METHOD FOR GENERATING OBJECT PROPERTIES RELATED TO USER INTERFACE

• US 20080320404A1
• Filed: 06/20/2008
• Published: 12/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
• Original Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
• Inventors: Fu, Shih-Chuan, Chen, Wei Yu, Chen, Tsun-Shao
• Application Number:
  US12/143,468
• Publication Number:
  US 20080320404A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/763
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces

Abstract

A method for generating an object attribute related to a user interface of a digital displaying device is disclosed. The method includes: utilizing a development tool to develop the user interface to generate an editing result; checking the editing result according to a checking rule of the development tool to determine whether the user interface complies with hardware configuration of the digital displaying device, wherein the checking rule corresponds to the hardware configuration of the digital displaying device; generating the object attribute of the user interface according to the editing result; storing the object attribute of the user interface into a description file.

Claims

1. A method for generating an object attribute related to a user interface of a digital displaying device, the method comprising:

utilizing a development tool to develop the user interface to generate an editing result;

checking the editing result according to a checking rule of the development tool to determine whether the user interface complies with a hardware configuration of the digital displaying device, wherein the checking rule corresponds to the hardware configuration of the digital displaying device;

generating the object attribute of the user interface according to the editing result; and

storing the object attribute of the user interface into a description file.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of checking the editing result according to the checking rule of the development tool comprises:

checking the editing result real time according to the checking rule while the editing result is being edited.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the object attribute comprises a plurality of font object attribute and a plurality of graphic object attribute.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

importing needed font objects and needed graphic objects into the development tool.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the development tool provides at least one of a plurality of graphic objects and a plurality of font objects.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the step of checking the editing result according to the checking rule of the development tool comprises:

checking whether a number and a size of the graphic objects in the user interface are valid according to the checking rule; and

checking whether an allocation of the graphic objects in the user interface is valid according to the checking rule.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the step of checking the editing result according to the checking rule of the development tool comprises:

checking whether a number and a size of the font objects in the user interface are valid according to the checking rule; and

checking whether an allocation of the font objects in the user interface is valid according to the checking rule.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a scaling rate according to a resolution of the digital displaying device; and

utilizing the scaling rate to adjust positions and sizes of objects.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the object attribute comprises a color of at least one of at least one graphic object and at least one font object.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface is an OSD (on screen display).

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing a source manager having a mapping table to manage allocations of the graphic objects and font objects and relationships between the graphic objects and font objects inside the description file to generate a data structure.

12. A digital displaying device comprising:

a storage device, storing a data portion and a program portion, wherein the data portion comprises a description file, and the program portion comprises a parser program and an application program; and

a processing unit, coupled to the storage device, for executing the application program and the parser program, wherein the processing unit parses the description file to obtain at least one object attribute according to the parser program, and controls the digital displaying device according to the object attribute and the application program.

13. The digital displaying device of claim 12, wherein the description file is related to a user interface of the digital displaying device, and the object attribute is related to at least one object attribute of the user interface.

14. The digital displaying device of claim 12, wherein the processing unit determines a scaling rate according to a resolution of the digital displaying device.

15. The digital displaying device of claim 14, wherein the processing unit generates the at least one object attribute according to the parser program and the scaling rate.

16. The digital displaying device of claim 14, wherein the description file stores a position and a size of at least one object, and the processing unit adjusts the size and the position of the object according to the scaling rate.

17. The digital displaying device of claim 12, wherein the description file stores a size of the user interface, and the processing unit adjusts the size of the user interface according to a resolution of the digital displaying device.

18. The digital displaying device of claim 12, wherein the processing unit executes the parser program to select a graphic object having a predetermined size according to the scaling rate.

19. The digital displaying device of claim 12, wherein the user interface is an OSD (on screen display).

20. The digital displaying device of claim 12, wherein the description file stores a color of at least one of at least one graphic object and at least one font object in the user interface.

21. A method for generating a user interface of digital displaying device, the digital displaying device comprising a storage device and a processing unit, the storage device storing a data portion and program portion, the data portion comprising a description file, the program portion comprising a parser program and an application program, the method comprising:

utilizing the processing unit to execute the application program to control the digital displaying device;

utilizing the processing unit to execute the parser program to parse the description file inside the storage device to obtain at least one object attribute of the user interface, wherein the description file is related to the user interface of the digital displaying device; and

displaying the user interface on the digital displaying device according to the object attribute.

22. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

utilizing the processing unit to determine a scaling rate according to a resolution of the digital displaying device.

23. The method of claim 22, further comprising:

utilizing the processing unit to generate the object attribute according to the scaling rate.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein the description file stores a position and a size of at least one font object of the user interface, and the method further comprises:

utilizing the processing unit to adjust the position and the size of the font object according to the scaling rate.

25. The method of claim 22, wherein the description file stores a size of the user interface, and the method further comprises:

utilizing the processing unit to adjust the size of the user interface according to the scaling rate.

26. The method of claim 21, wherein the user interface is an OSD (on screen display).