JPH04178722A - Screen transition display device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily grasp screen transition in table form by extracting the screen transition from an operation procedure table for a screen, and composing a screen transition table of the screen transition and displaying it. CONSTITUTION:A screen transition extracting means 102 extracts a group of input answers corresponding to the screen transition in the whole operation procedure table stored in an operation procedure table storage means 101. Then a screen transition generating means 103 gathers groups of respective input answers to generate the screen transition table, which is displayed on a display means 104. The screen transition table consists of screens before and after the transition, the screen before the transition is the same as a screen name to be inputted, and the screen after the transition is entered into an answer field of the operation procedure table. Consequently, the screen transition can easily be grasped in the table form.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a device that displays screen transitions in an easy-to-understand manner in a system that controls screen display based on an operation procedure chart.

(Prior Art) In systems such as personal computers and word processors in which the display screen changes depending on user operations, the operation can generally be described as a set of user operations and system responses to them. . The operating procedure is shown in a table format. An example of an operation procedure table is shown in FIG. In FIG. 3, the operation procedure table is divided into screens, and shows the operations in each screen and the system's response thereto. In FIG. 3, the tables are divided for each screen, but they may all be combined into one table. In that case, in addition to input and response columns, a screen column is required to indicate in which screen each input response is performed. Regarding the method of controlling the operation of the system based on the operation procedure chart, for example, Information Processing Society of Japan Research Report 9O-HI
-32-2.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) Generally, in a system where a human and the system interact through a screen, how the screen changes is important as a user interface. However, when a person wants to understand at a glance the screen transitions of a system that operates according to an operation procedure chart, conventionally, a person searches only the part of the operation procedure chart that corresponds to the screen transition in the operation procedure chart as shown in Figure 3. I had to.

(Means for Solving the Problems) A screen transition display device of the present invention is a screen transition display device that displays screen transitions from an operation procedure table for a plurality of screens, and includes an operation procedure table storage that stores the operation procedure tables. means and
screen transition extraction means for extracting only operations corresponding to screen transitions from the operation procedure table; screen transition table creation means for collecting operations corresponding to the screen transitions and creating a screen transition table;
and output means for displaying the screen transition table.

(effect) The operation of the present invention will be explained using FIGS. 3 and 4 as examples.

FIG. 3 is an operation procedure table showing in tabular form the user's manual effort on each screen and the system's response thereto.

When there is an operation procedure chart as shown in FIG. 3, the screen transition display device of the present invention first extracts only those corresponding to the screen transition from among the input responses on each screen. In the example of FIG. 3, human responses corresponding to inputs F2 and F3 on screen 1, input responses corresponding to RET on screen 2, and human responses corresponding to RET on screen 3 are extracted. Next, each set of input responses is divided into the screen before transition,
A screen transition table as shown in FIG. 4 is created and displayed by manually converting the screen into a set of screens after transition.

(Example) FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.

Reference numeral 101 denotes an operation procedure table storage means, which can utilize a semiconductor memory, a disk, or the like. 102 is a screen transition extraction means;
103 is a screen transition table creation means, and both 102 and 103 can utilize a microprocessor or the like. 104 is an output means, which can be a display, a printer, or the like.

The operation of displaying screen transitions from an operation procedure table using the screen transition display device of the present invention will be described with reference to the block diagram of FIG. 1 and the flowchart of FIG. 2. First, the screen transition extraction means 102 extracts a set of input responses corresponding to a screen transition from the entire operation procedure table stored in the operation procedure table storage means 101 (step 201). Next, the screen transition table creation means 103 collects each set of input responses, creates a screen transition table, and displays it on the display means 104 (step 20
2). The screen transition table consists of a set of a screen before transition, an input, and a screen after transition. The screen before transition has the same name as the screen on which input is performed, and the screen after transition is described in the response column of the operation procedure table.

(Effect of the invention) By using the device of the present invention, it is possible to convert an operating procedure chart into a screen transition chart, so screen transitions, which were previously difficult to understand even when looking at the operating procedure chart, can be easily understood in a tabular format. can do.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a flowchart showing a method of creating a screen transition table using the device of the present invention, Fig. 3 is an example of an operation procedure table, Fig. 4 is an example of a screen transition table created from the operation procedure table of FIG. 3 using the apparatus of the present invention. In the figure, 101.・, Operation procedure table storage means, 102
. . . Screen transition extraction means for extracting only the parts corresponding to screen transitions from the operation procedure table, 103 . . . Screen transition table creation means for collecting screen transitions and creating a screen transition table, 10
4...Display means.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A screen transition display device that displays screen transitions from operation procedure tables for a plurality of screens, comprising an operation procedure table storage means for storing the operation procedure table, and extracting only operations corresponding to screen transitions from the operation procedure table. A screen transition display device comprising a screen transition extraction means, a screen transition table creation means for collecting operations corresponding to the screen transition and creating a screen transition table, and an output means for displaying the screen transition table. .