JPH0391082A - Method for generating icon parts - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce burden when icon program parts are developed, and to utilize the icon program parts for various systems by generating he icon pro gram parts with function to display icon as a menu in a picture. CONSTITUTION:In an icon parts generating system, an icon display part 202 displays the layout of the icon on a display 201 based on an icon picture element table 204, and an icon picture element table edition part 203 edits an icon picture element table based on the shape of the icon applied from the display 201. Further, an icon picture element table generation part 205 generates the icon picture element table based on icon picture element parts and an icon parts generation part 206 generates icon parts 207 based on the icon picture element table. Thus, when a programmer develops the icon program parts, the burden is reduced and the generated icon program parts can be utilized for the various systems.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an icon component generation method, and in particular to an icon program having a function of inputting the shape of an icon and displaying the icon as a menu on the screen based on the shape of the icon. The present invention relates to an icon component generation method for generating components.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, in defining the shape of an icon and developing a program to output the icon, a programmer first defines the shape of the icon in dots on paper in response to a user's request, and then calculates the shape (the definition data). This was done by embedding the icon in an icon program component that has the function of displaying the icon as a menu on one screen. Furthermore, the above-mentioned work was repeatedly performed in response to changes such as corrections and additions from the user.

In addition, as a known technology, Hitachi Computer 2050H
I-U, l (Programmer's Guide, Wind Edition, Chapter 5 Program Interface, pages 282 to 285).

[Problem to be Solved by the Invention] Conventionally, in defining the shape of an icon and developing a program to output the icon, a programmer first defines the shape of the icon in dots on paper in response to a user's request. However, this has been done by embedding the shape (the definition data) into an icon program component that has a function of displaying the icon as a menu on the screen. Furthermore, the above-mentioned operations were repeatedly performed in response to changes such as corrections and additions from the user. This places a heavy burden on the programmer when developing icon program components.

An object of the present invention is to provide an icon component generation method that should solve such problems.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to solve the above object, the present invention defines the shape of an icon using a command such as a "scale" tool,
icon pixel table editing means for changing an internal table; icon display means for displaying the internal table on a screen; icon part generating means for generating an icon output part from the internal table; and changing the internal table from the icon output part. The present invention is characterized by having icon pixel table generation means.

[Effect]

The icon component generation method according to the present invention includes an editor for defining and editing the shape of an icon, and a shape of the icon defined and edited using the editor.
By generating icon program parts that have the function of displaying icons on the screen as menus, the burden on programmers when developing icon program parts is reduced, and the generated icon program parts can be used in various systems. I can do it.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described based on the drawings.

The icon component generation system in this embodiment is as follows.

This is a method of generating an icon component 103 based on the shape of the icon input from the display 101 as shown in the second engineering drawing.

The icon component generation system includes a display 201. as shown in FIG. Icon display section 202゜Icon pixel table editing section 203. Icon pixel table 204. Icon pixel table generation unit 205, icon component generation unit 206. It is composed of icon parts 207.

An outline of each part will be explained below (the format of the icon pixel table 204 will be described later).

(1) Icon display section Display 201 based on icon pixel table 204
Display icon layout in .

(2) Icon pixel table editing unit Edits the icon pixel table based on the shape of the icon given from the display 201.

(3) Icon pixel table generation unit generates an icon pixel table based on icon pixel parts.

(4) Icon component generation section Generate icon parts based on the icon pixel table.

An icon editing method using the icon component generation system according to the embodiment of the present invention will be explained with reference to FIG.

FIG. 5A shows the main screen of this editing method.

The main screen of this editing method consists of command menu fields such as "Scale" and "Tools" END at the top.
It consists of an edit field 2 for editing the icons at the bottom.

FIG. 6(b) is a scale setting screen that is displayed when the "scale" command is activated on the main screen (a) of the one-line editing method. The scale setting screen is composed of fields for setting the horizontal size of the icon in the upper part 3 and the vertical size of the icon in the lower part 4 (the unit of size is pixels).

Figure (c) shows MA I Nl [! This is the tool selection screen that is displayed when the "tool" command is activated on the if screen (a). The shape of the mouse changes to the shape of the icon selected with the tool. Tool 5 means a spray and is used when creating shading. Tool 6 means an eraser and is used for erasing. Tool 7 means a ruler and is used for drawing straight lines. Tool 8 means a pencil and is used for drawing curves. Tool 9 means a template, and is used when drawing circles, squares, triangles, etc. The tool 10 is a pad and is used when filling in the area.

Same 1! ! if (d) is an eraser size setting screen that is displayed when the eraser 6 is clicked on the tool selection screen (c). From the top, 668. You can choose between middle school 6b and elementary school 6c.

(a) of the same figure is a screen that is displayed when the ruler 7 is surprised on the tool selection screen (c). Display the thickness of the pencil on the left and the type of ruler on the right. The thickness of the pencil on the left can be selected from the top as thick, medium, or thin, and the type of ruler on the right can be selected from the top.
From the top, you can choose between a straight line and a broken line.

(f) in the figure is a screen for setting the thickness of the pencil that is displayed when the pencil 8 is tapped on the tool selection screen (c). From the top, you can choose from thick, medium, small, and thin.

Figure 1 (g) is a screen for setting the thickness of the handle that is displayed when you hit 10 with the tool selection screen (a).

From the top, you can choose from thick, medium, and thin.

(h) in the figure is a shape selection screen that is displayed when template 9 is clicked on the tool selection screen (c). Nine shapes can be selected.

Next, the internal operation of the icon component generation system will be explained.

First, the shape of the icon pixel table 204 is shown in FIG.
5IZE, Y 5IZE reserves an area of 2 bytes each, and the pixel information that indicates the shape of the icon as information in units of 1 pixel is
Secure the area with ZE bit. Also, when the bit is set in the pixel information (value 1), black is output on the screen, and when the bit is not set (value 0), one pixel of white is output on the screen.

Next, the icon display section 202. Icon pixel table editing section 203. Icon pixel table generation unit 205. The operation of the icon component generation unit 206 will be explained.

(1) Icon Display Section The operation of the icon display section will be explained according to the flowchart of FIG.

Extract X5IZE, YSIZE from the icon pixel table (step 601), substitute O to work variable j (step 602), if j is different from YSIZE (
Step 603), Step 604 to Step 608
Repeat step 60 and substitute O for work variable i.
4), if i is different from X5IZE, step 606
Step 607 is repeated from step 606 to extract one bit of pixel information from the icon pixel table.

Display 1 pixel on the display (step 607),
Add 1 to i (step 607). If i is the same as X5IZE (step 605), add 1 to j, step 6
08), and if j is between Y 5IZE (step 6
03) Finish.

(2) Icon pixel table editing section The operation of the icon pixel table editing section will be explained according to the flowchart of FIG.

Start up the icon pixel table generator (step 5)
01), activates the icon display area (step 50
2) Execute the command manually from the terminal (step 503
), if the command is scale (step 504), input X 5IZE, YSIZE from the terminal (step 508), and input L 5IZE,
Y5IZE is changed (step 509), and the icon display section is activated (step 510). If the command is a tool (step 504), the tool is selected (step 505), the pixel information in the icon pixel table is changed (step 506), the icon display area is activated (step 510), and the command is set to END. (Step 504), the icon component generation section is activated (Step 511).

(3) Icon pixel table generation section The icon pixel table generation section will be explained using the flowchart of FIG.

Skip the program prefix of icon parts (
Step 701). From icon parts X5IZh:, Y
5IZE is read (step 702), and X 5IZE of the icon pixel table is read.

Y 5 IZE is updated (step 703).

The icon pixel information is read from the icon component (step 704), the icon pixel information is converted into a binary number (step 705), and the icon pixel information in the icon pixel table is changed (step 706).

(4) Icon component generation section The icon component generation section will be explained using the flowchart of FIG. 8.

Program prefixes such as procedure names and formal arguments used in high-level languages are written to the disk device (step 801). From icon pixel table
E, Y Take out 5IZE step 802), X
5IZE, Y 5IZE is written to the disk device (step 803).

Programs such as extracting icon pixel information from the icon pixel table (step 804), converting the icon pixel information into hexadecimal (step 805), writing the icon pixel information to the disk device (step 806), and "END" used in high-level languages. A character indicating the end of is written to the disk device (step 807).

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, there is provided an editor for defining and editing the shape of an icon, and an icon program component having a function of displaying the icon as a menu on the screen from the shape of the icon defined and edited using the editor. By generating icon program parts, the burden on the programmer when developing icon program parts can be reduced, and the generated icon program parts can be used in various systems.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention;
The figure shows the internal configuration of the icon parts generation system, Figure 3 shows the main screen of the icon editing method and an example of scale and tool display, Figure 4 shows the configuration of the icon pixel table, and Figure 5 shows the icon - A flowchart showing the processing of the raw table editing section, FIG. 6 a flowchart showing the processing of the icon display section, FIG. 7 a flowchart showing the processing of the icon pixel table generation section, and FIG. 8 showing the processing of icon component generation. It is a flowchart. 101...Display, 102...Icon component generation system, 103...Icon component, 201...
・Display, 202...Icon display section, 203
...Icon pixel table editing section, 204... Icon pixel table, 205... Icon pixel table generation section, 206... Icon component generation section, 207...
・Icon parts. 1 times a figure (1) (0) lO゛+3\te・ times (subordinate) (e) (!r) 3 figures (wholesale (h) 7 figures

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In an icon component generation method that defines and edits the shape of an icon and generates and outputs an icon program component having a function of displaying the icon as a menu on the screen, the shape of the icon is "scaled", An icon pixel table editing means that is defined by a command called "tool" and changes an internal table, an icon display means that displays the internal table on the screen, and an icon component generation means that generates an icon output component from the internal table. and icon pixel table generation means for changing an internal table from the icon output component. 2. The icon component generation method according to claim 1, further comprising an icon pixel table that stores the icon shape as information on a dot-by-dot basis. 3. The icon component generation method according to claim 1, further comprising an icon display means for displaying dots on the screen from the icon pixel table. 4. The first aspect of the present invention is characterized by comprising an icon pixel table editing means for editing the icon pixel table using commands such as "scale" and "tool".
Icon component generation method described in section. 5. The icon component generation method according to claim 1, further comprising an icon component generation means for generating an icon program component for displaying icons as a menu from the icon pixel table. 6. The icon component generation method according to claim 1, further comprising icon pixel table generation means for generating the icon pixel table from the icon component.