JP2012053859A - Mail editing program and mail editing method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mail editing program and method which enable a user to continuously edit a mail by confirming effects of animation operations inserted to a mail text without switching from a mail editing screen to another screen.SOLUTION: In the mail editing method for creating a message with animation, when a message being inputted is displayed on an editing screen, the message is displayed while being animated if input by a user is absent for a certain time, and the animation is stopped in response to detecting the input by the user.

Description

  The present invention relates to a mail editing program and a mail editing method.

  E-mail technology for transmitting information by sending and receiving text messages to and from each other on a computer network has become widespread as an information transmission means among computer users along with the development of Internet technology for interconnecting computer networks.

  E-mail technology is also used in mobile terminals such as mobile phones, which makes it possible to exchange messages between a mobile phone and another mobile phone or computer, for example.

  Furthermore, mobile phones in the Japanese market not only send and receive messages consisting solely of text data, but also like Decomail (NTT DoCoMo, Inc.), Decoration Mail (KDDI Corporation), and Decore Mail (SoftBank Mobile Corp.). Editing display and transmission / reception of messages created in HTML are possible.

  In such a technical field, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2009-26089 proposes a “decoration mail template creation device, method, program, and mobile phone” (Patent Document 1).

  JP 2009-26089 A

  Characteristic when creating a message in HTML is that characters included in the message are surrounded by tags, for example, indentation (left, right, center), character size designation (large, small, standard), background color designation, image Modifications such as insertion, scroll display, blink display, and object insertion such as flash can be made. With such character modification, HTML mail can create a message with higher expressive power than text mail, and the HTML mail service is very popular among mobile phone users.

  However, with existing mobile phones, when creating HTML mail with character modification that accompanies animation operations such as scrolling and blinking, the editing screen is temporarily closed and the preview screen is displayed to confirm the effect of the animation operations. There was a need to do. In other words, it was impossible to confirm the effect of the animation operation inserted in the mail text without changing from the mail editing screen to another screen, and continue to edit the mail as it is.

  In view of the above circumstances, the present invention provides a mail editing program and method capable of confirming the effect of the animation operation inserted in the mail text without changing from the mail editing screen to another screen and continuing the mail editing. The purpose is to do.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides an email editing method for creating a message with an animation,
When displaying the message being entered on the editing screen, if there is no input from the user for a certain period of time, the message is displayed with animation, and the animation is stopped when the input from the user is detected. Provide a method.

Further, the present invention provides a mail editing program that realizes a function of creating a message with an animation by being executed by a processing unit.
When displaying the message being entered on the editing screen, if there is no input from the user for a certain period of time, the message is displayed with animation, and the animation is stopped when the input from the user is detected. Provide a program.

  According to the present invention, when creating a message with character modification that performs animation display such as scrolling and blinking on a predetermined character string, if there is no input from the user for a certain period of time, the message is displayed while being animated. Therefore, it is possible to animate the message without changing the screen from the editing screen and check the effect.

  On the other hand, when it is desired to edit a message, it is difficult to edit the character string if the character string is still animated. On the other hand, in the present invention, since the animation is stopped when the input from the user is detected, the animation is stopped only by the user performing an input operation, and the character string can be easily edited. .

  It is a functional block diagram of the portable terminal 10 which implement | achieves the mail editing method concerning one Embodiment of this invention.   2 is an external view of the mobile terminal 10.   (A) is drawing which shows an example of the mail preparation screen 100 displayed on the display part 11 of the communication terminal 10. FIG. (B) is a drawing showing an example of the message editing screen 101 in the same manner.   (A) is a figure which shows the aspect of the message edit screen 101 which is displaying the message, making it animation. (B) is a figure which shows the aspect of the message edit screen 101 which is displaying the message in the state which stopped the animation.   It is a figure which shows the display mode of the character which gave the modification made to scroll.   It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the mail edit method concerning one Embodiment of this invention.

  Embodiments of a mail editing method according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. If possible, the same parts are denoted by the same reference numerals, and redundant description is omitted.

  FIG. 1 is a schematic functional block diagram of a portable terminal 10 that implements a mail editing method according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the mobile terminal 10 is mainly connected to a display unit 11 such as a liquid crystal display, an input unit 12 such as a keypad and a button switch, a control unit 13 such as a CPU, a mobile communication network or a WiFi network. It is comprised from the memory | storage part 15 which memorize | stores the part 14 and data and a program code. A typical appearance of such a portable terminal 10 is shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 2, the portable terminal 10 has a configuration in which a large display device 11 is stored in a housing 18, and a liquid crystal display having a touch panel function is used for the display unit 11. 11 can be operated by touching, the number of keys provided in the input unit 12 is reduced. Hereinafter, each functional block will be described.

  The display unit 11 displays the GUI screen of the portable terminal 10 by executing the program code stored in the storage unit 15 by the control unit 13, and the data stored in the storage unit 15 or the communication unit 14 is acquired from the network. Desired information is displayed to the user from the data.

  The input unit 12 is a unit for receiving an input for operating the mobile terminal 10 from a user. In the mobile terminal 10 configured as illustrated in FIG. 2, the display unit 11 having a touch panel function is also a part of the input unit 12. It is. Most of the functions of the mobile terminal 10 are controlled according to the contents input from the input unit 12 by the user.

  The control unit 13 controls the operations of the display unit 11, the input unit 12, the communication unit 14, the storage unit 15, and the like by executing the program code stored in the storage unit 15, and performs predetermined functions on the mobile terminal 10. To realize.

  The communication unit 14 is a unit for connecting to a mobile communication network or a WiFi network and communicating with another communication terminal or server system via these. In the present embodiment, a mail created by a mail editing method described later is transferred to a predetermined mail server via the communication unit 14, and is transmitted from the mail server to the other party.

  The storage unit 15 includes a ROM, a RAM, and / or a flash memory, but may be configured to use a memory card, an HDD, an SSD, or the like as an auxiliary storage device.

  When the control unit 13 configured as described above executes the program code stored in the storage unit 15, calls and incoming calls via the mobile communication network, mail creation and transmission / reception, Web site browsing and Web service It is possible to use various functions such as use, history confirmation of incoming and outgoing calls. In the following, in order to explain the mail editing method according to the present invention, the screen composition and operation of the mail creation screen and the mail editing screen displayed on the display unit 11 when the control unit 13 executes the mailer application are illustrated. Will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 3A shows a mail creation screen 100 displayed on the display unit 11 of the mobile terminal 10 in order to create a mail during execution of the mail application. The mail creation screen 100 is provided with input fields for inputting a transmission destination (TO, CC), a title (Title), and a text. In the present embodiment, when the user taps the surface of the display device 11 at the position where each input field is displayed, the screen transitions to an input screen for inputting characters into the input field. When the mobile terminal 10 is equipped with a pointing device, a cursor key, or a software cursor key, the input field may be selected using them.

  FIG. 3B is a diagram showing an example of the message editing screen 101 displayed when the text entry field is selected from the mail creation screen 100 shown in FIG. The message editing screen 101 uses a message display unit 102 that displays an input message on the screen, a command display unit 103 in which an icon for modifying a character string in the message is arranged, and a touch panel function of the display unit 11. And a software keyboard 104 for inputting characters.

  The message display unit 102 stores and displays a character string input by the user using the software keyboard unit 104 and converted and determined as necessary, and the user confirms and edits the stored character string (message). Provide a screen for As will be described later, the mailer application in the present embodiment is compatible with HTML mail, and the message display unit 102 has a function of rendering and displaying HTML data. For rendering the HTML data, for example, a function of a Web browser program separately installed in the mobile terminal 10 may be used. In addition, the message display unit 102 has a function of displaying character strings with modifications such as “Blink”, “telop”, and “Swing”, which will be described later, and data such as an animation GIF while displaying the animation. It has a function to display the animation in a stopped state.

  In the command display unit 103, icons for modifying the character string in the message are arranged, and the character string can be modified by touching and selecting these icons. As modifications to be added to the character string, for example, “Italic” that displays the character string as italic, “Telop” that performs an animation of horizontally moving the character string from left to right, and wrapping at both ends of the screen while moving the character string horizontally “Swing”, “Blink” for blinking the character string, “Color” for changing the color of the character string, “Size” for changing the size of the character string, “Image” for inserting an image, and the like. A mail in which such a modification is added to the message body is handled as an HTML mail in which the modification information is inserted into the message body as a tag. The command display unit 103 may include more icons than the number of icons that can be displayed on one screen. In this case, the entire command display unit 103 can be dragged and slid or a drop-down key is touched. Thus, another icon group may be displayed.

  The software keyboard unit 104 has a plurality of software keys that are operated by the user to input characters, whereby the user inputs characters and performs kana-kanji conversion as necessary to generate a desired character string. Add to message. Note that the design of the screen and software keyboard shown in FIG. 3B is an example, and the present invention is not limited to this. Moreover, such a software keyboard part 104 can be displayed using the character input program and FEP program which were mounted in the portable terminal 10. FIG.

  4 (a) and 4 (b) are diagrams showing a mode in which a message being input is displayed. As shown in FIG. 4 (a), the input message is composed of lines 111a to 111d, and the character string “Thank you” on line 111a is an animation that horizontally moves the character string from left to right. The character modification of “Terop” is applied. As a result, the character string on line 111a is displayed while being animated on the display screen of the terminal that received the message, as shown in FIGS. On the other hand, FIG. 4B shows a state where the user is making an input for adding “Thank you” to the 111a line. In this case, the animation of the 111a line is stopped.

  In this embodiment, when there is no input from the user for a certain time on the message editing screen 101, the message is displayed while being animated as shown in FIG. 4A, and when the input from the user is detected, FIG. It is characteristic that the screen is displayed with the animation stopped as shown in FIG.

  In this way, it is possible to confirm the effect of the animation modification added to the message being edited without transitioning from the message editing screen 101 to the preview screen, and the animation stops when the user starts input. Therefore, it is possible to easily modify a character string subjected to animation modification.

  Hereinafter, an operation of executing the mail editing method according to the present invention on the message editing screen 101 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 6 is a flowchart of an operation for inputting and displaying a message on the message editing screen 101.

  First, in response to a user operation, the control unit 13 of the mobile terminal 10 reads out a MUA (Mail User Agent) program code from the storage unit 15 and executes it to start a mailer application and create a mail. A message editing screen 101 for editing a message that is a mail text via 100 is displayed on the display unit 11 (ST101).

  Subsequently, the message being edited is displayed while being animated (ST102). Here, the animation includes not only a character string with tags such as “TELOP”, “SWING”, and “BLINK” but also an animation GIF inserted with an “Image” tag. Next, it is determined whether there is an input from the user (ST103). If it is determined that there is an input, the animation is stopped and the message is edited according to the input (ST104). On the other hand, if it is not determined in ST103 that there is an input, the process returns to ST102 and the same operation is repeated.

  After ST104, it is determined whether or not there has been a user input for a certain time (for example, 1 second or 2 seconds) (ST105). If it is determined that there has been no input for a certain period of time, it is confirmed whether there has been an instruction to end editing (ST106). If there has been an instruction, a series of operations are terminated, and if there has been no instruction, ST102. The message animation is resumed. On the other hand, if it is not determined that there is no input for a certain period of time, the process returns to ST104 and the editing of the message is continued with the animation stopped.

  With the operation as described above, in the present invention, when creating a message with a character modification that performs animation display such as scrolling and blinking on a predetermined character string, if there is no input from the user for a certain time, the message Since the message is displayed while being animated, the message can be animated without changing the screen from the editing screen, and the effect can be confirmed.

  Further, when it is desired to edit a message in the present invention, there is a situation that it is difficult to edit a character string if the character string is animated. On the other hand, in the present invention, since the animation is stopped when the input from the user is detected, the animation is stopped only by the user performing an input operation, and the character string can be easily edited. .

  The flowchart shown in FIG. 6 is an example of an operation for carrying out the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to FIG. For example, the present invention is not limited to the sequential operation as shown in FIG. 6, but may be an event-driven design or an operation using parallel programming by multi-process and multi-threading.

  The mail editing program of the present invention is a program that realizes the above-described operation by being executed by the control unit 13 of the mobile terminal 10. Such a program is executed by the processing unit, and in a mail editing program that realizes a function of creating a message with an animation, when a message being input is displayed on the editing screen, the input from the user is performed for a certain period of time. When there is no message, the message is displayed while being animated, and when the input from the user is detected, the animation is stopped. The program according to the present invention can be implemented in a form using a Web browser program and a character input program as part of a mailer application that is a MUA.

  As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was described in detail, this invention is not limited to the said embodiment, A various deformation | transformation is possible in the range which does not deviate from the summary of this invention. For example, in the above embodiment, the case where the animation display is performed according to the input of the user is shown. However, for example, it is determined whether the cursor position on the screen overlaps the character string to be animated, and if it does not overlap, the animation is continued. It is also conceivable that the user can confirm the effect of the animation and stop the animation if they overlap, thereby ensuring the convenience of editing by the user.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10; Portable terminal, 11; Display part, 12; Input part, 13; Control part, 14 Communication part, 15; Storage part, 100; Mail creation screen, 101; Message edit screen, 102; Display unit 104; software keyboard unit 111a to 111d; message 112; cursor (insert cursor)

Claims (2)

In the email editing method to create animated messages,
When displaying the message being entered on the editing screen, if there is no input from the user for a certain period of time, the message is displayed with animation, and the animation is stopped when the input from the user is detected. Method. In the mail editing program that realizes the function to create a message with animation by executing it in the processing unit,
When displaying the message being entered on the editing screen, if there is no input from the user for a certain period of time, the message is displayed with animation, and the animation is stopped when the input from the user is detected. program.

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