JPH01258975A - Image control device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simplify storage procedures of a created form by providing a second storage control means which assigns name for storing the form upon designation of accumulation inhibitive information, stores the form in the storage area of an appropriate disk for the name and erases the form when it is read. CONSTITUTION:When a test-created form is prepared, a source code of the test-created form is compiled according to an indicated option, then the name of a new form created in accordance with the contents of the option is changed or its accumulation is inhibited, and the new form thus processed is stored in the storage area of a disk device corresponding to a designated name. In addition, when the form is selected, any appropriate form is read from said disk device by designation of a name and a new form is displayed or printed. At that time, if the accumulation inhibition is designated, a new form stored by a second storage control means 12 is read, then said form stored in the disk device is erased but an existing form of the same name is not affected.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an image control device that controls the creation and control of forms such as ruled lines using electronic form overlays.

[Prior art]

Conventionally, such devices have used an electronic form overlay to store a plurality of forms in a storage device such as a disk device, and when printing, the data of the forms is called up and printed. Also, when changing the form, create a new form by compiling the form creation command input in the source code, and store the created form in the storage area of the storage device that corresponds to the new name of the specified form. However, if a form with the same name as the new form specified in the source code is already stored in the storage device, the current form will be replaced by the new form with the same name as soon as the new form is compiled. It ends up. For this reason, if the new form contains bugs and is not complete, the new form cannot be used for business purposes, making it impossible to execute the form.

Conventionally, in order to solve this problem, before creating a new form, the current form in the storage device with the same name as the new form is temporarily changed to a different name, and after compiling the new form, the name is changed. How to restore the current form to its original name, or how to temporarily store the current form in a storage device with the same name as the new form on a magnetic disk, etc., create a new form, and then restore the original name, or correspond to the name of the new form. Change the source code to temporarily change the name of the new form to a different name and create it. After the form has transitioned from the current form to the new form, change the source code again and change the name of the new form to the original name. However, with the above device, when creating a new form, you have to perform the operations described above, which makes the operation complicated and time-consuming, and there is a risk of losing the form due to an operational error. There was also. Further, even when simply compiling a prototype form to see what form it will be, the above-mentioned complicated operations have to be performed.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and provides an image control device that facilitates the operation of creating a form and that can create a new form without affecting already stored forms. The invention provides a storage means such as a disk that stores a plurality of forms by associating the form names with each other through form overlay, and a provisional name for storing the form when creating the form, or a method for suppressing the accumulation of the stored form. a first storage control means for storing the form in a storage area of the disk corresponding to the provisional name in response to the designation of the provisional name, and the storage prevention information A name for storing the form is assigned to the specification of the form, the form is stored in a storage area of the disk corresponding to the assigned name, and when the form is read from the disk, it is stored in the disk. and a second storage control means for erasing the form that is currently in use, and when creating a prototype form, compiles the source code of the prototype form according to the specified options, and stores the name of the new form created according to the contents of the options. Changes or storage are suppressed and stored in the storage area of the disk device corresponding to the specified name. Furthermore, when the above form is selected, the above name is specified, the corresponding form is read out from the disk means, and the new form is displayed or printed, and when storage suppression is specified, the stored new form is read out. By erasing the form stored in the disk device after the new form is created, the new form does not have an adverse effect on the current form having the same name.

〔Example〕

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail based on the drawings of FIGS. 1 to 3.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an image control device according to the present invention used in a printing device.

In the figure, the console manually inputs various data, instructions, etc., and the control unit (CPU) 12 executes predetermined calculations, processes, etc. according to programs corresponding to the input instructions. The external storage device (disk device) 13 stores manually created data (documents, forms) and programs. The storage unit 14 is comprised of a RAM and temporarily stores image data such as designated documents and forms. The font ROM 15 has multiple types of character fonts, and
The PU 12 reads character dots corresponding to the image data from the font ROM 15 and controls the CRT drive circuit 16 or printer drive circuit 18 to display the character dots on the display CRT 17 or cause the printer 19 to print the character dots. ing.

Further, FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram showing an example of an option table. In Figure 2, the option table is
Entry 21 consisting of the source code file name of the form to be compiled, Entry 2 consisting of the medium (disk, magnetic tape) on which the source code file exists
2, an entry 23 consisting of a form and compile list output suppression, and an entry 24 consisting of a temporary name of the form or accumulation suppression, etc.

FIG. 3 is a schematic process diagram showing the form creation process. In FIG. 3, as shown in FIG. 2, in the options instructed from the console, an entry for specifying the temporary name of the form or inhibiting accumulation, which is the present invention, is newly created, and the operator command analysis task is The above options are analyzed to determine the source code of the form (step 101), the form compiler is activated, and the above options are passed to the form compiler. The form compiler compiles the source code of the form as directed by this option in step 102.
), loads the created form into a storage device such as a disk (step 103), and outputs the form and compile list (step 104). At this time, the form name when stored in the storage device is changed or storage is inhibited depending on the specified contents of the above options.

Next, the processing operation of the image control device will be explained based on the flowchart shown in FIG. In FIG. 4, when the form creation option instructed from the console 11 is manually selected by the operator (step 201), the operator command analysis task performs the analysis as shown in FIG. 3 and starts the compiler. The above compiler is
The option table shown in FIG. 2 is received from the operator command analysis task, and it is determined whether a temporary form name or storage inhibition is specified in the option (step 202). Here, if the temporary name or storage inhibition is not specified, the form will be stored in the disk device 13 with the name specified by the command in the source code, based on entries 21 and 22 shown in Figure 2. Reserve a disk area for (step 203). If a temporary name or storage inhibition is specified for the form, it is determined whether the entry 24 of the option table specifies a temporary name or storage inhibition (step 204). Here, if the name specified in the entry 24 is a temporary name, the form name specified in the source code is ignored and a disk area for form storage is created in the disk device 13 using the temporary name. Reserve (step 205). In addition, if what is specified in entry 24 above is storage suppression, only the image control system can temporarily allocate an appropriate name to the created form to automatically use the printer, and use the assigned name. Reserve a disk area for form storage in the disk device 13 (step 2)
06).

After the disk area in the disk device 13 is reserved by the above method, the compiler then compiles the source code of the form to create the form (step 207). Then, the created form is transferred to the disk device 13.
and stores it in the reserved disk area (step 208). Next, the CPU 12 retrieves the form stored in the disk area and outputs it to the printer drive circuit 18 along with the compilation list.
09), the printer 19 prints the self-form and the compile list.Then, it is determined whether storage inhibition is specified in the options of the printed form (step 210).Here, the storage inhibition is specified. If not, the processing operation ends with the form stored in the disk area, and if storage suppression is specified, the form with the name assigned to the disk area is deleted from the disk device 13. (
Step 211), the processing operation ends.

An example of an operator command string for specifying the above processing by the operator is shown below.

FDL option#1. option#2゜op
tion#3. option #4 Here, each option is as follows: option #1: 5source
code rile [d (specify source code file name) op t i o n # 2: 5source
code media id (specifying whether the source code is magnetic tape or disk source code) op tio n #3: no print
t (Printout specification) op t i o n #4: tempora
ry rorm id (designation of temporary name for form storage) or * (designation of storage suppression).

Therefore, in the present invention, when creating a new form, the operator only needs to specify it using the above command string. This simplifies the operation and prevents loss of forms due to operational errors. Forms created by specifying a tentative name are stored in the disk device with that tentative name.
When a form created with storage suppression specified is printed out by a printer, it can be erased from the disk device and can be stored in a separate area from the current form with the same name that is already stored. .

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, in the present invention, it is possible to easily store a created form, and it can be stored separately from the current form with the same name, so a new form can be created without affecting the already stored form. Forms can be created.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an image control device according to the present invention used in a printing device, Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an obunyon table, and Fig. 3 is a process for creating a form. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the processing operation of the image control device shown in FIG. 11... Console, 12... Control unit (CPU),
13...External storage device (disk device), 14...Storage unit (RAM), 15...Font ROM. 16...CRT drive circuit, 17...CRT. 18...Printer drive circuit, 19...Printer.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] It has a storage means, stores in the storage means a form compiled and created by associating names with a form overlay, and when selecting a form, specifies the name and outputs the desired form from the storage means. In the image control device, the image control device includes: a designating means for designating a temporary name for storing the form when creating the form or storage prevention information for inhibiting storage of the form to be stored; first storage control means for storing the form in a storage area of the storage means corresponding to the temporary name; and assigning a name for storing the form to the designation of the storage suppression information, and storing the form in accordance with the assigned name. storing the form in a storage area of the storage means corresponding to;
An image control device comprising: second storage control means for erasing the form stored in the storage means when the form is read from the storage means.