JPH05233543A - On-line screen output system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the preparation/maintenance manhour by providing a termi nal individual screen converting function end an on-line screen output function which transmits a terminal individual screen to the terminal of the requested side and there by unnecessitating the screen objects prepared for each terminal even when a single application screen is outputted to plural types of terminals. CONSTITUTION:A screen output part 5 consisting of a terminal common screen editing function 51, a terminal individual screen converting function 54, a terminal type-based control code conversion table 54, and an on-line screen output function 53 is called out with a request of an application 4. The function 51 first edits a terminal common screen based on an output data terminal common screen object 32. Then the function 52 converts the terminal common screen into 8 terminal individual screen for each given output terminal type. Finally the function 53 sends a terminal individual screen data output sequence produced dynamically to a terminal 61 of a type A or a terminal 62 of a type B.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a terminal (a communication utility operating W
The method of outputting an online screen to (including S).

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional online screen output method comprises a screen specification management function 121 for outputting a screen object for each terminal type from a screen creation data 101 and a terminal type individual screen object generation function 122 as shown in FIG. A management library 131, a screen creation management unit 102 that outputs a screen object 132 for each terminal type, and a screen specification copy library 133, and an application 1
The screen object 132 located in 04 and individual for each terminal type
Has an on-line screen editing function 151 for directly outputting the on-line screen to the corresponding terminal type and an on-line screen output function 152, and has a screen output section 105 to which the terminals 161 and 162 are connected.

[0003]

In this conventional online screen output method, when one application screen is to be output online to a plurality of types of terminals, it is necessary to prepare a screen object for each type of terminal. A lot of man-hours were spent.

[0004]

The online screen output method of the present invention is an online screen output method in which an application on a host processor outputs an online screen to a terminal, and a screen creation management section and a screen output located in the application. The screen creation management unit outputs a source code image of screen creation data and various management classifications to a screen specification management library, and a terminal type common screen object from the screen creation data. A terminal type common screen object generation function, wherein the screen output unit outputs the terminal type common screen from the terminal type common screen object, a terminal type common screen editing function, and the terminal type common screen as a terminal type individual screen. Terminal individual screen conversion function to convert and send the terminal type individual screen to the requesting terminal And a that online screen output function.

[0005]

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

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

The output processing of the online screen of this embodiment is 2
It consists of steps.

The first step is a screen creation phase.
By the screen creation management unit 2 including the screen specification management function 21 and the terminal type common screen object generation function 22, the screen specification data 1 to the screen specification management library 31, the terminal type common screen object 32, and the screen specification copy library 33.
Is output.

First, the screen specification management function 21 registers the source code image and various management classifications of the screen creation data 1 in the screen specification management library 31 and prepares for re-input from the next time.

Next, the terminal type common screen object generation function 22 operates to compile the screen creation data 1 and output a screen object independent of the terminal type to the terminal type common screen object 32. Here, the terminal type common screen object 32 includes screen image information and control information.
The screen image information is literally expressed as the source of the screen image.

In the control information, attributes, colors, and 2/1 byte code types are defined for each screen field, and the codes corresponding to these types are not dependent on the terminal type here.

The second step is a screen output phase.
In response to a request from the application 4, the screen output unit 5 including the terminal type common screen editing function 51, the terminal type individual screen conversion function 52, the terminal type control code conversion table 54 online screen output function 43 is called, and the terminal type common screen object 32 is displayed. Further, the screen format is dynamically edited and output to the terminal type A or the terminal type B of the terminals 61 and 62 for each request.

The application 4 requests the output terminal, the output data, and the screen output section 5. First, the terminal type common screen editing function 51 edits the terminal type common screen from the output data and the terminal type common screen object 32.
This terminal type common screen is the terminal type common screen object 32.
It conforms to the format.

The terminal type individual screen conversion function 52
Is converted to the terminal type individual screen for the output terminal type given by. That is, a screen object which is composed of screen image information and control information and does not depend on the terminal type is expanded into an output sequence having attributes and color codes which are unique to the target terminal using the terminal type control code conversion table 54. At that time, if a function not supported by the target terminal is supported, that function is ignored. If the screen image size is different, the upper left corner of the screen is used as a reference for the treatment.

Finally, the online screen output function 53 transmits the dynamically created terminal type individual screen data output sequence to the terminal 61 of the terminal type A or the terminal 62 of the terminal type B which is the request destination.

[0016]

As described above, according to the present invention, even when one application screen is output online to a plurality of types of terminals, it is not necessary to prepare a screen object for each terminal, and the number of preparation / maintenance man-hours is significantly reduced. There is.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a conventional online screen output method.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 screen creation data 2 screen creation management unit 21 screen specification management function 22 terminal type common screen object generation function 31 screen specification management library 32 terminal type common screen object 4 application 5 screen output unit 51 terminal type common screen editing function 52 terminal type individual Screen conversion function 53 Online screen output function 54 Terminal type control code conversion table 61 terminal 62 terminal

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An online screen output method for outputting an online screen from an application on a host processor to a terminal, comprising: a screen creation management unit and a screen output unit located in the application, wherein the screen creation management unit is A screen specification management function that outputs the source code image of screen creation data and various management categories to the screen specification management library, and a terminal type common screen object generation function that outputs a terminal type common screen object from the screen creation data are provided. The output unit includes a terminal type common screen editing function of outputting the terminal type common screen from the terminal type common screen object, a terminal individual screen conversion function of converting the terminal type common screen into a terminal type individual screen, and the terminal type individual screen. It has an online screen output function that sends a screen to the terminal of the request destination Online screen output method.