JPH0581392A - Graphic moving and copying method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the document preparing efficiency by reducing the time necessary for page movement concerning a graphic moving and copying method to perform the moving and copying of plural graphics. CONSTITUTION:The method is equipped with a designating means 12 to designate a graphic area and a storing means 2 to store the content of the graphic area, a moving and copying source graphic area is designated by the designating means 12, the process to store the content of the designated moving and copying source graphic area to the storing means 2 is performed concerning the plural respective graphics, next, the moving and copying destination graphic area is designated by the designating means 12, and the process to read the content of the moving and copying source graphic area stored in the storing means 2 to the designated moving and copying destination graphic area is performed concerning plural respective graphics.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a figure moving / copying method for moving / copying a plurality of figures (including characters; the same applies hereinafter) in a document preparation device such as a word processor.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A desired graphic area in a document created by a word processor is moved by designating a source graphic area and a destination graphic area on a display screen. Figure 4
3 is a flowchart showing a conventional figure moving method. The operator first displays the page on which the source graphic is present on the display screen, and controls the cursor on the display screen by key operation to specify the source graphic area (S10). Then, the contents of the designated graphic area are temporarily stored in the image memory (S11). Next, the operator displays the page in which the destination graphic area exists on the display screen, and again controls the cursor by key operation to specify the destination graphic area (S12). Then, the contents of the source graphic area stored in the image memory are read and displayed in the destination graphic area (S13). When there are a plurality of source graphics (S14), the process returns to S10 and the above process is repeated. In the case of graphic copying, the same method as described above is used.

[0003]

As described above, in the conventional figure moving method, every time each figure is moved, the page in which the source and destination graphic areas exist is displayed on the display screen, and the operator The required graphic area was specified while looking at the display screen. FIG. 5 shows the first in the document
It shows the display on the display screen and the contents of the image memory when the figures a and b existing on the page are moved to the third page and the ninth page, respectively. When the figure is moved according to the flow chart described in FIG. 4, the following procedure is performed.

(1) The first page is displayed on the display screen, and the graphic area a is designated and stored in the image memory. (2) Display the third page on the display screen and
The graphic area corresponding to is designated and the contents of the graphic area a are read from the image memory and displayed.

(3) The first page is displayed on the display screen, the graphic area b is designated and stored in the image memory. (4) Display the 9th page on the display screen to display graphic area b
The graphic area corresponding to is designated and the content of the graphic area b is read out from the image memory and displayed.

As is apparent from the above process, according to the conventional figure moving method, it is necessary to move pages on the display screen in the following order. Page 1 → Page 3 → Page 1 → Page 9 In order to move the page on the display screen, the contents of the page currently displayed must be erased and the contents of the destination page must be newly displayed. However, since the display speed of a CRT or liquid crystal used for displaying a screen in a general document creating apparatus is slow, it takes time to move a page, which reduces the efficiency of figure moving / copying work. there were. Similar problems occur when performing graphic copying.

Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to improve the document creation efficiency by reducing the time required for page movement when moving / copying a plurality of figures.

[0008]

To solve the above problems, in a figure moving / copying method for moving / copying a plurality of figures, a designating means 12 for designating a graphic area and a storage means for storing the contents of the graphic area. 2, the moving / copying source graphic area is designated by the designating means 12, and the contents of the designated moving / copying source graphic area are stored in the storage means 2 for each of the plurality of graphics. , A process of designating the moving / copying destination graphic region by the designating means 12 and reading out the contents of the moving / copying source graphic region stored in the storage means 2 to the designated moving / copying destination graphic region. This is achieved by a method of moving / copying a figure, which is characterized in that it is performed for each figure.

[0009]

According to the present invention, all of a plurality of moving / copying source graphic areas existing are designated by the designating means 12 and stored in the storage means 2, and then a plurality of moving / copying source graphic areas corresponding to the moving / copying source graphic area are designated. The destination graphic area is designated and the contents stored in the storage means 2 are displayed. Therefore,
For example, when a plurality of move / copy source graphic areas or move copy destination graphic areas exist in the same page, these graphic areas can be designated without performing page move, so that page move can be performed as compared with the conventional method. The number of times is reduced,
The time required for moving / copying a figure can be shortened.

[0010]

1 is a block diagram of a document processing apparatus showing an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, a keyboard 1 is provided with a character / numeric key 11 for inputting characters and figures, a pointing key 12 for designating a figure area, and the like. The pointing key 12 controls the cursor on the display screen to specify the move / copy source area and the move / copy destination area. The image memory 2 stores the contents in the graphic area designated by the pointing key 12. The display unit 3 has a display screen made of a CRT or liquid crystal, and displays characters and figures input by the character / number keys 11. The control unit 4 controls each of the above units. An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the flow chart shown in FIG.

The operator first displays the page in which the source graphic area exists on the display screen and controls the cursor using the pointing key 12 to specify the source graphic area (S1). Then, the contents of the designated graphic area are temporarily stored in the image memory 2 (S2). Then, the operator determines whether or not there is another moving source figure (S3). If it exists, the process returns to S1 and the above process is repeated. If there is no source graphic area, the operator displays the page in which the destination graphic area exists on the display screen, and specifies the destination graphic area with the pointing key 12 (S4). Then, the contents of the source graphic area stored in the image memory 2 are read out and displayed in the designated destination graphic area (S5). Then, the operator determines whether or not the contents of the source graphic area remain in the image memory 2 (S6). If left, the process returns to S4 and the above process is repeated. If the contents of the movement source graphic area are not left in the image memory 2, the process ends.

FIG. 3 shows the display on the display screen and the contents of the image memory 2 when the figures a and b existing on the first page of the document are moved to the third page and the ninth page, respectively. This is shown corresponding to the conventional method described in FIG. When the figure is moved according to the flow chart described with reference to FIG. 2, the following procedure is performed.

(1) The first page is displayed on the display screen, and the graphic area a is designated and stored in the image memory 2. (2) Subsequently, the graphic area b is designated and stored in the image memory 2.

(3) The third page is displayed on the display screen, the graphic area corresponding to the graphic area a is designated, and the contents of the graphic area a are read from the image memory 2 and displayed. (4) Display the 9th page on the display screen to display graphic area b
The graphic area corresponding to is designated and the content of the graphic area b is read from the image memory 2 and displayed.

As is apparent from the above process, according to the present invention, the pages may be moved on the display screen in the following order. Page 1 → Page 3 → Page 9 The number of page movements described above is smaller than that of the conventional method described with reference to FIG.

In this embodiment, the result of applying the present invention when the source graphic area exists in the same page has been described. However, when the destination graphic area exists in the same page, page movement is similarly performed. The number of times is reduced. Even if they do not exist on the same page, the present invention improves the work efficiency of the operator because the source graphic area and the destination graphic area are designated together.

It is needless to say that the present invention can be applied to the case of copying a figure.

[0018]

As described above, according to the present invention, when a plurality of move / copy source graphic areas or move / copy destination graphic areas are present in the same page, the number of page movements is reduced as compared with the prior art. This is useful for improving the document creation efficiency.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing an embodiment of the present invention,

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the contents of a display screen and an image memory showing an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a flow chart showing the problems of the conventional example,

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display screen showing the problems of the conventional example and the contents of an image memory;

[Explanation of symbols]

1 keyboard, 2 image memory, 11
Alphanumeric keys, 3 display, 12 pointing keys, 4 control,

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A figure moving / copying method for moving / copying a plurality of figures, comprising: a designating means (12) for designating a graphic area and a storage means (2) for storing the contents of the graphic area. The process of designating the copy source graphic region by the designating means (12) and storing the content of the designated move / copy source graphic region in the storage means (2) is carried out for each of the plurality of graphics,
Then, the moving / copying destination graphic area is designated by the designating means (12), and the storing means (2) is designated in the designated moving / copying destination graphic area.
A figure moving / copying method, wherein the process of reading the contents of the move / copy source figure area stored in the above step is performed for each of the plurality of figures.