JPH0512401A - Document preparing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make operations easy and efficient in the case of selecting all the selecting candidates from a lot of selecting candidates excepting for a little candidates. CONSTITUTION:In the case of selecting a graphic as an erased system in a graphic erase processing, selection information showing the selection is added to a graphic data stored in a graphic data storage area 8 and the data are stored by selecting arbitrary graphics from plural graphics. When it is instructed to invert the selected state, the selected state (the graphic defined as the erased system) is inverted by inverting the selection information (selected/unselected) of all the graphic data.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document creating apparatus for arbitrarily selecting data to be edited such as characters and figures from a plurality of selection candidates.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in a document creating apparatus, when inputting or modifying characters for creating a document, or creating or editing a graphic, selection of data (character or graphic) to be processed. As a method, various selection methods are used according to the content of processing, such as selection of one data, range selection, selection of a plurality of data, selection of a fixed block unit, selection of all data, and the like.

[0003] For example, when a figure is edited, when selecting an arbitrary figure from a plurality of figures that have already been input as an editing target such as movement or copying, it is possible to select each figure,
By designating a rectangular area, the figures existing in that area are selected.

[0004]

By the way, in selecting a figure to be edited, it is sometimes desired to select all but a few figures from a large number. In such a case, in the conventional method of designating a rectangular area and collectively selecting a plurality of areas, it may be difficult to designate only a necessary figure depending on the state of the figure that has already been input. For this reason, it has been necessary to perform a selection procedure for each figure except for a few figures. This makes the operation complicated and requires a lot of time required for the operation. The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to provide a document creation apparatus capable of efficiently performing data selection.

[0005]

According to the present invention, selection means for selecting an arbitrary candidate from a plurality of selection candidates and selection or non-selection of the selection candidates according to the selection by the selection means. The storage means includes storage means for adding and storing selection information indicating any state, and reversing means for reversing the selection / non-selection state of the selection information stored in the storage means. The state of the selection information stored in is reversible by the reversing means as needed.

[0006]

With such a configuration, when selecting an arbitrary number of candidates from a plurality of selection candidates, if the number of candidates to be selected is small, the candidate is designated and the number of candidates to be selected is determined. If a large number of candidates are unnecessary, the contents of the selection information are reversed, and as a result, a large number of candidates can be specified. Therefore, the operation can be simplified by designating the smaller candidate (selected / non-selected) according to the ratio of the number of candidates to be selected among the selected candidates.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the arrangement of a document creating apparatus according to the embodiment. In the embodiment, a case where a graphic to be processed in the graphic editing process is selected will be described as an example. In FIG. 1, 3 is a CPU and 4 and 5 are the same C.
Memory (RAM, ROM) accessed by PU3
Is.

The CPU 3 controls the entire apparatus, and accesses the RAM 4 and the ROM 5 and activates a program according to an input instruction to perform a kana-kanji conversion process for creating a document and a graphic editing process (create a graphic, (Moving, copying, scaling, etc.) and so on.

The RAM 4 stores a document buffer 6 for storing document data (kana-kanji conversion result), a data management table 7 for managing data necessary for various processes, and graphic data created by graphic editing processing. A graphic data storage area 8 and the like are provided for this purpose. The data management table 7 stores a figure start pointer indicating the area where the figure data is stored, data indicating the position of the cursor, and the like. Details of the graphic data stored in the graphic data storage area 8 will be described later.

The ROM 5 stores a program area 10 for storing a control program that defines all operations of the document creating apparatus, a dictionary area 11 for storing dictionary data referred to in Kana-Kanji conversion, and font data. The printed character pattern area 12 and the like are provided. The program area 10 is provided with a kana-kanji conversion program area 13 for storing a kana-kanji conversion program, a figure editing processing program area 14 for storing a figure editing processing program, and the like. A selection processing unit 14a for selecting a graphic to be edited is provided in a part of the graphic editing processing program.

Further, 16 is a keyboard (KB), 17 is a keyboard interface (KB-IF), 18 is a display,
19 is a display controller (display-CNT), 20 is a display R
AM, 21 is floppy disk drive (FDD), 22 is F
DD interface (FDD-IF), 23 is a printer device (PRT), 24 is a printer interface (PR)
T-IF).

The keyboard (KB) 16 outputs input information necessary for creating a document or editing a figure to the CPU 3 via a keyboard interface (KB-IF) 17. In addition to character keys, cursor keys, etc., this keyboard 16
"Convert / Next candidate" key to instruct conversion of "Kana" (reading) to Kanji and execution of next candidate process, "Select / execute" key to instruct various settings, Various function keys are provided, including a "Cancel" key for instructing cancellation of input before suspension or confirmation, and "Delete" and "Insert" keys used for creating, editing and proofreading documents and figures. ing.

The display 18 is composed of a CRT, a liquid crystal display or the like. The display-CNT 19 controls the display of the display 18 by using the display RAM 20 under the control of the CPU 3.

The FDD 21 is an FDD under the control of the CPU 3.
The created document is saved via the D-IF 22, and external characters (characters other than JIS level 1 characters and level 2 characters, symbols, marks, etc.) and level 2 characters are recorded in the FD.

The PRT 23 prints based on the document stored in the document buffer 6 via the PRT-IF 24 or the document information read from the FDD 21 into the main body and stored in the document buffer 6. Next, the operation of the embodiment will be described.

First, it is assumed that the figure edit processing program is started and a plurality of figures are created. In addition,
It is assumed that a large number of basic figures such as lines, rectangles, circles, etc. are registered in the system, they are called by designating the type of figure, and any figure is created by the combination. The created figure is stored in the figure data storage area 8 indicated by the figure start pointer stored in the data management table 7, as shown in FIG. In the graphic data storage area 8, graphic data for each graphic type is stored by being linked with a pointer (NEXT POINTER). The figure data includes selection information indicating whether or not the figure is selected as a target of the figure editing process, figure type type indicating the type of figure, line type information of the figure,
It is assumed to be composed of coordinate data or the like indicating the figure position.

Here, a case will be described in which several figures are deleted from a large number of figures already created. 3 to 5 are flowcharts for explaining a processing procedure for deleting a figure.

First, when the execution of the figure deletion is instructed, the figure deletion process during the figure editing process is started and a screen for designating the figure to be deleted is displayed (step S).
1). On this designation screen, it is assumed that the figures that have already been input are displayed and that the cursor for designating an arbitrary figure is displayed.

In this state, key input can be performed (step S2), and a graphic can be designated and selected. For example, when the cursor key of the keyboard 16 is operated, the cursor for designating the coordinates is moved. Here, when the "select / execute" key is pressed to instruct the selection of the figure (step S3), the figure data storage area 8 is searched to see if the figure (the line) exists at the coordinate position indicated by the cursor. Is determined (steps S4 and S5). If no figure is present at the cursor position, the process returns to step S2 without selecting a figure.

If a figure exists at the specified position as a result of the search in step S4, the selection information indicating that the figure data has been selected in the selection information area (see FIG. 2).
(Reference) is stored (step S6). Then, the graphic is displayed according to the selected state (step S7). For example, if the selected figure is changed to a broken line regardless of the original line type, it is displayed, and if it is not selected, the actual line type is displayed.

The detailed procedure of this display processing is shown in the flowchart of FIG. First, a counter (not shown)
Then, the number of graphic data to be displayed stored in the graphic data storage area 8 is set (step A1). Here, the processing of the display routine is repeated for the number of times of the set counter value, that is, for each figure data (step A2).
~ A3). The procedure of the display routine (step A3) is shown in the flowchart of FIG.

The CPU 3 instructs the display-CNT 19 to display the graphic stored in the graphic data storage area 8. As a result, the graphic corresponding to the graphic data is copied to the display RAM 20 via the display-CNT 19. However, when the graphic data is selected as the target of the graphic deletion (step B2), the line type of the graphic developed in the display RAM 20 is rewritten into a broken line (indicating that the graphic is selected) (step B3). Then, the display 18 is instructed to display the data in the display RAM 20, and the data is displayed (steps B4 and B5).

When selecting a plurality of figures, by repeatedly pointing and selecting the figures with the cursor, the selection information indicating the selected state is stored and selected in the selection information area of each figure. Is displayed.

When the selection end is instructed (step S8), a confirmation screen for the selected figure is displayed (step S9). In this confirmation screen, in addition to confirming the deletion target graphic (deleting execution, cancellation), it is possible to instruct selection / non-selection inversion of the processing target graphic.

In step S2, when the "cancel" key is pressed to instruct the cancellation of the graphic selection (step S10), the selection information of all the graphic data is deselected and the processing is terminated (step S10). S11).

Next, the processing on the confirmation screen displayed in step S9 will be described. In this state, key input can be performed (step S12) to execute deletion of figures, instruct selection inversion, and cancel deletion.

Here, when the "select / execute" key is pressed to instruct execution of graphic deletion (step S13), selection information indicating selection is set in the selection information area of graphic data. Identify the existing figure (step S
14). Then, the graphic data designated for deletion is deleted, and the deletion process is terminated (step S15).

When the "cancel" key is pressed to instruct to cancel the deletion (step S16), the selection information of all graphic data is deselected and the process is terminated (step S16).
17).

When the selection inversion is instructed (step S18), selection information indicating that all the graphic data stored in the graphic data storage area 8 is selected is set in the selection information area. It is identified (step S19). Then, if the selection information of the graphic data indicates selection, it is changed to data indicating non-selection, and the selection information of the other graphic data is changed to data indicating selection.
That is, the selected graphic and the non-selected graphic are reversed (step S20). A graphic is displayed according to the selected state in which this selection / non-selection is reversed (step S21). After this process, the process returns to step S12 and waits for key input.

Therefore, when trying to select all but a few figures from a large number of figures, only some figures which are not deleted are selected and the selected state is reversed to select other figures. Since it is possible to do so, it is not necessary to perform a selection procedure for each of a large number of figures, so the operation is very easy and the processing time is greatly shortened.

In the above embodiment, the case of the graphic deletion process has been described as an example, but it can also be carried out when selecting a target of another editing process such as copying, moving or enlarging / reducing a graphic. it can. In addition to the graphic processing, for example, when selecting a character to be modified from a character string,
It can also be applied when making other data selections.

[0032]

As described above, according to the present invention, when selecting arbitrary data from a plurality of data, it is possible to reverse the selected / non-selected data. Therefore, when there are many data to be selected. However, even after selecting a small amount of data that is not needed in advance, it is possible to make a selection by reversing the selection / non-selection, which is extremely efficient.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining graphic data.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining a processing procedure for deleting a figure.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining a processing procedure for deleting a figure.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining a procedure of display processing during figure deletion processing.

[Explanation of symbols]

3 ... CPU, 6 ... Document buffer, 7 ... Data management table, 8 ... Graphic data storage area, 14 ... Graphic editing processing program area, 14a ... Selection processing unit, 18 ... Display, 19 ... Display-CNT.

Claims (1)

Claim: What is claimed is: 1. A selection unit for selecting an arbitrary candidate from a plurality of selection candidates, and either selection or non-selection as the selection candidate according to the selection by the selection unit. Storage means for adding and storing selection information indicating the state, and reversing means for reversing the selection / non-selection state of the selection information stored in the storage means. A document creating apparatus, wherein the state of the stored selection information is reversed by the reversing means as needed.