JP2002297276A - User interface control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a user I/F control system capable of detecting the error of a screen specification table. SOLUTION: A panel sub-system 14 is provided with following modules, that is, a UiWindow 31 from a screen sub-system, a UiTixtDisplay 32 for plotting text data, a UiLocationChecker 34 for coordinate check, a UiSizeChecker 35 for plotting size check, and a UiLapChecker 36 for overlap check. When the checked result is NG, each Checker module informs a user of warning by using a display device such as an LCD, a warning sound, and an LED or the like.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a user interface (hereinafter referred to as "user I / F") control system, and more particularly, to checking the coordinates, overlap, and drawing character string length of screen components (Widgets). The present invention relates to a user I / F control system capable of detecting an error in a screen specification table.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional technology relating to a user I / F,
Techniques relating to a method of constructing a user I / F are known and described in, for example, JP-A-6-4279 and JP-A-7-104986, and techniques relating to a widget layout method are described in, for example, JP-A-7-21973
No. 5 is known.

[0003]

The prior art described above is
In either case, the user I / F construction method or Widget
There is no known technique for checking the coordinates, overlap, and drawing character string length of a widget to detect an error in a screen specification table.

A first object of the present invention is to provide a user I / F control system capable of detecting an error in a screen specification table by checking the coordinate designation of a widget at the time of execution.

It is a second object of the present invention to provide a user I / F control system capable of detecting an error in the screen specification table by checking the overlap of widgets at the time of execution.

A third object of the present invention is to provide a user I / F control system capable of detecting an error in a screen specification table by checking a drawing character string length.

Further, a fourth object of the present invention is to provide a user I / F control system capable of efficiently managing the quality of the screen specification table by storing the generated error of the screen specification table. It is in.

A fifth object of the present invention is to provide a user I / F control system capable of minimizing the range of influence on other functions when the above-mentioned checks are performed. It is in.

[0009]

According to the present invention, the above-mentioned first method is provided.
An object of the present invention is to provide a user I / F control system which comprises a screen subsystem for managing logical components of a screen and a panel subsystem for providing a virtual display device I / F, and controls a Widget drawing. Means for detecting that coordinate designation exceeding the display range has been performed at the time of a drawing request as an abnormal state, and displaying the detected abnormal state on a display device, a warning sound, an LED lighting state, etc. to the user. This is achieved by providing means for notifying.

A second object of the present invention is to provide a screen subsystem for managing logical components of a screen and a panel subsystem for providing a virtual display device I / F, and a user who controls the drawing of a widget. In the I / F control system, a means for detecting, as an abnormal state, the occurrence of another drawing request in which overlapping occurs for a widget that does not allow overlapping of drawing, and a display device for displaying the detected abnormal state. This is achieved by providing means for notifying the user of a display on the top, a warning sound, a lighting state of the LED, and the like.

A third object of the present invention is to provide a screen subsystem for managing logical components of a screen and a panel subsystem for providing a virtual display device I / F, and a user who controls the drawing of a widget. In the I / F control system, means for detecting, as an abnormal state, that a drawing request in which a character string exceeds a display range is performed when drawing a widget, displaying the detected abnormal state on a display device,
This is achieved by providing means for notifying the user of a warning sound, an LED lighting state, and the like.

Further, the first to third objects are composed of a screen subsystem for managing logical components of the screen and a panel subsystem for providing a virtual display device I / F. In the user I / F control system to be controlled, a means for detecting, as an abnormal state, the designation of coordinates beyond the display range at the time of a drawing request of a widget, and an overlap with a widget that does not allow overlapping of the drawing occurs. At least one of means for detecting that another drawing request has occurred as an abnormal state, and means for detecting that a drawing request whose character string exceeds the display range at the time of Widget drawing is performed as an abnormal state. This is achieved by providing two means and means for notifying the user of the detected abnormal state by displaying the detected abnormal state on a display device, a warning sound, an LED lighting state, and the like. .

Further, the fourth object is achieved by further comprising means for accumulating the detected abnormal state as error code information.

The fifth object is that each means for detecting the abnormal state is provided with a different class from other means for providing a drawing I / F, and these classes are related. It is achieved by doing.

[0015]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, a user I / F according to the present invention will be described.
An embodiment of the control system will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. Before describing an embodiment of the present invention, first, a user I
An outline of the / F control software will be described.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of the user I / F control software. In FIG. 1, 11 is a screen specification table, 12 is a screen generation subsystem, 13 is a screen subsystem, 14 is a panel subsystem, and 15 is an operation panel device.

As shown in FIG. 1, the user I / F control software includes a screen specification table 11 for specifying an operation flow and a screen specification, and a screen generation system 12 having a role of generating a screen according to the screen specification table 11. , A screen subsystem 13 that manages components in the screen, and a panel subsystem 14 that provides a logical device control I / F and controls the operation panel device 15.

Screen drawing (generation) by the above-described user I / F control software is performed as follows. That is, the screen generation subsystem 12 uses the screen specification table 1
1 to read the specifications of the screen to be drawn, and use the screen subsystem 13 to generate screen components. The screen subsystem 13 manages the tree structure of the screen component requested to be generated, and the panel subsystem 14 instructs the operation panel device 15 to draw a screen.

Screen erasure (deletion) of the screen drawn as described above is performed as follows. That is,
The screen generation subsystem 12 includes a screen subsystem 13
, A screen to be deleted is specified, and a request to delete the screen is made. The screen subsystem 13 deletes all of the screen components constituting the tree structure below the designated screen to be deleted. At this time, the screen subsystem 13 deletes the key if it has been registered in the panel subsystem. As described above, the screen deletion of the designated portion of the drawn screen is performed.

FIG. 2 shows screen components in the screen subsystem.
FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a widget. When a screen drawing request as shown in the example of FIG. 2A is generated, screen components necessary for drawing the screen are generated, and as shown in FIG. ) Is formed as a tree of screen components (Widget). In this example, FIG.
The example shown in (a) corresponds to one screen (Window), and "Sendable", "Memory", "1"
00% ",..., Etc. are screen components.
Will be managed by

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of a panel subsystem of user I / F control software for realizing an I / F control system according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 3, reference numeral 31 denotes a user interface window (UiWindo
w), 32 is a user interface text display (UiTixtDisplay), 33 is a user interface checker (UiChecker), 34 is a user interface location checker (UiLocationChecker), 35 is a user interface size checker (UiSizeChecker), 36 is a user interface wrap checker (UiLapChecker). )
It is.

In the embodiment of the present invention, when a drawing request is issued, a parameter check is performed in the above-described panel subsystem 14. In the panel subsystem 14, as shown in FIG. UiWindow 31 from the screen subsystem, U for drawing text data
iTixtDisplay32, UiLocationC for coordinate check
hecker34, UiSizeCheck for drawing size check
er35, UiLapChecker 36 for overlap check, and UiChecker3 for integrating information from each of the above-mentioned Checkers.
3 are prepared.

UiLocationChecker 34 which is a coordinate checking module prepared in the panel subsystem 14
Refers to a parameter relating to the drawing start position, which is an argument of the drawing request to the panel subsystem, and checks whether the requested drawing is within the drawing range of the drawing device of the system. If the result of the check is NG, LC
The user is notified of the warning using a display device such as D, a warning sound, an LED, or the like. This warning is issued when a display device such as an LCD is used.
This is performed by displaying the ID of the ow / ID of the widget, the value of the error parameter, and the like.

UiLapChecker3 which is an overlap check module prepared in the panel subsystem 14
Reference numeral 6 refers to an overwrite prohibition parameter, which is an argument of a drawing request to the panel subsystem, and checks whether another drawing request has been made for a drawing range set to be overwrite prohibited. If the result of the check is NG,
As described above, the user is notified of the warning using the LCD, the warning sound, the LED, and the like. When a display device such as an LCD is used, this warning is issued by displaying the ID of the window in which the parameter error has occurred, the ID of the widget, the value of the error parameter, and the like.

UiSizeChe, a drawing size check module prepared in the panel subsystem 14,
The cker 35 calculates the drawing size from the drawing start position and the character string information which are the arguments of the drawing request to the panel subsystem, and checks whether the drawing request is within the drawing range of the drawing device of the system. If the result of the check is NG, a warning to that effect is given to the user using an LCD, a warning sound, an LED or the like as described above. This warning
When a display device such as an LCD is used, the display is performed by displaying the ID of the window in which the parameter error has occurred, the ID of the widget, the value of the error parameter, and the like.

The embodiment of the present invention uses the above-described Checker 3
If an error occurs in each of the checks 4 to 36, a unique error code is defined for each type of error, and the error is registered in the error code management module of the system simultaneously with the occurrence of the error. The window ID is also registered so that it can be confirmed whether or not the event has occurred.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the UiWindow 31 and the UiT
A module that provides a drawing I / F such as ixtDisplay 32, a UiLocationChecker 34 for checking coordinates, a UiSizeChecker 35 for checking drawing size, a UiLapChecker 36 for checking overlap, and each of the above-described Chs.
A different class is assigned to each module of the UiChecker 33 that integrates information from ecker, and these classes are configured so as to be related to each other.
Is not affected by other classes in the screen subsystem and the panel subsystem.

FIG. 4 shows the UiTix in the panel subsystem 14.
It is a flowchart explaining the processing operation of tDisplay32. As shown in FIG. 4, when there is a drawing request, the UiTixtDisplay 32 checks whether or not the UiChecker 33 module is attached (step 41).
If the third module is not attached, a drawing process for displaying the drawing request as it is on the drawing device is performed (step 43). In the check of step 41, UiChecker
If 33 modules are attached, all UiChecke
r34 to 36 are executed (step 42), and a drawing process is performed on the drawing device based on the result (step 4).
3).

FIG. 5 shows the UiLoc in the panel subsystem 14.
6 is a flowchart illustrating a processing operation of ationChecker34. As shown in FIG. 5, UiLocationChecker 34
Receives the drawing request, obtains the coordinates instructed to draw and the displayable area of the display device (step 51), and checks whether the designated coordinates are on the displayable area (step 52). ). If the specified coordinates are not on the displayable area by this check, the window ID / Widget
Is obtained (step 53), and a display (step 54) is issued to warn that a parameter error has occurred on a display device such as an LCD. If it is determined in step 52 that the designated coordinates are on the displayable area, or after the processing in step 54, the processing here ends.

In the above, in the processing of step 54, L
Although it has been described that a display for warning that a parameter error has occurred is performed on a display device such as a CD, the warning in the process of step 54 may be performed by the blinking state of the LED or by emitting a warning sound. it can. In addition, when an error occurs, a process of registering the error code in the error code management module of the system is also performed in step 54. In the above description, the processing operation of the UiLocationChecker 34 has been described as an example. However, in the case of the other Checkers 35 and 36, the processing can be performed according to a similar flow.

In the above-described embodiment of the present invention, the processing operations of the above-described Checkers 33 to 36, Tixt Display 32, and the like can be created and provided in a computer program. CDR
It can also be provided by storing it in a recording medium such as OM and DVDROM.

[0032]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, Widget
Is checked at the time of execution, an error in the screen specification table can be detected.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the overlap of the widgets is checked at the time of execution, it is possible to detect an error in the screen specification table.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, since the drawing character string length is checked, it is possible to detect an error in the screen specification table.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, at least the two effects described in the first to third aspects can be simultaneously obtained.

According to the present invention, since the error of the screen specification table that has occurred is stored, it is possible to efficiently manage the quality of the screen specification table.

According to the present invention described in claim 6, according to claim 1,
It is possible to minimize the range of influence on functions other than those for realizing ５5.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of user I / F control software.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen component Widget in a screen subsystem.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of a panel subsystem of user I / F control software for realizing an I / F control system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a processing operation of UiTixtDisplay in the panel subsystem.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a processing operation of UiLocationChecker in the panel subsystem.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 Screen Specification Table 12 Screen Generation Subsystem 13 Screen Subsystem 14 Panel Subsystem 15 Operation Panel Device 31 User Interface Window (UiWindow) 32 User Interface Text Display (UiWindow)
TixtDisplay) 33 User Interface Checker (UiChecker) 34 User Interface Location Checker (UiChecker)
LocationChecker) 35 User interface size checker (UiSizeCh)
ecker) 36 User interface lap checker (UiLapChe
cker)

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Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A user interface control system, comprising a screen subsystem for managing logical components of a screen and a panel subsystem for providing a virtual display device interface, for controlling the rendering of a widget, comprising: Means for detecting that coordinate designation exceeding the display range has been performed as an abnormal state, and displaying the detected abnormal state on a display device, a warning sound, and an LED.
Means for notifying a user of a lighting state of the user and the like. 2. A user interface control system, comprising a screen subsystem for managing logical components of a screen and a panel subsystem for providing a virtual display device interface, for controlling the drawing of a widget, comprising: Means for detecting, as an abnormal state, the occurrence of another drawing request such as overlapping of unacceptable widgets, and displaying the detected abnormal state on a display device, a warning sound, and LED lighting. A user interface control system comprising means for notifying a user according to a state or the like. 3. A user interface control system, comprising a screen subsystem for managing logical components of a screen and a panel subsystem for providing a virtual display device interface, for controlling the rendering of a widget, Means for detecting, as an abnormal state, that a drawing request in which a character string exceeds a display range is performed;
Indication of detected abnormal condition on display device, warning sound, L
A user interface control system, comprising: means for notifying a user of an ED lighting state or the like. 4. A user interface control system, which comprises a screen subsystem for managing logical components of a screen and a panel subsystem for providing a virtual display device interface, and controls a Widget drawing, wherein a Widget drawing request is provided. Means to detect that the coordinate specification exceeding the display range has been performed as an abnormal state at the time, in the abnormal state that another drawing request such as overlapping occurs for a widget that does not allow drawing overlapping At least two means for detecting that there is a drawing request in which the character string exceeds the display range when drawing the widget as an abnormal state; and displaying the detected abnormal state on the display device. A user interface that includes means for notifying the user of a display, a warning sound, an LED lighting state, and the like. The scan control system. 5. The user interface control system according to claim 1, further comprising means for storing the detected abnormal state as error code information. 6. The means for detecting an abnormal state is provided with a different class from other means for providing a drawing interface, and these classes are related to each other. Any one of 1 to 5
A user interface control system as described.