JPH03214312A - Converting system for non-display expression data - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To visually understand various data structures by generating the data structure to which arrangement information of a data element is added, from the data structure in which information required for the display is not saved. CONSTITUTION:Information such as a type and length of each data is designated by, for instance, a stopgap format of a table from a screen 1. As for information of each data element designated from this screen 1, for instance, a logical structure between each data such as a state transition does not exist and a relative relation such as an appearance sequence exists, and the information is saved in a data structure 2 in which arrangement information is not saved. In such a state, an arrangement information generating program 3 generates relative logical arrangement information 4 for showing the position relation of a list of data from information of a type and length of the data from the data structure 2 which does not generate the arrangement information. In such a way, a data layout is generated, and various data are understood visually.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to converting hidden representation data to generate position information on a display screen from hidden representation data and to visually recognize the above data. be.

[Conventional technology]

FIG. 2 shows a conventional main method for visually representing data, in which (1) is a screen and (2) is a data structure generated from screen (1).

Next, the operation will be explained. Information on the constituent elements of data is generated using screen (1). At this time data structure (2)
The location information at the time of data component generation or the location information within the data component is saved in .

Subsequently, the data structure (2) is displayed on the screen (1). As a result, from the placement information stored in data structure (2),
The arrangement information on the screen (1) can be recognized and the data structure can be displayed on the screen (1).

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

In the conventional data display method, the arrangement information is stored in the data structure as described above, so when displaying data, the arrangement information on the screen can be recognized from the data structure, but the arrangement information is not saved. When displaying a data structure on a screen, there is a problem in that the layout information on the screen cannot be recognized.

The present invention was made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a conversion method for non-display expression data that displays a data structure in which arrangement information is not stored on a screen.

(Means for Solving the Problems) The method for converting hidden expression data according to the present invention specifies data elements of hidden expression data from the screen, saves them as a data structure, and then converts data arrangement relationships from this data structure. Generates logical placement information indicating the arrangement of data on the screen from this logical placement information, generates a data structure with placement information from the physical placement information and the data structure, and generates a data structure with placement information from the physical placement information and the data structure. Each data element is displayed on the screen according to the information in the information-containing data structure.

(Operation) According to the present invention, physical arrangement information is generated for the data element information of non-display expression data, and this physical arrangement/forecast information and the data element information with the arrangement information are generated. The non-display expression data is converted into display expression data and displayed on the screen according to the following.

(Example) Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. 1st
In the figure, (1) is a screen, (2) is a data structure that does not store the placement information input from screen (1), and (3)
is a program that generates placement information, (4) is logical placement information calculated from the information in data structure (2), and (5) is a program that converts logical placement information (4) into physical placement information obtained by converting data structure ( This is a data structure with location information that combines 2).

From screen (1), for example, specify information such as the type and length of each data in a fill-in-the-blank format. The information of each data element specified from this screen (1) does not have a logical structure between each data such as state transition, but there is a relative relationship such as the order of appearance, and no placement information is saved. Saved in data structure (2).

The placement information generation program (3) generates relative logical placement information (4) indicating the positional relationship of data sequences from the data type and length information from the data structure (2) for which no placement information has been generated. generate. This creates a data layout.

The layout information generation program (3) generates physical layout information, such as dot positions, from device information such as screen size information on the screen (1) and logical layout information (4), and A data structure with placement information (5) is generated from the embedded placement information and the data structure (2) that does not store placement information.

On the screen (1), each data element information is displayed based on the physical arrangement from the information in the data structure with arrangement information (5).

In the above embodiment, the data structure with arrangement information (5) is displayed on the screen (1), but a printer device or an XY blotter device may be provided on the screen (1).

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, a data structure in which data element arrangement information is added is generated from a data structure that does not store information necessary for display, which has the effect of making it possible to visually understand various data structures. There is.

Furthermore, since this data structure is stored electronically within the computer, even if the information of the data elements is changed, the arrangement information can be regenerated at high speed.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system diagram showing how data without saving placement information is displayed on the screen according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a conventional method of exchanging data structure with a screen containing placement information. It is. (1) is a screen, (2) is a data structure that does not include placement information, (3) is a placement information generation program, (4) is logical placement information, and (5) is a data structure with placement information. Note that the same reference numerals in the figures indicate the same or corresponding parts.

Claims (1)

[Claims] After specifying data elements of hidden representation data from the screen and saving them as a data structure, logical arrangement information indicating the data arrangement relationship is generated from this data structure, and from this logical arrangement information, physical information indicating the arrangement of the data on the screen is generated. A non-display expression characterized in that it generates placement information, generates a data structure with placement information from the physical placement information and the data structure, and displays each data element on a screen according to the information in the data structure with placement information. Data conversion method.