JPS59114585A - Input field expansion/continuation system - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Technical Field of the Invention] The invention relates to a text input method in which a formatted screen with a predetermined input yield size is displayed on a display, and text is input using a keyboard. The present invention relates to an input field expansion/continuation method in which an input field is expanded/continued according to a text input state or input field designation.

[Conventional technology and problems]

The host computer has an input/edit editor that manages text input and editing, and the input/edit editor displays a formatted screen on the local terminal display, allowing you to input text using the local terminal keyboard. There is a text input method for input. Since this method uses a fixed set of screens, the size of the input field is predetermined. Therefore, as text is entered until the end of the input field whose size is predetermined is reached, no more text can be entered in that manual field. Therefore, various restrictions are placed on the input text, such as making the length of the text a predetermined size of the -y'fC input field.

[Purpose of the invention]

The present invention is based on the above consideration, and when inputting text from a formatted screen where the size of the input field is fixed, the input field can be extended and continued as necessary to create a text of any length. The purpose of this paper is to provide an input field extension/continuation method for formatted screens that facilitates text input.

[Structure of the invention]

For this purpose, the input field expansion of the formatted screen of the present invention
The continuation method includes a host computer having a local terminal having a display and a keyboard, and an input/editing editor for managing the input and editing of text, and the inputting/editing editor writes information on the display of the local terminal. In a text input method in which a formatted screen is displayed and text is entered into the input field of the formatted screen using the keyboard, the input/edit editor has an input field management section and inputs the text into the input field of the formatted screen. Input field management unit (l″l:S When there is an interrupt from the above local terminal ->'fC, analyze the interrupt, check the cursor position if there is an interrupt for the expand-continue command, and change the cursor position to the above format. Extend table records on the condition that the cursor position is at the table record position on the screen, perform field expansion processing on the condition that the cursor position is within the field on the above formatted screen, and execute commands other than expansion/continuation commands. If it is an interrupt, the text input state is checked, and the table record or field expansion processing is performed on the condition that the text is input to the last line of the table record or field on the formatted screen. [Embodiments of the Invention] Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a display screen, and FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a hardware configuration to which the present invention is applied. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of an input field management section. FIG. In Figure 2, 1
is the local terminal, 2 is the host computer, 3 is the input/edit editor, 4 is the input yield management section %5 is the saved text section 0 The present invention uses a format in which the physical size of the input field is fixed. When a screen is displayed on the display and text is input from the formatted screen, the field is expanded or continued spontaneously or by the user specifying the field, and each specific expansion, Figure 1 shows an example of continuation. In FIG. 1, Capture or Q respectively indicate on the right a screen that is extended or continued from the formatted screen on the left. In FIG. 1 (4), a tabular input field is provided as a formatted screen. Each section 7'C, which is partitioned by a table frame in a table format, is an input field. In Figure 1 (4), ■, ■
When the user enters text into the input field of the computer and there is an interruption to the host computer, for example by calling a Kana-Kanji conversion routine, the editor in the post computer will write 1 as shown on the right side of Figure 1. ■ Automatically expand the new input field for rows and display it on the screen. Each time a new input field is expanded, the entire input field above the new input field is shifted upward on the screen. Next, Figure 1 shows an example of expanding records in a table.

When expanding records.

As shown on the left side of FIG. 1 (8), the cursor is placed at the position of the record to be expanded (the position of the record marked with ■) and an expansion/continuation command is input. By inputting the expansion/continuation command, the editor of the host computer expands the table record to the position specified by the cursor, and displays it on the screen as shown on the right side of ω in FIG. In addition, as shown on the left side of Figure 1 (Q) shows an example of expanding a field in a table, the field to be expanded is shown on the left side of Figure 1. Place the cursor at the position (any position in the field marked ■) and enter the expansion/continuation command. By inputting the expansion/continuation command, the editor of the host computer expands the field at the position specified by the cursor and displays it on the screen as shown on the right side of FIG. 1(C).

FIG. 2 shows an example of a hardware configuration to which the present invention is applied. In FIG. 2, local terminal 1 is equipped with a display and a keyboard. The host computer 2 includes an input/edit editor 3, which manages text input and editing. In particular, in the input field management section 4 in the input/edit editor 3,
The processing for expanding and continuing the input field described above is performed. The saved text section 5 is a file in which text that has been input and edited is saved.

Next, the processing by the input field management section IC will be explained with reference to FIG.

■ If there is an interrupt, analyze the interrupt.

If the interrupt is an extension/continuation command, process ``■'' is performed, and if the interrupt is other than an extension/continuation command, process ``■'' is performed.

■ Determine whether text was entered in the last row of a table record or field.

In the case of Yga, the process (■) is performed, and in the case of No, the process is terminated.

■ Extend the representation code or field and end the process.

■ Determine the cursor position.

If the cursor position φ is the table record position, process ■, and if the cursor position is within the field, process ■
0 ■ Extend table record processing and end processing.

■ Perform field expansion processing and end the process.

With the above configuration, when inputting text from a formatted screen where the size of the input field is fixed, the input field specified by the user is automatically extended or continued. [Effects of the Invention] As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention, the input field can be displayed on the display screen and the size of the input field can be determined. It is possible to easily input text of arbitrary length that exceeds the size of the input field from a formatted screen, which improves the man-machine interface.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of the present invention using an example of a display screen, Fig. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a hardware configuration to which the present invention is applied, and Fig. 3 is an input field management section. This is a diagram explaining the processing by. 1...Local terminal, 2...Host computer, 3...
- Input document editing editor, 4... Input field management section, 5... Save text section. Patent Applicant: Fujitsu Limited Representative Patent Attorney Yotsube Kyotani

Claims (1)

[Claims] a local terminal having a display and a keyboard;
and a host computer having an input/editing editor for managing input and editing of text, and the manual/editing editor displays a formatted screen on the display of the local terminal, and input fields on the formatted screen. In the text input method, in which text is input manually using the keyboard, the input/edit editor has an input field management section, and the input field management section is configured to respond when an interrupt is received from the local terminal. When the interrupt occurs, the interrupt is analyzed, and if it is an interrupt for an expansion/continuation command, the cursor position is checked, and on the condition that the cursor position is the table record position of the above formatted screen, the table record expansion process is performed, and the cursor position is Extends the field under the condition that is the position in the field on the above formatted screen, and if the interrupt is other than an extension/continuation command, checks the text input state and replaces the table record or field on the above formatted screen. An input field expansion/continuation method characterized in that the input field expansion/continuation method is configured to perform table record or field expansion processing on the condition that it is input in the last line of the field.