JPH0540579A - Line type changing method for ruled line - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve operability by directly changing the line type of ruled lines without changing the display or mode of a menu screen, etc. CONSTITUTION:A pointer 8 is moved onto a ruled line 6-1 by using a mouse 4, and a processing is started by pushing a selecting button 12. Each time the selecting button 12 is repeatedly pushed, the line type of the ruled line is changed in a certain order set beforehand. When a fixing button 11 is pushed, the line type is fixed. This operation is just similar to the Japanese syllabary/ Chinese character converting operation of a word processor.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a ruled line type changing method in a document processing apparatus.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A word processor or a personal computer is widely used for processing such as document creation. FIG. 2 shows an external view of a general document processing apparatus. The illustrated apparatus operates, for example, the personal computer 1 using a document processing program. This personal computer 1
Are controlled by a processor incorporated in the main body 2.
A keyboard 3, a mouse 4 and a display 5 are connected to the main body 2. When creating a document, the user operates the keyboard 3 to display the document on the display 5, and proceeds with the work while converting characters. In this example, a tabular document surrounded by ruled lines 6 is created. Characters 7 are displayed in the ruled lines 6. In a workstation having a document processing function, a pointing device such as the mouse 4 is used to select various kinds of work prepared in advance. The mouse 4 moves the pointer 8 displayed on the display 5 on the display 5 to proceed with work while selecting an item displayed on a pop-up menu (not shown).

[0003]

By the way, in the case of drawing the ruled line 6 in the above document processing, the line type of the ruled line is selected in the normal ruled line input mode, and the start point and the end point thereof are designated. And proceed with the work. Here, there are cases where it is desired to change the line type of the ruled line used in the already created list or the like.

FIG. 3 shows an example of changing the type of ruled line. As shown in the figure, when the ruled line 6 surrounding the character 7 is displayed as, for example, a solid line, the ruled line 6-in the center of the ruled line 6-
There are cases where it is desired to change 1 to the broken line as shown on the right side of the figure. There are also cases where it is desired to change the line width to a different width.
In the present specification, the appearance of lines such as a solid line, a broken line, and a dash-dotted line is referred to as a type, and this type and line width are collectively referred to as a ruled line type.

The line type change as described above has been conventionally performed by the following procedure. FIG. 4 shows a flowchart of a conventional line type changing example. In step S1 of the figure, first, a ruled line selection screen is displayed. That is, a ruled line selection screen such as a pop-up menu is displayed in order to change the document processing apparatus to the mode for ruled line selection. Next, in step S2, the position where the ruled line is drawn is specified. Further, in step S3, the line type of the ruled line is selected. As described above, this line type refers to the type and width of the line. Further, in various conventionally known document processing apparatuses, the above step S
In some cases, the line type 3 is selected before the ruled line position is specified in step S2. Further, there are some cases where the change of the line type and the processing of drawing a new ruled line are the same, and there are cases where the processing is performed in different modes.

However, in the conventional method as described above, the ruled line creation mode and the ruled line modification mode are newly selected during document creation, and the line type modification process is performed in a fixed procedure, which is troublesome. There was a problem of becoming. In the document creation process, the simpler this type of operation is, the less the burden on the operator can be reduced. On the other hand, in a graphic processing system such as CAD, a system has been realized which uses the mouse 4 as described above to easily perform complicated processing and reduce the burden on the operator. Therefore, it has been demanded to realize a simple operation using the mouse 4 even in the document processing system as described above. The present invention has been made by paying attention to the above points, and provides a ruled line type changing method capable of changing a line type by a simple operation using a mouse for ruled line type changing processing. It is intended.

[0007]

According to the ruled line type changing method of the present invention, the position of the pointer displayed on the screen is moved using a mouse, and the pointer is moved onto the ruled line already displayed on the screen. Then, when the selection button provided on the mouse is pressed, each time the selection button is pressed, the line type of the ruled line is changed and displayed in a preset order, and the mouse is provided on the mouse. When the confirm button is pressed, the line type being displayed is determined as the line type of the ruled line.

[0008]

In this method, the pointer is moved to the ruled line using the mouse and the selection button is pressed to start the processing. When the selection button is repeatedly pressed, the line type of the ruled line is changed each time in a preset order. If you press the confirm button, the line type will be confirmed. This operation is very similar to the Kana-Kanji conversion operation in the document processing device. As a result, the line type of the ruled line can be directly changed without displaying the menu screen or changing the mode, which improves the operability.

[0009]

The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings. FIG. 1 is an explanatory view of a ruled line type changing method of the present invention. First, the outline of the method of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. (A), (b) and (c) show in sequence the display contents displayed on the display 5 during the line type changing operation of the ruled line. Here, for example, an example of changing the line type of the ruled line 6-1 drawn to divide the character 7 in the drawing into right and left is shown. It should be noted that FIG. 1 shows only an example of changing the line type.

First, at the start of the process, the operator moves the pointer 8 using the mouse 4 and places it on the ruled line 6-1. Then, when the selection button 12 is pressed, the ruled line selection processing is started. When performing kana-kanji conversion when creating a normal document, undetermined kana characters are converted into various kanji characters one after another by operating the selection key. Also in the method of the present invention, when the selection button 12 of the mouse 4 is pressed in the same manner, the line type of the ruled line 6-1 such as its type is changed one after another each time the selection button 12 is pressed. In FIG. 1A, the ruled line 6-1
Is a solid line, and the ruled line 6-2 is a one-dot chain line in FIG. Further, in FIG. 1C, the ruled line 6-3 is a broken line. When the operator wants to change the ruled line 6-1 from the solid line to the broken line, the selection button 12 is pressed twice as shown in FIG. 1, and when the target broken line 6-3 is displayed, the confirm button 11 is pressed. push. By such an operation, the line type of the ruled line is changed. Note that substantially the same operation is executed when the width of the ruled line is desired to be changed.

Hereinafter, a more specific procedure for performing the above operation will be described in order. FIG. 5 shows an operation flowchart according to the method of the present invention. The illustrated method is a specific processing procedure in the program of the document processing apparatus. First, in step S1, it is determined whether the selection button 12 of the mouse 4 shown in FIG. 1 has been pressed. When the selection button 12 of the mouse 4 is pressed here, it is determined whether or not the position of the pointer 8 at the time of pressing is on the ruled line 6-1 (step S2). If the position of the pointer 8 is not on the ruled line, it is determined that, for example, normal document processing is to be executed, and a cursor (not shown) is moved to the position of the pointer 8 (step S3). That is, in this case, the mouse 4 is used for moving the cursor. On the other hand, if it is determined in step S2 that the pointer 8 is on the ruled line, the process proceeds to the ruled line selection processing of the present invention (step S4).

FIG. 6 shows a ruled line selection processing flowchart according to the present invention. This flowchart is shown in FIG.
4 is a more specific representation of the subroutine of 4. First, in step S11 of FIG. 6, ruled lines of the type initially set are displayed. That is, as shown in FIG. 1, for example, a solid ruled line 6-1 drawn in advance is displayed as it is. Here, it is preferable that the ruled line 6-1 is displayed in a blinking manner or the display color is changed so that the operator can recognize that the mode for selecting the ruled line has been entered. Next, in step S12, a mouse event is waited for.
That is, it waits for the confirmation button 11 and the selection button 12 of the mouse 4 to be pressed. It is determined whether or not the confirm button has been pressed in step S13. If the confirm button is not pressed, it means that the select button 12 has been pressed. In this case, the process proceeds to step S14. In step S14, the type of ruled line is changed and displayed as shown in FIGS. 1 (a) and 1 (b). Note that steps S11 to S14 in FIG. 6 are processing for selecting the type of ruled line.
15 to step S18 is a process of selecting the width of the ruled line.

When the type of the ruled line is changed and displayed in step S14, the mouse event is waited again in step S12. Here, as described above with reference to FIG. 1, the operator repeatedly presses the selection button 12 of the mouse 4 to select a desired type of ruled line. In this case, steps S12, S13, and S14 are repeated. If it is determined in step S13 that the confirm button has been pressed, the process proceeds to step S15. At this stage, the type of ruled line is determined. Next, in step S15, a ruled line having an initially set width is displayed. This display method is the same as in step S11. Then, in step S16, a mouse event is waited for.
Then, in step S17, it is determined whether the confirm button has been pressed. If the select button 12 is pressed instead of the confirm button, the process moves to step S18 and the ruled line width is changed and displayed. When selecting the width of the ruled line, the operator repeatedly presses the selection button 12 to determine the line width by the same operation as the type selection. When the confirm button is pressed in step S17, the selection of ruled lines is completed.

Returning to FIG. 5 again, when the ruled line selection processing (step S4) is completed, the mouse event waiting is performed again in step S5. Here, it is determined whether or not the confirm button has been pressed (step S6). When the confirm button is pressed, the ruled line selection process ends and the process shifts to another process. When the selection button 12 is pressed, the process returns to step S4 to restart the ruled line selection processing. This will be performed if the operator finds an error in the selection.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. In the above embodiment, when the ruled line selection process is started, the ruled line display of the initially set type is initially displayed, but it is more frequently selected by the learning function such as kana-kanji conversion in the document processing device. The method of displaying the line type at the beginning may be used.
Further, although the ruled line type change and the width change and the like are performed separately, for example, by repeatedly pressing the selection button 12, ruled lines of the same type but different widths are sequentially displayed,
After that, it is possible to automatically switch to another type of ruled line display, and to switch the display in such a manner that the width of the ruled line display switches in order. Further, in the above-mentioned embodiment, the example using the two-button mouse is shown, but in addition to this, a mouse having the same function as the confirm button 11 and the select button 12, such as a single-button mouse or a three-button mouse, may be used. For example, it can be replaced with various types of mice.

[0016]

According to the ruled line type changing method of the present invention described above, the pointer is moved on the ruled line with the mouse, and the line type is changed and displayed by the selection button to be confirmed. Therefore, it is not necessary to display the so-called pop-up menu and execute the start processing such as the ruled line mode and the ruled line change mode, and the burden on the operator is reduced. Further, since the operation of the mouse is simpler than that of the keyboard, it is possible to shorten the time for changing the line type.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of a ruled line type changing method according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external view of a general document processing apparatus.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of an example of changing a line type of a ruled line.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a conventional line type change example.

FIG. 5 is an operation flowchart according to the method of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a ruled line selection processing flowchart according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 4 Mouse 5 Display 6-1 to 6-3 Ruled line 7 Characters 8 Pointer 11 Confirm button 12 Selection button

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. The position of a pointer displayed on the screen is moved using a mouse, the pointer is moved onto a ruled line already displayed on the screen, and a selection button provided on the mouse is pressed. Then, each time the selection button is pressed, the line type of the ruled line is changed and displayed in a preset order, and when the enter button provided on the mouse is pressed, the line type being displayed is changed. A line type changing method characterized in that it is determined as the line type of a ruled line.