JPH05151202A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a document processor capable of flexibly and consistently processing a fixed area and a floating area as areas and simplifying operation. CONSTITUTION:The document processor includes an input buffer 11 for inputting whether a prescribed area is a floating area or a fixed area and an area operation processing part 12 for forming and editing an area in accordance with an input from the buffer 11. A floating area setting processing part 14 for setting up a floating area in accordance with data inputted from the buffer 11 and a floating area resetting processing part 15 for resetting the floating area in accordance with data inputted from the buffer 11 are similarly connected to the processing part 12. Data in respective areas are stored in an area management information part 17 together with positional data.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document processing device,
In particular, it relates to a floating area setting method of a document processing device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There is a document processing apparatus using a Japanese word processor, DTP, or personal computer in which areas are provided on the document surface and the text, graphics, images, tables, etc. can be independently edited in these areas. There are two types of areas: a "fixed area" whose position on the document surface does not change functionally, and a "floating area" which changes the position in cooperation with a specific character in the text outside the area. ..

The setting methods of these two "areas" are the same "areas", but differ greatly. As shown in FIG. 7, a general method for setting a fixed area is to graphically set an area by designating, for example, two points using a pointing device such as a mouse.

On the other hand, the floating area is generally treated as a character by inserting a special control character in the document buffer for processing, and therefore, as shown in FIG. 8, means different from the fixed area setting is used. An area is set by clearly designating a character (“NA” in the case of FIG. 8) that is linked as “”.

[0005]

As described above, if the setting method is largely different between the fixed area and the floating area, the setting of the area is unnatural.

Further, since the setting method and the management method are different, the setting cannot be freely changed such that an arbitrary area can be a fixed area or a floating area, which impairs flexibility in operation.

Further, since the floating area is a setting method that is clearly associated with a specific character, many editing operations such as moving and copying cannot be performed in the same manner as the fixed area.

As a result, there is a problem in that the flexibility and consistency of the handling of two areas, the fixed area and the floating area, cannot be taken, and the operation becomes complicated.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, and has a flexibility and a consistency of handling as a fixed area and a floating area, and a document processing which is easy to operate. The purpose is to provide a device.

[0010]

A document processing apparatus according to the present invention includes an input means for inputting whether a predetermined area is a floating area or a fixed area together with its position data, and data connected to the input means. Area operation processing means for creating / editing an area in response to the area operation processing means; floating area setting / cancellation means connected to the area operation processing means for setting or canceling the floating area according to the input of the input means; And storage means connected to the floating area setting / releasing means for storing management information including the type and position of the area.

[0011]

In the document processing apparatus according to the present invention, the same operation is performed by the area operation processing means regardless of whether the predetermined area is the floating area or the fixed area according to the input data from the input means, and each area is processed. Is recorded with its type and position information.

[0012]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a main part of a document processing apparatus according to the present invention.
It is a block diagram showing. With reference to FIG.
Such a document processing apparatus is used for command input from the user.
The input buffer 11 which is an event buffer and the input buffer
It is connected to the file 11 and has functions for creating and editing areas.
Area operation processing section 12 which is an editor section to be realized, and area
It is connected to the operation processing unit 12 and floats the designated fixed area on the spot.
Floating region setting processing unit that is a processing execution unit that converts into a moving region
14 and specified floating area is converted to fixed area
Floating region setting cancellation processing unit 15, which is a unit, and region operation processing
Unit 12, floating region setting processing unit 14, and floating region setting solution
It is connected to the removal processing unit 15 and stores management information of each area in the document.
The area management information section 17 and the document data stored in association with each other
Document data memory 16 for storing data and area operation processing unit
And a display unit 13 that displays the processing result of the above.

FIG. 2 shows an example of the area management information created by the area management information section 17. Referring to FIG. 2, the area management information is information for managing the areas set in the document,
It has a position (X coordinate, Y coordinate), size (width, height), a storage address of the content data, and a floating area flag indicating whether the area is a fixed area or a floating area.

Since the floating area needs to be associated with a specific character in the text, a floating area control block as shown in FIG. 3 is inserted in the text data in addition to the above floating area flag and its position is set. To control. The floating area control block has a format in which the ID of the corresponding area is sandwiched between the code before the control block and the code after the control block.

A method of setting the floating area will be described below. The user creates a fixed area according to a conventional method, selects the area, and then presses a "floating area" command (not shown). Commands entered by the user are input buffer 1
1 is transferred to the area operation processing unit 12, and the area operation processing unit 12 transfers control to the floating area setting processing unit 14.

The operation of the floating area setting processor 12 will be described with reference to FIG. If the designated area is already a floating area (YES in # 11), there is no need for processing, and the process directly returns. If the selected area is not a floating area (NO in # 11), the upper left area coordinates of the processing area are obtained from the area management information section 17 (# 13). Based on the obtained coordinates, a "line search process" is performed to search which line in the outer text area the point is located (# 15). After determining by which line the designated area is arranged, the character at the end of the line is obtained by the "end-of-line character search process"(# 17). Next, the floating area control block shown in FIG. 3 is inserted after the end-of-line character just obtained in the text buffer, and the ID of the designated area is written in the area ID field in the block (# 19). Finally, the floating area flag in the area management information of the specified area is turned on (# 11),
The floating area conversion process ends.

As a result, the fixed area in the document becomes a floating area linked to the last character of the line that covers the area.

Next, a method of canceling the setting of the floating area will be described.
After selecting the floating area set as described above, a "fixed area" command (not shown) is pressed. The command input by the user is transferred from the input buffer 11 in FIG. 1 to the area operation processing unit 12, and the area operation processing unit 12 transfers control to the floating area setting cancellation processing unit.

The flow of the floating area setting cancellation processing section will be described with reference to FIG. If the designated area is already a fixed area (YES in # 31), there is no need for processing, and the process directly returns. If the selected area is not the fixed area (NO in # 31), the coordinates of the upper left of the specified area are obtained from the area management information section 17 (# 33). Based on the obtained coordinates, "line search processing" is performed to search which line in the outer document area the point is located (# 35). By this, the line under which the designated floating region is arranged is obtained, and then the floating region control block is obtained from the line by the "floating region control block search process"(# 3
7). Next, the floating area control block just obtained is deleted from the text buffer (# 39). Finally, the floating area flag in the area management information of the specified area is turned off (# 4
1) The conversion processing to the fixed area is completed.

As a result, the floating area in the document becomes a fixed area on the spot. The "floating region" command shown here,
Since the "fixed area" command can be freely executed with respect to the area in the document as many times as desired, it is easy to switch between the floating area and the fixed area, and flexible operability can be provided.

Further, since the "floating region setting process" and the "floating region setting canceling process" are not particularly limited to the region setting process, they can be effectively used in the following region moving process, for example. ..

FIG. 6 shows a flow of the area moving process. First, in the "destination determination process", where to move the area to be moved is determined by operating a pointing device (not shown) by a user (not shown) (# 51). It is determined whether the selected area is a floating area or a fixed area (# 5
3) If it is a floating area, "floating area setting cancellation processing" is performed on the spot (# 55). The area management information of the selected area is updated using the new position information determined in the "destination determination process"(# 57). If the selected area is a floating area (# 5
If NO in step 9, the "floating area setting process" is performed based on the updated information (# 61). Now that the floating area has been moved as a floating area, the entire drawing is performed after processing (# 6
3).

In this way, when the "floating region setting process" and the "floating region setting canceling process" are used, the process of moving the floating region which has been difficult, which has been difficult in the past, can be realized without any discomfort as in the fixed region. become able to.

Obviously, the same applies to the copy processing of the area.

[0026]

As described above, according to the present invention, the same processing is performed by the area operation means regardless of whether the predetermined area is the floating area or the fixed area according to the input data from the input means, and each area is processed. Are stored along with their type and location information. As a result, the consistency of the operation is maintained as the area, so that the document processing device which is easy to operate can be provided.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a main part of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the contents of area management information.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the contents of a floating area control block.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a floating area setting process.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of floating area setting cancellation processing.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a region moving process.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a conventional fixed area setting method.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a conventional floating area setting method.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Input Buffer 12 Area Operation Processing Section 13 Display Section 14 Floating Area Setting Processing Section 15 Floating Area Setting Release Processing Section 16 Document Data Memory 17 Area Management Information

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An input unit for inputting whether a predetermined region is a floating region or a fixed region together with its position data, and a region connected to the input unit for creating and editing the region according to the input data. An operation processing means, a floating area setting / releasing means which is connected to the area operation processing means and sets and cancels the floating area according to an input of the input means, and the area operation processing means and the floating area setting / releasing means And a storage unit that stores management information including the type and position of the area.