JPH0546330A - Printing processing system for application system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the maintainability of an application by providing printing format information independently of a program, and minimizing a correction work of a program at the time of change of a printing format, etc. CONSTITUTION:The system has a data processing program 10 for outputting data 11 to be printed, and a printing processing program 14 for outputting a result of printing, based on data 11 outputted from the data processing program 10, and printing format information 40 for showing a printing format. Also, this system is constituted so that even if a printing position of the printing format information 40 is changed, it is unnecessary to change the data processing program part being independent from the printing processing program 14. Moreover, this system is constituted so that in the case an item whose printing is unnecessary emits light, it is unnecessary to change the data processing program part being independent from the printing processing program. In such a state, the printing processing program 14 outputs a result of printing, based on the data 11 outputted from the data processing program 10, and the printing format information 40.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a print processing method in an application system, and more particularly to the development and maintenance of an application program that performs print processing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an application program that performs print processing has information about the print format in the program. Therefore, when it is necessary to modify the print format, it is necessary to modify the program itself. If you need to program different output processes to output the results of different print formats with the same data, or if items that do not require printing occur, you need to modify the program. there were.

[0003]

In such a conventional print processing method, it is necessary to modify the application program when changing the print result, and re-translate and re-join program development work. I had to work with it.

Therefore, a technical problem of the present invention is to provide a print processing method in an application system in which the maintainability of the application is improved by minimizing the work of modifying the program in changing the print format.

[0005]

According to the present invention, in a print processing method in an application system for performing print processing in a predetermined print format, a data processing program for outputting data to be printed and an output from the data processing program. There is provided a print processing method in an application system, comprising: a print processing program that outputs a print result based on the selected data and print format information indicating a print format.

According to the present invention, in the print processing method in the application system, even if the print position of the print format information is changed, the data processing program portion independent of the print processing program does not need to be changed. A print processing method in an application system is obtained.

Further, according to the present invention, in the print processing method in the application system, when an item that does not need to be printed occurs, the data processing program portion independent of the print processing program does not need to be changed. A print processing method in an application system, which is characterized in that it is configured as described above, can be obtained.

[0008]

In the print processing method in the application system of the present invention, the print processing program outputs the print result based on the data output from the data processing program and the print format information.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an explanatory view of the concept of print processing in the application system. In FIG. 1, the data processing program 10 outputs the data to be printed to the output data 1
The output data 11 output by the program 1 is obtained by the print processing program 14 with reference to the print format, that is, the print format information 40, and the final print result 50 is obtained.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining the contents of the record format information 20 in the output data 11 of FIG. In FIG. 2, the record format information 20 includes an item name 21 in which an item name is stored and an attribute 2 in which an item type is stored.
2 and the number of digits 23 in which the size of the item is stored.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of the contents of the output data entity 30 in the output data 11 of FIG. As shown,
The output data entity 30 is made up of repeated records that are a collection of several items, and the first field 3
1, a collection of items up to the nth field 3n such as the second field 32 and the third field 33, and the collection 1st record 35, 2nd record 36, 3rd record 3
As shown in 7, the mth record is repeated 3m.

In the first record 35, the contents of the item name 21 in the record format information 20 of FIG. 2 are [first field].
Item, the attribute 22 is [numerical value] and the number of digits 23 is [5], and the content is [AAAAA]. Similarly, the [second field] is [numerical value],
There is an item [4], and the content thereof is [0013]. In this way, the [nth field] is
[Character], [7], whose contents are [SSSTT
A record is composed of a group of items up to [TT], and this record is repeated with the second record 36 and the third record 37, and the last record is the mth record 3m.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of the contents of the print format information 40 of FIG. As shown in the figure, the print format information 40 has a print item name 41 that is an item name for identifying the item to be printed, and corresponds to the item name 21 in the record format information 20 of FIG. . The print line position 42 indicates the print position in the vertical direction of the print item, and similarly, the print column position 43.
Indicates the horizontal print position of the print item.

FIG. 5 shows the record format information 20 of FIG. 2, the output data entity 30 of FIG. 3, and the print format information 40 of FIG.
The output data entity 30 is determined by associating the item name 21 and the print item name 41 having the same contents with each other to determine the position of printing the data of the output data entity 30 by the print line position 42 and the print column position 43. Shows the result printed by the print processing program 14 for arranging data for each item and performing print processing.

Result row position 51 is [2], result digit position 52
[4] is [AAAAA], the print item name 41 is [first field], the print line position 42 is [2], and the print column position 43 is [4] at the print position in the first record 35. Then, the data [AAAAA] corresponding to the item whose item name 21 is [First field] is attribute 22 [character] and the number of digits is 23.
The state of being printed in association with [5] is shown.

FIG. 6 shows the print format information 40 of FIG. 4 in which the print digit position of the print item name 61 [first field] is changed from [4] to [10].

FIG. 7 shows the record format information 20 of FIG. 2, the output data entity 30 of FIG. 3 and the print format information 60 of FIG.
Corresponding items having the same contents of the item name 21 and the print item name 61 are used to determine the position where the data of the output data entity 30 is printed by the print line position 62 and the print digit position 63, and the output data entity 30 is data for each item. 12 shows the result printed by the print processing program 14 for arranging and performing print processing.

FIG. 8 is a diagram in which the print format information 60 of FIG. 6 is changed to print format information 80 in which the item of the print item name 61 [first field] is removed.

FIG. 9 shows the record format information 20 of FIG. 2, the output data entity 30 of FIG. 3 and the print format information 80 of FIG.
Corresponding items having the same contents of the item name 21 and the print item name 81 are associated with each other, and the position of printing the data of the output data entity 30 is determined by the print line position 82 and the print digit position 83 to determine the output data entity 30 for each item 12 shows the result printed by the print processing program 14 for arranging and performing print processing.

In FIG. 10, three different print formats are specified from one first record 35 to the print format information 80 of FIG. 8, and three print results are to be obtained from one record. Is shown.

The content of the print item name 101 is [* PAGE
By setting a special item such as *], and having the function of moving to the next page in this sense, in this example, it is shown that printing processing is performed with three pages as one group. There is.

FIG. 11 shows the record format information 20 of FIG.
The output data entity 30 of FIG. 3 and the print format information 1 of FIG.
00 is associated with the contents of the item name 21 and the print item name 81 that match each other, the position where the data of the output data entity 30 is printed is determined by the print line position 102 and the print column position 103, and the output data 30 is output for each item. The result printed by the print processing program 14 for arranging the data in and print processing is shown.

As described above, comparing with FIG. 4, the print format information 60 in which the print position is changed, the print format information 80 in which the items to be printed are deleted, and the print format information 100 having a plurality of different print formats are compared. Even if the print format is changed, it is independent from the data processing program 10 and can be dealt with without modifying the program.

[0025]

As described above, according to the present invention,
By maintaining the print format information independently of the program by eliminating the drawbacks of the print processing method in the conventional application system, the maintenance work of the application can be improved by minimizing the modification work of the program when changing the print format. Has the effect of improving

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a concept of print processing in an application system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the contents of record definition information in output data output from the data processing program according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the substance of output data in the output data output from the data processing program according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the content of print format information that exists independently of an application program according to an embodiment of the present invention and defines a print format.

FIG. 5 is a print processing program according to an embodiment of the present invention,
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of output of a final print result by combining output data and print format information.

6 is a diagram showing the content of print format information in which the print position is changed in the print format information of FIG. 4;

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of the final print result output of FIG. 5 and an example of the print result output by the print format information in which the print position of FIG. 6 is changed.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the content of deleted print format information in the print format information of FIG.

9 is a diagram showing an example of a final print result of FIG. 8 and an example of a print result printed by the print format information in which the items to be printed of FIG. 7 are deleted.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing print format information for printing a plurality of pages of different formats according to the embodiment of the present invention.

11 is a diagram showing an example of a print result obtained as a result of processing the record definition information of FIG. 2, the output data entity of FIG. 3 and the print format information of FIG. 10 by a print processing program.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 processing program that outputs output data 11 output data that is output from the data processing program 10 print processing program that performs print processing 20 output record format information 21 item name that indicates the name of an item in the record format information 22 record Attribute indicating the type of item in the format information 20 Number of digits indicating the size of the item in the record format information 20 Output data entity 31 First field item 32 Second field item 33 Third field item 34 item of 4th field 3n item of nth field 35 1st record 36 2nd record 37 3rd record 3m m record 40 print format information 41 print item name indicating the name of print item 42 printing of print item in vertical direction Print line position indicating the position 43 Specifies the horizontal print position of the print item. Print column position 50 Print result 51 Result line position indicating vertical position of print result 52 Result column position indicating horizontal position of print result 60 Print format information 61 Print item name indicating print item name 62 Print item The print line position indicating the vertical print position of 63 The print column position indicating the horizontal print position of the print item 70 The content of the print result 71 The result line position indicating the vertical position of the print result 72 The horizontal direction of the print result Result digit position indicating position 80 Printing format information 81 Print item name indicating print item name 82 Print line position indicating vertical print position of print item 83 Print column position indicating horizontal print position of print item 90 Printing Indicates the content of the result 91 Result row position indicating the vertical position of the print result 92 Result digit position indicating the horizontal position of the print result 100 Print format information 101 Print item Print item name indicating the name 102 Print line position indicating the vertical print position of the print item 103 Print column position indicating the horizontal print position of the print item 110 Print result 111 Result line position indicating the vertical position of the print result 112 Result digit position that indicates the horizontal position of the print result

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. In a print processing method in an application system for performing print processing in a predetermined print format, a data processing program that outputs data to be printed, and a print format that indicates the data output from the data processing program and the printing format. A print processing method in an application system, comprising: a print processing program that outputs a print result based on information. 2. The print processing method in the application system according to claim 1, wherein even if the print position of the print format information is changed, the data processing program portion independent of the print processing program does not need to be changed. A print processing method in an application system, characterized in that 3. In the print processing method of the application system according to claim 1, when an item that does not need to be printed occurs, the data processing program portion independent of the print processing program does not need to be changed. A print processing method in an application system characterized by being configured.