JPH06243128A - Graphic editing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily and surely shift and copy the graphics by displaying simultaneously the rubber and its contents of a designated copy originating side at the position designated for shifting/copying and then writing the rubber contents over the designated position when an executing instruction is received. CONSTITUTION:A user designates a shifting/copying position on a display 8 by a cursor and then stores the rubber 9 and its contents in a subplane (buffer) 7 to display them in a superscribed image. Under such conditions, the cursor is moved to the shifting/copying position and the rubber 9 and its contents are displayed and confirmed. Then the user pushes an execution key and the contents of the rubber 9 are described at a designated position on a main plane 6. Thus the shifting/copying operation is complete. In such a constitution, the rubber 9 and its actually superscribed contents are simultaneously displayed and at the same time moved to the shifting/copying destination. Thus these contents can be confirmed, superscribed, shifted and copied respectively.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a graphic editing system for moving / copying a graphic.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a graphic is moved / edited during layout editing.
When copying, as shown in FIG. 7A, when the move / copy destination is designated, the designated rubber (frame designated to move / copy) is displayed, and as shown in FIG. 7C. In addition, this rubber is moved / copied to a copy destination and positioned so that the contents are moved / copied. The operation of the configuration of FIG. 7 will be briefly described below.

FIG. 7 shows an explanatory view of the prior art. FIG. 7A shows a state in which a rubber designating a moving / copying source of a graphic is displayed. In this state, the user
The rubber to be moved / copied is displayed in response to the upper left and lower right of the area to be copied designated by the cursor.

FIG. 7B shows a state in which the rubber is displayed by moving the cursor to the position where the graphic is to be moved / copied. In this state, only the rubber is displayed at the move / copy destination.

FIG. 7 (c) shows a state after the rubber is moved / moved to the copy destination and the execution instruction is given to move / copy the figure. In the state after the moving / copying of this figure, it can be understood that the characters on the right side of the rubber in FIG. 7A are not moved / copied but are blank, after the moving / copying.

[0006]

As described above, when moving / copying a conventional figure, the rubber to be moved / copied overlaps the "sa" portion in the example of FIG. 7 (b). However, there is a problem in that it is not known whether or not the portion "S" is moved / copied only after the execution of the movement / copy in FIG. 7 (c). More specifically, in the case of the above-mentioned "sa", since the "sa" is moved / copied when it overlaps the rubber by a predetermined ratio or more (for example, half or more or 90% or more), the move / copy destination However, if only the rubber is displayed as shown in FIG. 7B, there is a problem that it is not known whether the image is moved or copied.

The present invention solves these problems.
Moves / displays the copy source rubber and contents specified at the time of copying / copying together at the position specified as the copy destination, overwrites that position when instructed to execute, and moves the graphic during layout editing / It is possible to perform moving / copying while confirming the result of copying on the screen, and it is an object to perform the operation of moving / copying a graphic easily and reliably.

[0008]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the principle of the present invention. In FIG. 1, the main plane 6 is for reading out and displaying it on the screen in correspondence with the storage of the figure to be moved / copied.

The sub-plane 7 is for reading the rubber 9 and the contents of the rubber 9 and displaying it on the screen in response to the stored contents. Rubber 9
Is a designated frame for moving / copying.

[0010]

As shown in FIG. 1, the present invention responds to the designation of the range of movement / copying from the figure displayed on the screen.
The rubber 9 representing the specified range is displayed, the contents in the rubber 9 are taken out and displayed together, and the contents displayed in the rubber 9 are moved according to the designation of the move / copy destination. / The copy destination is overwritten.

Further, a rubber 9 representing the designated range is stored in the sub-plane 7 corresponding to the designation of the range of movement / copying from the figure read out from the main plane 6 and displayed on the screen. The contents in the rubber 7 are read out from the main plane 6 and stored in the sub-plane 7 to be read out and displayed from the main plane 6, and the contents in the rubber 9 of the sub-plane 7 are read and displayed according to the designation of the move / copy destination. Is taken out and overwritten on the corresponding part of the main plane 6.

At the time of movement, the contents in the designated rubber 9 of the movement source (or the contents of the designated main plane 6 of the movement source) are overwritten in a blank space in correspondence with the designation of the movement source. ing.

Therefore, by displaying the rubber 9 and the content of the copy source designated at the time of moving / copying the figure together at the position designated as the moving / copying destination, and overwriting the position at the execution instruction. It is possible to move / copy while confirming the result of moving / copying the figure during layout editing on the screen, and the operation of moving / copying the figure can be performed easily and reliably.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, the construction and operation of an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the principle of the present invention. Figure 1
In the document creation device 1, the document creation device 1 creates a document while performing copying, moving, and the like.
It is composed of a document creation / update process 3 and the like.

A control unit (OS) 2 is an operating system which controls the entire document creating apparatus 1 as a whole. The document creating / updating process 3 is for creating a document or updating, and is composed of the layout creating / updating process 4 and the like here.

The layout creating / updating process 4 is for creating or updating the layout of a document, and is composed of a figure moving / copying process 5 here.

The figure moving / copying process 5 is for moving or copying a figure. Here, the contents in a designated area of a figure (including a document) described later are designated. It is for moving to the previous area or copying.

The main plane 6 stores the main figure to be created, reads it and displays it on the display 8.
The one shown above. The sub-plane 7 stores the rubber 9 (frame) representing the range of the move source / copy source specified when moving / copying, stores the contents in the rubber 9, and stores the stored rubber 9 Also, the contents are read and displayed on the display 8 in a manner of overwriting on the main plane 4.

The display 8 displays the graphics read from the main plane 6 and the sub-plane 7, the rubber 9 and its contents. Rubber 9 moves /
A display frame showing an area designated for copying, which is used for moving / copying to indicate a moving / copying range.

The keyboard 10 is used to input various operations, instructions and data. The mouse 11 is used to input various operations and instructions. Next, according to the order shown in FIG. 2, the operation of the configuration of FIG. 1 will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

In FIG. 2, S1 designates the upper left of the range to be moved / copied. This is done by, for example, designating the upper left corner of the area to be moved / copied in FIG. 3A with the cursor.

In step S2, the figure move / copy key is pressed.
In S3, the lower right portion of the range to be moved / copied is designated.
For this, for example, the lower right corner of the area to be moved / copied in FIG. 3A is designated by the cursor. These S1 to S
3, the rubber 9 which is a rectangular frame representing the area to be moved / copied in FIG. 3A is displayed, and the area of the figure to be moved / copied is identified.

In step S4, the execution key is pressed. As a result, the rubber 9 and the contents inside thereof are extracted and stored in the sub-plane 7 (or buffer). In S5, in the case of figure movement, the characters in the range are replaced with blanks. In this case, when the key pressed in S2 is the figure movement key, the characters within the range surrounded by the rubber 9 of the movement source are replaced with blanks.

In S6, the cursor key is used to move / move the frame and contents to the copy destination. This moves the rubber 9 and its contents stored in the sub-plane 7 according to the movement of the cursor key. This allows the main plane 6
For a document or the like read out from the display 8 and displayed on the display 8, the rubber 9 read from the sub-plane 7 and its contents are overwritten and displayed as shown in FIG. 3B.

In step S7, the execution key is pressed. In S8, the characters included in the range are overwritten. This corresponds to the fact that the execution key is pressed in S7, and the content in the rubber 9 of the sub-plane 7 (or the content stored separately in the buffer) is overwritten in the corresponding area of the main plane 6. As a result, for example, as shown in FIG. 3C, the contents are overwritten in the move / copy destination, and the move / copy is completed.

As described above, when the user designates, for example, the upper left and the lower right to move / copy in FIG. 3A on the display 8 with the cursor, the rubber 9 surrounded by and its contents are displayed on the subplane 7 (or The image is stored in a buffer and is displayed as an overwritten image as shown in FIG. In this state, move the cursor to the position where you want to copy / copy, display and confirm the rubber 9 and its contents, and then press the Enter key, the contents in the rubber 9 will be overwritten on the main plane 6 at the specified position, The move / copy will be completed. By these, move /
When copying, the rubber 9 and the contents to be actually overwritten are displayed together, and then it is possible to move / copy to the destination for confirmation and then overwrite / move / copy.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a specific example of the present invention. FIG. 3A shows a state in which the rubber 9 is displayed by designating the move / copy destination. This is to clarify the range to be moved / copied by displaying the rubber 9 in response to the user specifying the upper left and lower right with the cursor etc. as the area to be moved / copied. is there.

FIG. 3B shows a state in which the rubber 9 and its contents are moved to an arbitrary moving / copying destination. This is because the rubber 9 representing the moving / copying range specified in (a) of FIG. 3 and its contents are stored in the sub-plane 7 of FIG. The rubber 9 and its contents on 7 are moved, read from the main plane 6 and displayed on the display 8 in a manner to overwrite the original contents. In this way, since the contents to be actually moved / copied are displayed in the rubber 9 and both are moved together in response to the cursor movement, the actual contents (data) to be moved / copied are always known. be able to.

In FIG. 3C, the rubber 9 is used as the moving / copying destination.
Shows the state after moving and copying / instructing to move / copy to overwrite the contents in the rubber 9. Thus, as shown in FIG.
The rubber 9 and its contents are displayed and moved to the copy / destination destination to confirm the actual state, and then the overwrite / move / copy is completed. Therefore, the contents are actually copied to the conventional move / copy destination. It was possible to solve the problem that it would not be known unless overwritten.

In FIG. 3D, the main plane 6 stores the document to be moved / copied, and the sub-plane 7
The state in which the rubber 9 and its contents are stored is shown in FIG. In order to speed up the process, this is to store the document to be moved / copied in the main plane 6 and display it on the display 8.
In the state displayed above, the rubber 9 designated by the user to be moved / copied and its contents are taken out and stored in the love plane 7, and the contents read from this sub-plane 7 are read from the main plane 6. When the move / copy destination is specified, the rubber 9 on the sub-plane 7 and its contents are moved and the contents in the rubber 9 are taken out when the move / copy destination is confirmed. The data is overwritten on the main plane 6.

FIG. 4 shows another operation explanatory diagram of the present invention.
This shows a specific example when the processing speed is increased by using the main plane 6 and the sub-plane 7. In FIG. 4, S11 designates the range of figure movement / copy source. This designates with the cursor the upper left and lower right of the moving / copying source rectangle of FIG.

In step S12, the contents designated in the range are scanned. As a result, the rubber 9 designated by S11, for example, enclosed by and in (a) of FIG. 3 and the contents therein are taken out and stored in the sub-plane 7.

At step S13, the contents are displayed. In this case, the contents stored in the sub-plane 7 are displayed on the display 8 in such a manner as to be overwritten on the main plane 6, as shown in FIG.

In step S14, the designation of the figure move / copy destination is displayed in rubber. By these steps S13 and S14, as shown in FIG. 3B, the rubber 9 and its contents are displayed as an image actually moved / copied on the display 8 in a manner of being overwritten.

In step S15, the execute key is pressed. this is,
With the rubber 9 and its contents displayed in S13,
Since I pressed the execution key to instruct execution of move / copy,
The area of this rubber 9 is overwritten with its contents and the movement / copying is completed.

In S16, when the cursor key / mouse is clicked, the rubber 9 previously designated in S17 is moved. Corresponding to the movement of the rubber 9, the contents are also moved in the sub-plane 7. As a result, the moved rubber 9 and its contents are displayed on the display 8 displayed in a manner of overwriting on the original document. Therefore, when the user moves the rubber 9 to a desired moving / copying destination and confirms the state in which the actual content is displayed and then confirms the state by pressing the execution key in S15, the rubber in the confirmed state is displayed. The original document is actually overwritten with its contents in the area 9 and the moving / copying ends.

FIG. 5 shows an operation explanatory diagram (No. 1) of the configuration of another embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 6 shows an operation explanatory diagram (No. 2) of the configuration of another embodiment of the present invention. These are operation explanatory diagrams of designation of a figure movement / copy range (figure movement / copy source range), character scanning, and figure movement / copy range (figure movement / copying range).

In FIG. 5, in S21, as keyboard control, it is determined whether or not the figure move / copy key is pressed.
When the figure move / copy key is pressed, the process proceeds to S22.
Otherwise, wait.

In step S22, the rubber start coordinates are set.
This is because the figure move / copy key has been pressed, so the rubber start coordinates (upper right for vertical writing, upper left for horizontal writing) are set.

In S23, it is determined whether the cursor key or the execution key is used as keyboard control. When the cursor key is pressed, the rubber end coordinate (lower left in vertical writing, lower right in horizontal writing) is set in S24, the rubber is drawn in S25, the process returns to S23, and the execution key is pressed. repeat. On the other hand, when the execution key is pressed in S23, the process proceeds to FIG. 6 and the character scanning is started.

By the above procedure, the range of the figure movement / copy source is designated, and the designated frame is displayed as a rubber. In FIG. 6, S31 determines whether or not there are any remaining characters. In the case of YES, since all the characters within the rubber range have been transferred to the character buffer, the process proceeds to S42. In the case of NO, since it is determined that there are remaining characters, the process proceeds to S32.

In step S32, it is determined whether the character is within the rubber range. In the case of YES, it is determined in S33 whether the figure has moved, and Y
In the case of ES, the character is overwritten in the blank in S34 and the process proceeds to S35, and in the case of NO, the process proceeds to S35. On the other hand, if NO in S32, the process returns to S31.

In step S35, the character is transferred to the character buffer. As a result, when the character is within the rubber range, it is transferred to the character buffer. Then, the process returns to S31. By the above procedure, the characters within the rubber range are extracted, transferred to the character buffer, and stored.

In step S41, as the keyboard control, it is determined whether the cursor key or the execution key is pressed. If the cursor key is pressed, S42 to S
The process of 45 is performed. On the other hand, if the execute key is pressed, the contents of the character buffer are pasted on the main plane in S46, and the movement / copying is completed.

In step S42, the rubber end coordinates are set.
Since the cursor key has been pressed, the rubber start coordinates are set to SET. In S43, the rubber end coordinates are calculated.

In S44, rubber is drawn on the sub-plane. S45 transfers from the character buffer to the sub-plane. This writes the characters to move / copy from the character buffer to the subplane. Then, the keyboard control of S41 is repeated until the execution key is pressed. When the execute key is pressed, the contents of the character buffer are written and displayed on the main plane as described above.

By the above procedure, in response to the designation of the figure movement / copy destination, rubber is drawn on the sub-plane, transferred from the character buffer and displayed, and when the execution key is pressed, the main plane is pressed. Write the contents of the character buffer to and end the move / copy.

[0049]

As described above, according to the present invention,
The rubber 9 and contents of the copy source specified when moving / copying the figure are displayed together with the same contents as the actual move / copy at the position specified as the move / copy destination, and the position when the execution is instructed Since the configuration is used to overwrite, it is possible to move / copy while confirming the result of moving / copying the figure during layout editing on the screen, and the operation of moving / copying the figure can be performed easily and surely. It became possible to do it. As a result, the result of moving / copying a figure can be confirmed on the screen during layout editing, etc., and operability can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a principle configuration diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an operation explanatory diagram of the configuration of the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is another operation explanatory diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an operation explanatory diagram (part 1) of the configuration of another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an operation explanatory view (No. 2) of the configuration of another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of a conventional technique.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1: Document Creation Device 2: Control Unit (OS) 3: Document Creation / Update Process 4: Layout Creation / Update Process 5: Graphic Movement / Copy Process 6: Main Plane 7: Sub-plane 8: Display 9: Rubber 10: Keyboard 11: mouse

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. In a graphic editing method for moving / copying a graphic, a rubber (9) representing the specified range is specified in correspondence with the designation of the range of the move / copy source from the graphic displayed on the screen. In addition to displaying, the content in the rubber (9) is taken out and displayed together, and the content displayed in the rubber (9) corresponds to the designation of the move / copy destination. A graphic editing method characterized by being configured so as to overwrite. 2. The main plane (6) for storing the graphic to be moved / copied, and the rubber (9) and a sub-plane (7) for storing the contents in the rubber (9), the main plane (6) The rubber (9) representing the designated range is stored in the sub-plane (7) corresponding to the designation of the range of the movement / copying source from the figure read out from the plane (6) and displayed on the screen. The contents in the rubber (9) are read out from the main plane (6), stored in the sub-plane (7), read out and displayed from the main plane (6) according to the designation of the move / copy destination. , A graphic editing method characterized in that the contents in the rubber (9) of the sub-plane (7) are taken out and overwritten on the corresponding part of the main plane (6). 3. At the time of the movement, corresponding to the designation of the movement source,
2. The structure in which the contents in the designated moving source rubber (9) (or the contents of the designated moving source main plane (6)) are overwritten in a blank space. The graphic editing method according to claim 2.