JPH04142610A - General purpose terminal control method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the processing speed of a processing unit and to reduce load of the processing unit by processing in an initializing section all of changes of operations of the processing unit caused by the difference in control procedure for terminals. CONSTITUTION:Initializing section 1 receives a request for initialization from an application program 100 and executes the initialization. A plurality of connecting sections 2A.2B receive a request for function from the application program 100 and gives the request for function received from the application program 100 to realizing sections 3A1-3A3.3B1-3B3 that were connected by the initializing section 1. Realizing sections 3A1-3A3.3B1-3B3 are selected in accordance with the characteristics of a terminal to be used by the initializing section 1 and connected to connecting section 2A.2B. Further, a data base 4 stores screen control information about the terminal, which will be referred to by the initializing section 1 when carrying out initialization. With this, the execution speed of a processor can be improved and its load can be reduced.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a general-purpose terminal control system, and more particularly to a general-purpose terminal control system for controlling screen input/output of a computer input/output system.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, as shown in FIG. 4, this type of screen control method includes a first method that is fixedly created for the specific control means 6, which is a terminal that has a specific control procedure and performs input and output on the screen, using a program 100, as shown in FIG. The control procedure table 15 is created by referring to the information of the specified terminal type from the database 14 which describes the control procedure of various terminals, and the conversion units 5A to 5A refer to this table at the time of execution. 5C, there is a second method in which the control procedure is converted into an actual control procedure (displayed by the terminal-specific control means 6).

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

The above-described conventional control method has a drawback that if the first method is fixed to a specific terminal, the program cannot be used if the control procedure of the terminal is different. In addition, the method of converting from the control procedure table when executing the second method requires conversion processing for each individual control operation, which has the drawback of decreasing the execution speed and increasing the load on the processing device. .

[Means to solve the problem]

The general-purpose terminal control method of the present invention is a general-purpose terminal control method targeting unspecified terminals that has control procedures for computer screen input/output control, and has a plurality of control operation procedures corresponding to basic screen operations. At the time of initialization, a control operation corresponding to the basic operation is selected by referring to information on the control procedure of the terminal, and subsequent basic operations are configured using the selected control operation.

〔Example〕

Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. The initialization unit 1 receives an initialization request from the application program 100 and executes the initialization. Multiple connection parts 2A・
2B is an application program], receives a function request from OO, and is executed by the initialization unit 1 to connect the connected realization units 3A1 to OO.
Function requests from the application programs 100 of 3A3 and 3B1 to 383 are passed. Realization part 3A1-3A3/3B1-3B
3 is selected by the initialization unit 1 according to the characteristics of the terminal to be used, and is coupled to the connection units 2A and 2B. The database 4 stores screen control information of the terminal, and is referenced by the initialization unit 1 at the time of initialization.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the operation at a specific connection part in the initialization operation of this embodiment. When the initialization unit 1 receives an initialization request from the application program 100, it refers to the screen control procedure information regarding the terminal currently in use from the database 4, and thereby executes the implementation units 3A1 to 3A1 prepared as the implementation units 3A1 to 3A3. In this example, the realization section 3A2 is selected from up to 3A3 and coupled to the connection section 2A.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the operation of the present invention during execution. The function request passed from the application program 100 to each of the connection units 2A to 2C is passed to the realization units 3A1 to 3A3 coupled to the connection units 2A to 2C, respectively, and is sent to the terminal specific control means 6.
is converted and output.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention reduces the processing required during implementation by processing all changes in operation due to differences in terminal control procedures in the initialization section, and allows general-purpose programs for unspecified terminals to be easily processed. At the same time, the processing speed can be improved and the load on the processing device can be reduced.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the operation at the connection part of the initialization operation of this embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the execution waiting operation of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the functional configuration of the conventional system. l...Initialization section, 2 people/2B...Connection section, 3A1~
3A3.3B1 to 3B3... Realization unit, 4... Database, 6... Terminal specific control means, 100... Application program.

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a general-purpose terminal control method for unspecified terminals that has control procedures for computer screen input/output control, it has multiple control operation procedures corresponding to basic screen operations, and the terminal control procedures are updated at the time of initialization. A general-purpose terminal control method characterized in that a control operation corresponding to a basic operation is selected by referring to information, and the selected control operation is used for subsequent basic operations.