Software generating device

A software generating device that automatically generates software for generating a display screen of a display device in a train in which control devices communicatively connected to one another are mounted on cars, a plurality of apparatuses mounted on the cars is monitored and controlled by the control devices, and the display device capable of displaying apparatus information of the apparatuses is mounted on a driver's cab, the software generating device comprising:

• a memory storing:
• system configuration information for giving an arrangement configuration of the control devices in a formation of the train;
• apparatus arrangement information for giving an apparatus type of a monitored and controlled object and the number of apparatuses of the apparatus type for each of the control devices;
• display components by which apparatus information of the apparatuses can be displayed on the display screen;
• display component arrangement information for defining arrangement positions of a plurality of display components arranged on the display screen;
• and
• arrangement rule information for giving exceptional rules, which are arrangement rules for display components, applied in addition to the display component arrangement information in determining, when a plurality of apparatuses of the same type is monitored and controlled by one and the same control device, arrangement positions of a plurality of display components respectively representing the apparatuses;
• and
• a processor configured to:
• select a plurality of display components constituting the display screen, determine arrangement positions of the display components on the display screen, and automatically generate layout design data of the display screen, on the basis of the system configuration information, the apparatus arrangement information, the display component arrangement information, and the arrangement rule information;
• and
• automatically generate software for generating the display screen on the basis of the layout design data,
• wherein on the basis of the apparatus arrangement information, when there is one apparatus of the same type monitored and controlled by one and the same control device, the processor determines an arrangement position of the apparatus on the basis of the display component arrangement information, when there is a plurality of apparatuses of the same type monitored and controlled by one and the same control device, the processor determines arrangement positions of the apparatuses based on the display component arrangement information and the arrangement rule information,
• when there are apparatuses having the same type and associated with the same car, corresponding apparatus information is displayed on the display screen in both a vertical arrangement and a horizontal arrangement,
• when there are apparatuses having the same type and associated with different cars, corresponding apparatus information is displayed on the display screen in a horizontal arrangement, and
• when there are apparatuses having different types and associated with the same car, corresponding apparatus information is displayed on the display screen in a vertical arrangement.