JPH02266424A - Interactive processing synthesizing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily construct a user interface by synthesizing an interactive processing part based upon the description of an interface parts editor part for combining and describing the parts of an interface parts data base part. CONSTITUTION:Parts in the interface parts data base part 11 consist of visual data to be description relating to visual expression on a screen and operation description data to be description relating to processing to be executed correspondingly to a user's input or a signal obtained from other parts. The interface parts editor part 12 expresses the transfer of signals between the parts in the data base part 11 as a connection between the parts to combined the parts and constitute an objective interactive processing part. Thereby, the practical program of the interactive processing part is composed by an interface composing part 13 based upon the description of the interactive processing part formed by the editor part 12. Thus, the user interface can be easily constructed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a system for facilitating the construction of a user interface in a computer application system.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, in constructing a user interface for a computer system using a mouse or a bitmap display,
For visually distinctive menus and software buttons on the screen, components in the database provided by the system as a toolkit can be used. However, the operation of the user interface that represents the interaction between the user and the system, even when using database components,
It needs to be given as a program.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

When constructing a user interface for a computer system using a map or bitmap display, the operation of the user interface representing the interaction between the user and the system has to be provided as a program, which is troublesome.

An object of the present invention is to provide a system with components consisting of visual data and behavior description data of a database, and to combine these components to create a behavior program for a user interface of a computer application system, in order to eliminate such drawbacks. An object of the present invention is to provide an interaction processing synthesis system that facilitates the construction of a user ink face.

[Means to solve the problem]

The dialog processing synthesis system of the present invention includes: an interface component database section that provides components composed of visual data and behavior description data; an interface component editor section that combines and describes components of the interface component database section; and the interface component database section. and an interface synthesis section that synthesizes an interaction processing section based on the description of the component editor section.

[Effect]

The present invention uses components from the interface component database section. The parts in the interface parts database are
It consists of visual data and behavioral description data. Visual data has a description of the visual representation on the screen of the computer application system targeted by the component, and behavioral description data has a description of the visual representation on the screen of the computer application system targeted by the component. Contains a description of the processing to be performed in response to the signal.

The specifications of the interaction processing unit of a computer application system are given as a graph that is a combination of such parts. this is,
Components given to the interface component database section are described by combining them using the interface component editor. The interface synthesis unit interprets and translates this specification and synthesizes the target computer application system interaction processing unit.

〔Example〕

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

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

This interaction processing synthesis system includes an interface component database section 11 that provides components composed of visual data and behavioral description data, an interface component editor section 12 that describes a combination of components in the interface component database section 11, and an interface component editor. and an interface synthesis section 13 that synthesizes the interaction processing section based on the description of the section 12.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained.

The components in the interface component database section 11 are based on visual data, which is a description of the visual representation on the screen, and behavioral description data, which is a description of the processing to be performed in response to user input or signals from other components. Become.

The interface component editor section 12 combines components by representing the exchange of signals between components as connections between components in the interface component database section 11, and constructs a target interaction processing section. As a result, the interface synthesis section 13 synthesizes an actual program for the interaction processing section based on the description of the interaction processing section created by the interface component editor section 12.

FIG. 2 is an example of the description of the interaction processing section using this embodiment. Here, the process is started by the user selecting a specific area on the screen with the mouse in order to repeat the process, and the process can be interrupted by manually pressing any key on the keyboard. The software button 21 outputs a signal when the user presses and releases a mouse button on a designated area on the screen. The repetition control component 22 is a component that synchronizes the repeated processing within the system and the user's input requesting interruption of the processing in the dialog system, and controls the repetition. Specifically, when a signal arrives on the plus (+) side of the repeat control component 22, the repeat process is started, and when a signal arrives on the minus (-) side, the repeat process is interrupted. The window component 23 is a component that outputs a signal when there is a user input from a specific area on the screen.゛Filter parts 2
4 is for selectively passing only a specific input from among the signals manually input to the component. Here, a filter component is used that only passes keyboard input indicating interruption of processing.

The interface synthesis section 13 synthesizes an interaction processing section of an actual computer application system from the above inputs.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the structure of the interaction processing unit output by the interface synthesis unit 13. The dialogue processing unit includes a user input reception unit 31 that interprets and processes user input, a signal exchange unit 32 that exchanges signals for each component to communicate with each other, and a component that is a collection of components used in the user interface of the system. It consists of a definition section 33. The interface description created by the interface component editor section 12 is the component definition in the component definition section 33 and the signal exchange section 32.
represented as connections between parts within.

After the user's input is processed by the user reception processing unit 31,
The processing of the component within the component definition section 33 is activated through the signal exchange section 32. As a result, when a new signal is sent to another component, it is passed through the signal exchange section 32 to the component definition section 3.
Activate the process in 3. Other processing of the target computer application system is also started by sending a signal to the signal exchange section 32.

In this way, this embodiment utilizes the characteristic that control methods for user interfaces used in many computer application systems are limited, to create a user interface component database consisting of visual data and behavior description data into a system. provided by. Then, the specifications of the interaction processing unit of the computer application system are input as connections between these parts, and the interaction processing unit of the computer application system is synthesized from there, thereby facilitating construction of a user interface.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, the present invention has the effect that the interaction processing section of a computer application system can be configured by an extremely easy method of combining parts, and is practical. Extremely useful.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of dialog description using the embodiment of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the dialog description section. be. 11...Interface component data header section 12...Interface component editor section 13...
...Interface synthesis section Figure 1

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) An interface component database section that provides components composed of visual data and behavior description data; an interface component editor section that describes a combination of components in the interface component database section; and a description of the interface component editor section. an interface synthesis section that synthesizes an interaction processing section based on the interface synthesis section.