JPH04344523A - Message generating system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To perform the correction of a message and the use at the other language circle without changing a source code by generating the massage of a format registered in a dictionary from the data received from an application program. CONSTITUTION:A data receiving means 1 receives the data from an application program 7 and stores them to a data storing buffer 2-1. A structure deciding means 2-2 retrieves the structure of the message sentence equivalent to the data stored in the data storing buffer 2-1 from a data type dictionary 3 and stores it into a structure storing buffer 2-3. A message generating means 2-4 combines the vocabulary retrieved from a vocabulary dictionary 4 to the structure of the message sentence stored in the structure storing buffer 2-3, generates the message, and stores it into a message storing buffer 2-5. An output means 5 display the message stored in the message storing buffer 2-5 at a screen 8. A dictionary registering means 6 is used for the data registration to the data type dictionary and the vocabulary dictionary.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a message generation processing method for converting data passed from an application program into a message according to a specified format.

0002

[Prior Art] Conventionally, messages from application programs have been written either directly at the appropriate location in the source code of the program, or by providing a routine to output the messages and writing the messages all together there. , a method is used in which the key value of the message to be output is notified to the routine, or a method in which the message and the key value of the message are stored in a file, and an application program retrieves the message from the file based on the key value.

0003

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In the conventional method of writing messages directly in source code, when modifying the message contents, each time a failure occurs due to a mistake in modifying the source code or is modified, There is a problem in that compiling and linking must be redone. Furthermore, if a message is written at a corresponding location on the source code and there are multiple messages to be modified, there is a possibility that the modified location may be overlooked and the message must be modified again. Furthermore, if the same system is used in multiple language areas, there will be as many programs as there are languages, creating the problem that the amount of program maintenance will increase.

[0004] In the method of storing messages and key values in files, when modifying the message contents, the source
There is a problem in that it requires double effort to check the key value of the message to be modified in the code, and then modify the message corresponding to that key value in the file where the message is stored. Also, there is a one-to-one relationship with the message that outputs the key value.
However, even when similar messages are modified, the amount of files to be modified always increases in proportion to the number of messages to be modified.

An object of the present invention is to generate a message in a dictionary format from data received from an application program, thereby making it possible to modify the message and use it in other languages without changing the source code. The objective is to provide a message generation method.

[0006]

[Means for solving the problem] The message generation method of the present invention includes a data receiving means that receives character string data from an application program, and the character string data received by the receiving means and data registered in a data type dictionary. Structure determination means determines the structure of the corresponding message sentence by comparing it with the structure of the message, and the structure of the message is determined by linking the determined sentence structure with the vocabulary registered in the vocabulary dictionary or the vocabulary in the data received from the application program. The present invention is characterized by having a message generation means for generating a message, an output means for outputting the generated message, and a dictionary registration means for adding/updating a data type dictionary and a vocabulary dictionary.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the contents of the data type dictionary in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the contents of the data type dictionary in FIG. FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing the contents of the message generation process.

This message generation system is composed of a data receiving means 1, a data conversion processing control section 2, a data type dictionary 3, a vocabulary dictionary 4, an output means 5, and a dictionary registration means 6. The conversion processing control section 2 includes a data storage buffer 2-1, a structure determining means 2-2, a structure storing buffer 2-3, a message generating means 2-4, and a message storing buffer 2-5.

[0010] The data type dictionary 3 has a data type identifier 3-1.
, a data type 3-2, and a message structure 3-3 as information.

[0011] The vocabulary dictionary 4 includes a data type identifier 4-1,
A vocabulary 4-3 in the data corresponding to the identifier, a key value 4-2 indicating where in the message structure 3-3 the vocabulary is linked, and a vocabulary 4-4 linked to the message structure 3-3. have as information.

The data receiving means 1 receives data from the application program 7 and stores it in the data storage buffer 2-1. The structure determining means 2-2 retrieves data from the data storage buffer 2-1, searches the data type dictionary 3 for the structure 3-3 and identifier 3-1 of the message text corresponding to the data, and stores the data in the structure storage buffer 2-1. Store in 3. The message generation means 2-4 generates a message by linking the structure 3-3 of the message sentence stored in the structure storage buffer 2-3 with the vocabulary 4-4 retrieved from the vocabulary dictionary 4, and generates a message. Store in 5. The output means 5 takes out the message from the message storage buffer 2-5 and displays it.

Next, the message generation operation will be explained.

When data is passed from the application program 7 to the data receiving means 1, the data receiving means 1 stores the data in the data storage buffer 2-1 and passes control to the structure determining means 2-2. The structure determining means 2-2 takes out data from the data storage buffer 2-1 and converts it into a data type 3-2 registered in the data type dictionary 3.
and compare the retrieved data based on each vocabulary. When the data type of the retrieved data is found, the data type identifier 3-1 of the found data type and the message structure 3-3 are stored in the structure storage buffer 2-3. Symbols for data type 3-2 and message structure 3-3 in Figure 2
$” and the number after it indicates that it will be replaced with vocabulary 4-4 from vocabulary dictionary 4 when generating the message.
At the time of data type comparison, processing proceeds on the assumption that this portion always matches the data taken out from the data storage buffer 2-1. Note that the number after "$" is used as a key value when searching vocabulary 4-4 from vocabulary dictionary 4. The structure storage buffer also stores pairs of key values and their corresponding vocabularies in the data. When the data type comparison is completed, the message generation means 2-4 sends the structure storage buffer 2-
The data type identifier 3-1 is extracted from 3, the same identifier is searched from the data type identifier 4-1 of the vocabulary dictionary 4, and the key value is the same as the key value and vocabulary pair in the structure storage buffer 2-3. Check whether there is the same thing in Vocabulary 4-2 and Vocabulary 4-3, and if there is the same thing, select Vocabulary 4-4 that corresponds to Vocabulary 4-3.
Replace with the "$" + number part of message structure 3-3. If there is a “?” in the vocabulary 4-3,
If the vocabulary 4-3 of the vocabulary dictionary 4 does not have the same vocabulary as the vocabulary in the structure storage buffer 2-3, the vocabulary in the structure storage buffer 2-3 is used as the "$" + number part of the structure 3-3 of the message sentence. Indicates that it can be replaced. This is to suppress the increase in the vocabulary dictionary 4. After the vocabulary has been replaced with the message sentence structure 3-3 and a message is generated, the message is stored in the message storage buffer 2-5. If the vocabulary cannot be replaced, the same process is repeated for the next data type identifier 3-1 in the structure storage buffer 2-3. After storing the message in the message storage buffer 2-5, the message generation means 2-4 passes control to the output means 5. The output means 5 takes out the message from the message storage buffer 2-5 and displays it on the screen 8. When a change or addition occurs to a message, the dictionary registration means 6 changes or adds information in the data type dictionary 3 and the vocabulary dictionary 4.

[0015]

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, the present invention describes the data format and the structure of the corresponding message separately from the program, and by separating the program and the message, even if the output message changes. ,
This has the effect of not requiring changes to the program itself. Furthermore, by creating data type dictionaries and vocabulary dictionaries for each language such as Japanese, English, and French, it is possible to create a system that supports multiple languages with one program by changing the dictionary used.

[0016] Furthermore, since the correspondence between data types and message structure is registered in the data type dictionary, it is possible to know which message to modify without checking the source code. Since there is a one-to-many correspondence between messages to be output, depending on the type of message to be modified, the amount of modification to the dictionary may be small compared to the number of messages to be modified.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

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

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the contents of the data type dictionary in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the contents of the vocabulary dictionary in FIG. 1.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of the message generation process.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Data receiving means 2 Data conversion processing control section 2-1 Data storage buffer 2-2 Structure determining means 2-3 Structure storage buffer 2-4 Message generating means 2-5 Message storage buffer 3 Data type dictionary 3-1 Data type identifier 3-2 Data type 3-3 Structure of message sentence 4 Vocabulary dictionary 4-1 Data type identifier 4-2 Vocabulary key value 4-3 Vocabulary in data received from application program 4-4 Vocabulary output as message 5
Output means 6 Dictionary registration means 7 Application program 8 Screen 9 for displaying messages Keyboard 1 for typing information to be registered in the dictionary
0-1 and 10-2 Example of data received from application program 11 Example of data type of data in 10-1 and 10-2

Claims (1)

[Claims] Claim 1: A data receiving means that receives character string data from an application program; and determining the structure of a corresponding message sentence by comparing the character string data received by the receiving means with a data type registered in a data type dictionary. structure determination means, and the structure of the determined sentence is added to the vocabulary registered in the vocabulary dictionary or the application
The present invention includes a message generation means for generating a message by linking vocabulary in data received from a program, an output means for outputting the generated message, and a dictionary registration means for adding/updating a data type dictionary and a vocabulary dictionary. Characteristic message generation method.