JPH06236378A - Half-size cursor display method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a half-size cursor display method capable of intuitively recognizing whether the position of a cursor at the time of en input is at the left half or the right half of the cursor position at the time of full size input by a user. CONSTITUTION:At the time of the half-size input, the CPU 1 judges whether the position of a half-size cursor displayed at a display device 7 is at the left half or the right half of the full-size cursor, and when it is at the left half, displays a left half-size cursor at the display device 7 by reading a left half-size cursor pattern from a ROM 2 and extending it in a VRAM 4. When it is at the right half, the CPU 1 displays a right half-size cursor at the display device 7 by reading a right half-size cursor pattern from the ROM 2 and extending it in the VRAM 4. However the shapes of the left and right half-size cursors are different.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document creating device,
In particular, it relates to a cursor display method at the time of half-width input.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a document creating apparatus, half-width input can be performed in place of full-width input.
The cursor shape at the time of half-width input becomes half of the cursor shape at the time of full-width input, and is displayed at the left half position or the right half position of the cursor position at full-width input. By the way, depending on the model of the document creation device, the position of the cursor at the time of full-width input is fixed, and there is a case where the half-width shift does not occur. When inputting the next character etc. in full width after inputting half-width characters etc. in such a document creation device, whether the cursor at the time of the previous half-width input was located in the left half of full-width input or the right side The space between the half-width input character and the next full-width input character will be different depending on whether it is located in half. Therefore, in such a case, the user may have to distinguish whether the cursor position at the time of half-width input is in the left half or the right half of the cursor position at the time of full-width input. However, since the conventional half-width input cursor has exactly the same shape when it is located in the left half and the right half when full-width input, the user intuitively feels that the half-width input cursor However, there is a drawback in that it is not possible to determine which position is relative to the cursor position when full-width input is made.

[0003]

In the conventional document creation apparatus, the user intuitively determines whether the cursor position at the time of half-width input is located at the left half or the right half of the cursor position at the full-width input. If it is not possible to make a judgment and distinguish the cursor position during the half-width input, it is necessary to check the position of the cursor in the moving range in the row direction, which is troublesome. was there.

Therefore, the present invention eliminates the above-mentioned drawbacks, and allows the user to intuitively recognize whether the position of the cursor at the time of half-width input is in the left half or the right half of the cursor position at the time of full-width input. It is an object of the present invention to provide a half-width cursor display method that can be used.

[0005]

According to the half-width cursor display method of the present invention, in a document creating apparatus capable of performing full-width and half-width input, when the half-width cursor position is located on the left half of the full-width cursor position. And the shape of the cursor is displayed differently depending on whether the cursor is located in the right half.

[0006]

In the half-width cursor display method of the present invention, the shape of the cursor is displayed differently depending on whether the half-width cursor position is on the left half of the full-width cursor position or the right half. Therefore, the user can intuitively know the position of the cursor by looking at the shape of the cursor.

[0007]

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 an embodiment of a document creation apparatus to which the half-width cursor display method of the present invention is applied.
Reference numeral 1 is a CPU that performs document creation and cursor display control according to a program stored in ROM 2, 2 is a ROM that stores various programs and dictionary data, pattern data such as cursor shape, and 3 is a CPU 1 that operates. RAM in which various buffers such as a document buffer necessary for are set in 4, a VRAM in which data to be displayed on the display device 7 is expanded, 5 is a keyboard in which characters and various function commands are input by the user, Reference numeral 6 is a keyboard interface for interpreting a key code input from the keyboard 5 and inputting it to the CPU 1. Reference numeral 7 is a display device such as an LCD or CRT for displaying an input document, graphics, etc., 8 is a display device 7 for displaying documents, graphics, etc. A display control unit for controlling display, and 9 is a floppy disk drive for reading and writing data to and from the floppy disk. Bed, 10 disk interface for inputting and outputting data to and from the floppy disk drive 9, 11 printer for printing the document and figures on the sheet,
A printer interface 12 inputs print data to the printer 11.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. In the document input mode, etc.
The CPU 1 displays a cursor on the screen of the display device 7 via the display control unit 8 and controls the position of the displayed cursor according to the input of the cursor movement key from the keyboard 5. In such cursor display control, when the cursor movement key is input from the keyboard 5 in the CPU 1, in step 201 of FIG.
It is determined whether or not the cursor is displayed on the screen, and if it is displayed, the process proceeds to step 202, and if it is not displayed, the process proceeds to step 203. When the process proceeds to step 202, the CPU 1 erases the cursor currently displayed on the screen of the display device 7, and then proceeds to step 203. In step 203, the CPU 1 determines whether the cursor to be displayed is full-width or half-width. If it is full-width, the process proceeds to step 204, and if it is half-width, the process proceeds to step 205. In step 204, the CPU 1 reads the full-width cursor pattern data from the ROM 2 and uses it for VRA.
The display is expanded in M4 in the display format, and the display control unit 8 is instructed to display the cursor. As a result, the display control unit 8 displays the full-width cursor pattern developed in the VRAM 4 as shown in FIG. 3A at the position designated by the CPU 1 of the display device 7 and ends the processing.

On the other hand, if the process proceeds to step 205, the CP
U1 determines from the half-width cursor position to be displayed next whether the display cursor is located in the left half or the right half of the full-width cursor position. If it is in the left half, the process proceeds to step 206, and the right half Step 20 if located at
Proceed to 7. In step 206, the CPU 1 reads the left half-width cursor pattern to be displayed in the left half of the full-width cursor position from the ROM 2, develops this in the VRAM 4, and notifies the display controller 8 of the display position of the left half-width cursor. As a result, the display control unit 8 displays the left half-width cursor pattern developed in the VRAM 4 as shown in b of FIG. 3 at the position designated by the CPU 1 of the display device 7, and ends the process. On the other hand, if the process proceeds to step 207, the CPU 1 reads from the ROM 2 the right half-width cursor pattern to be displayed in the right half of the cursor position at the time of full-width, expands this in the VRAM 4, and the display control unit 8
To inform the display position of the right half-width cursor. As a result, the display control unit 8 displays the right half-width cursor pattern developed in the VRAM 4 as shown in FIG. 3C at the position designated by the CPU 1 of the display device 7 and ends the process.

According to the present embodiment, when the cursor for half-width input is located in the left half of the cursor for full-width input, FIG.
When the left half-width cursor b shown in FIG. 3 is displayed on the screen of the display device 7 and is located in the right half of the cursor at the time of full-width input, the right half-width cursor c shown in FIG. 3 is displayed on the screen of the display device 7. The user can intuitively recognize the position of the cursor with respect to the full-width cursor during half-width input due to the difference in the shapes of the left and right half-width cursors b and c. It is possible to easily adjust the interval and the like.

[0011]

As described above, according to the half-width cursor display method of the present invention, the user can determine whether the position of the cursor at the time of half-width input is in the left half or the right half of the cursor position at the time of full-width input. Can be intuitively recognized.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a document creation device to which a half-width cursor display method of the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a cursor display operation of the CPU shown in FIG.

3 is a diagram showing an example of the shape of a cursor displayed on the display device shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... CPU 2 ... ROM 3 ... RAM 4 ... VRAM 5 ... Keyboard 6 ... Keyboard interface 7 ... Display device 8 ... Display control unit 9 ... Floppy disk drive 10 ... Disk interface 11 ... Printer 12 ... Printer interface

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A document creation apparatus capable of full-width and half-width input, wherein the cursor position in half-width is located in the left half of the cursor position in full-width and in the case in which it is located in the right half. A half-width cursor display method characterized by displaying in different shapes.