JPH05258042A - Document preparing device and edition control method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simultaneously edit the plural edition objects of different kinds without setting a mode in accordance with the edition object in a document preparing device provided with editing functions such as moving, deletion, copy, etc. CONSTITUTION:When an interlocking mode is designated by the operation of the 'interlocking mode designation' key 16a of a keyboard 16, an edition object menu screen is displayed on a display 18 under the control of CPU 10. CPU 10 makes the edition object area 34 of RAM 11 to store one or plural edition objects selected with the edition object menu screen, designates an edition range and its item to detect the edition object stored in the edition object area 34 from the edition range, and edits the detected edition object in accordance with the edition item.

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 having editing functions such as moving, deleting and copying.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a document creating apparatus can perform editing such as "move", "delete", and "copy" by operating a specific key. The “move” is a function of moving the data to be edited to the designated destination. “Delete” is a function of deleting the data to be edited. The “copy” is a function of copying the data to be edited to the designated destination.

The object to be edited is not limited to characters, but may be ruled lines or figures. That is, in the case of a character, the character can be moved, deleted, copied, etc. in a state where the normal document creation mode is set. Further, in the case of a ruled line, it is possible to move, delete, copy, etc. the ruled line with the ruled line creation mode set. Similarly,
In the case of a figure, the figure can be moved, deleted, copied, or the like while the figure creation mode is set.

[0004]

As described above, conventionally, character editing is performed in the document creation mode, ruled line editing is performed in the ruled line creation mode, and graphic editing is performed in the graphic creation mode, depending on the data to be edited. Had to set. For this reason, it is impossible to simultaneously edit (move, delete, copy, etc.) a plurality of different types of objects to be edited, such as characters and ruled lines, characters and graphics, and the like.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and a document creating apparatus and an editing apparatus capable of simultaneously editing a plurality of different types of objects to be edited without setting a mode according to the data to be edited. The purpose is to provide a control method.

[0006]

The present invention provides document data,
Display means for displaying different types of data such as ruled line data and graphic data in a mixed manner, and designating means for designating an area to be edited in the data displayed by this display means,
When there are a plurality of different types of data in the area designated by this designating means, the means for selecting the data to be edited is provided, and the data selected by this selecting means are collected together. The document creating apparatus is characterized in that it is adapted to be edited.

Further, according to the present invention, different types of data are mixedly displayed, an area to be edited / calibrated is designated in the displayed data, and a plurality of different types of data are designated in the designated area. When data exists, the different data can be collectively edited at the same time, which is an edit control method.

[0008]

With the above configuration, one or a plurality of edit objects selected on the edit object menu screen are simultaneously edited in the same mode state. Therefore, you can edit multiple objects of different types at the same time (move, delete, copy, etc.), such as text and ruled lines, text and graphics.
In such a case, it is not necessary to set the mode according to the editing target as in the conventional case.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a view showing the arrangement of the document creating apparatus according to the embodiment. In the figure, 10 is a microprocessor (hereinafter referred to as CPU), and 11 and 12 are CPUs.
A memory (RAM, ROM) accessed by 10.

The CPU 10 controls the entire apparatus. The CPU 10 accesses the RAM 11 and the ROM 12 and executes a document creation process and an edit control process as shown in FIG. 2 by starting a program according to an input instruction.

The ROM 12 has a program area 1 in which various processing programs for determining the operation of the CPU 10 are stored.
3, a character pattern area 14 in which font data is stored, a dictionary area 15 in which a standard dictionary for converting reading information input in kana or romaji into kanji information is provided. There is.

The RAM 11 is provided with an area for storing various kinds of information necessary for creating a document. Here, a document buffer area 31 for storing document information such as character code information and ruled line information are stored. Ruled line map area 32 for storing and graphic map area 3 for storing graphic information
3. An edit target area 34 for storing the specified edit target data is provided. Here, control information is added to the document information stored in the document buffer area 31, and ruled line information stored in the ruled line map area 32 or graphic information stored in the graphic map area 33 is subtracted from this control information. be able to.

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 dot memory for display, 21 is a floppy disk device (FDD), 22 is an FDD interface (FDD-).
IF), 23 is a printer device (PRT), and 24 is a printer interface (PRT-IF).

The keyboard (KB) 16 is a keyboard interface (KB-
IF) 17 to CPU 10. This keyboard 16 has a "character" key, a "numerical value" key,
In addition to various editing keys such as a "move" key, a "delete" key, and a "copy" key, a "interlocking mode designation" key 16a for designating the interlocking mode is provided here. This interlocking mode is a mode for simultaneously editing (moving, deleting, copying, etc.) editing objects such as characters, ruled lines, and graphics.

The display unit 18 is, for example, a liquid crystal display with a backlight of 40 characters and 20 lines, and the bottom line (20th line) is set as an area (guide line) dedicated to guide display. The display-CNT 19 controls the display of the display device 18 using the display dot memory 20 under the control of the CPU 10.

Floppy disk device (FDD) 21
Under the control of the CPU 10, saves the created document and stores external characters, second level characters, etc. via the FDD interface (FDD-IF) 22. The printer device (PRT) 23 is, for example, a serial printer. Next, the operation of the embodiment will be described.

When it is desired to simultaneously edit (move, delete, copy, etc.) edit objects such as characters, ruled lines, and figures during document creation, interlock by operating the "interlock mode specification" key 16a of the keyboard 16. A mode is designated (step S1).
By the designation of this interlocking mode, the CPU 10 first displays the menu screen to be edited as shown in FIG. 3A through the display-CNT 19 (step S2). Here, characters, ruled lines, and graphics are displayed on the menu screen as selection items to be edited. The user selects one or more edit targets from this menu screen using the "cursor" key or the like as shown in FIG. 3B (step S).
3). The CPU 10 sets the editing target selected at this time to R
It is stored in the edit target area 34 of the AM 11 (step S4).

Next, the user specifies edit items such as move, delete and copy by operating various edit keys such as "move" key, "delete" key and "copy" key (step S
5), the edit range is designated by a rectangle using the "cursor" key or the like (step S6). In this case, as shown in FIG. 4A, it is necessary to specify the start point and the end point (or the diagonal point) so that the data to be edited (particularly ruled lines and figures) fall within the range (step S7) .. Further, when moving or copying is edited, it is necessary to specify the moving destination or the copying destination as shown in FIG.

When the edit item and edit range are specified,
The CPU 10 reads out one of the editing targets stored in the editing target region 34 (step S8), and detects the editing target from the editing range (step S9) to perform editing according to the editing item (step S10). .. That is,
In the case of “delete”, the editing target (characters, ruled lines, figures, etc.) within the editing range is deleted. If it is “move”, the edit target within the edit range is moved to the designated destination. In the case of “copy”, the editing target within the editing range is copied to the designated destination.
In addition, regarding the editing of “move” or “copy”, even if there is already information at the move destination or copy destination, the information is ignored and moved or copied. In this case, there is a method of overwriting on the previous information, a method of inserting the previous information by shifting, etc., and any method may be used.
After that, if another edit target is stored in the edit target area 34 (step S11), the CPU 10 repeats the same processing.

In this way, the edit processing is performed for each edit target stored in the edit target area 34. In other words, one or more edit targets selected on the edit target menu screen are simultaneously edited in the same mode state. Therefore, in the case of simultaneously editing (moving, deleting, copying, etc.) two or more different types of data to be edited, such as characters and ruled lines, and characters and graphics, according to the conventional editing targets. No need to set the mode, you can easily edit.

In the above embodiment, the edit target area 34
Although the plurality of editing targets stored in the above are read out one by one and the editing process is performed, these editing targets may be read out at once and the editing process may be performed.

Further, in the above-mentioned embodiment, after the mode is set, the moving, deleting, copying or the like is performed. However, for example, after the user sets the area to be edited, the system detects the character data, ruled line data, and graphic data existing in the area, displays the existing data on the screen, and then selects which combination of data. You may ask whether to edit.

[0024]

As described above, according to the present invention, two or more data to be edited having different types of data, such as a character and a ruled line, a character and a graphic, are simultaneously edited (moved, deleted, copied, etc.). can do. Therefore, since it is not necessary to set the mode according to the object to be edited as in the conventional case, the editing operation can be simplified and the editing time can be shortened.

[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 flowchart for explaining the operation of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a view showing an edit target menu screen of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display screen during an editing operation of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 ... CPU, 11 ... RAM, 12 ... ROM, 16 ... Keyboard (KB), 16a ... "Interlocking mode designation" key,
18 ... Display device, 31 ... Document buffer area, 32 ... Ruled line map area, 33 ... Graphic map area, 34 ... Edit target area.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. Display means for displaying different types of data such as document data, ruled line data and graphic data in a mixed manner, and designating means for designating an area to be edited in the data displayed by this display means. And a selection means for selecting data to be edited when a plurality of different types of data exist in the area designated by the designation means, and the data selected by the selection means A document creation device characterized by being edited collectively. 2. Displaying different types of data in a mixed manner,
In the displayed data, the area to be edited / calibrated is specified, and when multiple different types of data exist in this specified area, the different data can be edited all at once. Edit control method characterized by.