CN107102856B - Tool prompting system and method based on single interface - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a tool tip system and method based on a single interface. The system includes a tool tip manager, a control warehouse, an event manager and a display component, wherein: a tool tip manager is used to display the controls and the tips of the controls. The information acquisition method is added to the control warehouse, and the control and the event manager are associated; the control warehouse is used to store all the controls and the corresponding prompt information acquisition methods; the event manager is used to control the tooltip manager from the control warehouse. Obtain the corresponding control, so that the tooltip manager can obtain the prompt information according to the method of obtaining the prompt information of the control; the display component is used to display the prompt information. The invention also discloses a method corresponding to the system. The tooltip system and method based on a single interface provided by the embodiment of the present invention realizes the management of all tooltip information and the dynamic display of tooltip information of a software through a single interface.

Description

A tooltip system and method based on a single interface

technical field

The invention relates to the technical field of software, in particular to a tool prompting system and method based on a single interface.

Background technique

In a general software system, the information prompt is realized by using a tool tip component in a software interface, so that each related software interface needs to add a tool tip component during use. Through the above-mentioned software prompt processing method, not only the use is complicated, the workload is large, but also the software maintenance is troublesome. Especially in large software systems, when there is a problem with the tooltip, it needs to be modified in many places, and there may be negligence or omission of modification.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a tool prompting system and method based on a single interface to improve the usability of the software by managing all user prompting information of the entire software based on a single interface.

In order to achieve the above object, the technical scheme adopted by the present invention is: a tool prompt system based on a single interface, including a tool prompt manager, a control warehouse, an event manager and a display component, wherein:

The tool tip manager is used to add the control and the prompt information acquisition method of the control to the control warehouse, and associate the control with the event manager;

The control warehouse is used to store the control and the corresponding prompt information acquisition method;

the event manager, configured to control the tooltip manager to obtain the corresponding control from the control warehouse, so that the tooltip manager obtains the prompt information according to the method of obtaining the prompt information of the control;

The display component is used for displaying the prompt information on the software interface.

Preferably, the event manager is also used for:

Determine the display timing of the prompt information, and when the prompt information needs to be displayed, send a control signal to the tool prompt manager, so that the tool prompt manager obtains the corresponding information from the control warehouse according to the control signal 's controls.

Preferably, the prompt information acquisition method includes a static acquisition method or a dynamic acquisition method, and the tool prompt system further includes a prompt information manager, and the prompt information manager is used to manage all the prompt information acquisition methods are static acquisition methods. Tooltip for the control.

Preferably, the tooltip manager is also used to:

If the prompt information acquisition method is a static acquisition method, the tool prompt manager calls the prompt information manager to acquire the prompt information; if the prompt information acquisition method is a dynamic acquisition method, the tool prompt manager The prompt information is acquired by means of event triggering.

Preferably, the event manager is also used for:

When judging that the control is no longer valid, sending a removal signal to the tooltip manager;

The tooltip manager is also used to:

The control is removed from the control repository according to the removal signal.

Correspondingly, the present invention also provides a tooltip method based on a single interface, including:

Step S1: adding the control and the prompt information acquisition method of the control to the control warehouse;

Step S2: associate the control with the event manager;

Step S3: obtaining the corresponding control from the control warehouse, and obtaining the prompt information according to the prompt information acquisition method of the control;

Step S4: Invoke the display component to display the prompt information on the software interface.

Preferably, the prompt information is acquired in a static acquisition manner or a dynamic acquisition manner.

Preferably, the step S3 includes the following steps:

The step S3 includes the following steps:

Step S31: determine the display timing of the prompt information, and when the prompt information needs to be displayed, send a control signal to the tool prompt manager;

Step S32: obtaining the control and the prompt information obtaining method from the control warehouse according to the control signal;

Step S33: Acquire the prompt information according to the prompt information acquisition method.

Preferably, in the step S33, if the prompt information acquisition method is a static acquisition method, the prompt information manager is called to obtain the prompt information; if the prompt information acquisition method is a dynamic acquisition method, an event triggering method is used. to obtain the prompt information.

Preferably, it also includes:

When it is judged that the control is no longer valid, a removal signal is sent;

The control is removed from the control repository according to the removal signal.

The present invention has the following advantages: the tool prompting system and method based on a single interface provided by the present invention realizes the unified management of all control events by the tool prompting manager; all controls are managed by the control warehouse; the prompt information display timing is managed by the event manager; The prompt information is displayed by the display component. When a control needs to do the tooltip function, call the tooltip manager to add the tooltip function; the tooltip manager adds the control and the prompt information acquisition method to the control warehouse; then the tooltip manager adds the control and the event manager Correlation; when the event manager wants to display the prompt information, it calls the prompt information manager to obtain the prompt information; after obtaining the prompt information, it calls the display component to display the prompt information. As a result, all tooltip information and dynamic display of tooltip information of a software are managed through a single interface.

Description of drawings

In order to illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art more clearly, the following briefly introduces the accompanying drawings that are used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are only These are some embodiments of the present invention. For those of ordinary skill in the art, other drawings can also be obtained from these drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a tooltip system based on a single interface provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 shows a flowchart of a tooltip method based on a single interface provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 shows a flowchart of step S3 provided by an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed ways

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. Obviously, the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, but not all of the embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art without creative efforts shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Example 1

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a tooltip system based on a single interface provided by an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1 , the tooltip system based on a single interface of the present invention includes a tooltip manager 110 , a control repository 120 , an event manager 130 and a display component 140 , the tooltip manager 110 and the control repository 120 are respectively , the event manager 130 is connected with the display component 140 .

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, when the system programmer needs to make a tool tip for a control during programming, he actively calls the tool tip system provided by the embodiment of the present invention.

The tooltip manager 110 is configured to add the control and the method for obtaining the prompt information of the control to the control repository 120 , and to associate the control with the event manager 130 .

Specifically, in an embodiment of the present invention, when a control needs a tooltip function, the tooltip manager 110 is called to add a tooltip function; the tooltip manager 110 associates the control that needs to be used as a tooltip with the corresponding control The prompt information acquisition method (for example, static acquisition method or dynamic acquisition method) is added to the control warehouse 120; then the management right of the control is handed over to the event manager 130, so that the event manager 130 can access the control and its related information.

The control warehouse 120 is used to store the control and the corresponding prompt information acquisition method.

The event manager 130 is configured to control the tooltip manager 110 to obtain the corresponding control from the control repository 120, so that the tooltip manager 110 obtains the control according to the method for obtaining the prompt information of the control. prompt information.

Further, in an embodiment of the present invention, the event manager 130 is further configured to determine the display timing of the prompt information, and when the prompt information needs to be displayed, send a control signal to the tool prompt manager 110, So that the tool tip manager 110 obtains the corresponding control from the control warehouse 120 according to the control signal.

Further, the event manager 130 determines the display timing according to the mouse state. For example, the display will only be triggered when the mouse hovers over a preset time.

Specifically, in an embodiment of the present invention, the event manager 130 is a general interface for event processing of all controls, and is used to manage the display timing of the prompt information of the controls. For example, the event manager 130 determines when to display the prompt information of the control by managing the mouse state (for example, events such as mouse move, press, lift, hover, hover timer, etc.), for example, the event manager 130 After monitoring the mouse hover event over a preset time (eg, 500 milliseconds), the event manager 130 sends a control signal to the tooltip manager 110 , so that the tooltip manager 110 obtains the corresponding control from the control repository 120 .

The display component 140 is configured to display the prompt information on a software interface.

Specifically, in an embodiment of the present invention, after the tool prompt manager 110 obtains the prompt information, the display component 140 will be called to display the prompt information.

Further, in an embodiment of the present invention, the tool prompt system based on a single interface further includes a prompt information manager 150 for managing prompt information of all controls whose prompt information acquisition mode is static acquisition mode.

Specifically, in an embodiment of the present invention, the static acquisition means that the prompt information of the control is stored in the prompt information manager 150 in the form of an XML (Extensible Markup Language, Extensible Markup Language) file. The dynamic obtaining method refers to dynamically obtaining the prompt information by triggering the control to obtain the prompt information event, which is usually implemented through a callback function. Through the static acquisition method, some commonly used prompt information content can be preset in the XML file, which is convenient for management; through the dynamic acquisition method, the developer can define it by himself through the callback function, which is convenient for personalized setting.

As described above, after determining that prompt information needs to be displayed, the event manager 130 sends a control signal to the tool prompt manager 110; Acquire the control and the prompt information acquisition method; the tool prompt manager 110 acquires the prompt information according to the prompt information acquisition method, wherein, if the prompt information acquisition method is a static acquisition method, the tool The prompt manager 110 invokes the prompt information manager 150 to acquire the prompt information; if the prompt information is acquired in a dynamic acquisition manner, the tool prompt manager 110 acquires the prompt information through an event triggering method.

Further, in an embodiment of the present invention, the event manager 130 is further configured to send a removal signal to the tooltip manager 110 when it is determined that the control is no longer valid; the tooltip manager 110 It is also used to remove the control from the control warehouse 120 according to the removal signal. In this way, when the control is not needed, it can be removed from the control warehouse to release the space resources of the control warehouse.

Advantageously, in the tooltip system based on a single interface provided by this embodiment, the tooltip manager realizes the unified management of all control events; the control warehouse manages all controls; the event manager manages the display timing of the prompt information; Display prompt information; the prompt information manager saves the static prompt information or dynamically obtains the prompt information through event triggering. When a control needs to do the tooltip function, call the tooltip manager to add the tooltip function; the tooltip manager adds the control and the prompt information acquisition method to the control warehouse; then the tooltip manager adds the control and the event manager Correlation; when the event manager wants to display the prompt information, it calls the prompt information manager to obtain the prompt information, and can also dynamically obtain the prompt information through event excitation; after obtaining the prompt information, it calls the display component to display the prompt information. In this way, a single interface is realized to manage all the tooltip information of a software and realize the dynamic display of the tooltip information.

Embodiment 2

FIG. 2 shows a flowchart of a tooltip method based on a single interface provided by an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in Figure 2, the tooltip method based on a single interface of the present invention includes:

Step S1: adding the control and the prompt information acquisition method of the control to the control warehouse;

Step S2: associate the control with the event manager;

Step S3: obtaining the corresponding control from the control warehouse, and obtaining the prompt information according to the prompt information acquisition method of the control;

Step S4: Invoke the display component to display the prompt information on the software interface.

Specifically, in an embodiment of the present invention, when a control needs to perform a tooltip function, the tooltip manager is called to add the tooltip function; the tooltip manager adds the control and the method of obtaining the prompt information to the control warehouse; The tooltip manager associates the control with the event manager, that is, the event manager manages and provides event processing for all controls; when the event manager monitors the display timing of the prompt information of the control, the tooltip The prompt information acquisition method obtains the corresponding prompt information; after obtaining the prompt information, the display module is called to display the prompt information.

Further, in an embodiment of the present invention, the prompt information acquisition method is a static acquisition method or a dynamic acquisition method. Therefore, as shown in Figure 3, step S3 includes:

Step S31: determine the display timing of the prompt information, and when the prompt information needs to be displayed, send a control signal to the tool prompt manager;

Step S32: obtaining the control and the prompt information obtaining method from the control warehouse according to the control signal;

Step S33: Acquire the prompt information according to the prompt information acquisition method, wherein, if the prompt information acquisition method is a static acquisition method, call the prompt information manager to obtain the prompt information; if the prompt information acquisition method is: In a dynamic acquisition method, the tooltip manager acquires the prompt information through an event triggering method.

Specifically, in an embodiment of the present invention, the static acquisition means that the prompt information of the control is stored in the prompt information manager in the form of an xml file. The dynamic obtaining method refers to dynamically obtaining the prompt information by triggering the control to obtain the prompt information event, which is usually implemented through a callback function.

Specifically, the event manager 130 determines when to display the prompt information of the control by managing the mouse state (for example, events such as mouse move, press, lift, hover, hover timer, etc.), for example, the event manager 130 detects that the mouse hover event exceeds a preset time (for example, 500 milliseconds), the event manager 130 sends a control signal to the tooltip manager 110, so that the tooltip manager 110 obtains the corresponding control from the control repository 120 .

Further, in an embodiment of the present invention, it also includes:

When the event manager determines that the control is no longer valid, sending a removal signal to the tooltip manager;

The control is removed from the control repository by the tooltip manager based on the removal signal.

In this way, when the control is not needed, it can be removed from the control warehouse to release the space resources of the control warehouse.

Advantageously, in the tooltip system method based on a single interface provided by this embodiment, when a control needs to perform a tooltip function, the tooltip manager is called to increase the tooltip function; the tooltip manager adds the control and the prompt information acquisition method. Go to the control warehouse; then the tooltip manager associates this control with the event manager; when the event manager wants to display the prompt information, it calls the prompt information manager to obtain the prompt information, and can also obtain the prompt information dynamically through the event excitation method. information; after obtaining the prompt information, call the display component to display the prompt information. In this way, a single interface is realized to manage all the tooltip information of a software and realize the dynamic display of the tooltip information.

The above disclosure is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and of course, it cannot limit the scope of rights of the present invention. Those of ordinary skill in the art can understand that all or part of the process for realizing the above-mentioned embodiment can be realized according to the rights of the present invention. The equivalent changes required to be made still belong to the scope covered by the invention.

Claims (10)

1. A single interface based tool-tip system comprising a tool-tip manager, a control repository, an event manager, and a display component, wherein:

the tool prompt manager is used for adding a control and a prompt information acquisition mode of the control to the control warehouse and associating the control with the event manager;

the control warehouse is used for storing the controls and the corresponding prompt information acquisition modes;

the event manager is used for controlling the tool prompt manager to acquire a corresponding control from the control warehouse so that the tool prompt manager acquires the prompt information according to the prompt information acquisition mode of the control;

and the display component is used for displaying the prompt information on a software interface.

2. The single interface based tooltip system of claim 1, wherein the event manager is further configured to:

and determining the display time of the prompt information, and when the prompt information needs to be displayed, sending a control signal to the tool prompt manager so that the tool prompt manager acquires the corresponding control from the control warehouse according to the control signal.

3. The single-interface based tool prompting system of claim 1, wherein the prompting information obtaining mode comprises a static obtaining mode or a dynamic obtaining mode, and the tool prompting system further comprises a prompting information manager, and the prompting information manager is configured to manage the prompting information of all the controls of which the prompting information obtaining mode is the static obtaining mode.

4. The single interface based tooltip system of claim 3, wherein the tooltip manager is further configured to:

if the prompt information acquisition mode is a static acquisition mode, the tool prompt manager calls the prompt information manager to acquire the prompt information; and if the prompt information acquisition mode is a dynamic acquisition mode, the tool prompt manager acquires the prompt information in an event triggering mode.

5. The single interface based tooltip system of claim 1, wherein the event manager is further configured to:

when the control is judged to be no longer effective, sending a removal signal to the tool prompt manager;

the tool-tip manager is further configured to:

removing the control from the control repository according to the removal signal.

6. A tool prompting method based on a single interface is characterized by comprising the following steps:

step S1: adding the control and the prompt information acquisition mode of the control to a control warehouse;

step S2: associating the control with an event manager;

step S3: acquiring a corresponding control from the control warehouse, and acquiring the prompt information according to the prompt information acquisition mode of the control;

step S4: and calling a display component to display the prompt information on a software interface.

7. The single interface based tool prompting method of claim 6, wherein the prompting information obtaining mode is a static obtaining mode or a dynamic obtaining mode.

8. The single interface based tool prompting method of claim 7, wherein the step S3 comprises the steps of:

step S31: determining the display time of the prompt information, and sending a control signal to a tool prompt manager when the prompt information needs to be displayed;

step S32: acquiring the control and the prompt information acquisition mode from the control warehouse according to the control signal;

step S33: and acquiring the prompt information according to the prompt information acquisition mode.

9. The single-interface-based tool prompting method of claim 8, wherein in the step S33, if the prompting message obtaining mode is a static obtaining mode, a prompting message manager is called to obtain the prompting message; and if the prompt information acquisition mode is a dynamic acquisition mode, acquiring the prompt information through an event excitation mode.

10. The single interface based tool tip method of claim 6, further comprising:

when the control is judged to be no longer effective, sending a removal signal;

removing the control from the control repository according to the removal signal.

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