Method of controlling the progress of a programme when processing forms in a data-processing system

Claim 1

Method of controlling program execution when processing forms in data processing systems for data contents of a form constructed from fields to be processed, in which the visual representation of the form, the reading and displaying of the data relevant for said form, the manipulation of said data by the user and the processing of said data is initiated by a form processing program permanently assigned to the form, in which data words are additionally assigned to a form specification as field specifications of the individual fields of the form, which data words are read and sequentially evaluated in connection with the form representation in order to address an individual program for each field in the order corresponding to said evaluation, and in which the individual programs addressed in this manner are successively processed, characterised in that a plurality of form specifications are provided in a form memory, in that a selected form specification is loaded field-by-field from the form memory into a scanning and interpretation unit, in that the form specification divided in this way is processed field-by-field in that the definition data of each field are compared with a name directory stored in a field type memory to determine the respective field type, and in that the definition data of each field are supplied to a field type processing module assigned to its field type, in that a field-typical processing of data is executed in communication with a field data memory in accordance with an individual program.