JPS6330976A - Macrocommand editing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily recognize relation between a displayed graphic, and a command, and to enable the editing of the command to be performed with a few quantity of operation, by obtaining the command used to generate the graphic from the graphic being displayed by a corresponding relation memory, at the time of editing a macrocommand. CONSTITUTION:Each command used at the time of generating the graphic, and the parameter of the command, and also, the identification information of a generated graphic corresponded to the graphic, are stored in the corresponding relation memory 6. At the time of editing the macrocommand, by selecting and instructing a required graphic out of the graphics generated and displayed until now by an operator, the identification information of an instructed graphic can be obtained,and the command, and a parameter value used to generate a selected and instructed graphic can be obtained as the information of the command to be edited. In such way, since it is possible to perform an operation to obtain a required command by selecting and instructing the graphic, the quantity to input the command for editing, can be reduced, and correspondence to the graphic being generated can be easily recognized.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a command editing method in a graphic processing system A, and more particularly to a macro command editing method suitable for creating a macro command by combining commands.

[Conventional technology]

Conventional macro command editing methods include one in which the command is input as a string from the keyboard and the command is edited by editing the string, and another in which the system converts the command from the menu into a string and edits it. there were. In the former, the amount of command input operations can be reduced by storing the commands used so far as a history and using the history in editing, but it does not take into account the relationship between the created shape and the command. .

In the latter method, a new command must be input in order to edit a command, and no consideration was given to reducing the amount of command input operation and effort required during editing.

-''[Problem to be solved by the invention] The above-mentioned prior art does not take into consideration the use of displayed graphic information when editing macro commands, and the necessary commands must be re-inputted. The amount of operations is large.Also, since the operator must know the relationship between the figure to be created and the parameters, the more commands that are used, the more errors occur.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a macro command editing method that makes it easy to understand the relationship between displayed figures and commands and allows a collection of commands to be created with a small amount of operation.

[Means for solving problems]

The above purpose is to provide a correspondence memory that stores the correspondence between an input command and graphic information created by it, and when editing a macro command, create a graphic from the displayed graphic using the correspondence memory. When an operator creates a figure, the created figure is managed by the system with identification information such as a figure number added for modification. In this method, each command used when creating a graphic and the parameters of that command are associated with identification information of the created graphic and stored in a correspondence memory.

When editing a macro command, the operator selects and instructs the required figure from among the figures that have been created and displayed so far, and obtains the identification information of the specified figure.
From this information, the command and parameter values used to create the figure specified by the previous correspondence memory are obtained as information on the command to be edited. As a result, the operation to obtain the required command can be performed by selecting and instructing the figure, so the amount of command input operations for the g collection is small, and since the displayed figure serves as a model, the figure to be created You can edit macro commands whose correspondence is easy to understand.

〔Example〕

・Figure '1 shows the configuration of the apparatus of this embodiment.

1 is a graph ink display that displays graphical information, 2
3 is a tablet that is a coordinate input device; 3 is a keyboard for inputting characters; 4 is a calculator for creating and modifying figures; editing macro commands; 5 is a figure memory for storing figure information such as figures and identification information; is a correspondence memory that stores input commands and identification information of created figures in correspondence with each other. The operator inputs a command, coordinate parameters and character parameters necessary for the command into the computer 4 through 2 and 3, and creates a figure. The created figure is stored in 5 and displayed in 1. At this time, the used command and parameters and the identification information of the created figure are stored in the correspondence memory 6. When editing a macro command, by specifying a required figure by 2 from the figure information displayed in 1 by 4, the command used to create the figure is input to 4 as a command for editing. Detailed editing such as parameter changes is performed on the input commands through interaction with 4).

<Figure 42 is an example of the created figures, 1 figure A and B.

1 brim "C" has been created. 7 is the figure display window. PL and P2 are the coordinate parameters of figure A, similarly P3.P4 are the coordinate parameters of figure B, P5.P6゜P7 are the coordinate parameters of figure C. These are coordinate parameters.These created figures have figure names A and B as identification information.

C is added and stored in the graphic memory 5. Figure 3 shows
This is the content of the graphic memory 5. FIG. 4 shows the contents of the correspondence memory 6 in FIG. Here, figure A is created by a rectangle command with identification information A, and parameters PL and P2. In this way, the identification information of the created figure and the commands and parameters used to create the figure are stored in correspondence with each other. Information similar to that for figure A is also stored for figures B and C.

Further, this information is created each time the operator creates a figure. FIG. 5 shows a case where macro commands are edited, 7 is a window for displaying figures created up to now, 8 is a window for editing macro commands,
This is displayed by starting the macro command editing program 7. Here, a case is shown in which a new macro command [MACRO1] is created. The shape required by the macro command now is shape A.
, the graphic cursor 9 operated by the tablet 2 can be used to select the graphic A in the graphic display window.
Indicates the vicinity of. The calculator 4 calculates the shortest distance between each figure stored in the figure memory and the coordinate value of the cursor 9 using the coordinate parameters of each figure, and selects the figure with the shortest distance among them as the indicated figure. is detected, and the identification information, coordinate parameters, and type of the figure are obtained.

Then, the operator is informed that the figure specified by the operator has been detected by blinking the detected figure in the display window. In FIG. 5, figure A is detected and figure identification information A is obtained. Next, using the identification information of the detected figure, the correspondence memory is searched for one having the same identification information. During the search, the identification information is read out sequentially from the beginning of the correspondence memory, and compared with the detected identification information, the command stored corresponding to the identification 7\\P information and information is compared with the detected identification information. and para.
(・Two nuters are obtained as a result. In the case of FIG. 5, the identification information is A, so from the contents of the correspondence memory in FIG. 4, a rectangular diagram is set as a command and Pl as a parameter.

P2 is obtained. Then, the command and parameters obtained as shown in FIG. 5 are written as a character string at the position of the editing cursor 10 in the command editing window on behalf of the operator. These commands and parameters are those used to create the figure indicated by the cursor 9 by the operator. 4 if the operator makes a mistake in the instruction to select a shape.
By instructing 3 to cancel the selection instruction, the blinking display of the figure returns to the normal display, and the input of command characters in the command editing window is also cancelled. The operator uses a screen editor to change the parameters of the command displayed in the command editing window, and edits the macro command in combination with the input of the command by the above-mentioned operation. This allows the operator to select a figure similar to the required figure from among the displayed figures.The amount of operation required for cloak input is small. This allows you to edit macro commands that make it easy to understand the relationship between commands and diagrams. In the embodiment described above, the graphic information stored in the graphic memory and the command stored in the correspondence memory are one
Although the correspondence is one-to-one, as shown in Figure 6, the same identification information can be given to multiple pieces of graphic information, resulting in a multiple-to-one or multiple-to-many correspondence.One piece of graphic information is created using multiple commands. It may be one-to-multiple as in the case.

In addition, in this embodiment, the correspondence between the created figure and the command used to create it is stored in the correspondence memory, but as shown in FIG. The correspondence between typical figures created and commands is stored in a correspondence memory, and typical figures are stored in the figure memory separately from figures created by the operator. When editing macro commands, typical figures are It is also possible to display only the figure in the figure display window and use it for command input. Further, the correspondence memory and the graphic memory can be installed on the same memory, and the correspondence memory can also be included in the graphic memory.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, by selecting and instructing a displayed figure when editing a macro command, the command and parameters used to create that figure can be obtained, making it easy to understand the relationship between commands and figures. Figure 1 shows the configuration of the apparatus of this embodiment, and Figures 2, 3, 4, and 5 show the contents of the graphic display window and the graphic memory to explain the actual operation. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the contents of the graphic display window and the command editing window for explaining the contents, the contents of the correspondence memory, and the editing operation of the macro command.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of a modification of this embodiment.

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Keyboard, 4...Calculator, 5...Graphic memory, 6
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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An interactive graphic processing system consisting of an input device for inputting commands from an operator, a graphic display device for displaying graphic information, a graphic memory for storing the graphic information, and a computer for creating and modifying the graphic information. A macro command editing method characterized in that a correspondence memory is provided to store the correspondence between input commands and graphic information created thereby, and the command used is obtained from the displayed graphic information.