220, and one or more form objects below each form object Element object 24k (k = 1 to t): (fourth layer). Here, i, j, k, r, s, and t are positive integers, where r is the number of frame objects, s is the number of forms, and t is the number of elements. Hereinafter, a window object is referred to as a window, a frame object is referred to as a frame, a document object is referred to as a document, a form object is referred to as a form, and an element object is referred to as an element.

The window is composed of two patterns: a document, one or more frames, a first pattern of the document (recursive), and a second pattern of the document, one or more forms and one or more elements. The value of the object is stored in the fourth layer of the element.
Each frame, form, and element is identified by a name.
The form is a group of data that can be transmitted from the display device to the server, and the group of data is transmitted to the server by a button operation called “submit”.

  FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of frames in the object structure shown in FIG. The window can be divided into one or more frames. In the example illustrated in FIG. 3, the window 300 includes four frames 301 to 304 that are divided in the vertical direction or horizontal direction of the window.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart of batch copy processing according to the present invention. In step 401, batch copy processing, which will be described in detail later with reference to FIG. 6, is executed. In step 402, the data in the array created by the batch copy process in step 401 is converted into a character string, and the converted character string is written in the clipboard. Data written to the clipboard can be freely referred to from other applications, and data on the clipboard can be copied to other applications.

  Here, the clipboard will be described. Copy and paste is performed via the clipboard. The clipboard is a memory inside the computer. A mark is necessary to divide the clipboard data into multiple pieces. In this embodiment, a tab code is used as a mark. Tab codes are also used in text editors such as word processors, spreadsheets, and notepads, so if tab codes are used, compatibility with these text editors can be achieved. As a mark, a special character or a line feed code may be used instead of the tab code.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a storage unit for copy and paste, (A) is a diagram showing an array for storing data, and (B) is a diagram showing a clipboard. In the array (table) shown in FIG. 5A, all data input to all items in one browser screen are stored in each row. Therefore, n rows of data for n browser screens are stored in the array shown in FIG. 5A so that the first row corresponds to the first browser screen and the second row corresponds to the second browser screen. it can. In the clipboard shown in FIG. 5B, the data a1, b1, c1, d1,..., M1 in the first row of the array shown in FIG. After being converted into a character string as shown in FIG.

  1 is copied to the first row of the array in FIG. 5A, the items 101, 102, 103, 104, and 105 are sequentially a1, b1, It corresponds to c1, d1, and e1.

  FIG. 6 is a detailed flowchart of the batch copy process shown in FIG. This batch copy processing is performed by executing a program stored in a display device equipped with a computer. In this batch copy process, when the object which is the display screen data is traced from the document hierarchy and reaches the element hierarchy, a value (value) is read and added to the array (step 608).

  Next, a method for starting the program will be described below. The program uses javascript. The program is started by inputting a program beginning with “javascript:” from the top of the browser address bar (usually where the URL is input). Since the program started from here is a part of the currently displayed HTML, that is, a part of the browser itself, there is an advantage that the check such as the cross-site scripting is not performed. In other words, there is a merit that it is avoided by disabling the operation (execution of the program in this case) by being checked by the defense against the security fear against the other operation of the browser.

The batch copy process will now be described.
First, in step 601, the number i of frames is set to zero.
In step 602, it is determined whether or not the number of frames i is i <r. If the determination result is YES, the process proceeds to step 603, and if NO, the process ends. As a result, the processing of steps 603 to 611 is executed for each frame until the number of frames i becomes r.

In step 603, the number j of forms is set to zero.
In step 604, it is determined whether or not the number of forms j is j <s. If the determination result is YES, the process proceeds to step 605. If NO, the process proceeds to step 611. As a result, the processing of steps 605 to 610 is executed for each form until the number j of forms becomes s.

In step 605, the number k of elements is set to zero.
In step 606, it is determined whether or not the number k of elements is k <t. If the determination result is YES, the process proceeds to step 607. If NO, the process proceeds to step 610. As a result, the processes of steps 607 to 609 are executed for each element until the number k of elements reaches t.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a specific example of the type. As shown in FIG. 7, the types of values having values (values) include properties (attributes) such as text, password, textarea, radio, checkbox, select-one, select-multiple, button, submit, reset, hidden, and the like. is there. Here, type is an attribute, the attribute value of text is Tokyo, the attribute value of password is ***, and the attribute value of textarea is Rome ↓ or Naples. In select-one and select-multiple, one data is selected. “button”, “submit”, and “reset” are values (values), and buttons, submit, and reset are non-writable areas. Hidden is an area (item) in which data can be input. In this area, input data is hidden and cannot be visually recognized.

Returning again to the flowchart of FIG.
In step 607, when it is determined that the type of the type is text, password, textarea, radio, checkbox, select-one, select-multiple, button, submit, reset, hidden, etc. Advances to step 608 and it is determined that the type of type is “value”, “text”, “password”, “textarea”, “radio”, “checkbox”, “select-one”, “select-multiple”, “button”, “submit”, “reset”, “hidden”, etc. When it is determined that the type of type does not have value (value), the process proceeds to step 609.

  In step 608, value (value) is added to the array as will be described in detail later with reference to FIG. Specifically, value (value) is added to the first row of the array in order from the top in order to create the data of the first row of the array shown in FIG. 5A written in step 402 of FIG. To do. Specifically, value (values) a1, b1, c1, d1,..., M1 are written in the first row of the array shown in FIG. This process may be different for each type. For example, on / off of radio and checkbox shown in FIG. 7 is accompanied by rewriting such as 1/0 of a numerical value.

In step 609, the number k of elements is set to k + 1.
In step 610, the number j of forms is set to j + 1.
In step 611, the number of frames i is set to i + 1.

FIG. 8 is a detailed flowchart of step 608 shown in FIG.
If it is determined in step 607 that the type of type is text, the process proceeds to step 608-1, and value (value) is added to the array.
If it is determined in step 607 that the type is “password”, the process proceeds to step 608-2 to add value (value) to the array.
If it is determined in step 607 that the type is textarea, the process proceeds to step 608-3, and value (value) is added to the array.

If the type is determined to be radio in step 607, the process proceeds to step 608-4 (not shown), and value (value) is added to the array.
If it is determined in step 607 that the type is type checkbox, the process proceeds to step 608-5 (not shown), and value (value) is added to the array.

If it is determined in step 607 that the type is select-one, the process proceeds to step 608-6 (not shown), and value (value) is added to the array.
If it is determined in step 607 that the type is type-multiple, the process proceeds to step 608-7 (not shown), and value (value) is added to the array.

If it is determined in step 607 that the type is “button”, the process proceeds to step 608-8 (not shown), and value (value) is added to the array.
If it is determined in step 607 that the type is “submit”, the process proceeds to step 608-9 (not shown), and value (value) is added to the array.
If it is determined in step 607 that the type is “reset”, the process proceeds to step 608-10 (not shown), and value (value) is added to the array.

  If it is determined in step 607 that the type is hidden, the process proceeds to step 608-11, and value (value) is added to the array.

  FIG. 9 is a flowchart of batch paste processing according to the present invention. Prior to this processing, it is assumed that data to be pasted (text data) is generated in advance by another application and the data is copied onto the clipboard. In step 901, the character string in the clipboard is written into the array. Specifically, the character string in the clipboard (a1, b1, c1, d1,..., M1 shown in FIG. 5B) is written in the first row of the array shown in FIG. In step 902, batch paste processing is executed.

  FIG. 10 is a detailed flowchart of the batch paste process shown in FIG. This batch paste processing is performed by executing a program stored in a display device equipped with a computer. In the batch paste process, the value (value) previously stored in the clipboard is read and the first data of the array is added to the value (value) (step 608). A process of rewriting value (value) is performed when the element hierarchy is reached by following the document hierarchy (step 608).

First, in step 1001, the number i of frames is set to zero.
In step 1002, it is determined whether or not the number of frames i is i <r. If the determination result is YES, the process proceeds to step 1003, and if NO, the process ends. Thereby, the processing of steps 1003 to 1011 is executed for each frame until the number i of frames becomes r.

In step 1003, the number j of forms is set to zero.
In step 1004, it is determined whether or not the number j of forms is j <s. If the determination result is YES, the process proceeds to step 1005. If NO, the process proceeds to step 1011. As a result, the processing of steps 1005 to 1010 is executed for each form until the number j of forms becomes s.

In step 1005, the number k of elements is set to zero.
In step 1006, it is determined whether or not the number k of elements is k <t. If the determination result is YES, the process proceeds to step 1007. If NO, the process proceeds to step 1010. As a result, the processing of steps 1007 to 1009 is executed for each element until the number k of elements reaches t.

  In step 1007, when it is determined that the type of the type is text, password, textarea, radio, checkbox, select-one, select-multiple, button, submit, reset, hidden, etc. Advances to step 1008, and it is determined that the type of type is “value”, “text”, “password”, “textarea”, “radio”, “checkbox”, “select-one”, “select-multiple”, “button”, “submit”, “reset”, “hidden”, etc. If it is determined that the type of type does not have value (value), the process proceeds to step 1009.

In step 1008, the character string in the clipboard is transcribed to value (value). Specifically, the data in the first row of the array shown in FIG. 5A written in step 901 in FIG. 9 is transferred to value (value) in order from the top.
In step 1009, the number k of elements is set to k + 1.
In step 1010, the number j of forms is set to j + 1.
In step 1011, the number of frames i is set to i + 1.

  The batch copy and batch paste of the present invention described above can be batch copied and pasted not only in browser screen units but also in frame units if a frame is named and identified.

(Appendix 1)
In a browser screen display device having a plurality of areas where data can be input,
Means for detecting data input in a plurality of areas where data can be input in the browser screen;
Means for storing each of the data detected by the detecting means in a table;
Means for converting the value of the data stored in the table into a character string and storing it in a storage unit;
A display device comprising: (1)

(Appendix 2)
The display device according to claim 1, wherein the data detected by the detecting means is data obtained from an element hierarchy by tracing an object structure of the browser screen.

(Appendix 3)
In a browser screen display device having a plurality of areas where data can be input,
Means for storing in a storage unit data to be input to a plurality of areas where data can be input in the browser screen;
Means for storing a character string of the data stored in the storage unit in a table;
Means for detecting a plurality of areas where data can be input in the browser screen;
Means for sequentially transferring a character string of the data stored in the table to the plurality of areas detected by the detecting means each time the area is detected;
A display device comprising: (2)

(Appendix 4)
The display device according to claim 3, wherein the area detected by the detecting means is data obtained from an element hierarchy by tracing an object structure of the browser screen.

(Appendix 5)
In a method of copying data from the browser screen in a browser screen display device having a plurality of areas into which data can be input,
Detecting data input in a plurality of areas where data can be input in the browser screen;
Storing in the table every time the data detected by the detecting step is detected;
Converting the value of the data stored in the table into a character string and storing it in a storage unit;
A method of copying data from a browser screen, characterized by comprising:

(Appendix 6)
In a method of pasting data to the browser screen in a browser screen display device having a plurality of areas where data can be input,
Storing data to be input in a plurality of areas where data can be input in the browser screen in a storage unit;
Storing a character string of the data stored in the storage unit in a table;
Detecting a plurality of areas where data can be input in the browser screen;
Sequentially transferring a character string of the data stored in the table to the plurality of areas detected by the detecting step each time the area is detected;
A method for pasting data onto a browser screen, characterized by comprising:

(Appendix 7)
A program for copying data from the browser screen in a browser screen display device having a plurality of areas into which data can be input,
Detecting data input in a plurality of areas where data can be input in the browser screen;
Storing in the table every time the data detected by the detecting step is detected;
Converting the value of the data stored in the table into a character string and storing it in a storage unit;
A program that causes a computer to execute. (3)

(Appendix 8)
A program for pasting data to the browser screen in a browser screen display device having a plurality of areas into which data can be input,
Storing data to be input in a plurality of areas where data can be input in the browser screen in a storage unit;
Storing a character string of the data stored in the storage unit in a table;
Detecting a plurality of areas where data can be input in the browser screen;
Sequentially transferring a character string of the data stored in the table to the plurality of areas detected by the detecting step each time the area is detected;
A program that causes a computer to execute.

It is a figure which shows an example of the browser screen displayed with the display apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the object of the display screen data internally hold | maintained by the browser program. It is explanatory drawing of the frame in the object structure shown in FIG. It is a flowchart of the batch copy process by this invention. It is a figure which shows the memory | storage part for copy & paste, (A) is a figure which shows the arrangement | sequence which accumulate | stores data, (B) is a figure which shows a clipboard. 5 is a detailed flowchart of batch copy processing shown in FIG. 4. It is a figure which shows the specific example of the kind of type. It is a detailed flowchart of step 608 shown in FIG. It is a flowchart of the batch paste process by this invention. 10 is a detailed flowchart of batch paste processing shown in FIG. 9.

Explanation of symbols

100, 201, 300 Window 101-106 Item 211, 21i, 21r, 301-304 Frame 220 Document 231, 23j, 23s Form 241, 24k, 24t Element

Claims (1)

In a display device that displays a browser screen having a plurality of text areas into which data can be input based on HTML ,
Means for storing data to be input to the plurality of text areas in the storage unit as text data delimited by delimiters in units of text areas;
Means for sequentially storing the text data stored in the storage unit in a table for each text area unit delimited by the delimiter ;
When the HTML object that displays the browser screen is analyzed and the object object has a predetermined property when the object is traced from an upper hierarchy and reaches the element object hierarchy, it is determined as one of the plurality of text areas. and means for corresponding to the plurality of text areas to detect, said table in the order in which the detected the detected plurality of text regions by,
Means for sequentially transferring the text data in units of text areas stored in the table each time the plurality of text areas are detected;
A display device comprising:

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