JPS60189574A - Generator of document format - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable a designing operation while an operator is directly viewing a display screen by providing a position specifying means of a display device at the time of generating an entry column. CONSTITUTION:In order to generate a header 1, after a position on a display device 14 is specified by a position specifying means 11, a header generation specifying key 21 is depressed. A controller 15 displays a character string and simultaneously stores a start point, an end point and a header character string in a header definition information memory part 12. In order to generate an entry column, after a position on the display device 14 is specified by the position specifying means 11, a start point is specified by depressing an entry column specifying key 22, and the controller 15 stores an area enclosed by start and end positions in an entry column definition information memory part 13. In order to modify a header and an entry column, one point on the display device 14 is specified by the position specifying means 11, and a modification specifying key 23 is depressed. By referring to the memory part 12 and 13, the controller 15 specifies an object to be modified.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to an apparatus for creating a form of a form.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems]

Conventionally, when inputting and outputting data between a computer and a human using a form, the following two methods were used to create the form. In the first example, a character string or the like to be displayed on the screen is written in a program and is displayed on the screen using a PRINT statement or the like. In the second example, nine character strings, etc., for the start and end positions of headings, entry fields, etc., are coded, interpreted by a computer program, and displayed as a form.

In either case, the designer of the format could not immediately check the format on the display screen, and had to go back to program writing and coding to make changes.

[Purpose of the invention]

The present invention has been made in view of this situation, and allows a form designer to perform design work while directly viewing the display screen.

[Embodiments of the invention]

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

Figure 1 is an example of a form created by the form creation device according to the present invention (2). "Name list", "Name", etc. are called headings, and the places to be filled in when issuing a form as in 2 are entry fields. 2 is a block diagram of a form creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 8 is a diagram showing heading creation instruction means, entry column creation instruction means, heading and entry column change instruction means, headings and entry. This is an example in which the column deletion instruction means is implemented as a special key on the keyboard 10. FIG. 4 shows the heading definition information storage section 12 and entry column definition information storage section 1 in FIG.
This is an example of definition information stored in 4.

Next, we will explain the role of each component while following the steps to create a form. To create heading 1, first specify the position on the display device 14 using the position indicating means 11, and then
The heading creation instruction key 21 is pressed.

After that, enter the character string to be used as a heading - 2
0, and then press the heading creation instruction key 21 again.
Press . The control device 15 displays the character string and stores the start position, end position, and the header character string in the header definition information storage section 12 in the form shown in FIG. Next, to create an entry field, first specify the position on the display device 14 using the position specifying means 11, then press the entry field specifying key 22 to specify the starting position, and then use the position specifying means 11 to specify the starting position.
After specifying the position on the display device 14 using 1, the user presses the entry field designation key 2λ again to designate the end position. The control device 15 displays the area surrounded by the start position and the end position, for example, as a rectangle, and stores it in the field definition information storage unit 18 in a form as shown in FIG. During these processes, attributes of headings and fields, such as display color.

The data type and the like may also be entered using the character entry keys.

Next, in order to change the heading and entry field, the position indicating means 11 specifies a point within the heading or entry field on the display device, and then the change instruction key 28 is pressed. The control device 16 includes the heading definition information storage section 12. By referring to the entry column definition information storage unit 13, the target to be changed can be specified. Deletion of headings and entry fields is instructed in exactly the same way as for changes. The control device 15 deletes the definition information of the designated heading or item from the definition information storage units 12 and 18, and also from the screen.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible for a document format designer to perform design work while directly looking at the display screen, and the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments. It can be modified and used. For example, it is possible to use a position specifying means such as a tablet without separating the key and the position specifying means (2), and determine that a heading creation instruction has been given when a specific position on the tablet is specified. The display method of the entry field is underlined,
It may be modified by displaying it in parentheses.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of a form format created according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. 8 and 4 are examples of an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 10... Key human power device 11... Position specifying device 12
...Heading definition information storage section 18...Storage definition information storage section 14...Display device 15...Control device agent Patent attorney Noriyuki Chika (and 1 other person) Fig. 1 Fig. 2

Claims (1)

[Claims] a display device, a means for instructing a position on the display device, a means for instructing creation of a heading, a means for instructing creation of an entry field;
The device includes a means for instructing to change the heading and entry field, a means for instructing to delete the heading and entry field, and a means for inputting characters, and the form is displayed while referring to the diagram drawn on the display device. A form creation device characterized by creating a form.