JP3157917B2 - Data processing method and data processing device - Google Patents

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a data processing method for drawing a graph representing data based on numerical data with attributes based on graph attribute data, and managing a plurality of graph data including graph attribute data and numerical data. The present invention relates to a data processing device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when executing this type of graph display processing, a graph drawing program has been started as a subroutine from a data processing program such as a spreadsheet or a database, and the surface type, line type, etc., to be displayed as a graph are used. Is managed by the data processing program together with data such as numerical values of the data processing program.

[0003]

For this reason, in the above-described conventional example, when performing graph processing, graph attribute data such as the type, size, color, and surface type of a graph to be displayed are set for each data such as a spreadsheet. To create a graph with the same attributes from different spreadsheet data, you need to repeat the same operation for multiple graphs.
There is a problem that the graph display processing efficiency is extremely low.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to extract graph attribute data from designated first graph data from a plurality of graph data, The graph attribute data of the second graph data different from the one graph data is changed to the extracted first graph attribute data, and the graph representing the data based on the numerical data included in the second graph data is changed to the first graph data. By drawing with the attribute defined by one attribute data,
It is an object of the present invention to provide a data processing method and a data processing apparatus that can extract an attribute set as first graph data from graph data and replace the attribute with another attribute of a second graph.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, a graph representing data based on numerical data is drawn with an attribute based on graph attribute data, and graph data including graph attribute data and numerical data is drawn. A data processing method for managing a plurality of graph data, extracting graph attribute data from the first graph data specified from the plurality of graph data, the graph attribute of the second graph data different from the first graph data By changing the data to the extracted first graph attribute data, a graph representing data based on the numerical data included in the second graph data is drawn with the attribute defined by the first attribute data. is there.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, a plurality of graphs are drawn based on the managed plurality of graph data, and a graph designated among the drawn plurality of graphs is stored in the first graph. It is assumed to be graph data.

A third invention according to the present invention is a data processing for drawing a graph representing data based on numerical data with an attribute based on graph attribute data, and managing a plurality of graph data including the graph attribute data and the numerical data. An apparatus, wherein attribute data extracting means for extracting graph attribute data from first graph data designated from the plurality of graph data, and graph attribute data of second graph data different from the first graph data Attribute data changing means for changing the attribute data to the extracted first graph attribute data, and drawing a graph representing data based on the numerical data included in the second graph data with the attribute defined by the first attribute data And a graph drawing means.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the graph drawing means draws a plurality of graphs based on the managed plurality of graph data, and is specified in the plurality of drawn graphs. The apparatus has means for identifying a graph as the first graph data.

[0009]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining a configuration of a data processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and corresponds to, for example, a system capable of executing document processing, spreadsheet processing, and graph processing.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a system bus, and each constituent block to be described below is connected to the system bus 1. 2 is a CPU, and a program memory (P
In accordance with various document processing programs (hereinafter, including control procedures described in flowcharts) stored in the MEM 3, access to devices connected to the system bus 1 is generally controlled. The program memory 3 has an IP address
L, the system program read out from the hard disk 15 and
The function processing program read from the resident resides. The program memory 3 also stores coded text data input from the keyboard 9. An image memory (IMEM) 4 stores a bit image of image information read from the image scanner 5 or the like. Reference numeral 6 denotes an image input / output control unit.
, And the output of a print image developed into a bitmap image to the image memory 4 to the printer 7 is controlled. An input control unit 8 is connected to input devices such as a keyboard 9 and a pointing device 10 (PD). The operator operates the keyboard 9 to issue a system operation command or the like. The pointing device 10 is for selecting image information on the CRT display device (CRT) 13 and instructing processing, and in this embodiment, a mouse is employed. Thus, the mouse cursor on the CRT 13 is arbitrarily moved in the X and Y directions to select a menu and select / edit character data, graphic data, image data, and the like. Reference numeral 11 denotes a video image memory (VRAM) which reads out display data developed in the VRAM 11 to a display output control unit 12 and outputs the read data to a CRT 1.
3 is displayed on the screen. If the data to be displayed is character data, a font pattern corresponding to the position and attribute information is developed as an image on the VRAM 11, and a cursor can be generated and displayed directly on the display area of the VRAM 11 by software control. It is. Reference numeral 14 denotes an external storage device control unit, which controls access to a hard disk 15 and a floppy disk 16, which are disks for data files. The CRT 13 can display a character image or the like in color.

[0011] In the data processing apparatus thus configured, the graph drawing means (functional means in which the CPU 2 is executed based on the graph processing program stored in the PMEM 3) responds to predetermined data while following the set graph attribute data. When the graph is drawn on the screen, the graph attribute data of the graph drawn by the storage unit (CPU2) is stored and registered in the storage medium (PMEM3), and any graph attribute data referenced by the graph drawing unit is stored. By replacing the graph attribute data with the desired graph attribute data stored and registered by the replacing means (CPU2), it is possible to draw the graph while changing the graph attribute of the graph drawn on the screen to the desired graph attribute.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the data structure of a document file in the data processing device shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 1, sentence data 10
D, two graph data 11D, 12D and two table data 13D, 14D. In the data processing apparatus according to the present embodiment, data of different processing programs such as text, graphics, graphs, and spreadsheets are managed as one data file.

FIG. 3 is a view showing an example of an editing screen displayed on the CRT 13 shown in FIG. 1, and corresponds to the display based on the data of the document file shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 1, a menu 26 for instructing a command is provided above the document being edited.
At the bottom, a status display area 27 for displaying a simple message is provided. On this edit page, a background frame (paper) 28
The sentence data 10 shown in FIG. 2 is displayed as a sentence 31, the graph data 11D is shown as a graph 32 in a graph frame 29, and the graph data 12D is shown as a graph 33 in a graph frame 30. Is displayed. The editing of “sentence”, “graphic”, “graph”, etc. is performed for each frame (editing area), and the switching between the sentence-graph etc. is performed by the pointing device 10.
This is performed by designating a frame to be edited or by selecting a process to be executed from a “process” menu in the menu 26. When the background frame 28 is designated, the sentence editing process is activated, and when the graph frame 29 or the graph frame 30 is designated, the graph editing process is automatically activated. Also, the frame being edited is displayed as a gray thick line.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a table data file corresponding to the graphs 32 and 33 shown in FIG. 3, wherein (a) corresponds to the graph 32 and (b) corresponds to the graph 33.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 40 denotes a table data display window, which is automatically read from the hard disk 15 when the graph 32 is selected for editing and is displayed on the CRT 13.
Is displayed in a window. Reference numeral 41 denotes a table data display window, which is automatically read from the hard disk 15 when the graph 33 is selected for editing, and is displayed on the CRT 13.
Is displayed in a window.

Hereinafter, a graph processing method according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a main processing procedure in a graph processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention. In addition, S1 to S12 indicate each step.

First, in the initialization process of step S1, an editing screen including an editing frame 25, a menu 26, a status display area 27, and a background frame (paper) 28 shown in FIG.
3 and read the document data as shown in FIG. 4 from the hard disk 15 or the floppy disk 16 and create a graph frame 29 and a graph frame 30 on the screen. Then, a sentence 31, a graph 32 and a graph 33 are sequentially displayed. indicate. As a result, the display screen state of the CRT 13 is changed to the state shown in FIG.
The display screen shown in FIG. Next, in step S2, a command input from the keyboard 9 or the pointing device 10 is awaited. In step S3,
It is determined whether the input is a "graph processing" command in the "processing" menu.
In 4, "the case of performing the processing in the existing frame Please indicate the frame. Also, be sure to open the frame in the case of creating a graph new." That displays a message, specify the editing frame , Or create a new editing frame, and
Move on to 6.

On the other hand, if NO in step S3,
That is, if it is confirmed in step S5 that the input in step S2 is "designation of a graph frame", the process proceeds to step S6 and thereafter.

In step S6, the display of the frame line of the graph frame is changed from a thin black line to a thick gray line, and an edit area is specified. Then, a graph process described later (see FIG. 6) is performed. The graph processing ends when another processing is selected in the graph processing or when the outside of the frame as the editing area is specified. When the graph processing is completed, the display of the graph frame line is returned to a thin black line in step S8, the process returns to step S3, the input at the end of the graph processing is analyzed, and the processing is continued.

In step S9, if it is other processing such as "text" and "graphic", other processing in step S10 is performed. Other processing is similar to graph processing,
When a process other than the editing is specified or an area other than the editing area is specified, the process proceeds to step S3.

If it is confirmed in step S11 that "end" has been selected, document data update processing and editing window deletion are performed as end processing in step S12, and the processing ends.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a detailed procedure of the graph processing routine shown in FIG. Note that S20
S29 indicate each step.

First, the process of copying the attribute data of the graph data 11D shown in FIG. 2 to the attribute data of the graph data 12D and changing the graph 33 to the graph 33A shown in FIG. 9 as shown in FIG. Will be described.

First, when the graph processing is started, the graph initialization processing of step S20 is executed, and step S21 is executed.
In the command input wait state. Next, step S2
In step 2, the CPU 2 determines whether the input command is an "attribute storage" command. If YES, the process proceeds to step S23, executes an attribute storage process routine described later, and returns to step S21.

On the other hand, if the determination in step S22 is NO, the CPU 2 determines in step S24 whether the input command is an "attribute replacement" command.
Is determined, and if YES, an attribute replacement process routine described later is executed in step S25, and the process returns to step S21.

On the other hand, if the determination in step S24 is NO, the CPU 2 determines whether or not another command is designated by the pointing device 10 in step S26, and if YES, the other command processing is performed in step S27. Execute, step S21
Return to On the other hand, if the determination in step S26 is NO,
In step S28, it is determined whether or not another process or the outside of the frame is designated by the pointing device 10. If NO, the process returns to step S21. If YES, the graph ending process is executed in step S29 to execute the process. It moves to step S8 shown in FIG.

As described above, the graph processing program (CP
U2) draws a graph for predetermined data on the screen while following the set graph attribute data,
While the graph processing program is running, the graph attribute data of each graph drawn on the screen is stored in a storage medium (PMEM3).
Of the graph drawn on the screen while replacing arbitrary graph attribute data referred to by the graph processing program with desired graph attribute data stored and registered in the storage medium (PMEM3). By changing the attribute, it is possible to change the graph attribute of the graph drawn on the screen to a desired graph attribute and draw the graph during execution of the graph processing program.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing an example of the detailed procedure of the attribute storage processing routine shown in FIG. In addition, S30 to S33 indicate each step.

First, in step S30, a clipboard, which will be described later, is displayed on the CRT 13 in a window. In step S31, a copy of the graph attribute data is created from the graph data 11D shown in FIG. Enter a name to distinguish it from Next, in step S33, the clipboard window is deleted, that is, the clipboard is deleted from the screen of the CRT 13, and the process ends.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing an example of a detailed procedure of the attribute replacement processing routine shown in FIG. Note that S40 to S44 indicate each step.

First, in step S40, a clipboard as described later is displayed on the CRT 13 in a window, and in step S41, attribute data in the clipboard is designated. Next, in step S42,
The clipboard is erased from the CRT 13 and step S4
In step 3, only the graph attribute data is replaced with the specified attribute data, and in step S44, the graph is redisplayed on the CRT 13 based on the replaced graph attribute data, and the process ends. [Process of Changing Graph 33 to Graph 33A] When, for example, changing the graph 33 shown in FIG. 3 to the graph 33A shown in FIG.
Since the graph 32 is in the editing state, the graph 32 displays the graph data 11D shown in FIG. 2 using the table data 13D. Further, during the display state of the graph frame 29 shown in FIG. 3, step S21 of the flowchart shown in FIG.
In step S22, when the "attribute storage" command is selected from the "edit" menu in the menu 26 in step S22, the attribute storage processing in step S23 is started, and in step S30.
Displays a clipboard window W1 as shown in FIG.

It should be noted that the clipboard always functions as a buffer for storing a plurality of data created in a fixed position, and has no data processing means. It is possible to use. Each piece of data has, as its header, the name of the processing system that stored the data. Therefore, each processing system can determine whether the data is data that can be used by itself by reading the header.

On the other hand, in step S30, only the graph data is displayed from the plurality of data registered in the clipboard, and a list thereof is displayed in the clipboard window W1. The clipboard window W1 shown in FIG. 10 shows a state in which “graph attribute data of '89 sales performance” is currently registered in the clipboard.
In step S31, the graph data 11D shown in FIG.
Creates a copy of the graph attribute data from and stores it on the clipboard, and then displays its icon on the clipboard. In this state, this data is "undefined"
It is named. Currently registered data,
As shown in FIG. 11, the icon is displayed in reverse video so as to be distinguished from other data. Next, in step S32, a name input window W2 as shown in FIG. 12 is displayed, and when a name for distinguishing this data from other data is input, in step S33, when the clipboard window is closed, "attribute storage" is performed. The process ends.

Then, the graph attributes stored in the "attribute storage" process are applied to the graph 33 shown in FIG. 3, and the graph attribute data of the graph data 12D shown in FIG. Replace with [Graph attribute data replacement processing] In the flowchart shown in FIG.
Is designated by the pointing device 10, the graph 3 is displayed in step S 28.
The graph processing in 2 ends. In step S29, the data held by the graph 32 is written to a file, and as a result, the graph attribute data 1 shown in FIG.
Update 1D. At this time, as shown in FIG. 4, the table data display window 40 is closed, and the spreadsheet processing ends.

When the processing of the graph 32 is completed, in step S8 of the flowchart shown in FIG.
The display of No. 9 is changed back to a black thin line, and the input analysis of step S3 is performed. Since the input that triggered the end of the editing of the graph 32 is a click instruction by the pointing device 10 of the frame of the graph 30, the process proceeds from step S5 to step S6. The color is changed to a gray thick line, and the process returns to the graph processing shown in FIG.

When the graph processing is started, step S2
In the graph initialization process of 0, the graph data 12D shown in FIG. 2 is read from the frame number, and the spreadsheet window shown in FIG. Start the process. In the graph processing, the table data 14D shown in FIG.
Is read, and the graph 33 shown in FIG. 3 is displayed by applying the graph data 12D to the table data. With the above, the initialization processing ends, and the command input state of step S21 is entered. In step S21, when the "attribute replacement" command is selected, the attribute replacement processing of step S25 is performed.

In the attribute replacement process, a clipboard is displayed in step S40, as in step S30. At this time, the last registered data is highlighted as shown in FIG. If the attribute data in the clipboard is specified in step S41, the clipboard is deleted in step S42, and in step S43, only the graph attribute data of the graph data held by the graph processing is designated. Replace with In step S44, the graph is redisplayed using the graph management data in the table data 14 and the graph data 2 and the graph attribute data replaced by the attribute replacement in the graph data 2, and the attribute replacement process ends. as a result,
The display state of FIG. 3 is changed to the display shown in FIG. 9, and the graph 33 is changed to a graph 33A. When the graph processing in the graph 33A ends, in step S29, the graph data is written to a file and the graph attribute data is updated on the file by updating the graph data 12D shown in FIG.

In the above embodiment, within one document,
Although the process of copying the attribute of a certain graph to another graph attribute in a document has been described as an example, the clipboard in the embodiment of the present invention has a structure of only an intermediate file on the PMEM 3 and a management file of the intermediate file. , It is possible to access from multiple programs,
The same can be applied to copying attributes between different documents without departing from the gist of the present invention.

In the above-described embodiment, the case where the clipboard is used as the data storage common area accessible by a plurality of graph processing programs has been described. The present invention can be applied to a method of taking in data as a graph attribute currently being processed or a method of taking in an attribute of a designated graph by directly designating a graph displayed on the CRT 13.

Further, in the above embodiment, the case where the above-described graph processing is executed during the execution of the spreadsheet program has been described. However, the data processing program may be replaced with another data processing program such as a database or a table. It goes without saying that it is possible.

[0044]

As described above, according to the method of the present invention, the graph processing program draws a graph corresponding to predetermined data on the screen while following the set graph attribute data. The graph attribute data of each graph drawn on the screen is stored and registered in a storage medium, and arbitrary graph attribute data referred to by the graph processing program is replaced with desired graph attribute data stored and registered in the storage medium. Since the graph attributes of the graph drawn on the screen are changed while the graph processing program is being executed, the graph attributes of the graph drawn on the screen can be changed to desired graph attributes and drawn.

[0045]

As described above, according to the data processing method of the present invention, a graph representing data based on numerical data with an attribute based on graph attribute data is drawn.
A data processing method for managing a plurality of graph data including graph attribute data and numerical data, wherein graph attribute data is extracted from designated first graph data from the plurality of graph data, and the first graph data is extracted. By changing the graph attribute data of the second graph data different from the first graph attribute data, the graph representing the data based on the numerical data included in the second graph data is converted to the first attribute. Since the drawing is performed with the attribute defined by the data, the attribute set as the first graph data can be extracted from the graph data and replaced with another attribute of the second graph.

According to the data processing device of the present invention, a graph representing data based on numerical data is drawn with an attribute based on the graph attribute data, and data for managing a plurality of graph data including the graph attribute data and the numerical data is provided. A processing device, comprising: attribute data extracting means for extracting graph attribute data from first graph data specified from the plurality of graph data; and a graph attribute of second graph data different from the first graph data. Attribute data changing means for changing data to the extracted first graph attribute data, and drawing a graph representing data based on numerical data included in the second graph data with an attribute defined by the first attribute data To extract the attribute set as the first graph data from the graph data. An effect that it is possible to replace the attribute of the second graph.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a data processing device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a data structure of a document file in the data processing device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of an editing screen displayed on the CRT shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a table data file corresponding to the graph shown in FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a main processing procedure in a graph processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a detailed procedure of a graph processing routine shown in FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a detailed procedure of an attribute storage processing routine illustrated in FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a detailed procedure of an attribute replacement processing routine illustrated in FIG. 6;

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a graph processing state in the data processing device according to the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a graph processing state in the data processing device according to the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a graph processing state in the data processing device according to the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating a graph processing state in the data processing device according to the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating a graph processing state in the data processing device according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 CPU 3 PMEM 9 Keyboard 10 Pointing device 13 CRT

Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] 1. An attribute based on graph attribute data, which is a numerical value.
Draw a graph that represents data based on the data, and
Manage multiple graph data including gender data and numerical data
A first graph data designated from the plurality of graph data.
Data extracted from the data, and second graph data different from the first graph data
The graph attribute data of the extracted first graph attribute
By changing to data, it is included in the second graph data.
Graphs representing data based on numerical data
A data processing method characterized by drawing with an attribute defined by attribute data . 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of graph data is managed.
And draw a plurality of graphs based on the plurality of drawn graphs.
The graph specified in the rough is the first graph data
2. The data processing method according to claim 1, wherein
Law. (3) Attribute based on graph attribute data, numeric value
Draw a graph that represents data based on the data, and
Manage multiple graph data including gender data and numerical data
A data processing device, A first graph data specified from the plurality of graph data;
Attribute data extraction method for extracting graph attribute data from data
Steps and Second graph data different from the first graph data
The graph attribute data of the extracted first graph attribute
Attribute data changing means for changing to data; Data based on the numerical data included in the second graph data
Data is represented by the attribute defined in the first attribute data.
Characterized by having a graph drawing means for drawing.
Data processing equipment. (4) The graph drawing means may include the managed
Draw multiple graphs based on multiple graph data,
A graph specified among the plurality of drawn graphs
Means for identifying the first graph data
4. The data processing device according to claim 3, wherein: