JPH05242139A - Display control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make the quantity of a read-in message irreducible minimum, to easily secure a storage area, and to speed up read-in operation as to the display control system which controls displays of the message represented in respective foreign languages on terminals connected to a host computer. CONSTITUTION:A dictionary 11 contains of messages in a program 9 and messages to be display-outputted by as many as categories and national languages to be displayed. As a subcommand is started, a message data base generating means 15 refers to the category specification of a message and the national language specification of a message to be outputted, and also refers to the dictionary 11 to generate a message data base of the specified national language on a storage means 13. A message output means 16 refers to the generated message data base on the storage means 13 and outputs the message to be outputted corresponding to the specified message. A message data base releasing means 17 releases the message data base on the storage means 13 as the execution of the subcommand ends.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a display control system for controlling display of a message expressed in each language on a display screen of a terminal device connected to a host computer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When displaying a message for instructing or alerting a user on a display screen of a terminal device, it is more efficient to display the message in the user's native language because the message content is clearly transmitted. However, it is not easy to create a program that changes the message according to the number of countries of the user, and maintenance of the program also takes time.

As a solution to this, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2-2
Japanese Patent No. 68322 discloses a data processing device in which the code of the program itself is not changed and a message expressed in each language is separately held. However, in this data processing device, a message to be displayed is given a unique message ID, and this message ID is specified in the program to specify the message to be actually displayed. However, since it is not considered whether the message can be displayed on the terminal device to display, if the character code system of the message does not match the character code system that can be displayed on the terminal device, garbled characters will occur. There was a problem.

On the other hand, the present applicant embeds a message in a specific language (usually English) in the message to be displayed, and uses the message in the specific language as a key to specify the message to be actually displayed. Proposing a control system.

[0005]

The display control system described above has the advantages that the characters are not garbled and the maintenance of the program is easy. However, since the system reads all the contents of the dictionary that stores messages when the entire system starts up, the amount of messages read by the system becomes enormous. Therefore, it is difficult to secure a storage area on the system, and it takes time to read a message.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a display control system in which the storage area can be easily secured and the reading speed can be increased by minimizing the amount of messages to be read. .

[0007]

In order to solve the above problems, in the display control system according to the present invention, there is provided a message storage means for holding an original message and an output message of a specific language in correspondence with each category and each language. , A language specifying means for specifying the language of the output message,
A data storage means for storing data such as a message database, a category designating section for designating a category of a message, a generation designating section for designating a message database by starting a subcommand, and a message output by designating an original message. An output instructing unit for instructing the release of the message database, an information processing unit for performing information processing, and an instruction for generating the message database, and specifying the category of the message and the output message. And a message database generating means for generating a message database of the designated national language in the designated category on the data storage means while referring to the designated language. Receive the above message Message output means for outputting a message in a specific language corresponding to the designated original message by referring to a database, and a message database for releasing the message database on the data storage means in response to a release instruction of the message database It is equipped with a release means.

These display control systems can be realized, for example, on a computer system including a host computer and its terminal device.

[0009]

The message database generation means refers to the message category designation (category designation section) and the national language designation (national language designation means) of the message to be output by the message database generation instruction from the information processing means generation instruction section. , A message database of the designated national language in the designated category is generated on the data storage means with reference to the message storage means. The message output unit refers to the message database generated on the data storage unit according to the message output instruction from the output instruction unit of the information processing unit, and outputs the message corresponding to the specified embedded message. Is output. Further, the message database releasing means releases the message database on the data storing means in response to a message database releasing instruction from the releasing instruction section of the information processing means.

According to this, since only the data of the dictionary required by the subcommand is read into the system, it becomes easy to secure the storage area for storing the message, and the speed of reading the message is increased. can do.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a display control system according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the outline of a computer system to which the above display control system is applied. In the figure, a host computer 1 that controls the entire system stores a plurality of pairs of a message (original message) embedded in a program and a message (output message of a specific national language) to be output. A file (hereinafter, referred to as a dictionary) 2 is divided according to categories and stored by the number of national languages to be displayed. There is a terminal device (character terminal) 3 connected to the host computer 1 (directly or via some transmission means), and a display device 4 as a user interface is connected to the terminal device 3. There is.

When displaying the message embedded in the program on the display device 4 on the terminal side, the host computer 1 searches the message database generated on the memory (not shown) for the embedded message. And convert it to the message you want to output. Then, the character code of the message to be output is converted according to the character code system that can be displayed on the terminal device 3, and is output to the terminal device 3. After that, when the execution of the subcommand is completed, the message database generated on the memory is deleted.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a functional configuration of a display control system operating on the computer system. This display control system includes a dictionary 11 which is a message storage unit and a national language designating unit 1 which designates a national language of a message to be output based on a national language designated in a subcommand.
2, a data storage means 13 for storing data such as a message database, an information processing means 14, a message database generation means 15, and a message output means 1
6 and a message database releasing means 17.

The dictionary 11 is the dictionary 2 of FIG. 2, and a set of a message embedded in a program and a message to be output that should be actually displayed is displayed according to categories such as start and stop. The number of national languages is stored. An example of the message description format in the dictionary 11 is shown in FIG. FIG. 3 shows an example of a system start dictionary and a system stop dictionary, and shows a case where the embedded message is English and the message to be output is Japanese. Each dictionary is provided with an identifier such as a startup dictionary (Boot) as an identifier for identifying a category.
"Boot Japane", "Boot Engli
The number of national languages such as “sh” and “Boot French” is stored.

The information processing means 14 creates a category designating section for designating the category of the message based on the category designation described in the subcommand, and the generation of the message database with the execution of the category designation code described in the subcommand. A generation instruction section that gives instructions, an output instruction section that gives an instruction to output the message by specifying the message embedded based on the output request described in the subcommand, and an instruction to release the message database when the execution of the subcommand ends. And a release instruction unit (not shown) for performing various types of information processing.

The message database generating means 15 is
Upon receiving a message database generation instruction of the generation instruction unit, the category designation of the message and the national language designation of the message to be output are referred to, and the dictionary 1
1, a message database of the designated national language in the designated category is generated on the data storage means 13. This message database is composed of a pair of "embedded message" and "message to be output". The data structure of the message database expanded on the data storage means 16 is shown in FIG. In the case of a message database having a plurality of sets of messages, a pointer indicating the address of the next message is added as shown in the figure.

The message output means 16 receives the instruction of the output instruction section, refers to the message database generated on the data storage means 13, and outputs the message to be output corresponding to the specified embedded message. Detect and output.

The message database releasing means 17 is
Upon receiving the message database release instruction, the message database on the data storage unit 13 is deleted (released).

The program executed by the host is described in the format shown in FIG. FIG. 5 shows the subcommand portion in the program. The code for specifying the category of the dictionary is written in this program. In FIG. 5, "mninit (" Boot
");" Is the category (in this case, the startup dictionary)
Represents the code that specifies. When the subcommand is activated and this code is executed, the message database of the dictionary of the specified category and the specified national language is generated. In addition, "System is boot
ting. The "Wait" part indicates the embedded message, and "Set Language (" Japane "
The part "se);" indicates the designation of the national language. Here, Japanese is designated. In addition, "fmnpri
"ntf" indicates that there is an output request.

The above-mentioned national language designating means 12 and data storing means 1
3, the information processing unit 14, the message database generating unit 15, the message output unit 16, and the message database releasing unit 17 can be configured by hardware and software such as a CPU and a main storage device in the host computer 1 of FIG. ..

In such a display control system, a series of processing procedures when the generation of the message database is instructed will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

When the code for specifying the category described in the subcommand of the program is executed, the generation instruction unit of the information processing means 14 instructs the message database generation means 15 to generate the message database (step 101). Message database generating means 15
In response to the generation instruction of the message database, refers to the designation of the category and the national language from the category designation unit of the information processing unit 14 and the national language designation unit 12, and refers to the dictionary 11 to specify the designation on the data storage unit 13. The message database of the designated national language in the category of is generated (step 102).

Next, the message output means 16 receives the output instruction from the output instruction section of the information processing means 14, refers to the message database on the data storage means 13, and refers to the specified embedded message. Get the message you want to output corresponding to. Then, the character code system of the message to be output is converted into the character code system of the terminal and output (step 103). The output message is displayed on the display device 4 on the terminal side.

FIG. 7 shows an example of an actual display.
On the display device 4, if the message can be converted into JIS kanji code, for example, "The system is starting up."
Is displayed. On the other hand, if the terminal supports ASCII, it cannot be converted to Kanji, so
"System is booting. Wait."
Is displayed.

Further, upon completion of the execution of the subcommand, the message database releasing means 17 receives the instruction from the release instructing section of the information processing means 14 and deletes the message database from the data storing means 13 (step 104). ..

[0027]

As described above, in the display control system according to the present invention, every time the subcommand for starting the system is started, the dictionary of the category designated by the subcommand and the designated national language is read. , Since the message database is generated based on this dictionary, the amount of read messages will be the minimum necessary. For this reason, it becomes easy to secure a storage area for storing the message, and it is possible to speed up reading of the message.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a functional configuration of a display control system operating on a computer system according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a configuration block diagram showing an outline of a computer system to which a display control system is applied.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a description format of a message in a dictionary.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a data structure of a message database.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a description format of a program.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a series of processing procedures when generation of a message database is instructed.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a display example of a message.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Host computer, 2, 11 ... Dictionary, 3 ... Terminal device, 4 ... Display device, 12 ... Japanese language specification means, 13 ... Data storage means, 14 ... Information processing means, 15 ... Message database generation means, 16 ... Message output Means, 17 ...
Message database release method

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A message storage means for storing an original message and an output message of a specific language in association with each other for each category and each language, a national language designating means for designating the national language of the output message, and a data storage means for storing data. , A message category designating section for designating a message category, a generation designating section for designating a message database, an output designating section for designating an output of a message by designating an original message, and a release for designating release of a message database. An information processing unit including an instruction unit; and, upon receiving the message database generation instruction, refer to the category designation of the message and the language designation of the output message, and refer to the message storage unit on the data storage unit. In the designated category, the Message database generation means for generating a message database; message output means for receiving an instruction from the output instruction section and outputting a message in a specific language corresponding to the designated original message by referring to the message database; A display control system comprising: a message database releasing means for releasing the message database on the data storing means in response to a message database releasing instruction.