JPH03160516A - Editing processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve operability in an edition processing by executing the edition processing to each processing object corresponding to a selected edition processing function without ending the operation of the edition processing to each designated processing object. CONSTITUTION:By operating an object designating means 13, the plural processing objects are selected out of the same window or the related window and a display control means executes menu display as the item of the edition processing function for the respective designated processing objects. When a function selecting means 12 selects the item of the desired edition processing function out of the items, an edition processing means 11 successively executes the edition processing corresponding to the edition processing function selected by the selecting means 12, to each processing object without ending the operation of the edition processing to each designated processing object. Thus, the processing operation is facilitated.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an editing processing device that executes editing processing using a desired function on a designated object to be processed.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, in this type of device, when a desired folder is specified with a mouse among folders containing documents, graphs, etc. consisting of iconized document data and graphic data, a specified window is displayed on the screen of a display such as a CRT. will be displayed, and each processing object in the specified folder (
Child folder: Items will be displayed in the above window. Then, when a desired item is specified from among the items of the above-mentioned processing object, each editing processing function of the processing object specified above is displayed as a menu, and the desired editing processing function is selected from the above menu, for example, "Open". ” is selected, depending on the above processing function, the grandchild folder of the specified child folder will be displayed in the displayed child window to enable the specification of the processing target, or as an editing processing function, for example. When "move" copy is selected, editing processing operations such as moving and copying the object to be processed are performed.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, with the above editing processing device, even if an attempt is made to edit a predetermined processing target, such as moving or copying, between a parent window and a child window, the child window completely covers the parent window and processing is interrupted. Even if the object cannot be specified, or the parent window and child window can be displayed without overlapping, there is no function to operate items between these windows, and editing operations cannot be performed between related windows. However, there was a problem in that the operability in editing processing was poor.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and allows editing operations to be performed on another processing object within the same window without terminating the editing operations performed on one processing object. An object of the present invention is to provide an editing processing device that can perform editing operations between all related windows, thereby improving operability in editing processing.

[Means to solve the problem]

In the present invention, items of processing objects having predetermined editing processing functions, such as "open", "move", and "copy" functions, are each displayed in a display area such as a window having a predetermined related structure of a display device, and In an editing processing device that executes a desired editing process on an object to be processed, an object specifying means such as a mouse for specifying at least one item of the object to be processed displayed in each of the display areas; a display control means such as a CPU that controls the display of each editing processing function of the processing object on a menu or the like for each processing object; a keyboard that selects a desired editing processing function from the displayed editing processing functions; A function selection means such as a mouse,
an editing processing means such as a CPU that sequentially executes editing processing according to the selected editing processing function on each of the specified processing objects without completing the editing processing of each of the specified processing objects; Equipped with.

[Effect]

Specifying multiple processing objects within the same window or from related windows by operating the object specifying means,
The display control means displays a menu of editing processing function items for each designated processing object.

Then, when the function selection means selects the item of the desired editing processing function from the above-mentioned items, the editing processing means selects the desired editing processing function item from the above-mentioned items, and then the editing processing means selects the desired editing processing function item from the above-mentioned items. Editing processing corresponding to the editing processing function selected by the selection means is sequentially performed on the editing processing functions.

Therefore, without terminating the operation of the processing function performed on one processing target item within a certain window, the processing function can be operated on another processing target item within the same window or in a related window. can be performed, which facilitates processing operations.

〔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 editing processing device according to the present invention. In the figure, the central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as
It is called rCPUJ. ) 11 manually controls various data and commands including document data from a human power section consisting of a keyboard 12 and a mouse 13 connected to the keyboard 12, and stores real memory by commands according to input and corresponding programs. 14, disk device 15 and display device 1
6, and executes predetermined calculations, processing, etc. according to instructions.

The real memory 14 and the disk device 15 store a program for sequentially executing the editing process of the processing object according to the present invention, icon information of the common folder, each processing object of the folder,
It stores an icon definition file that defines editing processing operations for each of the processing objects, window data having a predetermined relational structure (parent-child relationship), and a group of commands and data manually input from the human resources section. Further, the disk device 15 is
Of the above data, data that cannot be stored in the real memory 14 is stored, and the data stored in the disk device 15 is read out from the disk device 15 under the control of the CPU II as necessary and is stored in the real memory 14. It is stored in the memory 14.

The display section 16 consists of a display such as a CRT, and displays iconized files 20 and folders 21 and a predetermined related structure (parent-child relationship) as shown in FIG. 2 under the control of the CPU II. Folder windows 22 to 2 displaying the items of each processing object in the above folder.
4 and various data are displayed on the display screen.

The CPU 1 also displays the processing functions of each processing object specified by the mouse 13 in a menu 25 on the screen of the CRT 16 according to the definition information of the editing processing operation.
-26 is displayed, and editing processing of the processing object is executed according to the selected processing function.

That is, since each processing object is defined by the definition information of the editing processing operation, the CPU 1 determines the processing function of the specified processing object according to the above definition, and selects the menus 25 to 26 in the window. The desired processing function can be selected by moving the cursors 27 to 28, which are linked to the movement of the mouse 13, to the position of the desired processing function displayed in the menu and clicking the mouse button. Is going. The above processing functions include, for example, "Open" to open the file of the processing target, "Execute" which is a command to execute a predetermined process, "Copy" which is a transcription function, "Move" which is a movement function, and "Display attribute information".
``attribute'', ``delete'' which is a deletion function, and ``cancel'' which is a function to cancel a selected editing process.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for executing editing processing of a processing object according to the present invention. In addition, each processing object (child folder) in the parent folder shown in Figure 2 (a)
The window 22 displaying the items has been instructed in advance to be displayed by specifying a predetermined icon by the operator.

In FIG. 3, the CPU 11 first waits for the mouse button of the mouse 13 to be clicked by the operator (step 101), and when the mouse button is clicked, it determines whether or not the left mouse button is clicked (step 102). ).

Here, if the above click is a click on a folder item (for example, child folder-1) in the window 22 with the left button of the mouse 13, the specified item (child folder-1) is clicked as shown in FIG. Invert it as shown in b) (
Step 103), return to step 101 and wait for the next mouse button click. If the click is not the left mouse button click, it is determined whether the click is the right mouse button click (step 104).

Here, if the click is not a right button click of the mouse 13, the process returns to step 101 and waits for the next mouse button click. Further, if the above click is a click with the right button of the mouse 13, the effective processing function of the specified child folder-1 is read from the icon definition file that defines the editing processing operation of each processing target (step 105). , the read valid processing functions are displayed in the window 22 as a menu 25 in list form (step 106). Next, the CPU 11 determines whether "Open" has been selected from among the items on the menu 25 (step 107).
If "Open" is selected (see FIG. 2(c)), the selected item "Open" is highlighted and the corresponding program (generally a window program) is started (step 108). As shown in Figure 2(d), the child folder
A window 23 displaying items of each object to be processed (grandchild folder) in 1 is displayed on the screen of the CRT 16, and the process returns to step 101 to wait for the next mouse button click. Similar behavior to the above steps can be applied to other folder items (
For example, do this for child folder-3 (see Figure 2 (d).
) to (g)), each processing object in child folder-3 (
CR window 24 that displays the items in the grandchild folder)
Display it on the screen of T16.

Next, when the mouse button is clicked again, the same operation as in the above step is performed. And step 107
If "Open" is not selected, it is determined whether "Copy" is selected from among the items in the menu 25 (step 109). If not selected, that is, if another item is selected from the items in the menu 25, another editing program corresponding to the above item is executed (step 110), and then the process returns to step 101. Waits for the next mouse button click. Furthermore, when "Copy" is selected from the items in the menu 25 (see FIG. 2 (h)), a program for copy editing processing corresponding to the item "Copy" is executed (step 111).
), as shown in FIG. 2(i), the message "Please move the mouse to specify copy" is displayed and the cursor changes to a copy cursor 28. It goes without saying that the above message may be displayed in other ways.

Then, when the operator operates the mouse 13 to move the copy cursor 28 onto a folder item (for example, grandchild folder-3) in another folder window 24 and clicks the left mouse button, the grandchild folder - 3 is displayed in reverse video, grandchild folder-1 is copied into grandchild folder-3, and the number of items in grandchild folder-3 is changed to two. The CPU 1 then returns to step 101 and waits for the next mouse button click.

Therefore, in the present invention, a plurality of windows displaying items to be processed for editing can be displayed simultaneously, and the editing process performed on one item can be displayed within the same window or related Editing operations such as copying/moving can be performed on other items in other windows, and the degree of freedom and ease of editing operations can be improved.

In addition, in the present invention, it is possible to select a processing function by displaying only the effective processing functions of the processing target specified from the icon definition file in the menu, so that by selecting a previously unnecessary function key or an unnecessary menu, It is also possible to prevent erroneous operations by the operator.

In addition, in the embodiment, only the effective processing functions of the processing target specified from the icon definition file are displayed in the menu, but the present invention is not limited to this.
It is also possible to display other processing functions. This allows the operator to know all the processing functions that can be edited by the editing processing device.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, in the present invention, without terminating the editing operation performed on one processing object within the same window, the editing operation can be performed on another processing object, and all Since editing processing operations can be performed between related windows, the degree of freedom and ease of editing processing operations can be improved, and thereby the operability in editing processing can be improved.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic structure of an editing processing device according to the present invention, FIG. 3
The figure is a flowchart for executing editing processing of a processing object according to the present invention. 11... Central processing unit (CPU), 12... Keyboard, 13... Mouse, 14... Real memory, 15
...Disk device, 16...Display device (CRT)
, 22-24...Folder window, 25.26
...Menu 27.28...Cursor. Figure 1

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) In an editing processing device that displays items of a plurality of processing objects each having a predetermined editing processing function in a display area having a predetermined related structure, and executes a desired editing processing on the processing objects. , object specifying means for specifying at least one item of the processing object displayed in each of the display areas; display control means for controlling the display of each editing function of the specified processing object; function selection means for selecting a desired editing processing function from among the editing processing functions selected; 1. An editing processing device comprising: editing processing means for executing editing processing according to an editing processing function. (2) In an editing processing device that displays items of a plurality of processing objects each having a predetermined editing processing function in a display area having a predetermined related structure, and executes a desired editing processing on the processing objects. , definition means for defining an editing operation for the processing object; object specifying means for specifying at least one item of the processing object displayed in each of the display areas; function determining means for determining each editing processing function of the specified processing target object; display control means for display-controlling each of the determined editing processing functions; function selection means for selecting an editing processing function; and editing processing according to the selected editing processing function for each processing object without terminating the editing processing operation for each of the specified processing objects. An editing processing device comprising: editing processing means for executing.