JPH0581393A - Document editing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To select the graphic to be selected with arbitrary combination to a graphic unit and to simplify the re-editing. CONSTITUTION:At an input means to perform the preparing or editing instruction of a graphic, there are a mouse 11 and a keyboard 12, and the mouse 11 performs the designation and processing of the selection range and the selection of an object. A control part 13 to connect the mouse 11 and the keyboard 12, in accordance with the instruction of a dialog box to designate that the selection is possible or impossible by the kind of the graphic such as a character, a straight line and a circle, classifies the graphic only selected and designated out of the selection range designated by the mouse 11, makes it into the selection condition, and performs the graphic editing in the selection condition by the mouse 11. The control part 13 is connected to a storing part 14 and a displaying part 15, the storing part 14 stores the information such as the kind of the graphic and the shape and size of the graphic and the displaying part 15 displays a dialog box for editing the graphic and selecting the graphic.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document editing device for creating or editing a graphic.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, due to the diversification of documents, various figures (characters, straight lines, circles, rectangles, triangles, etc.) are increasingly drawn in drawing by a document editing apparatus. Along with this, the figures that have been edited once are often edited again.

A conventional figure selection method in re-editing a figure will be described below with reference to FIG. In FIG. 5, when the character 1 as one figure is selected with the mouse, the character 1 is selected. Also, select range 2 with the mouse
Is specified, all of the edited figures in the selected area are selected.

[0004]

However, in the figure selection method of the conventional document editing apparatus described above, when it is desired to delete only the characters in the edited figure, it is necessary to select and delete in cell units. There is a problem in that it is not possible to specify all selections of characters only by the operation of, and also it is not possible to select by combination such as selecting only characters and straight lines in the edited figure.

The present invention solves the above-mentioned conventional problems, and provides a document selection type document editing apparatus capable of selecting desired figures in arbitrary combinations in figure units and simplifying re-editing. The purpose is.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a document editing apparatus of the present invention is capable of designating a graphic selection range, inputting means for editing a graphic, and inputting a graphic within the selection range. , The selectable figure is classified based on the information of the dialog box in which the selectable / impossible can be designated according to the type of figure, and the figure is edited based on the selected state by the figure editing instruction of the input means. And a control means for controlling.

[0007]

With the above configuration, according to the instruction of the dialog box in which it is possible to specify whether selection is possible / not possible according to the type of figure such as character, line, circle, rectangle, triangle, etc., the selection is designated from the selection range designated by the input means. The control means classifies only the selected figures into the selected state, and the figure is edited by the figure editing instruction of the input means based on the selected state.
It is possible to select a desired figure in any combination in figure units, whereby the number of selections can be reduced and the operability can be improved.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the arrangement of a document editing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, a mouse 11 and a keyboard 12 are provided as input means for instructing to create or edit a figure.
Designates a selection range, performs processing, and selects a target, and the keyboard 12 performs character input and processing selection. The control unit 13 to which the mouse 11 and the keyboard 12 as the input means are connected judges the type of the drawn figure, and in the figure selection dialog box in which it is possible to specify whether selection is possible or not according to the type of the figure. Based on the selectable / unselectable state, only the selectable shapes of the shapes within the selection range selected by the mouse 11 are classified into the selected state, and in this state, the shape editing instruction of the mouse 11 is performed. To edit. The control unit 13 is connected to a storage unit 14 and a display unit 15, the storage unit 14 stores information such as the type of figure, the shape and size of the figure, and the display section 15 selects an edited figure and figure selection. It is the structure which displays the dialo box for.

The graphic selection method in the document editing apparatus configured as described above will be described below with reference to the block diagram of FIG. 1 and the flowchart of FIG. 2, the graphic selection dialo box of FIG. 3, and the edit graphic screen of FIG. explain. First, in step S1 of FIG. 2, the radio button of the graphic to be selected in the graphic selection dialog box of FIG. 4 is clicked with the mouse 11 to make it selectable. And step S2
When the figure selection range is specified by the mouse 11 in step S3, in step S3, the information specified in step S1 and
Based on the graphic information stored in the storage unit 14, the control unit 13
Classifies the selected figure. After the "selected figure classification" in step S3, the process proceeds to step S4, it is determined whether there is a selectable figure in the figure selection range, and if there is a selectable figure, the process proceeds to step S5 and the control unit 13 Sets the figure in the selected state and returns to step S4. Then, if there is no selectable figure in step S4, the process ends.

In the figure selection dialog box, the default state is that all figures are in the selected state. Therefore, when the selection range is specified by the mouse 11 as in the conventional method, all the figures in the range are selected. The figure is selected.
At this time, as shown in FIG. 3, if characters other than characters and straight lines are set as unselectable in the figure selection dialog box, the selection range 16 is designated by the mouse 11 in FIG. Characters 17a, 17b, 17c, 17
d and the straight lines 18a, 18b, 18c are made selectable. If Delete 19 is selected in this state, all the characters and straight lines in the selected state can be deleted with one operation.

Therefore, the type of the drawn figure is judged, and the control section for selecting the figure in accordance with the dialog box for designating the selectable / not selectable for each type of the figure, the figure once edited in drawing is edited. When re-editing, you can specify whether or not you can select by type of figure such as characters, lines, circles, rectangles, etc., so that you can delete only the characters in the drawing. Instead of deleting one by one, you can specify the character selection, select all and delete it to rewrite only the character, select only the straight line to rewrite the graph, etc. be able to.

[0012]

As described above, according to the present invention, according to the designation contents of the dialog box capable of designating whether selection is possible or not for each type of graphics, only the graphics selected and designated in the selection range are displayed. By selecting and editing graphics, you can perform all selections and combination selections in graphic units, reduce the number of selections and improve operability, and reduce the operator's burden of re-editing. Can be done.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a document editing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing processing steps of the document editing apparatus in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a dialog box showing a graphic selection method of the document editing apparatus of FIG.

FIG. 4 is an edited graphic screen view in the document editing apparatus of FIG.

FIG. 5 is an edit graphic screen view in the conventional document editing apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Mouse 13 Control part 15 Display part 16 Selection range 17a, 17b, 17c, 17d Character 18a, 18b, 18c Straight line

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Information of an input means capable of designating a graphic selection range and capable of designating a graphic, and a dialog box capable of designating whether or not the graphic within the selection range can be selected depending on the type of the graphic. A document editing apparatus comprising: a control means for classifying only selectable figures based on the above to bring them into a selected state, and for performing figure editing according to the figure editing instruction of the input means based on the selected state.