JPH0219465B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (A) Technical Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a scroll control method in a data processing device that performs split-screen display, and in particular to a scroll control method for controlling a plurality of cards having a common format using a concept called "box". The card image is displayed on the display in a manner that manages the card image, and processing including calculation processing can be performed on the display contents on the card image, and the scrolling is performed for each display frame. This invention relates to a scroll control method in screen display.

(B) Technical Background and Problems With the recent spread of office automation, it is desirable to be able to easily perform card image processing that displays and processes card images as well as text creation processing. ing. In other words, in general office processing, it has been widely adopted to store information in the form of cards and use this information. It is desired to be able to perform various types of processing.
However, the format data and card
It is not a good idea to store data in an integrated manner;
It is desirable to be able to grasp the data as a single unit and to be able to display the format data and card data of individual cards in an integrated manner. Furthermore, during processing, it is desirable to display and process a plurality of card images at once, and it is desirable to be able to perform scroll control within the display frame on the side that is currently being processed.

(C) Object and Structure of the Invention The present invention aims to solve the above-mentioned problems, and the scroll control method in the split screen display of the present invention displays a card image on the display screen and displays the card image. A card that instructs each field above, gives a processing mode, and processes the contents of the field.
The image processing data processing device is configured such that one box is associated with a plurality of cards having a common format so that the box can be accessed and processed, and the box is provided with at least a format data storage unit and a field definition. The information storage unit and the card data storage unit corresponding to each card are associated with each other, and a box corresponding to the card image to be displayed on the display screen is loaded into the main memory for the time being, and each card image is displayed. The contents of the form data storage section and the card data storage section are merged and displayed, and a plurality of the merged card images are simultaneously displayed on the display screen in association with respective frames. It is configured as follows, and each of the above cards/
In response to pressing a cursor key that moves the cursor beyond the frame in which the image is displayed, the card displayed in the frame is
The box corresponding to the image was scrolled on the display screen in a state where the contents of the form data storage section and the contents of the card data storage section were merged, and the cursor was controlled to be displayed within the frame. This will be described below with reference to the drawings.

(D) Embodiments of the Invention Figures 1 to 3 are explanatory diagrams explaining the concepts of card images and boxes according to the present invention, and Figures 4 to 7 are examples of processing modes executed in the present invention, respectively. , FIG. 8 is an overall conceptual diagram of an embodiment of a split screen display according to the present invention, and FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of an essential part of an embodiment of a portion directly related to the present invention.

In the case of the present invention, a card having a predetermined card format is stored in a data processing device as a card image, and the card image is displayed on a display for processing. Each card image consists of format data as shown in Figures 1 and 2 and field contents (card data) given corresponding to fields (items) such as "Customer Name" on the card image. I remember it separately,
If necessary, both data are merged and displayed on the display. And it is assumed that it represents one real card.

The fields on the card image include character fields and numeric fields. In the form data, "..." is given to indicate the character insertion point for character fields, and "..." is given to indicate the numeric insertion point for numeric fields.
,” is given.

Generally, there are many cards that share format data as shown in Figures 1 and 2, so card images corresponding to these cards are grouped together into a "box" as shown in Figure 3. Introducing concepts. Symbol 1 is a card image, 2
represents box. In order to provide boxes as one processing unit, the following information (or storage unit) is prepared corresponding to each box. In other words, box profile (memory section)... box number, box name, etc.

Format data (storage unit): Data corresponding to the card format (blank card) as shown in Figures 1 and 3.

Field definition information (storage unit): Field start coordinates and attributes for each field (for numeric fields, presence or absence of commas, number of digits after the decimal point, etc.).

Field name (memory part)...The name of each field.

Card data (storage unit): Card data corresponding to individual card images belonging to the same box is stored in association with each page.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a mode of processing according to the present invention, and it can be considered that the display as shown in the figure is displayed on the display and the processing begins.

The screen on the display shows the cards in the first frame.
An image display, a card image display in the second frame, and an input image display for inputting processing procedures etc. can be performed together. In the case shown in Figure 4, the 7th item belonging to the box “Membership Fee Bill”
All or part of the card image addressed to Mr. "Fujitsu Taro" on page 3 is placed in the first frame, and all or part of the card image of Mr. "Fujitsu Taro" on page 7 belonging to the box "Membership Fee Deposit Slip" is placed in the first frame. Part 4 is displayed together in the second frame (hereinafter sometimes referred to as split display). Input image 5 is displayed, and the second field of the "Claim amount" field, which is the field on the card image in the second frame, is displayed.
It instructs that the contents of the first line be transferred to the field "Currently billed amount" on the card image in the first frame.

In the case of the data processing apparatus to which the present invention is applied, the operator can sequentially create and register contents such as the illustrated input image 5. By pressing the execution key, the input image 5
Actual processing is executed at high speed based on the contents registered as processing procedures in a form corresponding to the above.

FIG. 5 shows the process of creating a processing procedure corresponding to the input image 5 shown in FIG. In addition, Figures A to E in the illustrations show how to delete the information when inputting the processing procedure on one card image by erroneously inputting the ``-'' (quantity x ``unit price =''). .

FIG. 5A shows the display at the time when a predetermined card image is displayed in the first frame and when the user presses the "=" key, it is realized that "unit price=" is inputted incorrectly. Note that 7 in the figure represents an actual cursor according to the present invention, 8 represents a procedure cursor according to the present invention, and 9 represents an overlapping display mark of the actual cursor and the procedure cursor.

In the state shown in FIG. 5A, first press the frame switching key to delete the frame. As a result, as shown in FIG. 5B, the actual cursor 7 is superimposed on the procedure cursor 8, and the mark 9 appears. FIG. 5C shows the mark 9 moved to the position where it is desired to be deleted. Further, FIG. 5D shows a state in which the delete key is pressed under the state shown in FIG. 5C. After deleting in this manner, when the frame switching key is pressed, the actual cursor 7 and the procedure cursor 8 are separated as shown in FIG. 5E. As a result, the operator creates a processing procedure by moving the actual cursor 7 to any desired field.

Note that the actual cursor 7 is managed separately for one corresponding to the first frame and one corresponding to the second frame, and indicates the field to be processed in each card image. Also, step cursor 8
indicates the input position on the input image.

Although not shown in the diagram, if you are trying to process the card image displayed in the first frame (specified using the frame switching key), only the card image in the first frame will be processed. A real cursor is displayed and the real cursor on the card image in the second frame disappears. Furthermore, each card image in the first frame and the second frame can be scrolled independently. Further, the sizes of the first frame and the second frame can be increased or decreased as necessary, and at this time, the sizes of the other frames are decreased or increased accordingly.

Figure 6 shows an aspect of the search process, in which one card image (one of a plurality of images is sufficient) is displayed as a result of the graphical search process corresponding to the processing procedure being difficult. represents the state. For the illustrated search, (i) the address is "Setagaya-ku"
, (ii) the gender is "female", (iii) the age is "between 20 and 30", and (iv) the furigana of the name starts with "fu". Instructing.

Needless to say, in addition to the above-mentioned search, sorting processing, card verification processing, etc. can also be performed. FIG. 7 shows a mode in which the same process is performed on multiple fields on multiple cards.
In the case shown in the figure, it is instructed to perform the process Quantity x Unit Price = Amount for item names 1 to 10 for pages 1 to 30 of the card, and calculate the total for each item.

FIG. 8 shows an overall conceptual diagram of an embodiment of the split screen display of the present invention. Reference numeral 10 in the figure is a keyboard, 1
1 is a display, 12 is a floppy disk in which the boxes referred to in the present invention are stored, 13 is a form specification control section, 14 is a card creation management section, 15 is a form interpretation section, and 16 is a data entry processing section. 17 is a procedure registration control unit that registers processing procedures such as calculation instructions, search instructions, and card verification; 18 is a processing procedure storage unit that stores registered processing procedures; 19 is a procedure execution control unit that executes calculations and searches according to the processing procedures registered in the processing procedure storage unit 18; Items that execute execution, card verification, etc., 20-1 to 20
21 is a box selection section that selects one of the boxes to be processed for the time being, and 22 is a box call control section that is stored on the floppy disk 12. The one that loads the box into main memory,
Reference numeral 23 represents a box storage control section which stores the boxes on the main memory onto the floppy disk 12, and 24 represents a screen control section.

As explained in connection with Figure 3, the box is
It holds an entire group of card images with common card format data, as shown in the figure.
It has at least form data, field definition information, and card data. This box is created by an operator who creates a card format on the screen of the display 11 and enters characters into each field using the kana-kanji conversion function in the data entry processing section 16. It is created by That is, a box is created by collecting format data as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, determining definition information and field names for each field, and organizing card data for each card into pages. These created boxes are stored and retained on the floppy disk 12,
A box 20-1 is stored in the main memory as necessary for processing.
to 20-n.

The illustration format specification control section 13 shown in FIG. 8 controls the display on the basis of the loaded boxes and handles the above-mentioned process such as box creation. The illustrated card creation management section 14 instructs the data entry processing section 16 in creating the boxes described above, but its main function is to instruct the procedure registration control section 17 as shown in FIGS. 4 to 7. The procedure execution control unit 1 registers processing procedures such as
9 to execute the process based on the contents of the process procedure storage unit 18. Meanwhile, necessary boxes are loaded into the main memory, unnecessary boxes are stored on the floppy disk 12, and an instruction is given to the box selection section 21 to switch the boxes.

The present invention mainly relates to the screen control section 2 shown in FIG.
4 is related to display control. For this,
Hereinafter, a description will be given with reference to FIGS. 9A and 9B, which show the main structure of an embodiment of a portion directly related to the present invention. Note that FIG. 9A and FIG. 9B are connected left and right to form one diagram.

In Fig. 9A and B, the symbols 10, 11, 1
2, 16, 20-1,..., 20-n, 21, 2
2 and 23 correspond to FIG. Further, 25 is an input key distribution unit which decodes the input key and separates the processing. Reference numeral 26 is a real cursor display control unit which has a display position detection function, and with respect to the card image currently displayed in the active frame, it determines which field on the card image the real cursor corresponds to. Detect whether it should be displayed and perform display control.
27 is a cursor coordinate conversion unit, which converts the relative coordinate values on the card image into absolute coordinate values on the display screen when displaying the actual cursor, and supplies this to the display 11; Make the real cursor glow.

Reference numeral 28 is a frame switching control unit which instructs the box selection section 21 in response to a frame switching key from the keyboard 10 to select one of the boxes loaded on the main memory, for example 20-1. , activates the frame in which the card image belonging to the box is displayed. That is, the actual cursor is positioned on the frame, and the field on the card image displayed in the frame is processed. 29 is a box call control unit, and the box call control unit shown in FIG.
Via the oven control unit (22, 23)
It performs control such as loading necessary boxes from the floppy disk 12 onto the main memory. 30
is a page switching processing unit, and the keyboard 1
The page number is changed in response to the page switching keys from 0 (next page, previous page, page designation, end of sentence), etc., and the box corresponding to the currently active frame, for example, on the 20-1 side, is changed. The necessary page of card data is transferred onto the record buffer 35-1. That is, the old contents of the record buffer 35-1 are stored on the floppy disk 12 via the record store control unit 31-1, and at the same time, the old contents of the record buffer 35-1 are stored on the floppy disk 12 via the record store control unit 31-1.
The card data corresponding to the new page is loaded from the floppy disk 12 onto the main memory via the floppy disk 12. At this time, the contents of the page number holding section 36-1 are updated on the main memory, and the page number display control unit 32 notifies the display frame oven control unit 42 (FIG. 9A), which will be described later, of the page number. It will now be displayed.

Box 20-1 loaded on main memory
..., 20-n, respectively, the card image,
Buffers 34-1, ..., 34-n exist, and the card image buffer 34-i contains the field definition information and format data on the box 20-i, and the record buffer 35-i. The card data is supplied to the form/data merging device unit 37 and merged, and the result is transferred and held. The contents of the card image buffer 34-i are supplied to the card display control unit 38. The card display control unit 38 displays the card image for each frame.
The contents of the buffer 34-i are correlated and supplied to the screen buffer 41.

Each box 20- loaded on main memory
1,...20-n, on the screen control information holding unit 44, the start line 45-i of the display frame, the end line 46-i of the display frame, and the starting Y coordinate 47 of the card displayed on the screen. -i, the left end X coordinate 48-i of the card displayed on the screen, and the actual cursor position 49-i on the card image are held.

The display frame start line 45-i holds which line (absolute coordinates) on the display screen is the start line of the frame assigned to the self box. The display frame end line 46-i holds which line (absolute coordinates) on the display screen is the last line of the frame allocated to the self box. The starting Y coordinate 47-i of the card displayed on the screen is the starting Y coordinate value of the card image currently displayed on the display screen (the coordinate value on the card image -
relative coordinate values) and are used for vertical scroll processing. The left end X coordinate 48-i of the card displayed on the screen holds the left end X coordinate value (relative coordinate value) of the card image currently displayed on the display screen, and is used for horizontal scroll processing. Ru. The actual cursor position 49-i is
It holds the position where the real cursor should emit light when the box is activated, that is, the relative coordinate value of the real cursor on the card image.

The card display control unit 38 receives each piece of information on the screen control information holding unit 44, and stores the card image buffer 34-i.
This is used for positioning when creating a screen display image on the screen buffer 41 based on the contents of the screen.

A vertical scroll control unit 39 and a horizontal scroll control unit 40 are provided which operate in response to depression of the actual cursor key. Needless to say, scrolling means that when all the contents on the Card Image Buffer 34-i cannot be displayed on the display screen at once, only a portion of the contents are displayed for the time being, and undisplayed contents can be added as needed. are displayed in sequence. There is vertical scroll control and horizontal scroll control, and when the scrolling is performed, the respective control units 39 and 40 control the screen control information holding unit 4.
The coordinates 47-i48-i on 4 are updated.

Vertical scroll control is performed in the following manner. That is, when an operator attempts to move the actual cursor beyond the upper or lower boundary of the active frame, the actual cursor display control unit 26 , grasps the information on the screen control information holding unit 44, detects the occurrence of the situation, activates the vertical scroll control unit 39, and changes the Y coordinate value 47-1 on the screen control information holding unit 44. Update content. This causes the card image to scroll up or down within the active frame on the display screen.

Similarly, in the left/right scroll control, when the cursor is about to be moved beyond the left or right boundary of the frame, the actual cursor display control unit 26 controls the screen control information holding unit 44 via the left/right scroll control unit 40. The contents of the X coordinate value 48-1 are updated.

These vertical scrolls and horizontal scrolls are performed within the range of the active frame, that is, within the frame, based on the information on the screen control information holding unit 44.

When creating a display screen image to be displayed on the display screen on the screen buffer 41, a frame header as shown in FIG. 4 (the black line shown in FIG. 4 and the characters within the black line) is added. Make it.
This is to allow the operator to easily see which box and page the card image currently displayed in each frame belongs to.

In order to display such a frame header, a display frame oven control unit 42 shown in FIG. 9A is used. That is, when setting a frame to initially display a screen on the display 11, the display frame oven control unit 42 uses the box numbers and box names of the boxes 20-1, . . . loaded on the main memory. When received, the box name is displayed within the black line on the header of the box. Regarding the upper frame in FIG. 4, the box name ``Membership Fee Bill'' is inserted within the black line.

The display frame oven control unit 42 has a ninth display frame oven control unit 42.
A page number is received from the page number display control unit 42 shown in FIG. B, and the page number is included within the black line and displayed as "P.7" in the case shown in FIG. Then, when a page is switched, the display of the page number is sequentially updated. Needless to say, when the boxes loaded on the main memory are replaced, the box names in the frame header are changed accordingly.

In the configuration shown in FIG. 9, control can be performed to change the size of the frame on the display screen. That is, for example, in the case shown in Figure 4, the size of the first frame displaying the "membership fee invoice" is enlarged and the size of the second frame displaying the "membership fee deposit slip" is adjusted accordingly. It can be made smaller and vice versa. Such frame enlargement/reduction control is performed by the display frame change control unit 43 shown in FIG. 9A.

That is, the operator moves the actual cursor and the actual cursor is now in the upper frame (first frame) shown in FIG.
frame), that is, when the first frame is in the active state, when attempting to move the real cursor further down than the lower border of the card image displayed in the frame, The size of the first frame is enlarged and the size of the second frame is reduced by that amount. In other words, the upper part of the card image, which could not be displayed due to the size limitation of the first frame, appears and is displayed from above the first frame. Conversely, when the operator moves the actual cursor and the actual cursor is now emitting light on, for example, the lower frame (second frame) shown in FIG.
That is, when the second frame is in the active state, if you try to move the real cursor further above the upper border of the card image displayed in the frame, the size of the second frame will be expanded and 3 The size of the first frame is reduced by the amount. In other words, the lower part of the card image, which could not be displayed due to the size limitation of the second frame, appears from below the second frame and is displayed.

When the movement control of the real cursor as described above occurs, that is, the control to move the cursor beyond the boundaries of the card image, this condition is detected by the real cursor display control unit 26. Then, the display frame change control unit 43 is notified. The display frame change control unit 43 instructs the screen buffer 41 to enlarge or reduce the frame, and also changes the display frame start line 45-i on the screen control information holding unit 44.
and the end line 46-i of the display frame are updated. At this time, as a matter of course, the information 47-1 and 48-1 are also changed.

Furthermore, in response to the expansion/reduction of the frame, the following situation may occur regarding the frame in the inactive state. In other words, the actual cursor does not actually emit light for the frame on the inactive side, but screen control information is retained for the box corresponding to the frame on the inactive side so that the actual cursor can emit light when switching to the active side. The actual cursor position 49-i is held within the unit 44. In this state,
If there is no frame reduction, the actual cursor should be able to emit correctly the next time it is switched to the active state, but because the frame has been reduced, the position where the actual cursor should be emitted has been reduced. You may end up going outside the box. In this case, when the reduced frame side is switched to the active state, the actual cursor display control unit 26 determines that, based on the contents of the screen control information holding unit 44, a situation occurs in which it is necessary to perform vertical scrolling control. and scroll up and down.

The kana-kanji conversion dictionary 50 shown on the left side of FIG. 9B can be considered to be used, for example, to describe field names on card images. Furthermore, the blank card production unit at the lower right of FIG. 9B may be considered to be for displaying only the card format.

(E) Effects of the Invention As explained above, according to the present invention, it is possible to display a desired card image on a display and process the field contents on the card image. Then, it becomes possible to scroll within the display frame on the side that is currently in the active state.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

1 to 3 are explanatory diagrams explaining the concepts of card images and boxes according to the present invention, FIGS. 4 to 7 are examples of processing modes executed in the present invention, and FIG. 8 is an illustration of the present invention. FIG. 9 shows an overall conceptual diagram of an embodiment of a split screen display, and FIG. 9 shows a main part configuration diagram of an embodiment of a portion directly related to the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a card image, 2 is a box,
3 and 4 are all or part of the card image, 5
is the input image, 7 is the actual cursor, 10 is the keyboard, 11 is the display, 12 is the floppy disk.
13 is a form specification control unit, 14 is a card creation management unit, 15 is a form decomposition unit, 16 is a data entry processing unit, 20-1 to 20-n are boxes respectively loaded on the main memory, 24 represents the screen control section.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1 A common format is used in card image processing data processing equipment that displays a card image on a display screen, specifies the processing mode by specifying the processing mode for each field on the card image, and processes the contents of the field. The configuration is such that one box can be accessed and processed by associating one box with a plurality of cards, and each box has at least a form data storage section, a field definition information storage section, and a card corresponding to each card.・Associate the card image with the data storage section, load the box corresponding to the card image to be displayed on the display screen into the main memory for the time being, and copy each card image to the contents of the form data storage section and the card image. The content of the data storage section is merged and displayed, and the merged card images are simultaneously displayed on the display screen in association with respective frames, and each of the card images In response to the press of a cursor key that moves the cursor beyond the frame in which the cursor is displayed, the contents of the form data storage section and the box corresponding to the card image displayed in the frame are displayed. A scroll control method in a split screen display, characterized in that the content of the card data storage section is scrolled on the display screen in a merged state, and the cursor is displayed within the frame.