JPH05257788A - Card-shaped data base processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve operability for a card displayed in a reduced image concerning the card-shaped data base processor which displays text information or image information to be displayed on a screen in the reduced image by preparing and editing plural cards collecting those kinds of information together. CONSTITUTION:By designating an arbitrary card on the screen displaying the card in the reduced (small) image, the comparatively large (big) image is displayed to be able to confirm the contents of the card. When the cards are linked, the card at the linked destination is retrieved/displayed by providing a mechanism for the batch management of the link between the cards and a mark display means to show the card at the link source and designating the card having the reduced (small) image displaying the mark. Concerning the card group at the link destination and the display of the card group divided into groups, a window is opened by a multiwindow mechanism, and the card at the link destination or the card in the group is displayed in the reduced (small) image.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

[Industrial field of use] A system for creating one work by using text information, image information, etc. as material information on a personal computer or workstation is called an authoring tool. , A set of units (cards) with works
The present invention relates to a card-type database processing device for processing a card group (database) composed of plural sets of

Buttons on cards (link destination instruction buttons)
May exist, this is the function to display other cards (link function). Also, one card can have multiple buttons (plural links).

When editing a large number of cards, it is sometimes desirable to look over the entire created work. In addition, when the number of cards reaches hundreds or thousands, a plurality of related cards may be grouped, and the entire work may have a hierarchical structure.

Therefore, there is a need for a processing device for displaying the contents of these cards, the link status, and the status of the group so that they can be effectively recognized.

[0005]

2. Description of the Related Art FIGS. 10 to 12 are views for explaining a conventional card type database processing apparatus, and FIG. 10 shows a configuration example of the card type database processing apparatus.
Shows an example of a card, and FIG. 12 shows a display example of a conventional card list.

The conventional card type database processing device is
For example, it has the configuration shown in FIG. That is, it is a card-type database processing device that creates, edits, and displays a plurality of cards in which text information and image information displayed on the screen are collected, and a main control device 01 that monitors the entire movement, a keyboard , Mouse or other input device 0
3 and the input control device 02 that monitors the event, the card editing device 04 that manages the editing and creation of the card, the material data storage device 06 that stores the material data such as text and images, the information of the edited card, for example, Edit data storage device that saves the reference material data and card number
07, Data reading / writing device for reading / writing data 05, Display device for displaying card
(Display) 09 and display controller 08 for controlling it,
Reduced image that manages the reduced image (small) of the card
It consists of a (small) management device (13) and a reduced image (small) storage device (14) for storing reduced images. First, as shown in FIG. 11, the card reads texts (examples 1, 2, 3) and images from the material data storage device 06,
It is edited on the main controller 01, created by placing it anywhere on the card, reduced to a reduced image (small) of a predetermined size, and stored in the reduced image (small) storage device 14.

Viewing the created cards as a list {For a device for displaying the entire card group by this list of reduced images (small), the applicant of the present application has filed a Japanese patent application No. 3-4213. No. “Card type data processing device”}, the conventional method reads the reduced image (small) of each card from the reduced image (small) storage device 14 as shown in FIG. , Multiple cards were displayed on the screen, and the contents of the card were estimated by intuitive memory (color, area, layout, etc.) obtained from the reduced image (small).

As a result, it is possible to find out an arbitrary page to be referred to and to recognize the progress of the editing work. Also, as an extension of the list display function, it was possible to group cards that are organized in terms of content and to hierarchically structure the entire card. This allows the card database to be managed more efficiently.

FIG. 1 shows the group of cards.
As shown in "G1" of No. 2, the applicant of the present application has disclosed in Japanese Patent Application No. 4-015956 previously filed for displaying in a display format different from that of a single card.

[0010]

In the conventional method described above, (1) if the card consists of only text information, the text information is lost in the reduced image (small). , It is difficult to determine the content.
(2) It is difficult to know which card a card links to. (3) The operability is not sufficient in the list display function when the cards that are grouped are included. For example, you cannot see multiple groups of cards at the same time. There was a problem such as.

In view of the above-mentioned conventional drawbacks, the present invention is a card-type database processing device for creating and editing a plurality of cards in which text information and image information to be displayed on a screen are gathered, and displaying them in a reduced image (small). It is an object of the present invention to provide a card type database processing device capable of improving the operability of a card displayed in the reduced image (small).

[0012]

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention is newly provided with the following functions. That is, 1) On the screen displaying the reduced image (small) of the card,
For example, by specifying an arbitrary card with a mouse, a relatively large reduced image (large) is displayed so that the contents of the card can be confirmed.

2) A mechanism for collectively managing links between cards, more specifically, a card provided with a link information storage device and a link information management device and displaying a mark indicating that the card is the link source When a selection instruction is given with the mouse, the card with the link (card at the link destination) is searched and presented.

3) Grouping of cards, or the above 1),
In order to improve the usability (operability) of the function of 2), a window control device is installed and the multi-window method is adopted.

These improvements are applied to the conventional card-type database processing apparatus shown in FIG. 10 to make it easier to manage the card-type database using the reduced image (small). FIG. 1 shows a principle configuration diagram of the present invention. The card-type database processing device that realizes the present invention is a main control device 01 that monitors the movement of the entire tool, an input device 03 such as a keyboard and a mouse, an input control device 02 that monitors its events, and a card editing / creation management. Card editing device 04, material data storage device 06 that stores material data such as text and images, edited card information, for example, edited data storage device 07 that stores referenced material data and card number, data A data read / write device 05 for reading and writing, a display device 09 for displaying a card and a display control device 08 for controlling the same, a group information management device 11 for managing group information of the card 11, a group information storage device 12, Reduced image (small) management device 13 for managing the reduced image (small) of the card, the reduced image There are the following devices that are equipped with a reduced image (small) storage device 14 for storing (small) images and are characteristic of the present invention.

These are reduced images that manage a reduced image (large) of a size that allows the contents of the card to be confirmed.
(Large) Management device 15, Reduced image (Large) storage device 16 that stores the reduced image (Large), Link information management device 17 that collectively manages link information between cards, Link information storage that stores all link information The device 18 is a window control device 10 that manages the display of windows so that each window can be controlled independently in displaying a list of various reduced images (small).

[0017]

In the card type database processing device having the above structure, when viewing the cards in a list, first, the reduced image (small) management device 13 converts the reduced image (small) into the reduced image (small) storage device 14 Read from and pass the data to the display controller 08 and display
Show on 09.

If a user wants to see a certain card in detail, the user operates the mouse or the like to select and specify the reduced image (large) management device 15
Retrieves the reduced image (large) for the card from reduced image (large) storage 16 and displays it in an area on display 09. This makes it possible to grasp the contents of the card.

Furthermore, a certain card (link source card)
When you want to refer to a card that has a link from (link destination card), a mark indicating that it is a link source card is displayed on the link source card, and the mark of the mark is specified by the user. Card displayed
When (link source card) is selected, the link information management device 17 checks the link relation of the card from the link information storage device 18, and in a certain area on the display device 09, the link destination card, for example, Display a small image (small).

Further, in the list display of the reduced image (small) of the card or the group, a certain group "G1" is displayed.
To refer to a card that belongs to a group "G1"
Is selected by the above-mentioned mouse operation, the group information management device 11
Cards belonging to the selected group "G1" from 12
Select (for example, C1 to C9) to display the reduced image (small) corresponding to each card.
13 and the reduced image (small) storage device 14 are taken out.

At this time, in the present invention, the window control device 10 receives the data of the reduced image (small) and generates (opens) a new window, and the reduced image is displayed in the opened window. Display the (small) card group.

Since it operates in this way, the contents of each card can be easily checked while looking at the whole card, and the link relation between the cards and the group relation can be easily recognized. Further, by adopting the display with the windows that can be overlapped, it becomes possible to provide an environment that is easier to use for recognizing the link relations and group relations between the cards. Therefore, the work of searching for an arbitrary card can be efficiently performed.

[0023]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. The above-mentioned FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the principle of the present invention.
3 is a display example diagram of a list using a reduced image (large) of the present invention, and FIGS. 4 and 5 are display example diagrams of a list displaying link information of the present invention. (a) shows a storage format of link information, FIGS. 4 (b) and 5 show display examples of linked cards, and FIG. 6 shows a reduced image (large) of the present invention.
7 is a display example diagram of a list including groups, and FIGS. 8 and 9 are display example diagrams of a list using the multi-window of the present invention. still,
In each of the above display examples, 20 on the right side is a so-called scroll bar, and the presence or absence of scroll display can be known by the position of the cursor on the scroll bar, and scroll display can be performed.

In the present invention, a card-type database processing device for creating, editing, and displaying a plurality of cards in which text information and image information displayed on the screen are collected is displayed as a reduced image (small) of the card. screen
(Display) A means to display a comparatively large reduced image (large) in which the contents of the card can be confirmed by specifying an arbitrary card on the (Display) 09 (reduced image (large) storage device 16 and reduced image (large)) Management device 15},
In addition, when there is a link between the cards, a mechanism for collectively managing the links between the cards {link information storage device 18, link information management device 17} and a mark display means for indicating that the card is the link source. By providing a card of the reduced image (small) with the mark 21 displayed, a means for searching and displaying a card with a link (link destination card), and a method of displaying the link For the display of the group of cards (link destination cards) and the grouped cards, a window is opened by the multi-window mechanism {window controller 10}, and the read destinations linked by the link are displayed. A means for displaying the cards and the cards in the group with a reduced image (small) is a means necessary for implementing the present invention. The same reference numerals denote the same objects throughout the drawings.

The configuration and operation of the card type database processing apparatus of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. (1) FIG. 2 shows an example of display using a reduced image (large). In this example, the reduced image (small) is displayed in the upper area of the display device (display) 09, and the reduced image (large) is displayed in the lower area.

For example, when the user instructs to select a reduced image (small) with the input device {pointing device (mouse, etc.)} 03, the reduced image of the corresponding card is displayed.
The main controller 01 accesses the reduced image (large) management unit 15 to
The information of the reduced image (large) of the corresponding card is read from 16 and displayed in the lower area of the display device 09, for example.

(2) FIG. 3 shows an example of displaying the reduced image (large) of the card before and after the reduced image (large) in the display example described in (1) above. The reduced image (large)
For example, if the mouse has left and right buttons, right click to display the next card (C2) and left click to display the previous card.

(3) Information of each card is originally stored in the edited data storage device 07. In the present invention, the links between the cards are collectively managed by the link information management device 17 and the link information storage device 18 among them. by this,
You can search links quickly. Fig. 4 (a) shows the storage format of link information, that is, the link management record. The link identifier (link
ID) is added, and the link management record includes a card identifier (card ID) of the link source and a card identifier (card of the link destination) for each link identifier (link ID).
ID).

(4) By using the link information management device 17 and the link information storage device 18, a card with a mark 21 indicating that it is a link source is displayed in the list of reduced images (small) of the card. For, you can refer to the linked card (linked card).

FIG. 4B is a display example of a list displaying the link information. That is, the card (C
1) Enclose the reduced image (small) (C3, C8, and C12) of the linked card in a different frame from (Linked card),
Display the linked card. This work is instructed from the main controller 01, and is a reduced image of the linked card.
Based on the information of (small), display control device 08 performs.

(5) For the same purpose as described in (4) above, here, as shown in FIG. 5, a card having the link in the lower area on the screen (link destination card)
Display a reduced image (small) of.

(6) FIG. 6 shows an embodiment in which the display functions described in (2) and (5) above are combined. For example,
A reduced image (small) of the card with the link (link destination card) is displayed in the left area of the lower area of the display device 09, and a reduced image (large) of the link source card is displayed, for example, in the lower right area. To display. This gives us a lot of information about any card.

(7) In FIG. 12 described above, for example, if card C1, card C2, card C3, card C4, card C5, card C6, card C7, card C8, and card C9 are members of group G1, a reduced image The list of (small) is displayed as shown in FIG.

At this time, in order to refer to the reduced image (small) of the cards belonging to the group G1, for example, the user brings the mouse 03 over the reduced image (small) of the group G1 and double-clicks it. Then, the group information management device 11 searches the group information storage device 12 for a card that is a member of G1.

Next, a reduced image of the retrieved card
The small image (small) management device 13 retrieves (small) from the reduced image (small) storage device 14 and sends it to the window control device 10.

The window controller 10 which has received the data of the reduced image (small) is a display device (display).
On 09, a new window that can be overlapped is created, and a reduced image (small) of the members' cards constituting the group G1 is displayed therein. FIG. 8 shows an example of the display.

(8) The function shown in (6) above is realized by the above window which can be overlapped. That is, the reduced image (large) of the link source card is read from the reduced image (large) management device 15 from the reduced image (large) storage device 16, and the reduced image (small card) of the linked card (link destination card) is read. ), Data is extracted from the reduced image (small) storage device 14 under the control of the link information management device 17, the link information storage device 18, and the reduced image (small) management device 13, and the respective information is controlled by the window control. Sent to device 10.

The window control device 10 creates separate windows and writes their data, so that the link source card (C1) is
Reduced image (large), linked card (C3, C8, C12)
Are opened separately or displayed in a window in the form of reduced images (small).

As described above, according to the present invention, a card-type database process for creating and editing a plurality of cards in which text information and image information to be displayed on the screen are collected and edited, and reducing and displaying the reduced image (small). In the apparatus, by designating an arbitrary card on the screen displayed with the reduced image of the card (small), a relatively large reduced image (large) in which the contents of the card can be confirmed is displayed. In addition, when the links are set up between the cards, a mechanism for collectively managing the links between the cards and a mark display means for indicating the card as the link source are provided to reduce the size of the mark 21 displayed. By specifying the image (small) card,
Search and display linked cards (link destination cards). In addition, a group of cards with the above links,
And about the display of the group of cards,
With the multi-window mechanism, open the window,
The feature is that the card group and the card group in the group connected by the link are displayed as reduced images (small) in separate windows.

[0040]

As described above, if the card-type database processing device is configured, the contents of each card displayed on the display device can be easily confirmed with a reduced image (small), and the link relationship between cards can be easily confirmed. Is also easy to understand. Further, the adoption of the window capable of overlapping provides a user-friendly environment when recognizing the link relation between the cards or the group relation. These are effective in efficiently performing the work of searching for an arbitrary card.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the principle of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a display example diagram (1) of a list using a reduced image (large) of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a display example diagram (2) of a list using the reduced image (large) of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a display example diagram (1) of a list displaying the link information of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a display example diagram (2) of a list displaying link information of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a display example diagram of a reduced image (large) and link information of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a display example diagram of a list including groups.

FIG. 8 is a display example diagram (1) of a list using the multi-window of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a display example diagram (2) of a list using the multi-window of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram (part 1) for explaining a conventional card-type database processing device.

FIG. 11 is a diagram (part 2) explaining a conventional card-type database processing device.

FIG. 12 is a diagram (part 3) for explaining a conventional card-type database processing device.

[Explanation of symbols]

01 Main control device 02 Input control device 03 Input device 04 Card editing device 05 Data reading / writing device 06 Material data storage device 07 Editing data storage device 08 Display control device 09 Display device (display) 10 Window control device 11 Group information management device 12 Group information storage device 13 Reduced image (small) management device 14 Reduced image (small) storage device 15 Reduced image (large) Management device 16 Reduced image (large) storage device 17 Link information management device 18 Link information storage device C1 to card G1 group 20 Scroll bar 21 Link source card mark

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Fumio Honda, 1015 Kamiodanaka, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Fujitsu Limited (72) Inventor, Kiyomi Shibata, 1015, Kamikodanaka, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Fujitsu Limited

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A card-type database processing device for creating and editing a plurality of cards each including text information and image information displayed on a screen, and displaying a reduced image (small) of the edited cards. , A main controller (01) that monitors the whole movement, an input device (03) such as a keyboard and a mouse, an input controller (02) that monitors its events, a card editing device (04) that manages card editing and creation. ), Material data storage device (06) that stores material data such as text and images, edit data storage device (07) that stores edited card information (material data and card number), read and write data. A data read / write device (05) for performing, a display device (09) for displaying a card and a display control device (08) for controlling the same, a reduced image for managing a reduced image (small) of the card ( )
A management device (13), a reduced image (small) storage device (14) for storing the reduced image (small), and a reduced image (large) for managing the contents of the card. Image (Large) Management device (1
5), a reduced image to save the reduced image (large)
(Large) When the storage device (16) is provided and the reduced images (small) of the cards are displayed in a list, when a selection instruction is given for an arbitrary card, the reduced image (large) of the selected card is displayed. A card type database processing device characterized by displaying in a predetermined area on a display device (09). 2. A card type database processing apparatus having the mechanism according to claim 1, wherein when a card before or after the reduced image (large) displayed above is selected and instructed, a reduced image of the selected card ( Card type database processing device characterized by displaying (large). 3. A main control device (01) for monitoring the whole movement, an input device (03) such as a keyboard and a mouse, an input control device (02) for monitoring its events, and a card for managing the editing / creation of the card. An editing device (04), a material data storage device (06) that stores material data such as text and images, an edited data storage device (07) that saves information (material data and card number) of edited cards, A data read / write device (05) for reading and writing, a display device (09) for displaying a card and a display control device (08) for controlling the same, and a reduced image (small image) for managing a reduced image (small image) of the card. ) Management device (13), reduced image (small) storage device (14) for storing the reduced image (small), link information management device (17) for collectively managing link information between cards, all links Store information Card type database processing device characterized by comprising click information storage device (18). 4. A card-type database processing device equipped with the mechanism according to claim 3, wherein reduced images (small) of the cards are displayed in a list and the links are linked to the card. To the link information management device (1) when a predetermined mark (21) is displayed and the card on which the link source mark (21) is displayed is selected.
7) and the information from the link information storage device (18),
A card-type database processing device, wherein a reduced image (small) of the linked card is displayed separately from other cards. 5. A card-type database processing device comprising the mechanism according to claim 3, wherein reduced images (small) of the cards are displayed in a list form, and linked cards are linked cards. To the link information management device (1) when a predetermined mark (21) is displayed and the card on which the link source mark (21) is displayed is selected.
7) and the information from the link information storage device (18),
A reduced image (small) of the linked card is displayed on the display device (0
9) A card type database processing device characterized by displaying in a predetermined area above. 6. A card-type database processing device comprising the mechanism according to claim 2 or claim 5, wherein a reduced image (small) of the card is displayed in a list and displayed on a linked card. A predetermined mark (21) is displayed on the link source card, and when the card with the link source mark (21) is selected and instructed, the link information management device (17) is linked to Displaying the reduced image of the link source (large) and the reduced image of the card of the link destination (small) in a predetermined area on the display device (09) based on the information from the information storage device (18). Card-type database processing device characterized by: 7. A main control device (01) for monitoring the whole movement, an input device (03) such as a keyboard and a mouse, an input control device (02) for monitoring the event thereof, and a card for managing the editing / creation of the card. An editing device (04), a material data storage device (06) that stores material data such as text and images, an edited data storage device (07) that saves information (material data and card number) of edited cards, A data read / write device (05) for reading and writing, a display device (09) for displaying a card and a display control device (08) for controlling the same, and a reduced image (small) management device for managing a reduced image of the card. (13), a reduced image (small) storage device (14) for storing the reduced image (small), further a group information management device (11) for managing group information of the card, a group information storage device (12) ,over A window control device (10) that manages the display of windows that allow the overlap (overlap) is displayed, and a reduced image (small) of the card or group is displayed in a list, and the displayed group is selected and instructed. The card-type database processing device is characterized in that, when the card is added, the window control device (10) newly opens a window for the card belonging to the group to display a reduced image (small) of the card. 8. A main control device (01) for monitoring the entire movement, an input device (03) such as a keyboard and a mouse, an input control device (02) for monitoring the event thereof, and a card for managing editing / creation of a card. An editing device (04), a material data storage device (06) that stores material data such as text and images, an edited data storage device (07) that saves information (material data and card number) of edited cards, A data read / write device (05) for reading and writing, a display device (09) for displaying a card and a display control device (08) for controlling the same, and a reduced image (small) management device for managing a reduced image of the card. (13), a reduced image (small) storage device (14) for storing the reduced image (small), further a group information management device (11) for managing group information of the card, a group information storage device (12) , Of the card Reduced managing reduced image of the order of magnitude of contents can be confirmed (large) image (large) management unit (15), the reduced image
Reduced image (large) storage device (16) for storing (large), link information management device for collectively managing link information between cards
(17), Link information storage device (18) that stores all link information, Window control device (10) that manages the display of windows that allow overlapping, and a reduced image of the card or group (small) When a reduced image (small) of the card or group is selected and displayed, a reduced image (small) of the cards belonging to the selected card or group, or a card instructed to be selected is displayed. When the card instructed to be selected is the link source card, the reduced image (small) of the linked card is opened by the window control device (10). A card type database processing device characterized by displaying.