JPH04123272A - Information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To smoothly execute layout processing by providing this information processor with a temporary data storing device o storing temporary data prepared by a temporary data preparing device and a display device for displaying material data and temporary data based upon layout information. CONSTITUTION:A data control device 13 stores information indicating whether material data have been already obtained and stored in a material data storing device 12 or not. Thereby, the device 13 monitors an item corresponding to the material data out of layout information, decides the existence of the material data, adn when there are no material data, informs the decided result to the temporary data preparing device 14, which forms temporary data, and stores the prepared temporary data in the temporary data storage device 15. The display device 16 displays also the temporary data similarly to the material data based upon the layout information. Thereby, the whole layout work can be smoothly advanced even if material data are not sufficiency.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Summary] Regarding an information processing device for developing an application that displays images, text, etc. as data, even if the data is not available, it is possible to display the extent necessary for the layout as a substitute for the data, and to create a layer layout. A layout information storage device that stores layout information, a material data storage device that stores material data such as images and text, and a material data storage device that stores material data such as images and text, and A data management device that manages the sufficiency status of material data from layout information from a layout information storage device, a temporary data creation device that creates temporary data when the material data is not sufficient, and a temporary data creation device that creates temporary data. The present invention is configured to include a temporary data storage device for storing the material data and a display device for displaying the material data and the temporary data based on the layout information.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to an information processing device, and particularly to an information processing device for developing an application that displays images, text, etc. as data.

In the case of tools for developing applications that display images, text, etc. as data (this is generally called an authoring tool, and the field targets multimedia), images, text, etc. are displayed as data in one story. There is a need to effectively combine and arrange the materials, and even if images and text have not yet been obtained as material data, it is necessary to proceed with the overall layout.

[Conventional technology]

Conventional information processing devices collect and store all the multimedia material data (images, text, etc.) to be used, and then use this material data to create the entire layout on the display screen of the display device under computer control. I try to do it.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

By the way, with the recent spread of multimedia-compatible computers, it has become necessary to create applications that use large amounts of data. For this reason, it has become difficult for a single person to collect image data or create text, which previously had been done by one person, and now the work must be done collaboratively by multiple people.

However, in the conventional information processing device described above, layout is performed based on the necessary material data, so when creating an application using the above-mentioned large amount of data, it is necessary to completely omit data that is not complete when creating a layout. However, this was extremely inefficient as it required someone else to obtain the data and then decide on a new layout.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and it is an object of the present invention to provide an information processing device that can perform layering smoothly by displaying the necessary amount of data as a substitute for the data even if there is no data. purpose.

[Means to solve the problem]

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of the principle of the present invention. In the same figure, 11
12 is a layout information storage device that stores layout information; 12 is a material data storage device that stores material data such as images and text; and 13 is a data management device that stores material data from the above layout information and material data. Manage sufficiency. 14 is a temporary data creation device that creates temporary data when the above material data is not sufficient. A temporary data storage device 15 stores the temporary data. Furthermore, 16
is a display device that displays the material data and temporary data based on the layout information.

[Effect]

In the present invention, multimedia material data is stored in the material data storage device 12, layout information as an application that combines the data is stored in the layout information storage device 11, and the data management device 13 has already obtained the material data. It holds information as to whether or not the data is stored in the material data storage device 12. Therefore, the data management device 13 monitors items corresponding to material data in the layout information, determines the presence or absence of material data, and when there is no material data (unsatisfied), notifies the temporary data creation device 14 to that effect, The temporary data creation device 14 creates temporary data to be displayed in an appropriate size, and stores it in the temporary data storage device 15.

The display device 16 displays the temporary data in the same way as the material data based on the layout information. Therefore, even if the material data does not actually exist, the temporary data is displayed as if the material data were there, so the overall layering work can proceed.

〔Example〕

FIG. 2 shows a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, the same components as in FIG. 1 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and their explanations will be omitted. In FIG. 2, 17 is an information processing unit for application development, 18 is a display switching device, 19 is a list creation device, and 2o is an input device. In addition, the display device 16
consists of a display control circuit 161 and a display 162. These are the layout information storage device 11 described above. Material data storage device 12. Data management device 13. Temporary data creation device】4. It is connected to a temporary data storage device 15 and a display device 16 via a bidirectional bus 21, respectively.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained. When the application development information processing unit 17 sends a display request for a certain application consisting of material data such as images and text, the data management device 13 fills the material data from the layout information in the layout information storage bag. The unsatisfied items are read, the presence or absence of material data is checked, and if there is, the corresponding material data is read and sent to the display device 16, and if there is no material data, the size and position of the material data (parts) are stored in the layout information from the layout information storage device 11. The data is read in and transferred to the temporary data creation device 13.

The temporary data creation device 13 creates temporary data based on the transferred data (image part or text part, size, position, display attributes, etc.).

This temporary data may be displayed as a simple rectangle, or image data determined in advance by the user may be displayed in an appropriate size. In any case, this temporary data has the size and area necessary for layout operations, and if necessary, is given the same attributes as the parts to be displayed in the future (for text data, font size, font type, color, etc.).

The created temporary data is stored in the temporary data storage device 15, and after being converted into a signal format suitable for display by a display control circuit 161 in the display device 16, it is displayed on the display device 162. At this time, the sufficient material data is similarly displayed on the display 162, and conversion work is performed. Note that at this time, the display switching device I8 may be operated in response to an instruction from the user to switch the display of the temporary data.

FIG. 3 shows an example of an image displayed on the display 162 at this time, and 31 is an image based on sufficient image data;
32 and 33 indicate images based on unsatisfied image data and text data, respectively. That is, the display switching device 18
The display image of unsatisfied material data is shown in 32.3 in Figure 3.
As shown in 3, in order to emphasize the outline, it is surrounded by a thick line, or the whole is displayed with high brightness. In addition, when the temporary data is image data, it is displayed as "unsatisfied/satisfied" characters and an image as shown at 32 in Figure 3, and when it is text data, it is displayed as text data as shown at 33 in the same figure. A character string indicating that the data is satisfied or unsatisfied can be identified at all times.

The user looks at this displayed image and operates the input device 2o,
Perform the desired layering work such as moving the image position.

At this time, the images 32 and 33 of the unfilled data part are displayed in the same way as the image 31 of the filled data, so if the material data is incomplete (or not obtained) However, the overall spatial layout is possible without any hindrance. If the unsatisfied/satisfied value of the data management device 13 (or of the layout information) changes, the target material data is switched and displayed.

During the overall layering work, you may be concerned about the collection status of material data, and if the application itself is large enough to take up more than a few pages, you may need to understand the sufficiency of the entire material data. come. Therefore, in this embodiment, in such a case, the list creation device 19 is activated and a list as shown in FIG. 4 is displayed on the display 162.

In Figure 4, rpageJ is the application page,
ridJ is the registration number, “data type” is the image (ima
ge) or text (t ex t), and unsatisfied/satisfied indicates whether the data is unsatisfied or satisfied.
"Correspondence" indicates the file name of the corresponding material data if it is sufficient data, and the file name of the temporary acid data if it is unsatisfied data, and furthermore, rReduced display J shows a reduced image of the image data that can be a clue of information from the material data. or an image of the beginning of the text data. Note that the data type and unsatisfied/satisfied information can be obtained from the layout information. Properly displaying such a list is effective for process control.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, even if the material data is unsatisfied, it is displayed in the same way as when it is satisfied, so even if the material data is unsatisfied, the overall layering work can proceed without any problem. It has features such as being suitable for creating an abbreviation using a large amount of data.

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[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a block diagram of the principle of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a display image, FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a list. In the figure, l is a layout information storage device; 2 is a material data storage device; 3 is a data management device; 4 is a temporary data creation device; 5 is a temporary data storage device; 6 is a display device; 8 is a display switching device; 9 is a list creation device shows.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A layout information storage device (11) that stores layout information; a material data storage device (12) that stores material data such as images and text; and within the material data storage device (12). a data management device (1) that manages the sufficiency status of material data from the material data and layout information from the layout information storage device (11);
3), a temporary data creation device (14) that creates temporary data when the material data is insufficient, and a temporary data storage device (14) that stores the created temporary data.
5); and a display device (16) that displays the material data and temporary data based on the layout information.