JPH0769677B2 - A cursor moving method in a document preparation device - Google Patents

Description

Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cursor moving method in a document creating apparatus, and more particularly to a cursor moving method suitable for creating and editing ruled lines.

[Conventional technology]

Generally, a document creation device has a ruled line creation function.
In this type of document creating apparatus, normally, the up / down / left / right cursor movement keys on the keyboard are pressed to move the cursor up / down / left / right to edit ruled lines. On the other hand, when editing a ruled line, in order to arrange the ruled line, it is necessary to move the cursor to the line end of the created ruled line. In this case, conventionally, the cursor is moved in units of ruled lines by using the cursor up / down / left / right cursor moving keys.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

In the conventional document creating apparatus, when creating and editing a ruled line, when moving the cursor from the current cursor position to the line ends of the ruled lines existing in the up, down, left, and right directions, the cursor move keys on the keyboard move the ruled line by one unit Since it has to be done, there is a problem that the operation is troublesome.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a cursor moving method capable of quickly moving a cursor to a line end of a ruled line in a document creation device.

[Means for solving problems]

The present invention provides a specific function key in addition to the up / down / left / right cursor moving keys on the keyboard, and moves the cursor to the line end of the ruled line by pressing the two keys of the specific function key and the up / down / left / right cursor moving keys. It is characterized by that.

[Work]

When it is necessary to move the cursor to the end of the created ruled line in order to arrange the ruled lines, press any key among the up / down / left / right cursor movement keys while pressing the specific function key on the keyboard. To do. Then,
The cursor moves to the line end of the ruled line corresponding to the pressed key among the up / down / right / left cursor movement keys. If there is no ruled line in the cursor movement range, the cursor moves to the column head, column end, line head or line end.

〔Example〕

 An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of an embodiment of a document creation apparatus targeted by the present invention. The document creating apparatus includes a keyboard 10 for inputting characters and various operation instructions, a central processing unit 20 for executing various processes, a program memory (ROM) 30 for storing programs necessary for processing by the central processing unit 20, From a data memory (RAM) 40 that stores document data, ruled line data, and other data, a printing device 50 that prints created document data and ruled line data, and a display device 60 that displays created document data, ruled line data, etc. Become.

As a configuration related to the present invention, the keyboard 10 includes specific function keys (hereinafter, referred to as specific keys) and up / down / left / right cursor moving keys. A program memory 30 has a cursor moving program 31 and a data memory. 40 includes a ruled line data storage area 41 and a ruled line cursor information storage area 42. The ruled line data storage area 41 is logically divided into a grid of M rows × N columns as shown in FIG. 2, and when creating a ruled line, ruled line data consisting of a ruled line type and a ruled line presence flag is stored at each address. To be done. This ruled line data storage area 41
One ruled line data position above corresponds to one ruled line unit on the display surface of the display device 60. The ruled line cursor information storage area 42 stores ruled line cursor information (XY coordinate information) indicating a cursor display position when creating a ruled line.

When creating the ruled line, the central processing unit 20 reads the ruled line data from the ruled line data storage area 41 of the data memory 40, and displays the ruled line data.
Show ruled lines at 60. Similarly, the ruled line cursor information is read from the ruled line cursor information storage area 42 and the cursor is displayed on the display device 60. The ruled line cursor information in the ruled line cursor information storage area 42 is updated in response to the operation of the up / down / left / right cursor movement keys on the keyboard 10, whereby the cursor display position of the display device 60 moves up / down / left / right. Also,
When a specific key on the keyboard 10 is pressed and then any of the up, down, left, and right cursor movement keys is pressed, the ruled line data in the ruled line data storage area 41 is searched and the operation of the cursor movement key is performed. Corresponding to, the address corresponding to the upper, lower, left and right ends of the ruled line data in which the ruled line flag is set, that is, the position information (XY coordinate information) is set in the ruled line cursor information storage area 42. This allows
With one operation of the up / down / left / right cursor movement keys, the cursor display position is moved to the line ends of the up / down / left / right ruled lines.

The cursor moving process is executed under the control of the cursor moving program 31 in the program memory 30. FIG. 3 shows a flowchart of the cursor moving program 31.

First, when a specific key on the keyboard 10 is pressed during the ruled line creation / editing (step 101), the up / down / left / right cursor movement key to be pressed next is determined. Then, when the up cursor movement key is pressed (step 102), the ruled line data storage area 41 on the data memory 40 is searched and the ruled line with the ruled line flag set between the current cursor position and the column head is searched. It is determined whether or not there is data (step 103). If there is no ruled line flag, the coordinates of the column head are set in the ruled line cursor information storage area 42, and the cursor is moved to the column head (step 105). . On the other hand, if there is ruled line data with a ruled line flag set, the coordinates of the ruled line data with the ruled line flag closest to the column head are set in the ruled line cursor information storage area 42, and the cursor is moved to that position. (Step 104). Similarly, even if the down left / right cursor movement key is pressed, if there is ruled line data with a flag, the cursor is moved to the position of the ruled line closest to the end of the column, the beginning of the line, or the end of the line, and the ruled line flag is If not, move the cursor to the end of the column, the beginning of the line, or the end of the line, respectively.
If the up / down / left / right cursor movement key is pressed without pressing the specific key, the cursor position is moved based on the original function of the cursor movement key (step 118,
119).

FIG. 4 shows an image diagram of an embodiment of cursor movement according to the present invention.

When a specific key on the keyboard and an up cursor moving key are pressed, the cursor moves to a position 81 in the created ruled line 70 that is closest to the column head in the same column as the current cursor position 80. Similarly, when the specific key and the down cursor movement key are pressed, the cursor moves to the position 82 closest to the end of the column. Further, when the specific key and the left cursor movement key are pressed, the cursor moves to the position 83 closest to the beginning of the line in the created ruled line 70 on the same line as the current cursor position 80. Similarly, when the specific key and the right cursor movement key are pressed, the cursor moves to the position 84 closest to the end of the line.

〔The invention's effect〕

As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention, by operating the specific key and the up / down / left / right cursor movement keys,
Since the cursor can be quickly moved to the end of the ruled line, the operability at the time of creating and editing the ruled line in the document creation device is significantly improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a document creating apparatus targeted by the present invention, FIG. 2 is a detailed view of a ruled line data storage area in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is an implementation of cursor movement processing according to the present invention. An example flowchart, FIG. 4 is an image diagram of an embodiment of cursor movement according to the present invention. 10 ... Keyboard, 20 ... Central processing unit, 30 ... Program memory, 31 ... Cursor movement program, 40 ... Data memory, 41 ... Ruled line data storage area, 42 ... Ruled line cursor information storage area, 50 ... … Printing device, 60… Display device.

Front page continued (72) Inventor Ichiro Kawashima 6-81 Onoue-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Yuichi Ozaki 9-35 Hotta-dori, Mizuho-ku, Aichi Prefecture, Brother Brother Industrial Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Hideo Ueno 9-35 Hotta-dori, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi Brother Industrial Co., Ltd.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A document creation apparatus having a ruled line creation function, in which a function key is provided on the keyboard in addition to the up, down, left, and right cursor movement keys, and the up or down cursor movement key is pressed while the specific function key is depressed. When pressed, moves the cursor to the upper or lower end of the vertical ruled line of the column at the current cursor position, and while pressing the specific function key, press the left or right cursor movement key to move the line at the current cursor position. A cursor movement method in a document creation device characterized by moving the cursor to the left or right edge of a horizontal ruled line. 2. The cursor in the document creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when there is no ruled line in the cursor movement range, the cursor is moved to a column head, a column end, a line head or a line end. Transfer method.