JPH10178424A - Network display - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To display a network to be easily understood with a reduced operation by magnify-displaying the desired position and range of the network in a network drawing so as to display even complicated network constitution without overlapping nodes. SOLUTION: This network display is provided with a main device 1, a keyboard 2, a mouse 3, and a display 4. At the time of starting the display 4, an initialization processing part 28 in a control part 10 reads network data from a network data storing part 13 and a coordinate transforming part 15 coordinate-transforms it to display data. Display data after transformation is displayed on the display 4 from an output part 12 through a network drawing display processing part 21. In addition, at the time of displaying a magnified drawing, a display range is indicated on a network drawing by the mouse 3. Next, with the instruction of a magnified display processing part 25, a magnification calculating part 14 calculates a magnifying magnification, the part 15 transforms the drawing to a coordinate corresponding to the magnifying magnification to display on the display from the part 12 through the part 21.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus for displaying a drawing of a network when designing and managing a communication network.

Conventionally, when designing and managing a communication network, one drawing is displayed on a screen of a display device. In the drawing, the network is represented by nodes (bases) and links (straight lines connecting the bases). When the display device is activated, the entire diagram is displayed. If the network becomes complicated and nodes are displayed in an overlapping manner, a part of the same drawing is used for enlarged display.
In this case, in the conventional device, the magnification is fixed or 2 times,
There are problems such as a three-fold stepwise display and an enlarged display centered on the fixed position, so that a desired position cannot be displayed by a single operation.

[0003] Further, even in a network display device using an index drawing together with a network drawing, a desired range cannot be displayed because the magnification is fixed.
Because the movement of the display range and the display are different operations, that is, the network drawing does not change automatically following the movement of the display range of the index drawing, so that the desired range is passed. And so on. On the other hand, the nodes and the links are enlarged and displayed according to the enlarged display of the network diagram, but are fixed at the positions of the nodes on the background map and cannot be moved.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to display a network drawing at a desired position with a smaller number of operations. Further, even when the network is complicated and nodes overlap, the network drawing can be realized. It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device capable of displaying the configuration of the above in an easily understandable manner.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, a network display device according to the present invention has a network drawing for actually displaying a network and an index drawing for indicating a display range of the network drawing. Enlargement display means for enlarging and displaying the range specified in step 2 to the size of the network drawing, cursor display means for displaying a cursor for specifying the specified range on the index drawing, and a scroll bar added to the enlarged network drawing Network drawing moving means for moving the display range using the index drawing means for moving the cursor on the index drawing, moving the display range of the cursor on the index drawing with the display range on the network drawing, and Index the movement of the display range Moving drawings interlocking means for interlocking the display range of the cursor on the scan drawings, and characterized by including a network display initialization means for returning the display of the network drawing to its initial state.

[0006] The network display device of the present invention further comprises:
A node position moving means for moving a node so that a link connected to the node also moves; a network display for displaying a network at a moved node position when redisplaying by storing position information of the moved node; Means and a node position initializing means for returning to the node position before the movement.

According to the present invention, a desired position and a desired range of a network can be enlarged and displayed on a network drawing, and a network is displayed without overlapping nodes even in a complicated network configuration. Can be. Also, by linking the movement of the network drawing with the scroll bar provided in the network drawing and the movement of the cursor in the index drawing, a network at a desired position can be displayed with fewer operations.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of one embodiment of a network display device according to the present invention. The network display device includes a main device 1 for performing network display processing, a keyboard 2 and a mouse 3 as input devices for designating, moving, enlarging, etc., a display range, and a display device 4 for actually displaying a network drawing. I can. Main device 1
Is an input unit 11, which is an interface with the input devices 2 and 3,
An output unit 12 serving as an interface with the display device 4, a network data storage unit 13 for storing network data, a magnification calculation unit 14 for calculating an enlargement magnification from a specified display range, and coordinates for displaying the network data on the drawing. The coordinate conversion unit 15 converts the data such as movement and change data into a network data format, and the control unit 10 includes various functions for controlling these units.

The control unit 10 is a network drawing display processing unit.
21, an index drawing display processing unit 22, a cursor display processing unit 23, a moving drawing interlocking processing unit 24, an enlarged display processing unit 25, a network drawing moving processing unit 26, an index drawing moving processing unit 27, and an initialization processing unit 28 .

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a state in which a network is displayed when the display device is activated. In this case, it is displayed as follows. First, the initialization processing unit 28 of the control unit 10 reads network data from the network data storage unit 13 and
Is instructed to convert. The coordinate conversion unit 15 converts the coordinates of the screen data into display data. The converted display data is sent from the output unit 12 to the display device 4 via the network drawing display processing unit 21 and displayed. Display device 4 has network drawing 3
0, scroll bar 3 added to network drawing 30
1. Enlarged display button 32 for instructing enlarged display, standard display button 33 for returning to initial display state, node 35 for displaying network on network drawing, and link
36, the index drawing 40 is displayed.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a state where the network is enlarged and displayed on the display device. To display the enlarged drawing, the user selects the enlarged display button 32 with the keyboard 2 or the mouse 3 and further specifies the display range on the network drawing 30. In this case, first, the magnification calculator 14 calculates the enlargement magnification of the background diagram in accordance with an instruction of the enlargement display processor 25 of the controller 10. The enlarged display processing unit 25 of the control unit 10 instructs the coordinate conversion unit 15 to perform coordinate conversion based on the magnification.
The conversion result is output via the network drawing display processing unit 21
12 and the background image is displayed on the display device 4.

When a network drawing is displayed, a background diagram is displayed first, and then nodes and links are superimposed on each other. There may be a slight shift between the magnification calculated by the unit 14 and the magnification actually displayed via the output unit 12. Therefore, the next time the network is displayed, the actual display position information is obtained from the output unit 12,
The actual magnification is calculated by the magnification calculator 14 via the enlarged display processor 25, and based on this, the nodes and links are displayed in a superimposed manner on the background diagram.

In this manner, the display device 4 displays the network drawing 30 in which the designated display range is enlarged. A cursor 41 indicating the display range sent to the output unit 12 via the index drawing display processing unit 22 is displayed on the index drawing 40.

There are two methods for moving the display portion of the drawing. First, a method of using the scroll bar 31 added to the network drawing 30 will be described. The user clicks the scroll bar 31 with the mouse 3 and moves the mouse vertically or horizontally. The network drawing display processing unit 21 and the index drawing display processing unit 22 of the control unit 10 are provided with the information obtained from the input unit 11 via the network drawing movement processing unit 26 and the movement drawing interlocking processing unit 24 and the network obtained from the coordinate conversion unit 15. The moving information for the drawing 30 and the moving information for the index drawing 40 are acquired, and these are notified to the output unit 12, respectively. Accordingly, the cursor 41 of the network drawing 30 and the index drawing 40 on the display device 4 move simultaneously.

Next, a method of using the cursor 41 of the index drawing 40 will be described. Click the cursor 41 with the mouse 3 and move it freely. The index drawing movement processing unit 27 of the control unit 10 acquires movement information from the input unit 11, and the network drawing display processing unit 21 and the index drawing display processing unit 22 convert the information and coordinate conversion obtained through the movement drawing interlocking processing unit 24. The movement information for the network drawing 30 and the movement information for the index drawing 40 obtained from the unit 15 are notified to the output unit 12. Accordingly, the network drawing 30 on the display device 4
And the cursor 41 of the index drawing 40 is simultaneously moved.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a state in which a node of the network is moved and displayed on the display device. When moving and displaying a node, the node 3 on the network drawing 30 is clicked with the mouse 3 and moved freely. Control unit 10
The node position moving means (not shown) of the input unit 11
Link information obtained from the coordinate transformation unit 15
Is notified to the output unit 12 together with the movement information. The nodes and links of the network drawing 30 on the display device 4 are moved accordingly. Further, the control unit 10 converts the coordinates after the movement from the coordinate conversion unit 15 into a net data format, and stores the converted data in the net data storage unit 13. Thereby, when displaying the network next time, the node 35 and the link 36 are displayed at the position after the movement.

Finally, a method for returning to the initial state will be described. In any state, if the standard display button 33 is selected by the keyboard 2 or the mouse 3, the initialization processing unit 28 of the control unit 10
Obtains this information from the input unit 11, reads the initial data from the network data storage unit 13, performs coordinate conversion in the coordinate conversion unit 15, and outputs the data through the network drawing display processing unit 21 and the index drawing display processing unit 22 to the output unit 12. Notify. Accordingly, the network drawing and the index drawing in the initial state are displayed on the display device 4.

[0018]

As described above, according to the present invention,
A desired position and desired range of the network can be enlarged and displayed on the network drawing. By moving nodes and links on the network drawing, a network drawing without nodes overlapping even in a complicated network configuration can be displayed. Can be displayed. Further, by linking the movement of the network drawing with the scroll bar provided in the network drawing and the movement of the network drawing with the cursor of the index drawing, the network drawing at a desired position can be displayed with fewer operations.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of a network display device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a state in which a network is displayed when a display device is activated.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a state where a network is enlarged and displayed on a display device.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a state in which a node of the network is moved and displayed on the display device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 Main device 2 Keyboard 3 Mouse 4 Display device 10 Control unit 11 Input unit 12 Output unit 13 Network data storage unit 14 Magnification calculation unit 15 Coordinate conversion unit 21 Network drawing display processing unit 22 Index drawing display processing unit 23 Cursor display processing unit 24 Moving drawing interlocking processing unit 25 Enlarged display processing unit 26 Network drawing moving processing unit 27 Index drawing moving processing unit 28 Initialization processing unit 30 Network drawing 31 Scroll bar 32 Enlarged display button 33 Standard display button 35 Node 36 Link 40 Index drawing 41 Cursor

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A network display device comprising a network drawing for actually displaying a network and an index drawing for indicating a display range of the network drawing when displaying a network including nodes and links on an image such as a map. Enlarged display means for enlarging and displaying the range specified above to the size of the network drawing, cursor display means for displaying a cursor for specifying the specified range on the index drawing, scroll added to the enlarged network drawing Network drawing moving means for moving a display range using a bar, index drawing moving means for moving a cursor on an index drawing, movement of a display range of a cursor on an index drawing in conjunction with a display range on a network drawing, and a network A network display device comprising: moving drawing interlocking means for interlocking movement of the display range of the surface with the display range of the cursor on the index drawing; and network display initializing means for returning the display of the network drawing to an initial state. . 2. A node position moving means in which a link connected to the node moves by moving the node, and a node position after moving when redisplaying by storing position information of the moved node. 2. The network display device according to claim 1, further comprising: a network display unit for displaying a network by using the information processing unit; and a node position initialization unit for returning a node position to a node position before the movement.