Patent ID: 8533583

Claim:
An application software generation device which generates definition data for defining data to be collected by a data collection device by operating with a program constituting an application software, and which generates the application software for the data collection device having a reading unit to read discrimination information to carry out a data collection operation based on the discrimination information, the application software generation device comprising: a CPU, wherein the CPU operates as: a table data generation unit to generate table data which includes a sheet in which a sheet name and an item corresponding to the data collection operation are set according to an input operation of a user; an application software generation unit to: (i) generate an operation application definition as the definition data of an operation application which is a program for obtaining the data based on the discrimination information, and (ii) generate an operation menu definition as the definition data of an operation menu which is a program for displaying, in a display device of the data collection device, a menu screen for selecting the operation application definition defining the operation application from among a plurality of operation application definitions; and a transfer unit to transfer the generated operation application definition and the generated operation menu definition to the data collection device, wherein the application software generation unit generates the operation application definition for defining the operation application and the operation menu definition for defining the operation menu based on the table data which is generated according to the input operation of the user, wherein the application software comprises: a function to make the display device of the data collection device display a screen to carry out an input of data by the data collection device with respect to the plurality of items which are defined in the table data, a function to allow input to an item which is focused on in the screen, and a function to move the focus based on a predetermined rule, and wherein, when the item which corresponds to the data to be collected based on the discrimination information from among the plurality of items defined in the table data is not a first item to be input, the application software generation unit generates a rule to move the focus to the item when the focus is moved by the function to move the focus after the input to the item to be input before the item is finished.