JPH03109666A - Document preparing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain a simple and high speed display/editing function even with a compact and inexpensive document preparing device by displaying simultaneously plural data of different forms and at the same time processing these data at a high speed. CONSTITUTION:An input device 1 is provided together with a mode switching device 2, a data processor 3, a display controller 4, and a display screen 5. Then the desired data to be edited by a user is started by the device 2 and then an optimum editing screen is displayed for the data. Then other data of different forms are mapped transmissively on the editing screen. At the same time, the relevant data is processed at a high speed. Thus it is possible to obtain a compact and inexpensive document preparing device which excels in the operability and the visibility.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a document creation device that edits and displays a composite document consisting of a plurality of data strings in different data formats, such as text data, graphic data, image data, etc. Regarding.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a compound document creation device, it has been necessary to specify in advance an area to be placed in a document for each type of data when creating a document. Further, as seen in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 63-300354, necessary information is extracted when switching the processing mode of a document, and when the document is edited, the entire document is appropriately synthesized and displayed.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention Therefore, in conventional compound document creation devices, the user must decide on the arrangement of data in the document and then specify the data area in advance, or there is no limit to the scope of data editing. As a result, operability was significantly impaired. In addition, when editing the entire document while suitably composing and displaying it as shown in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 63-300354,
There are problems in that a large and expensive display device is required and the processing speed is reduced.

The present invention has been made in view of these points, and an object of the present invention is to provide a simple and high-speed display and editing function even with a small and inexpensive device.

Means for Solving the Problems A mode switching device for switching a processing mode of a document, a data processing device that is activated by the mode switching device and corresponds one-to-one to data in a new format in a document, and the data processing device and a display device that maps and displays data in other formats on the editing screen of the data when displaying the data to be edited.

Function: In the document creation device of the present invention configured as described above,
After the mode switching device activates the data that the user wants to edit, the optimal editing screen for the data is displayed, and other data in different data formats are mapped onto this screen and transparently superimposed. This allows high-speed processing of the data while simultaneously displaying the data.

Embodiment FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the document creation apparatus of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, 1 is an input device that generates events such as mode switching, character input, and function selection, 2 is a mode switching device that starts the data processing device corresponding to the mode switching event, and 3 is the activated A data processing device that processes data, 4 a display control device that maps the terrain data of the part corresponding to the editing screen of the data processed by the data processing device, and controls superimposition, etc., 5 the superimposed data This is a display screen that displays the entire image. FIG. 3 is an example of a data editing screen. In Figure 3(a), graphic data is mapped onto the text data editing screen during text data processing and displayed, and in Figure 3(b), text data is mapped onto the graphic editing screen during graphic data processing. it's shown.

The operation of the document creation apparatus of this embodiment configured as described above will be explained using the flowchart shown in FIG.

It is assumed that the data processing is started by the occurrence of an event indicating mode switching from the input device 1 or by other means. In the description here, it is assumed that text data processing is first started, then text data processing bag fi131 is started and preparations are made for text data processing.

Next, an input event from the input device 1 is acquired within the text data processing device 31. If the acquired input event is a switching event to the graphic mode, the mode switching device 2 activates the graphic data processing device 32 to prepare for graphic data processing. Similarly, if the acquired input event is a switching event to the image mode, the mode switching device 2 activates the image data processing device 33 and prepares for image data processing. If the acquired input event is a text data processing event, the text data processing device 31 processes the text data and displays the text data on the display screen 5.

Next, the display control device 4 maps the graphic data and image data of the portion corresponding to the displayed text data editing screen onto the text data editing screen, and displays them on the display device 5 in a superimposed manner.

As described above, according to this embodiment, although the figures are displayed slightly deformed as shown in FIG. It becomes possible.

As described in detail, the present invention provides a document creation device that can easily create complex documents without being subject to complicated data area specifications or restrictions, and that has good operability and visibility. realizable.

Furthermore, the present invention does not require large-scale equipment for its components and can perform high-speed processing even with small and inexpensive equipment, so it can be easily implemented with a personal Japanese word processor, etc., and its practical effects are significant. .

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the document creation device of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the same embodiment device,
FIGS. 3a and 3b are examples of data editing screens, and are diagrams showing examples of text data editing screens and graphic data editing screens, respectively. 1... Input device, 2... Mode switching device, 3...
・Data processing device, 31...Text data processing device, 3
2... Graphic data processing device, 33... Image data processing device, 4... Display control device, 5... Display screen.

Claims (1)

[Claims] a mode switching device for switching a document processing mode; a data processing device that is activated by the mode switching device and corresponds one-to-one to data in different formats within a document; and a display of the data edited by the data processing device. The present invention is characterized in that it is equipped with a display device that maps and displays data in other formats on an editing screen for the data, thereby enabling high-speed processing of the data while simultaneously displaying a plurality of data in different data formats. document creation device.