JPH03268184A - Graphic data forming device with dynamic appearance information processing mechanism - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To shorten a processing time by dynamically changing appearance information against previously defined static appearance information. CONSTITUTION:Dynamic appearance information (b) can be specified together with the identifier (a) of the previously defined static appearance information a' and numerical data (c) to be graphed. When the information (b) is specified, the read information a' is rewritten and the final appearance information for graphic data formation is formed by an appearance information processing means 2. When the change of the appearance information is necessary in accordance with momently changed graphing numerical data, the appearance information can be changed without executing interactive operation at the time of graphing processing of numerical data.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Summary] This invention relates to a graph data creation device that creates graph data based on numerical data and presentation information such as the display format of the horizontal or vertical axes of the graph and the representation format of the graph. Even when graphing data that changes from moment to moment, it is necessary to use the interactive format information change processing power. Receiving means for storing static formatting information that is irregularly defined among the formatting information for data, an identifier of the static formatting information, and dynamic formatting information instructed at the time of graph creation among the formatting information, reading static format information from the storage means using the identifier;
The apparatus is configured to include a formatting information processing means for creating formatting information by modifying the static formatting information using the dynamic formatting information, and a graph data creating section for creating graph data in response to numerical data and the formatting information.

(]) (2) [Industrial Application Field] The present invention is based on numerical data and format information (for example, the display format of the horizontal and vertical axes of the graph, and the representation format of the graph).
The present invention relates to a graph data creation device that creates graph data.

With the expansion of the expressive power of computers, opportunities to create graphical data such as graphs have increased, and the types of data handled have also become more diverse. In such a situation, not only graphs are used as decorative representations of fixed data, but also graphs are used as representations of data that change from time to time, and an efficient graph data creation device is required.

For this reason, it has become necessary to create graph data while changing the corresponding format information in accordance with changing data, with respect to format information that has been defined and stored in advance.

[Conventional technology]

In conventional graph data creation devices, graph data is created using sent graphed numerical data based on formatting information that is interactively defined and stored in advance.

However, with this method, it is not possible to change the formatting information when creating graph data, and if it is necessary to change the formatting information, interrupt the graph data creation process and perform interactive operations to create the graph data again. I needed to start creating it.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

Therefore, even when creating graph data for numerical data that changes from moment to moment, interactive operations are required to change accompanying formatting information, resulting in an increase in processing time.

Furthermore, since the format information cannot be dynamically changed, it is necessary to prepare individual format information even if the format information is similar, which also causes problems in terms of resource amount (memory capacity).

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to enable dynamic change of appearance information with respect to predefined dynamic appearance information,
(3) (4) Even when graphing data that changes from moment to moment, it is possible to eliminate the need for interactive format information change processing and shorten processing time. In addition, if there are many similar format information definitions, one of the purposes is to register only the basic format information and dynamically change the format information to reduce the capital IT.
Let's do one.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In the present invention, as illustrated in FIG. Upon receiving the information identifier a and the dynamic format information specified at the time of graph creation among the format information, the static format information a' is read out from the storage means 10 using the identifier a, and the static format information a' is obtained. A dynamic display system comprising: a formatting information processing means 2 for creating formatting information e by modifying the static formatting information a'; and a graph data creating means 3 for receiving numerical data, ie, the formatting information e, and creating graph data d. A graph data creation device with a format information processing mechanism is provided.

[Function] If the present invention is used, as illustrated in FIG. When dynamic format information is specified, the format information processing means 2 is used to rewrite the read static format information a' and create final format information for creating graph data. . In this way, when it is necessary to change the formatting information accompanying graphed numerical data that changes from moment to moment, the formatting information can be changed without performing an interactive operation during the graphing process of the numerical data. becomes possible.

[Example] Fig. 1 is a diagram explaining the present invention, Fig. 2 is a block diagram of a graph data creation device with a dynamic format information processing mechanism as an embodiment of the present invention, and processing process (5) ( 6) The same flow is shown in Figure 3.

In FIG. 1, 2 is a format information processing means, 3 is a graph data creation means, and 10 is a storage means. The graph data creation device includes the above-mentioned format information processing means 2 and graph data creation means 3, and the format information processing means 2 uses predefined static format information a' and dynamic format instructed at the time of graph creation. It has a function of generating final format information e for creating graph data. The graph data creation means 3 creates graph data d from the appearance information e determined by the appearance information processing means 2 and the graphed numerical data C. The storage means 10 is a storage means that holds static format information defined in advance.

The configuration of the apparatus of the embodiment is shown in more detail in FIG. This device includes a format information processing section 12, a graph data creation section 13, a control section 4, an external storage input/output section 5, and a main storage section 6.
, an external storage device 11, and a presentation information definition tool 20.

The processing process of the apparatus of the embodiment will be explained using the third part and FIG. First, static format information a is defined in advance using the format information definition tool 20 with an identifier a, and is stored in the external storage device 11. This definition is shown in step 1 of Figure 4.
．． (SL), and this step can be performed at a different time from the creation of graph data.

In creating graph data, the controller 4 receives as input data the identifier a of static format information, dynamic format information, and graphed numerical data C (S2), and prepares for subsequent processing.

Based on the static format information identifier a of the received data, predefined static format information a' is transferred from the external storage device 11 to the main storage section 6 through the external storage input/output section 5.
(S3).

As shown in FIG. 5, the read static format information a' is modified in the main storage unit 6 by the dynamic format information received as input data, and the final format for creating graph data is created. Information e is determined (S5). Note that the dynamic formatting information is not essential data in the input data, so if the dynamic formatting information does not exist in the input data, steps (7) and (8) (S5) are skipped and the conventional method is used. The processing is equivalent to .

Using the final format information e and the graphed numerical data C in the input data, the graph data creation section 13 creates graph data in the main storage section 6 (S6).

Finally, the control section 4 retrieves the graph data from the main storage section 6 and sends it back (S7).

In the above-described embodiment, the control unit 4 classifies the received data and requests processing to the external storage input/output unit 5, format information processing unit 12, and graph data creation unit 13, respectively.
The identifier a of the static format information may be passed to the format information processing section 12 together with the dynamic format information, or the graph data creation section 3 may return the created graph data.

Next, actual application examples using the present invention will be explained using FIGS. 6 to 12.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating format information in a graph showing stock prices, etc. In the diagram, each display element surrounded by a curved line is format information.

Figure 7 shows how a graph shape created using only static formatting information shown in the upper row is corrected using dynamic formatting information in the middle row to obtain the final graph shape shown in the lower row. .

FIG. 8 shows how the external storage input/output section 5 reads static format information a' designated by the identifier a from the external storage device 11 into the main storage section 6.

For example, the part marked ■ has no definition, so there is no substance. ■~O area is taken up and the definition contents are stored.

FIG. 9 shows the arrangement of the dynamic format information in the main storage section 6''2. The format information processing section 12 on the main storage section 6 rewrites the static format information a' read in the process shown in FIG. 8 using the dynamic format information to determine the final format information. Dynamic format information is sent only when adding, updating, or deleting. That is, the definition contents are arranged consecutively as shown in FIG. Then "Add", "Update", "
The case of "deletion" will be explained using FIG. 10, FIG. 11, and FIG. 12.

(9) (10) 0) When the definition content of ■ is "addition" When the state of ■ (no entity exists) during the processing in Figure 8,
The formatting information processing section 12 secures an area in the main storage section 6, links the previous and subsequent areas as necessary), and sets the definition contents of the dynamic formatting information in that area.

(2) When the definition content of [phase] is "update" When an entity exists as in the state O-■ during the processing shown in FIG. The area of the format item name already specified in the dynamic format information is searched from among the static format information a' in the existing static format information a', and the value is rewritten.

(3) When the definition content of ■ is "delete" When the entity exists as in the state of ■ ~ O during the processing shown in Figure 8, the format of the dynamic format information is "add" or "update". The definition is the same as the previous one, but a special value with the meaning of ``deletion'' is placed in the definition. The format information processing section 12 searches the static format information a' read into the main storage section 6 for the area of the format item name already designated by the dynamic format information, and separates the information.

(4) If there is no change in the definition content, static format information a' is not sent.
becomes the final appearance information.

In the above explanation, the format item name is shown in the area of each format item for convenience of explanation, but in reality there is a map and each position is determined, so only the value is shown in the area. is set.

"Add", "update", and "delete" are automatically determined based on the presence or absence of each region of the formatting item and a comparison between the value within the region and the value of the dynamic formatting information.

The 13th time is a diagram similar to FIG. 1 showing a conventional example.

This differs from FIG. 1 in that the format information processing means 2' does not include a section for making corrections using dynamic format information.

FIG. 14 shows a flowchart of processing in a conventional device. When compared with FIG. 4, the processing process corresponding to 85 is different.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, it is possible to dynamically change the appearance information for static (11) (12) appearance information that is roughly defined,
Even when graphing data that changes from moment to moment, interactive format information change processing is no longer necessary, and processing time can be shortened.

Moreover, when there are many definitions of similar format information, by dynamically changing the format information, it is possible to generate multiple types of format information, which can contribute to reducing the amount of resources.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is an explanation of the present invention, Fig. 2 is an example of a graph data creation device with a dynamic format information processing mechanism as an embodiment of the present invention, and Fig. 3 is an explanation of the device shown in Fig. 2. An explanatory diagram of the processing process, FIG. 4 is a flowchart of the processing of the apparatus in FIG. Figure 8, Figure 9, Figure 10, Figure 11, and Figure 12 are diagrams explaining the creation of final format information using dynamic format information, and Figure 13 is a conventional type. FIG. 14 is a diagram similar to FIG. 4 for a conventional type device. In the figure, 2... Format information processing means, 3... Graph data creation means, 4... Control unit, 5... External storage input/output unit, 6... Main storage unit, 10... storage means,
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11... External storage device, 12... Format information processing part, 13... Graph data creation part, 20... Format information definition tool, a... Identifier, a'... Static format information ,
b...Dynamic format information, C...Numeric data, d.
...graph data, e...format information. (13) (14) Embodiment 1 Flowchart of opening process Diagram for explaining modification of figure format information

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] Storage means (10) for storing predefined static format information among format information for graph data; Upon receiving the instructed dynamic format information (b), read the static format information (a') from the storage means (10) using the identifier (a), and obtain the static format information (b).
Format information (e) that is obtained by modifying the static format information (a')
); and graph data creation means (3) that receives numerical data (c) and the format information (e) and creates graph data (d). Graph data creation device with processing mechanism.