JPH06187219A - Automatic data sharing system between programs - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To share data between programs capable of converting data without user's intervention, with respect to the automatic data sharing system between the programs on a data processor. CONSTITUTION:This system is equipped with a program data coordinate table 3 wherein program names and data names are made to correspond to each other and a conversion program table 4 containing the coordinate relation among conversion programs which convert data of conversion source programs into data corresponding to conversion destination programs. When a process whose program name and data name are specified is performed, the corresponding program name is retrieved in the program data coordinate table 3 by using specification data and the detected program name is compared with the specified program name; when they match each other, the data process of the specified data is started by the specified program, but when not, the conversion program table 4 is retrieved on the basis of the specified program name and detected program name, the conversion program converts the specified data, and the specified program processes the data.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic data sharing system between programs which shares data between programs capable of data conversion without user intervention.

Computers, especially personal computers,
In a workstation, word processor, etc., a user of the data may want to use the data created by a certain program by another program, but for that reason, it is necessary to perform a complicated operation, which puts a burden on the user. .

[0003]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 5 is an explanatory view of a conventional example. In this example, data is shared between two word processors A and B operating under different programs.

In FIG. 5, 60 is a work processor A, 64 is a word processor B, both of which are different hardware, but as a program having the same function, for example, a program a having a function of processing a Japanese document.
And program b, each program a and program b
The data formats handled by are different and incompatible.

When having such a relationship, it is assumed that data is first created by the word processor A (60) and the data 61 of the word processor A is stored in the storage medium. When a user of the word processor B (64) operating with a different program b wants to use the data 61, it is necessary to convert the data for the word processor A into the data for the word processor B. Therefore, conversion processing is performed by the conversion program 62 to obtain the converted data 63 of the word processor B, and the word processor B (64) is used to create / edit a sentence for this data 63, and the edited word processor B ( The data 65 of 64) is obtained.

This data 65 is the word processor B
Although it can be used as it is by (64) later, if it is desired to use it further by the word processor A, it is necessary to perform the inverse conversion of the data 65 for the word processor B into the data for the word processor A. In this case, the data 67 of the word processor A edited by performing the inverse conversion processing by the inverse conversion program 66 is created. The data 67 can be used for processing / editing by the word processor A. If the data 65 edited by the word processor B is the finally necessary data, the inverse conversion program 66 does not perform the inverse conversion to the data 67.

As shown in the example of this word processor, conventionally, when the program for creating data by the user of the data (above program a) and the program using the data (above program b) are different, the conversion program ( The above conversion program 62) is selected, the original data is converted, and the result (data 63) is used to create data (data 65). Data (data 67) is created.

[0008]

As shown in the above example, conventionally, when the user who created the data and the program that uses the data are different from each other, the conversion program is selected according to the program to be used. Then, the original data was converted, the processing was performed using the result, the processing result was further selected by an inverse conversion program, and the result was reflected in the original data. In this case, in addition to the original data (61 in FIG. 5), three data (63, 6 in FIG. 5) are used as data.
5, 67) are created and it is necessary for the user to distinguish and use them.

When this is done, it often happens that the original data and the edited data are erroneously erased, or the latest data is lost.
Moreover, since only the person who performed this series of operations knows the relationship of each data, there is a problem that handling the data becomes more difficult when trying to share the data with multiple people.

It is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic data sharing system between programs capable of sharing data between programs capable of data conversion without user intervention.

[0011]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the principle of the present invention. In FIG. 1, 1 is a data processing device, 2 is a designated data storage section in which a user wants to use a program name and data to be processed is designated, 2a is a designated program name representing the type of program that processes the data, 2b
Is a designated data name representing the data to be processed, 3 is a program name in order to show which program created each of a plurality of data, a program / data correspondence table in which the data names are associated, 4 is a program (conversion source program) 3 is a conversion program table in which a conversion program for converting the data created by (1) into data that can be processed by another program (conversion destination program) is stored in association with each other. Reference numeral 5 is a program / data correspondence table search means, 6 is a comparison means, 7 is a conversion program table search means, and 8 is a data conversion means. The programs and data corresponding to the program names and data names are stored in a storage unit (not shown).

According to the present invention, if the combination of the designated data and the designated program does not match the correspondence with the program when the data was created, the designated data should be matched with the designated program. The conversion program is detected and converted.

[0013]

In FIG. 1, the user sets a program name (designated Pi) and a designated data name (designated Di) to be used in the designated program name 2a and designated data name 2b in the designated data storage unit 2. In response to this, the program / data correspondence table retrieval means 5 refers to the program / data correspondence table 3 to retrieve the program name corresponding to the designated data name 2b. When the program name (Pn) is searched,
Then, the comparing means 6 compares the designated program name Pi with the retrieved program name Pn. If the two match by this comparison, it can be seen that the data of the designated data name Di was created by the program of the designated program name Pi, and therefore the designated data name Di is used by using the designated program name Pi.
The data processing 9a is executed for the data. In addition,
In the data processing 9a, the data corresponding to the designated data name Di is processed by the program corresponding to the designated program name Pi.

When the data name of the data obtained as a result of the data processing is changed, it is registered in the program / data correspondence table 3. When the comparison means 6 detects a mismatch, the conversion program table 4 is searched using the designated program name Pi and the searched program name Pn. In this search, the conversion source program name is Pn and the conversion destination program name is Pi. When the conversion program name is obtained, the data conversion means 8 takes out the conversion program from a storage unit (not shown) and performs data conversion on the data of the designated data name Di. Since the converted data (denoted as Dc) obtained by this data conversion is data that can be processed by the program of the designated program name Pi, the designated program name P
Data processing 9b is performed on the converted data Dc using the program i.

The data name of the data obtained as a result of this data processing 9b can be registered in the program / data correspondence table 3, and the designated program name Pi is used as the program name.
Is set. When it is desired to convert the result of the data processing 9b into the data format of the program having the above-mentioned conversion source program name Pn, the conversion program table search means 7 in FIG. It is possible to obtain the conversion data by taking out the conversion program name and performing conversion by the data conversion means 8 by the conversion program.

[0016]

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an embodiment, and FIG. 3 is an example of each table configuration of the embodiment. In FIG. 2, 20 is an automatic data sharing mechanism, 21 is an automatic data sharing processing unit, 22 is a table 1 (corresponding to the program / data correspondence table 3 in FIG. 1) and a table 2 (corresponding to the conversion program table 4 in FIG. 1). Is a database in which is stored, 23 is a data processing unit that holds data and programs and performs processing, and 24 is an input / output unit.
These automatic data sharing mechanism 20, data processing unit 23,
The input / output unit 24 is composed of an information processing device such as a personal computer or a word processor. Figure 2
In the data processing unit 23, an example showing the relationship between the combination of data and programs and the conversion program is shown.

FIG. 3 shows a configuration example of the table 1 and the table 2 in FIG. A. of FIG. In the case of the table 1 shown in Fig. 1, D1 and D2 are data names created by the respective programs of the program names PS1, PS2, ... PSn.
2, ... Dn are associated.

Further, as shown in FIG. In the case of the table 2 shown in FIG. 2, each conversion source program name PS1, PS2, ... P
Conversion program name PC for converting each data created by Sm into data that can be handled by each conversion destination program name PD1, PD2, ... PDm
1, PC2, ... PCm are set. These tables 1 and 2 are held as a database, and the contents of each are sequentially updated.

FIG. 4 shows the automatic data sharing mechanism 20 of FIG.
It is a processing flow executed in the automatic data sharing processing unit 21 included in. When the user specifies the program name (Pi) and the data name (Di) from the input / output unit 24 of FIG. 2, the process of FIG. 4 starts, and the table 1 is first searched by the input data name Di (40 of FIG. 4). ). When a program name (PS) corresponding to the input data name Di is detected in this search, it is determined whether the program name PS matches the input program name Pi (step 41). If they match, the program (program name Pi) specified by the user is activated for the data processing unit 23 (FIG. 2) to start data processing for the data with the data name Di (at 42). The data of the processing result is held by the original data name Di in the data processing unit 23.

In the above step 41, if they do not match, the table 2 is searched for the program name Pi as the conversion destination program and the program name PS as the conversion source program to obtain the corresponding conversion program name (PC). 43). It is determined whether the corresponding conversion program name is detected by this search (at step 44), and if it is not detected, a warning that the data cannot be converted is output (at step 45). In this case, the user stops the process.

When the conversion program name PC is obtained, the data of the designated data name Di is converted by the program of the conversion program (PC) and the conversion destination program (P
Data (i1) corresponding to i) is obtained (at 46). Next, the data Di1 is subjected to data processing by the program having the program name Pi, and the data (di2) is obtained as the processing result (step 47).

This data Di2 is data in a format corresponding to the designated program (program name Pi). If this data Di2 is converted into data corresponding to the original program (program name PS) and saved, Is processed.

That is, the program name Pi and the program name PS are exchanged, the conversion source program name is the program name PS, the conversion destination program name is the program name Pi, and the table 2 is searched to find the corresponding conversion program name P.
Take out C '(48). Then, it is judged whether or not the conversion program name PC 'is searched by this search (see the same 4
9) If not searched, a warning is output as in the case of step 45, and if searched, the data of the data name Di2 is converted by the program of the conversion program name PC ′,
Converted data is obtained (50). When the converted data is obtained, the data is replaced with the data of the first designated data name Di (step 51).

In the example shown in the data processing section 23 of FIG. 2, the data 1 and the program B are designated. In this example, the data 1 is created by the program A, and when the data B is processed by the program B, the conversion program C for converting the data from the program A to the program B searches the table 2. When found, the data 1 is converted by the conversion program C. As a result, the data 2 converted into a format that can be processed by the program B is obtained. Next, the data processing of the data 2 is performed by the program B. When converting the data 2 whose contents have been changed by this data processing into the original data 1 format, a conversion program that reversely converts the data of the program B into the data of the program A is searched and the obtained conversion program (not shown) is searched. ) Is used to reverse-convert data 2 to obtain data in the same format as data 1, and the data is held.

The conversion source program and the conversion destination program are, for example, a word processing program for a certain model and a word processing program for another model. Figure 3 above
The contents of Tables 1 and 2 shown in Fig. 1 may be provided with a mechanism for automatically constructing according to the use history of users, such as names of used data, names of used programs, registration of conversion programs, etc. it can.

[0026]

According to the present invention, the following effects can be obtained. The user does not need to be aware of data conversion between programs,
Data available. Data can be centrally managed, which can prevent data destruction and data duplication due to user's misuse. Using a database makes it easy to maintain two tables. Even when the present invention is not used, the original data can be used in the created program. That is, since it is not necessary to make the data special in order to use the function of the present invention, it is not necessary to separately create data depending on whether this function is used or not.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a principle configuration diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a configuration example of each table of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a processing flow of an embodiment.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Data Processor 2 Designated Data Storage 2a Designated Program Name 2b Designated Data Name 3 Program / Data Correspondence Table 4 Conversion Program Table 5 Program / Data Correspondence Table Search Means 6 Comparison Means 7 Conversion Program Table Search Means 8 Data Conversion Means

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A conversion program representing a correspondence relationship between a program / data correspondence table that associates a program name with a data name created by the program, and a conversion program that converts data of a conversion source program into data corresponding to a conversion destination program. Table, and for the instruction to process the data of the specified data name by the specified program name, the program / data correspondence table is searched by using the specified data, the corresponding program name is detected, and the detected program name is specified. When the program names are compared and matched, the specified program starts data processing for the specified data, and when a mismatch is detected, the specified program name and the detected program name are used to search the conversion program table, and the conversion program table is searched. Convert the specified data with the conversion program retrieved from An automatic data sharing method between programs in a data processing device, wherein the converted data is processed by a program having the specified program name. 2. The result data obtained by performing data processing by a program having a designated program name on the data obtained by converting the designated data by the conversion program according to claim 1, and converting the result data into data corresponding to the original program name. At this time, a conversion program name for reverse conversion is searched by reversing the conversion source program name and the conversion destination program name using the conversion program table, and the result data is converted by the searched conversion program. A method for automatically sharing data between programs in a data processing device.