JPS6315322A - Acquiring and reclaiming system for command history - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To store a graphic operation as a character string, and to enable a reclaiming operation to be performed, by converting an input operation to the character string, storing it in a file, and editing a stored character string by a text editing program. CONSTITUTION:The content of a command history file 421 generated at an acquiring part as it is, or the content corrected by an ordinary file editing program, is inputted to a command rerun program 434. The command rerun program 434 reads the content of the command history file 421 line by line, and when the character strings '#pick', '#menu', and '#overlay' appear, a menu table 422 is searched setting the name of a menu, and that of the file, posted in the same row, as indexes, and the name of a corresponding menu execution and application program is found, then it is started up.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a dialogue system that stores a user's operation sequence and makes it reusable, and in particular, inputs a command sequence by moving or superimposing figures. Concerning command history acquisition and reuse methods that are effective for systems.

[Conventional technology]

Conventional command acquisition systems store character strings read from the keyboard and reuse them as they are, or modify and reuse the stored character strings using simple commands. As a typical system,
Based on UNIX developed at AT&T's Bell Laboratories in the United States.

There is something called Sea Shell (C5hell) developed at UCB (University of California, Berkeley). The command storage reuse function of this system is to store a command string, and modify and reuse one command string at a time. It is also possible to save the resulting modified command sequence to a regular disk file. However, such conventional systems have the problem that the object to be stored is the character string input from the keyboard itself, and non-character inputs such as moving figures on the screen are not stored. The systems that analyze shape selection and movement operations are Apple's Li5a (Li5a) and Machine Trash (Li5a).
Mac in tosh) etc. have been announced.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

Computer systems like this are for non-specialists.

Visualizing operations can facilitate understanding. For example, if you select a file displayed on the screen with a pointing device such as a mouse and place it on a trash can displayed at a different location, this means deleting the file. There was a system to analyze and process the operations performed, but there was no system to memorize the four works.

An object of the present invention is to provide a command storage method that stores both an entity name corresponding to a figure and a character string expressing a move 1 superimposition operation in a file when storing a command, thereby enabling reuse operations. be.

[Means for solving problems]

The present invention is characterized in that a sequence of input operations is converted into a character string, stored in a file, and the stored character string is edited by a text editing program.

[Effect]

In the present invention, reuse operations are made possible by storing graphic operations as character strings.

〔Example〕

FIG. 1 is an example of a visualized operation on a display screen. A file 110 displayed on the screen is selected using a pointing device 120 such as a mouse. After selection.

A menu operation group 130 allowed for the file 110 is displayed. After the menu is displayed, the user selects the desired process "FI collection" from the menu, or selects the file 110 and overlays it on another graphic 1, such as the trash can 140. Regardless of whether you select from the menu or perform an overlapping operation, the corresponding processing is performed.If you select the menu ``edit'', as shown in Fig. 2.

A new screen will appear for editing the file. If the file is overlapped with the trash box shape, the file will be deleted as shown in Figure 3.

When it becomes necessary to repeat these operations again, in conventional systems, it is necessary to perform the same operation, that is, to select the file 110, display the menu, and then make a menu selection. This method involves three operations using the mouse: selecting the file 110, selecting the "edit" menu, and overlapping the file 110 with the trash can 140. Trash can 14
0 in the computer system is stored in a command history file, and the history file is made re-executable by a command reuse program.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of the apparatus and software for realizing this method. A command history file 421. is stored in the magnetic disk 420. A menu table 422 and a display table 423 are stored.

The contents of the menu table 422 are shown in FIG.

The file name item 510 contains the displayed file name, the menu name item 520 contains the menu list (displayed at 130 in FIG. 1) when the file is selected, and the menu execution program name item. In 530,
Contains the name of the application program that will be executed when the menu is selected.

Note that the menu name item also describes the case where figures overlap (2), for example, when they overlap with a trash can figure. In the display table 423, file names and designs of figures displayed on the screen are entered.

The contents are shown in FIG.

Command history acquisition method First, the command history acquisition method will be explained.

The contents of the command history file are shown in FIG. 7, the data relationship diagram of the command analysis system 432 and the command history acquisition unit is shown in FIG. 8, and the flowchart of the processing is shown in FIG. screen 81
Display figures 820 to 83 degrees at 0. The displayed figures are, for example, the file 110 and trash can 140 in FIG. 11. To analyze the selection operation of the figure 620 by the user with the mouse, the command analysis system 431 displays the menu 13 on a part of the screen 610 according to the menu table 422.
0 is displayed.The command history acquisition unit 433 writes the character string ``pick'' and the file name corresponding to the selected item 1 to the command history file 421 (Figure 7).After the menu is displayed, the user selects the menu. First, the case of operation will be explained.The command analysis system 432 refers to the menu table 422 from the selected menu name and starts the corresponding menu execution application program 435 group.

At the same time, the command history acquisition unit 433 acquires the menu name and the character string 1smen, which means a menu selection operation.

Write the file name to the command history file 421.

When the user performs a one-overlapping operation instead of a menu selection operation, the command analysis system 432 starts a corresponding menu execution application program based on the menu table 422. At the same time, the command history acquisition unit 433 writes the character string 6, which means 8 superimposition operation, to the command a history file 421. Ver lay" and the file names of both, and in FIG. 6, "file" and "trash can" are stored.Command history reuse methodNext, the reuse method will be explained. The contents of the command history file 421 created by the acquisition unit are input to the command re-execution program 434 either as they are or after being edited using a normal file editing program. An edited example is shown in FIG. 7, a data relationship diagram of the command re-execution program 434 is shown in FIG. 10, and a processing flowchart is shown in FIG. 11. The command re-execution program 434 reads the contents of the command history file 421 line by line1.
String “pick”, ’menu ”, ”
When "φoverlay" appears, the menu table 422 is searched by indexing the menu name and file name written on the same line, and the name of the corresponding menu execution application program is found.

to start.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, in an interactive system in which commands are input by selecting and moving figures displayed on one screen and superimposing them, it is possible to record, modify, and reuse the rflJ history of operations.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figures 1, 2, and 3 are operation diagrams visualized using figures, Figure 4 is a diagram of the equipment and software configuration for realizing this method, Figures 5 and 5 are diagrams of the menu table structure, s6
Figure 7 shows the contents of the display table, Figure 7 shows the contents of the command history file, Figure 8 shows the data related to the command analysis system, Figure 9 shows the process, and Figure 1 shows the contents of the command history file.
Figure 0 is the data related diagram of the command re-execution program, the first
Figure 1 is a flowchart of the process. 432... Command analysis system, 433... Command history acquisition unit, 434... Command re-execution program, 421... Command history file, 422...
Menu table, 423...Display table.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Select multiple figures corresponding to entities such as files and printers displayed on the screen using a cursor that moves on the screen, and move and superimpose the figures to create a computer system. A system for instructing a command string to be executed, characterized in that the input operation string is converted into a character string, stored in a file, and the stored string is edited using a text editing program so that it can be reused. Command history acquisition reuse method.