JPH0337742A - Image display system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To execute easily and in a short time the display of a document name table of a document and the prescribed processing operation to the document by storing a document name added to a document file which is taken in charge, and displaying the document name obtained by referring to the storage contents when an icon is instructed. CONSTITUTION:By instructing a folder icon brought to screen display by a mouse 13, a table of a document name added to a document file which is taken in charge in a folder file 15 is displayed. Also, when a specific document name is selected in the displayed document name table, an operation menu set in advance is displayed. Subsequently, when a specific menu (for instance, a menu corresponding to a movement processing) is selected from in the operation menu brought to screen display, a processing (for instance, a movement processing) is performed to document data corresponding to the selected document name. In such a way, by only the operation of the mouse 13, document processing operation can be executed, and the operability can be improved.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to an image display method for displaying an icon corresponding to an archive file that stores document files [Prior Art] Conventionally, multi-window type workstations, etc. For example, some document creation devices are designed to store a plurality of document files in one folder file.

Then, by selecting and opening the folder icon displayed on the screen, the document names (document titles) of the above multiple documents (documents) will be displayed.
You can see what kind of documents exist in a folder.

Also, from among the document titles displayed on the screen,
To perform operations such as opening, copying, moving, or deleting a document corresponding to a desired document title, first use the mouse to move the cursor over the desired document title and select it. Then press the copy key provided on the keyboard. This puts the cursor in a copyable state, and by moving the cursor to the copy destination, the content of the document corresponding to the selected document title is copied. Also, the movement process is performed by performing the same operation as the copy process.

Furthermore, to open or delete a desired document, move the cursor over the desired document title, select it, and then press the open key or delete key provided on the keyboard to open or delete the selected document. The document corresponding to the title is opened or deleted.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

By the way, with the image display method of the conventional document creation device described above, even if you want to see what kind of documents exist in the folder tour, unless you set the folder icon to oven, you will not be able to see what kind of documents exist in the folder tour. There is a drawback that it is not possible to view the document name list of documents, and it takes time to refer to the document name list.

In addition, the desired operation process (oven,
To perform any of the following operations (move, copy, delete), you must select the desired document name using the mouse, and then press the key corresponding to the desired operation. First, there was a drawback that the operation process was time-consuming.

The present invention solves the above-mentioned drawbacks and provides an image display method that can easily display a document name list of documents existing in a folder file and perform predetermined processing operations on the documents in a short time. The purpose is to

[Means to solve the problem]

The present invention provides storage files (e.g. folders)
storage means, such as a table, for storing document names added to document files stored in the storage file, and pointing means, such as a mouse, for designating an icon (for example, a folder icon) corresponding to the stored file; When the icon is specified, the document name obtained by referring to the storage contents of the storage means is displayed, and a preset operation menu (for example, opening, moving, copying, deleting, etc.) is displayed. a control means for displaying a corresponding menu), and when the displayed document name is selected and a specific menu is selected from the operation menu, a control means for displaying a document data corresponding to the selected document name; and processing means that performs processing according to the selected menu.

[Effect]

In the present invention, by pointing a folder icon displayed on the screen using a mouse (instruction means), a list of document names added to document files stored in the folder tour is displayed. Furthermore, when a specific document name is selected from the displayed document name list,
A preset operation menu (for example, a menu corresponding to each process such as oven, move, copy, delete, etc.) is displayed.

When a specific menu (for example, a menu corresponding to movement processing) is selected from the operation menus displayed on the screen, the document data corresponding to the selected document name is Processing (eg, movement processing) is performed.

〔Example〕

Embodiments of the image display method according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a document creation device such as a workstation to which the image display method according to the present invention is applied. In the figure, a keyboard/mouse control section 11 manually controls various data, commands, etc. input from a keyboard 12 and a mouse 13 connected to the keyboard 12. Note that the mouse 13 is equipped with two buttons, and by pressing a predetermined button of the two buttons, for example, the left button, an icon displayed on the screen can be selected.

The disk control unit 14 controls access to the disk device 15. The disk device 15 stores document files,
It stores an archive file (hereinafter referred to as a folder file) that stores document files, a program based on a flowchart showing a processing procedure described later, and the like.

The real memory 16 stores various manually inputted data, commands, cursor position information, and data read from the disk device 15.

The central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as CPU) 17 has a document editing section 18, one document operation section, a document title data management section 20, and an operation menu management section 21.

Further, the CPU 17 performs operation processing corresponding to the selected menu.

The document editing section 18 edits the character string converted by the character conversion section (not shown) according to a preset format.

When an icon (hereinafter referred to as "Order icon") corresponding to the folder tour is selected, the document operation section 19 notifies the document title data management section 20 that the icon has been selected, and also When a specific document title is selected from the title menu, the operation menu management unit 21 is notified that the specific document title has been selected.

The document title data management section 20 extracts and outputs title data from the document title management table 22A stored in the document title data storage section 22 based on instructions from the document operation section 19. Document title management table 22A
is provided corresponding to a folder tour, and when a document is moved or copied to the folder tour, the title of the corresponding document is stored in the table.

When the document title menu display control section 23 inputs the title data output from the document title data management section 20, the document title menu display control section 23 displays a display section 24 such as a display.
, a menu frame is displayed, and a document title based on the title data is displayed on this menu frame.

The operation menu management section 21 extracts and outputs menu item data registered in the operation menu table 25 based on instructions from the document operation section 19.

The operation menu display control section 26 controls the operation menu management section 2.
When the menu item data output from 1 is input, a menu frame is displayed on the display unit 24, and
Display the operation menu within this menu frame.

FIG. 2 shows a document title menu 3 after selecting the Folgoo icon 31 on the display screen 30 of the display unit 24.
2 is displayed, and the operation menu 33 is further displayed. That is, the Folgo icon 31, the document title menu 32, and the operation menu 33 are sequentially displayed on the display screen 30 according to the user's operation.

In addition, in FIG. 2, "0PEN" of the operation menu 33
” “C0PY” 'MOVIE” “D
ELETE" (7) Each menu is set to correspond to an event that occurs when a conventional "open key, copy key, move key, or delete key is pressed, depending on the selected menu.

Next, the document processing operation of the document creation device will be briefly explained based on the flowchart shown in FIG.

The user selects the folder file displayed on the display screen 30.
: Select the icon by operating the mouse 13, moving the cursor and clicking on the button 31 (step 100), and then pressing two buttons.

By pressing the two buttons of the mouse 13 in this way, a document title menu display event occurs, and as shown in FIG. is displayed only while the two buttons on the mouse 13 are pressed down (step 101). This means that a menu of document names added to document files stored in the folder file is displayed.

Furthermore, while pressing down the two buttons of the mouse 13, the user selects the document title menu 3 displayed on the screen.
By moving the cursor over a desired document title from 2 and selecting it, and then moving the cursor to the right, an operation menu can be displayed.

Then, the CPU 17 determines whether or not a specific document title has been selected (step 102). If there is a selection here, it recognizes that an operation menu display event has occurred, and as shown in FIG. , displays the operation menu 33 for the selected specific document (step 103), and further displays the operation menu 3
If a specific menu is selected from 3 (step 104), the document corresponding to the selected specific document title is processed according to the operation process corresponding to the selected operation menu. (Step 105).

If no document title is selected in step 102 above, that is, only the document title menu is displayed, or in step 105
, the document processing ends.

Next, the document processing operation of the document creation device will be explained separately into a data generation phase and an operation phase.

First, we will explain the data generation phase, but here we will focus on document movement or transcription (hereinafter referred to as movement/
The following describes the occurrence of an event (called "posting") and the occurrence of a document deletion event.

First, in the case of a document movement/posting event, as shown in FIG. 200
), in the case of a folder, the document is moved/transcribed to the folder (step 201), and the document title of the processed document is stored in the document title management table 22A for the folder (step 202). ).

Further, if the movement/posting destination is not a folder in step 200, the CPU 17 determines whether the movement/posting destination is from a folder to another area.
03), in the case of moving/posting from a folder to another area, refer to the document title management table 22A, obtain the corresponding document title (step 204), and move/post to another area corresponding to the obtained document title. Move/transcribe processing to the area is performed (step 205). Here, if it is a movement process, CP
U17 deletes the title of the corresponding document from the document title management table 22A (step 206).

Furthermore, in step 203, if the folder is not moved/posted to another area, the CPU 17
Then, the document is moved/transcribed in another area that does not depend on the folder (step 207). and,
When any of the above steps 202, 206, and 207 is completed, the process returns to the main routine. On the other hand, when a document deletion event occurs, the CPU 17 deletes the document as shown in FIG. When a deletion event occurs, it is determined whether the document to be deleted is in the folder or not (step 300).
), if the document is in a folder, the document is deleted from the folder (step 301), and the document title corresponding to the document for which the process was performed is deleted from the document title management table 22A for the folder. (step 302
). If the document to be deleted in step 3-00 is not in the folder, the document is deleted in another area (step 303).

When either step 302 or 303 is completed, the process returns to the main routine.

Next, the operation in the operation phase of document processing will be explained based on the flowcharts of FIGS. 6 and 7.

As shown in FIG. 6, the user selects a folder icon by clicking a predetermined one of the two buttons on the mouse 13 (step 400), and then simultaneously presses the two buttons on the mouse 13 (step 400). 401
).

Then, the document title data management unit 20 obtains title data from the document title management table 22A based on the data that the document title menu display event has occurred, which is notified from the document operation unit 19 (step 402), and displays the document title menu. It is output to the display control section 23.

When the document title menu display control section 23 receives the title data from the document title data management section 20, it causes the display section 24 to display a menu frame (step 403) and displays the document title within the menu frame. (Step 404),
Thereafter, the document title display area is set to roNJ (step 405).

Next, the document operation unit 1 obtains the position information of the cursor (step 406), and determines in which display area the cursor is located based on the obtained position information (step 407), so that the cursor is If it is determined that the title exists in the title display area (step 40
8) Notify the operation menu management section 21 of this fact.

When the operation menu management section 21 receives a notification from one document operation section that the cursor is present in the document title display area, the operation menu management section 21 displays the operation menu table 25.
The menu item data is obtained from (step 409) and output to the operation menu display control section 26.

The operation menu display control section 26 controls the operation menu management section 2.
When the menu item data is entered manually from step 1, a menu frame is displayed on the display unit 24 (step 4).
10) Display the operation menu within that menu frame (
Step 411), and then sets the operation flag to rONJ (step 412).

If this step 412 is completed, step 40
The process returns to step 6 and the steps after this step are executed.

Further, if the document operation section 1 determines that the cursor is present in the operation menu display area in step 407 (step 413), it notifies the operation menu management section 21 of this fact.

Then, the operation menu management unit 21 sets the operation corresponding to the operation selection flag of the menu selected from the operation menu table 25 (step 414).

Then, the set operation menu is executed (step 415), and when step 415 is completed, the process returns to step 406 and the subsequent steps are executed.

If the Open menu is selected from the operation menu, the corresponding document file will be opened, and if the Delete menu is selected, the document in the folder tour will be deleted, and then the document file will be opened from the operation menu. If the Move or Post menu is selected,
By selecting the move or post menu, the cursor becomes ready for moving or posting, so the document can be moved or posted from the folder tour to the move or post destination specified by the user. .

Next, if the document operation unit 19 determines in step 407 that the cursor is outside the operation menu display area (step 416), as shown in FIG. If the mouse button is released (step 417), if the mouse button is released, that is, if a deletion event occurs for the document title menu 32 and operation menu 33 (see Figure 2) displayed on the screen. First, it is determined whether the operation menu 33 is displayed (step 418).

Here, when the operation menu 33 is displayed, the document operation section 1 sends the document title display flag set to roNJ and the operation The menu flag is set to roFFJ (step 419), and the document title menu 32 and operation menu 33 are erased from the display screen 3o (step 42o).

On the other hand, if the operation menu is not displayed in step 418, that is, if the document menu is only referenced, only the document title menu 32 is displayed and no operation menu is displayed, so one document operation section is The document title menu display control unit 23 is caused to set the document title display flag set in rONJ to rOFFJ (step 421), and further erase the document title menu (step 422).

Note that if the mouse button is not released in step 417 above, step 4 shown in FIG.
The process returns to step 06 and the steps after this step are executed.

When either step 420 or 422 is completed, the process returns to the main routine.

According to the above embodiment, it is possible to display the menu of documents existing in the folder gallery without opening the folder icon.

Further, according to the above embodiment, a document title menu is displayed, an operation menu for the selected desired document title is displayed, and the desired operation menu is selected, thereby allowing key operations to be performed as in the conventional method. The operation process corresponding to the selected operation menu can be executed on the document corresponding to the selected desired document title without any trouble.

Therefore, in document processing operations, it is possible to perform document processing operations only by operating the mouse, without repeating mouse operations and key operations as in the past, improving operability. I can do it.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, it is possible to display the document title menu of the document (document) existing in the folder tour without opening the folder icon, and the displayed document (document) can be displayed. The operation menu for the desired document title selected from the title menu can be displayed, and by selecting the desired operation menu, the operation corresponding to the selected document title can be displayed without having to perform key operations as in the past. The operation process corresponding to the selected operation menu can be executed on the document to be processed, and the operability and work efficiency of the document processing operation can be improved.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a document creation device to which the image display method according to the present invention is applied, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a document title menu and an operation menu displayed on the screen, and FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an outline of document processing operations. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing processing operations when a document movement or transcription event occurs. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing processing operations when a document deletion event occurs. 6 and 7 are flowcharts showing detailed document processing operations. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11... Keyboard/mouse control unit, 12... Keyboard, 13... Mouse, 14... Disk control unit, 15... Disk device, 16... Real memory, 17
...Central processing unit, 18...Document editing department, 19...
- Document operation section, 20... Document title data management section, 21... Operation menu management section, 22
...Document title data storage section, 22A...
- Document title management table, 23... Document title menu display control unit, 24... Display unit, 25... Operation menu table, 26... Operation menu display control unit. Figure A Figure 2 Figure 3

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) In an image display method for displaying an icon corresponding to an archive file storing a document file, a storage means for storing a document name added to a document file stored in the archive file; An image display method comprising: an instruction means for specifying the icon; and a control means for displaying a document name obtained by referring to the storage contents of the storage means when the icon is specified. . (2) In an image display method for displaying an icon corresponding to an archive file storing a document file, a storage means for storing a document name added to a document file stored in the archive file; instruction means for specifying the icon; displaying a document name obtained by referring to the storage contents of the storage means when the icon is specified;
a control means for displaying a preset operation menu, and when the displayed document name is selected and a specific menu is selected from the operation menu, a control means for displaying the document data corresponding to the selected document name; An image display method comprising processing means for performing processing according to a selected menu.