JPH0820921B2 - Interactive parameter setting method - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to an interactive parameter setting method for setting parameters interactively.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, complicated parameter setting processing is performed by processing many parameter setting screens.

No. 6 of the block diagram of the conventional interactive parameter setting method
Shown in the figure. The parameter setting screen processing unit 6-2 controls the parameter setting screen. That is, the data for inputting the parameters is displayed on the display 6-3, and the data input by the user from the input device 6-1 is displayed on the display 6-3 while viewing the data displayed on the display 6-3. . When the input data input by the user is data indicating the end of input on that screen, the processing of the parameter setting screen is ended.

As shown in FIG. 7, the parameter setting process performed in a predetermined order is a plurality of parameter setting screen processes “1” 7-1 and a parameter setting screen process “2” 7-2 ... Parameter setting screen processing "n" 7
-3 is executed. This kind of parameter setting process, while executing the parameter setting screen process,
There may be a request to execute the previously executed parameter setting screen processing again, and in this case, the backtracking control is required.

FIG. 8 shows the flow of the parameter setting process with the return control. In the parameter setting process with backtracking control, in each parameter setting screen process, when the process on that screen is completed, the next parameter is used as data that means the end of the input on that screen in order to move to the next screen. The user selects and inputs either data instructing to proceed to the setting screen processing or data instructing to return to the parameter setting screen processing before the current screen processing.

Hereinafter, executing the next parameter setting screen process subsequent to the screen process at that time is referred to as “forward” 8-1, and executing the parameter setting screen process before the screen process at that time is “backward” 8-1. -2. Alternatively, or in the parameter setting screen processing, when an instruction indicating the end of the input screen processing is input, the input instruction is “execution result” 8-3 of the parameter setting screen processing.
Called.

Furthermore, in the interactive parameter setting process, by the setting data input in the previous parameter setting process,
The flow of subsequent parameter setting processing may change. For example, when the setting data is omitted in the previous parameter setting screen process, there is no processing target of the subsequent parameter setting screen process, and therefore the parameter setting screen process needs to be skipped. FIG. 9 shows the flow of parameter setting processing with skip control. The parameter setting process “3” 9-2 in the figure is a parameter setting screen process that does not have a processing target. In this case, when the execution result of the parameter setting screen process “2” 9-1 is forward 9-3, the parameter setting screen process “3” 9-2 is skipped and the parameter setting screen process “4” 9-4 is executed. Run. In addition, the execution result of the parameter setting screen process “4” 9-4 is backward 9-
In the case of 5, the parameter setting screen process “3” 9-2 is skipped and the parameter setting screen process “2” 9-1 is executed. As described above, in the parameter setting process with the skip control, it is necessary to control to skip the parameter setting screen process that does not have the process target in each of the forward and backward process flows.

FIG. 10 shows a control procedure for realizing this processing by the conventional interactive parameter setting method.

 In this method, the following processing is performed.

If the execution result of the parameter setting screen process is forward 10-1, the processing target of the next parameter setting screen process is "Yes".
If 10-2, the next parameter setting screen processing “2” 10−
3 is executed, and if the processing target is “not present” 10-4, the process branches to step 10-5 for determining when the execution result of the next parameter setting screen process is forward.

In addition, the execution result of the parameter setting screen processing will be
In the case of 6, if the processing target of the previous parameter setting screen processing is “Yes” 10-7, the previous parameter setting screen processing “2” 10-3 is executed, and if the processing target is “No” 10-8 , The process branches to step 10-9 of the judgment when the execution result of the previous parameter setting screen process is backward.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention]

In the conventional interactive parameter setting method described above, the determination and branching for forward and backward control must be described for each parameter setting screen process, which makes the program large and complicated and difficult to understand. There is a point.

Further, since the user can only move backward in the reverse order when moving forward, there is a problem that the user has to repeatedly input the backward moving instruction as many times as the forward moving instruction.

The purpose of the present invention is to make the program easy to understand,
When moving forward, each setting processing program described in the scenario table is executed in sequence, but when moving backward, the first setting processing program in the scenario table only needs to instruct the backward movement to correspond to that scenario table. It is an object of the present invention to provide an interactive parameter setting method capable of ending processing and moving backward with less operation than when moving forward.

[Means for solving the problem]

The interactive parameter setting method of the present invention is, in the interactive parameter setting method of setting parameters interactively, (A) setting processing control means for controlling the entire setting processing as a set of nested setting processing units, (B) A scenario table that holds information about the control structure in each setting processing unit, and (C) forward and backward in the setting processing unit by being recursively called from the setting processing control means using the information in the scenario table as input data. The scenario control means for controlling is provided.

〔Example〕

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

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

In the interactive parameter setting method shown in FIG. 1, a setting process control means 1-1 for controlling the entire setting process as a set of nested setting process units, and a scenario table 1 for holding information about a control structure in each setting process unit. -2, it is composed of scenario control means 1-3 which performs forward and backward control within the setting processing unit by being called by the setting processing control means using the information of the scenario table as input data.

The setting process control means 1-1 defines the entire setting process as “a group of one or a plurality of setting process units”, and realizes the entire setting process using the scenario table 1-2 and the scenario control means 1-3. Is a means to do. One setting processing unit further includes one or a plurality of setting processing units. The parameter setting screen processing described in the above-mentioned related art is the minimum setting processing unit. One setting processing unit is treated as one forward and backward unit.

 Next, the operation will be described.

FIG. 2 shows an example of a control flow in the setting process control means 1-1 when the entire setting process is regarded as a set of setting process units. In this example, the entire setting process is first defined as the setting process unit “0” 2-1. The setting processing unit “0” 2-1 is composed of setting processing unit “1” 2-2 to setting processing unit “n” 2-3. The setting process unit “1” 2-2 is nested in the setting process unit “1” 2-4, and the setting process unit “1” 2-4 is set to the setting process unit “1-”.
1 "2-5 to setting processing unit" 1m "2-6. Furthermore, the setting processing unit “1-2” 2-7 in the setting processing unit “1” 2-4 is also the setting processing unit “1-2”.
2-8 Nested, setting processing unit "1-2" 2-
The setting processing unit "1-2-1" 2-9 to the setting processing unit "1-2-1" 2-10.

The setting processing control means 1-1 uses the setting processing unit "0" 2-
1, setting processing unit "1" 2-4, setting processing unit "1-"
2 ”2-7, scenario control means 1-3 using all the forward and backward controls in a setting processing unit composed of a plurality of setting processing units, with a scenario table defining the configuration of the setting processing unit as a parameter. By calling. Therefore, when the setting processing units are nested, the scenario control unit 1-3 is recursively called. That is, the setting processing control means 1-1 realizes the control of the entire complicated setting processing by recursively calling the scenario control means 1-3.

 FIG. 3 shows the details of the scenario table 1-2.

The scenario table 1-2 executes the address 3-1 of each setting processing program that constitutes one setting processing unit and the address 3-2 of the processing target selection program that determines whether or not there is a processing target of the setting processing. They are described in order. Specifically, the setting processing program is a parameter setting screen processing or a program that calls the scenario control unit 1-3 using the scenario table as a parameter.

 FIG. 4 shows an outline of processing of the scenario control means 1-3.

The scenario control unit 1-3 is a program that controls the flow of forward movement and backward movement of one setting processing unit based on the scenario table. The input data of this program is the advancing direction (forward or backward) 4-1 on the calling side and the scenario table 4-2, and the output data is the advancing direction (forward or backward) 4-3 after execution of the setting processing unit.

As a region for controlling the forward movement and the backward movement, a return progressing direction 4-4, a current progressing direction 4-5, and a current scenario number 4-6 are provided.

The return progress direction 4-4 is an area for storing a value to be returned to the calling side, and the progress direction passed from the calling side is first set (step 4-7), and thereafter, the setting processing program is executed. If so, the execution result is set (step 4-12). With this, when the setting processing program has never been executed, the calling direction of the calling side is returned, otherwise, the execution result of the setting processing program executed last is returned to the calling side. (Step 4-16).

The current traveling direction 4-5 is an area for considering the direction in which the processing for one scenario table 1-2 is executed, and first the forward movement is set (step 4-7), and thereafter the setting processing program is executed. If so, the execution result is set (step 4-12). It is used to determine whether "1" is added to the current scenario number (step 4-14) or "1" is subtracted (step 4-15) after the processing for one setting processing program is completed (step 4). -13).

Current scenario number 4-6 is scenario table 1
-2 is an area for storing which number setting processing program is being executed, and "1" is initially set (step 4-7). If there is no setting processing program corresponding to the current scenario number in the scenario table,
It is determined that the process corresponding to the scenario table is completed (step 4-8), and control is returned to the calling side (step 4-16). In cases other than the above, the processing target selection program (step 4-9) and the setting processing program (step 4-1) to be executed are executed according to the current scenario number.
1) is decided.

Due to the functions of the current progress direction and the current scenario number, when there is a processing target of the setting processing program, the setting processing programs are executed while moving forward and backward. If there is no processing target of the setting processing program, the processing is skipped in the forward and backward directions until the target is found. Further, since the process for one scenario table always starts in forward, if the execution result of the first setting process program is backward, the scenario control means is immediately ended without executing the subsequent setting process.

FIG. 5 shows an example of parameter setting processing according to the embodiment of FIG. In FIG. 5, 5-2,5-3,5-6,5-7,5
-8, 5-9, 5-11, 5-12 represent non-nested setting processing units, that is, parameter setting screen processing, and the others represent nesting setting processing units. In this example, 5-2
When proceeding from the parameter setting screen process of 5 to the parameter setting screen process of 5-12, 5-2,5-3,5-4,5-
5,5-6, 5-7, 5-8, 5-9, 5-10, 5-11, 5-12 are executed in this order. If only the parameter setting screen processing flow in which the user inputs a forward instruction is followed in this, 5-2,5-3,5-
6,5−7,5−8,5−9,5−11,5−12 in order, and the user is 7
You will need to enter the instruction to move forward.

On the other hand, when retreating from 5-12 to 5-2, 5-1
It is executed in the order of 2,5-11,5-4,5-5,5-6,5-1,5-2. The flow of parameter setting screen processing at this time is 5-1.
The sequence is 2,5-11,5-6,5-2, and the user can return to the parameter setting screen process of 5-2 by only inputting the backward instruction three times.

As described above, since the control flow of each setting processing unit can be described in the scenario table, the program can be easily and easily understood.

Also, when moving forward, each setting processing program described in the scenario table is executed in order, but when moving backward, the first setting processing program of the scenario table only needs to instruct the backward movement to correspond to that scenario table. Since the processing can be ended, it is possible to move backward with fewer operations than when moving forward.

Furthermore, by recursively calling the scenario control means from the setting processing control means, complicated forward and backward control can be performed with a small program.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, the present invention has an effect that the program can be easily understood because the control flow of each setting processing unit can be described in the scenario table.

Also, when moving forward, each setting processing program described in the scenario table is executed in order, but when moving backward, the first setting processing program of the scenario table only needs to instruct the backward movement to correspond to that scenario table. Since the processing can be ended, there is an effect that it is possible to move backward with a smaller number of operations than when moving forward.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG.
The figure which shows the flow of processing of the setting processing control means of one Example of FIG.
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a scenario table, FIG. 4 is an operation explanatory diagram of processing of the scenario control means of the embodiment of FIG. 1, and FIG.
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a setting process control example of the embodiment of FIG.
FIG. 7 is a block diagram of parameter setting processing of the conventional interactive parameter setting method, FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a flow of parameter setting processing of the conventional interactive parameter setting method, and FIG. 8 is a flowchart of the conventional interactive parameter setting method. FIG. 9 is a diagram showing the flow of parameter setting processing with return control, FIG. 9 is a diagram showing the flow of parameter setting processing with return control and skip control of the conventional interactive parameter setting method, and FIG. 10 is conventional interactive parameter It is an operation explanatory view of a parameter setting process with a backtracking control and a skip control of a setting method. 1-1 ... Setting process control means, 1-2 ... Scenario table, 1-3 ... Scenario control means, 6-1 ... Input device, 6-2 ... Parameter setting screen processing unit, 6-3 ... …
display.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In an interactive parameter setting method for setting parameters interactively, (A) setting processing control means for controlling the entire setting processing as a set of nested setting processing units, and (B) within each setting processing unit. (C) Scenario control for controlling forward and backward movements within a setting processing unit by recursively being called from the setting processing control means with the information of the scenario table as input data. An interactive parameter setting method characterized by comprising means.