Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program

• US 8,473,856 B2
• Filed: 02/05/2008
• Issued: 06/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Ishii, Yukinori
• Primary Examiner(s): Augustine, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US12/026,344
• Publication Number:
  US 20080222082A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,967 Days
• Field of Search: 715/762, 715/764, 715/783, 715/788, 709/203, 709/228
• US Class Current: 715/764
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

An information processing device, an information processing method, and an information processing program capable of reducing the workload of a developer and human errors and easily customizing a display menu are disclosed. The method includes the steps of reading the display menu data stored in an HDD based on an instruction received by a CPU of an information processing device via an operations device, extracting each of plural menu elements, writing the extracted menu elements in a CSV file in CSV format to create a CSV file from the display menu data, and creating a location data file and an element definition file from the created CSV file.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a storage unit configured to store display screen information representing a display screen to be displayed on a display unit, wherein the display screen information is in a prescribed data format; and

a creation unit configured to extract a screen element as an element to be displayed on the display screen and based on the display screen information stored in the storage unit, and create location data file and element definition file, the location data file indicating a locating position of the extracted screen element, the element definition file specifying the screen element to be located at the locating position indicated by the location data file,

wherein the creation unit includes first and second creation units, the first creation unit being configured to extract a type of screen element from among types of a button, a text, an icon, and background, and create conversion information including information indicating the type of the extracted screen element and in a prescribed text format, the second generation unit being configured to create the location data file and the element definition file based on the conversion information created by the first creation unit.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein in a case that a region of the display screen is defined in a two dimensional coordinate system, the creation unit extracts coordinate values indicating the locating position of the screen element based on the defined two dimensional coordinate system and creates the conversion information including information indicating the coordinate values.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the creation unit creates location information including an index indicating the locating position of the screen element using the coordinate values output to the conversion information.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the creation unit extracts specifying information specifying indicating the screen element and creates the conversion information including the specifying information;

and

the element definition information file generated based on the conversion information includes the specifying information.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

in a case where the type of the screen element is the text, the creation unit extracts coordinate values indicating the locating position of the screen element when a region of the display screen is defined in a two dimensional coordinate system and the height and the width of a locating region where the screen element is located, creates location information including indicating each of the coordinate values, a height, and a width, and creates the location information including the locating region of the screen element created by using the coordinate values, the height, and the width, each output to the conversion information.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

in a case that the type of the screen element is a text, a display image of the screen element includes a character image indicating a character, and the creation unit creates the conversion information including information indicating each of a size and an aspect of a character indicated by a character image included in the display image of the screen element and creates the element definition file including the information indicating each of the size and the aspect of the character output to the conversion information.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

in a case that the type of the screen element extracted from the display screen information is a button and, on the screen element, there is displayed another screen element whose type is a text or an icon, the creation unit creates the conversion information including information of the screen element whose type is the text or the icon as attached information of the screen element whose type is the text.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the creation unit creates the element definition file by associating the information indicating the screen element output to the conversion information as the attachment information of the screen element whose type is the button with the information indicating the screen element whose type is the button.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein in a case where the type of the screen element is a button, when a region of the display screen is defined in a two dimensional coordinate system, the creation unit creates location information including the information indicating coordinate values indicating the upper right-hand corner of the locating region where the screen element is located.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the creation unit gives a first information name to the index included in the location information, the first information name including the type name of the screen element located at the locating position specified by the index and a line number where information of the screen element is output in the conversion information.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the creation unit gives a second information name to the information with respect to a display aspect of the screen element included in the element definition file, the second information name including the first information name given to the index specifying the locating position where the screen element is located and a prescribed character.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a user interface part configured to receive a user instruction to change said locating position of the extracted screen element, and

the information processing apparatus changes said locating position of the extracted screen element in the location information, without accessing the element definition file.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a user interface part configured to receive a user instruction to change said element definition information, and

the information processing apparatus changes said element definition file, without accessing the location data file.

16. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the location data file and the element definition file are stored in separate and distinct data files.

17. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the element definition file specifies at least one of an image file corresponding to the extracted screen element, a size of the extracted screen element, and a color of the extracted screen element.

12. An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus, comprising:

(a) reading display screen information stored in a storage unit of the information processing apparatus in a prescribed data format, the display screen information indicating a display screen displayed on a display unit of the information processing apparatus;

(b) extracting a screen element as an element to be displayed on the display screen and based on the display screen information read in (a) from the storage unit, extracting a type of screen element from among types of a button, a text, an icon, and background, and creating, by a creation unit of the information processing apparatus, conversion information including information indicating the type of the extracted screen element and in a prescribed text format;

(c) creating, by the creation unit, location data file and element definition file based on the conversion information created in (b), the location data file indicating a locating position of the extracted screen element, the element definition file specifying the screen element to be located at the locating position indicated by the location data file.

13. An information processing program tangibly embodied in a non-transitory storage medium and executable by a processor of the information processing apparatus to cause the information processing apparatus to perform the method of claim 12.