JPS6375976A - Inter-graphic position adjusting system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prepare a graphic or document in a short time, by providing a function which can enlarge and contract an area, in which a selected graphic group is placed, without changing the size of the graphics. CONSTITUTION:The minimum circumscribed rectangular area 79 of a graphic is calculated from the minimum and maximum values of the X- and Y-coordinates of central points 76-78 and control points 81-88 to be used for enlarging and contracting the rectangular area 79 are defined on the circumscribed rectangle and marked with small squares. The user of this system designates one control point 86, for example, and indicates the moving destination of the point 86 to a location 91 by using a pointing input deice 5. In such a case, the control points 82 and 86 and 84 and 88 can be moved in the x-axis and y-axis directions only, respectively. The other control points can be moved in both x- and y-axis directions. A CPU 2 makes necessary calculation so that the control point 91 can be brought to the circumscribed rectangle of the enlarged area 90 and the control point on the other side can be fixed and moves the central points 82-85 of each graphic to points 101-102 in a linear way at the ratio at which the area 79 is enlarged to the area 90. The coordinate data of a graphic data table are changed in accordance with the moving quantities of the central point of each graphic and the graphics are moved.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention is an information processing device such as a graphic creation device, and the present invention provides information processing between graphics when creating a document including graphics such as a proposal, a bookmark, or an instruction manual. This relates to a processing method for adjusting the TFT relationship.

[Conventional technology]

In a document 1 containing figures, such as an organization chart or a block diagram, the figures (including character strings) must be arranged in a well-balanced manner within the paper as a whole or within a defined area.

However, when a figure is placed within these areas, the overall balance is maintained to a certain extent, but in reality, the balance between neighboring figures is considered and placed, so when the placement is completed, , it often happens that the image protrudes from the area or is skewed in one direction of the area. Further, even if the areas are arranged in a well-balanced manner, the balance is often disrupted due to the addition or deletion of one figure.

The positional relationship of the figures is v! As a way to adjust the settings, use Apple's Li5a Draw (or Mac Draw)
As shown in , for the circumscribed rectangles of multiple selected shapes, the left end of the circumscribed rectangle is at the leftmost end t! t&c
A well-known alignment method is the ``horizontal left edge'' function, in which each figure is moved horizontally so that the left edges of the circumscribed rectangles of each figure coincide. In addition to this, there are alignment functions of "horizontal right edge", "horizontal center", "vertical top edge", "vertical bottom edge", and "vertical center". However, these alignment functions only align the edges of one figure, but cannot adjust the spacing between such figures. For this reason, in practice, it is necessary to repeatedly select and move each figure, which is a time-consuming operation, to adjust the positional relationship between the figures.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] The above-mentioned prior art does not take into consideration the function of enlarging or reducing the positional relationship between one figure, and if you try to make these adjustments, you will have to move individual figures. This process had to be repeated many times, making it extremely time-consuming.

An object of the present invention is to provide a function for linearly enlarging or reducing the positional relationship between one figure.

[Means for solving problems]

The above object is achieved by providing a function to enlarge or reduce the area in which one selected group of figures is placed without changing the size of the figures.

[Effect]

If one point of a figure is pinned to the area in which that figure is placed, as if it were a bin, as the area expands or contracts, the figures above it will move and the positional relationship between the figures will be changed. It can be adjusted with a single operation (enlarging/reducing the area).

〔Example〕

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

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a graphic creation device used to carry out the present invention. In Fig. 2, 1 is a memory for storing operating programs and graphic data (including character strings), etc., 2 is a central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as CPU), and 5 is
4 is a display for displaying created figures and their positional relationships for adjustment; 4 is a keyboard input device; and 5 is a pointing input device.

Figure 1 shows how the user uses the figure creation device shown in Figure 2 to
FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing how the positional relationship between figures is being adjusted. In the figure, 6 is the user.

7 to 9 are target figures whose positional relationships are to be adjusted, and 10 is a cursor that displays the position indicated by the pointing input device 5.

Now, a method for adjusting the positional relationship between the figures selected by the user 6 will be explained. As a specific example, a case will be described in which figures 7 to 9 shown in FIG. 1 are used as target figures.

Before explaining this processing operation, the structure of the table of the present invention used for this processing operation will be explained first.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing a graphic data table 30 that stores defined graphic data. In this example, 1 figure data 31 is a rectangular figure 7, and 1 figure data 32 is an ellipse figure 8.
1 graphic data 35 is composed of parameters defining a rectangular graphic 9. In addition, this figure cheetah table is the second
This exists in the memory 1 shown in the figure.

As shown in FIG. 5, one figure data 51 is one figure's valid/
A flag 40 indicating whether the figure is invalid, a record length 411 indicating the length of this figure data, a figure type 42 (rectangular in this case), a figure pattern code 45, and coordinate data 44 to 47 (defining the shape and position of the figure). in this case.

It consists of the coordinates of the starting and ending points that define the diagonal points of the rectangle. The graphic data 52 and 33 are similarly configured. In the graphic data 32, coordinate data 52 to 55 that define the shape and position of the ellipse are composed of coordinate data of start and end points that define the diagonal points of the circumscribed rectangle of the ellipse.

Now, the processing operation in this embodiment will be explained using FIG. 4. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing processing operations in one embodiment of the present invention. CP shown in Figure 2
U2 performs processing operations along the processing plane shown in FIG. 4 in accordance with the operating program stored in the memory 1. Below.

Only the method of position adjustment between figures, which is the central content of the present invention, will be explained. Therefore, the shape data is already 1
It is assumed that the data has been written in the figure data table 30 (For details on how to input figure data, refer to Apple's Ir.
1sa-L) see the raw manual).

The process begins at block 60. First, the user 6 uses the pointing input device 5 to draw figures 75 to 75 that are inside a rectangle 72 whose diagonal points are the point 70 at which the button is pressed and the point 71 at which the button is released as shown in FIG. is designated as a target figure whose positional relationship is to be adjusted (block 61). C
The PU 2 stores the center points 76 to 78 of the circumscribed rectangles of the specified figures 73 to 75 in the 5 figure data table 30.
(block 62). For example, in the case of graphic data 51, the average of the X coordinate 44 of the starting point and the X coordinate 46 of the ending point is the X coordinate of the center point 76, and the average of the X coordinate 45 of the starting point and the Calculate to 5.

A control point for calculating the minimum circumscribed rectangular area 79 that includes all the centers of the figure from the X coordinates, minimum values, and maximum values of the X coordinates of the center points 76 to 78, and enlarging/reducing the circumscribed rectangular area 79. 81 to 88 are defined on the circumscribed rectangle, and the small 4
It is indicated by a corner mark (block 65).

The user 6 uses the pointing input device 5 to specify a control point 1, for example 86, for enlarging/reducing the area 79, and specifies the destination position as the position 91 in FIG. In this winding, control points 82 and 86 are only in the y-axis direction, control points 84 and 88 are only in the x-axis direction, and other than that: t@. The CPU 2 moves in the y-axis direction (block 64).

An expanded area 90 of the area 79 is calculated by fixing the control point 82 on the opposite side of 5 so that the control point 91 is on the circumscribed rectangle. With the ratio of area 79 expanded to area 90, center points 82 to 85 of each figure are 101 to 10
Move linearly to 2. Change the amount of movement of the center point of each figure in the coordinate data of the figure data table and move the figure. For example, the coordinate data 52 to 55 of the elliptical figure 74 are moved by the same distance as the movement from point 77 to point IQ1 (block 65), and the figures 105 to 55 whose coordinate data has been changed are
105 is redisplayed (block 105). Next, proceed to block 61 to adjust the position between one figure again, or
The user 6 is asked to decide whether to proceed to block 68 to terminate (block 67). At block 68, one line processing ends.

In the above, in order to make the explanation easier to understand, we have explained how to adjust the position between three figures, a rectangle and an ellipse, as one figure. However, one character string and one image can be handled in the same way. Further, the number of target figures may be any number as long as the memory 1 allows.

Although the area to be enlarged or reduced is the minimum rectangle including the center point of the circumscribed rectangle of the target figure, it may be any predetermined location such as the upper right corner of the circumscribed rectangle of the target figure.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, without changing the shape and size of the figure,
The positional relationship between figures can be linearly expanded or reduced in a single operation, eliminating the time-consuming work of moving each figure one by one and adjusting the positional relationship between them. The effect is that drawings and documents can be created in a short time.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing how a user is adjusting the positional relationship between graphics, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a graphics creation device used to carry out the present invention. Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram showing a figure data table used in the present invention, Fig. 4 is a flowchart showing processing operations in an embodiment of the present invention, and Fig. 5 is a target figure for adjusting the positional relationship between figures. FIG. 6 is an example of a screen display in which the positional relationship between figures is adjusted. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1...Memory, 2...Central processing unit, 5...Display, 4...Keyboard, 5...Pointing input device, 6...User, 30...Graphic data table, 73 ~75...Target figure, 79...A region formed from the center point of the target figure, 90...Enlarged area, 103-105...A figure whose positional relationship has been adjusted. Representative Patent Attorney Katsuo Ogawa, Akira 2nd Dokoku 4th Edition, B Male, F Eye εl Turning Eyes

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as a CPU), a memory that stores at least an operation program of the CPU and graphic data, and a graphic data processing system based on selected graphic data among the graphic data. In an information processing device that is equipped with a display that displays images as an image and an input device, the area in which the selected group of figures is located is linearly enlarged according to instructions from the input device. - A position adjustment method between figures that is characterized by adjusting the positional relationship between figures by reducing the size of the figures.