JPH038067A - Document processing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve speed for operation by changing data in a cursor position storing part based on data in a graphic position storing part so that a cursor can be positioned in the position of a graphic in a document when the cursor is not in the graphic position. CONSTITUTION:When the graphic input mode key of an input part 1 is inputted, a main control part 2 decides it based on the data in a graphic position storing part 4 whether the cursor position to be shown by data in a cursor position storing part 6 is the graphic position in the document or not. When it is decided that the cursor is not positioned in the graphic position, based on the data in the storing part 4, the main control part 2 changes the data in the storing part 6 so that the cursor can be positioned in the graphic position in the document. With this change, a display control part 8 also changes the display contents of a display part 7. Thus, the cursor can be moved into the graphic position only by once inputting the graphic input mode key and the speed for the operation is improved.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] (b) Industrial application fields The present invention relates to a document processing system.

(b) Prior art In recent years, document processing systems such as Japanese word processors and English word processors have become popular not only in offices but also in ordinary households.

Moreover, with this system, it is now possible to create not only documents consisting only of document data, but also documents that include graphic data input from an image scanner or the like.

As disclosed in the manual (published October 1988), which contains a mixture of document data and graphic data,
First, a document preparation drawing is created as shown in FIG. 8(a).

Note that (+001 (101)) in the figure is the left and right margins that define the number of characters in one line of the document.

Next, as shown in FIG. 8(b), a graphic position (+03) at which graphic data is to be input is secured on the document creation screen. Then, move the cursor +104> above! (103) Place the image in the figure input mode.

(c) Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, in the conventional system, a well-known cursor movement key was used to move the cursor to the graphic position (103) for entering the graphic input mode. Therefore, when the current cursor position and the graphic position rIt (103) are far apart, there is a problem in that the above movement takes time.

(d) Means for Solving the Problems The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and its characteristic configuration is a document processing system that can create documents in which document data and graphic data are mixed. , a storage unit in which document data is stored, a storage unit in which graphic data is stored, a storage unit in which the position of the graphic data in the document is stored, and a position of arbitrary data in the document as a cursor position. A storage section for storing data, a display section, a display control section for displaying a document and a cursor on the display section based on the data in each of the storage sections, and various types for instructing editing of the data in each of the storage sections. an input section having a key and a specific key, and a main control section that edits data in each of the storage sections based on the input of the input section, and the main control section is configured to control when the specific key is input. , determines whether the cursor position indicated by the data in the cursor position storage section is a graphic position in the document based on the data in the graphic position storage section, and when it is determined that it is not a graphic position, the above The object of the present invention is to change the data in the cursor position storage so that the cursor is positioned at a graphic position in the document based on the data in the graphic position storage.

(e) Effect: According to this configuration, the cursor can be moved to a graphic position by inputting a specific key only once.

(F) Embodiment FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention, (1) is an input section, and the input section includes character keys for inputting character data, cursor movement keys, and a mode for inputting figure position. It has a figure position mode key for instructing a mode for inputting figure data, a figure input mode key for instructing a mode for inputting figure data, and the like.

Reference numeral (2) denotes a main control section composed of, for example, a microcomputer, and when a key is input from the input section (1), the control section controls the following sections based on a built-in control program. (3) is a document data storage section, and character data in a document is stored in this storage section. (4) is a figure position storage unit 9 that stores the upper left end position and lower right end position of a nucleic acid in a document as the starting point and ending point, respectively.
As shown in Figure 2, the figure position (40) is at the 30th position in the document.
If it is the 5th column to the 10th column in the 35th row, the starting point is the 30th row, the 5th column, and the ending point is the 35th row.
This is the 10th row and column. In addition, in the following, the Xth row and Y column is simply expressed as (X
, Y). Further, in the graphic position storage section (4), each graphic area is numbered as shown in FIG. 3 and the corresponding position information is stored so that the position information of a plurality of graphic areas can be stored. Note that the numbers assigned to the graphic areas correspond to the order in which the graphic areas were created.

(5) is a graphic data storage section in which graphic data to be displayed at a graphic position corresponding to the position information stored in the graphic position storage section (4) is stored. (6)
is a cursor position storage unit, and the cursor position in the document is stored in the storage unit.

(7) is a display unit made of, for example, CRT, liquid crystal, etc., (8)
is a display control section, and this control section is connected to each of the above-mentioned storage sections (3) to
The document is displayed on the display section (7) based on the stored contents in (6). More specifically, at least data in the document corresponding to the cursor position in the cursor position storage unit (6) is controlled to be displayed.

Figure 4 shows the main control section (2) based on the built-in control program.
This is a flowchart showing the control operation of the flowchart, and the control operation using this flowchart will be explained below based on a specific example.

Now, as shown in FIG. 5, data corresponding to a document in which the number of characters per line is 15 and has first to third graphic areas (41) to (43) is stored in the document data storage unit (3).
, are stored in the graphic position storage section (4) and the graphic data storage section (5), the stored contents of the graphic position storage section (4) are as shown in FIG. 6(a). It is also assumed that the cursor position storage unit (6) stores information indicating the position (30,7> in the document).Furthermore, the display unit (7) can display 5 rows x 20 columns. Assuming that, the display content is the 30th in the document as shown in Figure 7(a).
34th line to 34th line.

In such a state, the main control section (2) waits for key input from the input section (1) at step 51 in FIG.

If the key is pressed manually, it is determined in step S2 whether or not the input key is a cursor movement key, and if it is determined to be a cursor movement key, the process proceeds to step S3.

In this step, the contents of the cursor position storage section (6) are changed in response to the cursor movement key. Further, based on the content change of the storage unit (6), the 2 display control unit (8)
The display contents of the display section (7) are changed. Specifically, if the content in the current cursor position storage unit (6) is changed to +29,7), the display content in the display unit (7) will change to the 29th line of the document as shown in Figure 7 Tb). The display is changed to display lines 33 to 33. When the S3 step is completed, the process proceeds to S1.
Return to step.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S2 that it is not a cursor movement key, the process proceeds to step S4, in which it is determined whether or not the input key is a figure position mode key, and if it is the mode key. When judged,
Proceed to step 85.

The process of refusing step S5 is a process of setting a new figure position. Specifically, first, when the starting point of a new figure position is indicated with the cursor (60) on the display unit (7), the main control unit (2) ) uses the data in the cursor position memory (6) as the starting point of a new figure position.
), and then, when an end point is specified in the same way as the start point, the end point is stored in the cursor position storage section (4) as a pair with the start point. Also, at this time, the display control section (8
) is displayed on the display section (7) so that at least the end point of the figure position defined by the start point and end point is displayed on the display section (7).
8) Change the contents. Further, when the end point is specified, the main control section (2) changes the data in the cursor position storage section (6) so that the cursor (60) is positioned to the right of the end point.

As an example, if (31, 71 is specified as the starting point and (36, 141) is specified as the ending point, the contents of the figure position storage section (4) are changed and displayed as shown in FIG. 6(b). The display contents of section (7) are changed as shown in FIG. 7(c).

Note that when the S5 step ends, the process returns to the S1 step.

Returning to step S4, if it is determined in this step that the input key is not a graphic position mode key, the process determines whether the input key is a graphic input mode key.

In this determination, if it is determined that the key is not the graphic input mode key, the process proceeds to step S7. In this step,
When the above input key is used for a new character data,
Since such knitting processing is well known, further explanation will be omitted.

When the above step S7 is completed, the process returns to step S1.

Further, if it is determined in step S6 that the graphic input mode key has been input, the process proceeds to step S8.

In this step, it is determined whether the current cursor position is within the graphic position. That is, the figure position storage unit (4
) sequentially read out the start point and end point corresponding to each figure position, and determine whether or not there is a cursor position corresponding to the data in the cursor position storage unit (6) within the figure position defined by each start point and end point. do.

Specifically, the starting point and ending point of the graphic area are respectively (×,, y
s), fXg, Yg), and the cursor position is (
XC1Yc), it is determined that the cursor exists in the graphic position only when 'Xs<Xc<X++J and'Ys<Yc<YtEJ.

If it is determined in step S8 that the cursor is present at the graphic position, in step S9 it is possible to input graphic data to the graphic position where the cursor is located. MN o
, 4, the figure data read by an image scanner (not shown) etc. is located at the figure position No.
4 and is stored in a predetermined area in the graphic data storage section (4). Incidentally, since the processing of step S9 is also well known, further explanation will be omitted.

When the step S9 is completed, the process returns to step S1.

If it is determined in step S8 that the cursor is not located within the graphic position, the process proceeds to step S10. In this step, the presence or absence of a graphic position is determined by searching data in the graphic position storage section (4). As a result of this determination, if it is determined that the graphic position does not exist, that is, no data is stored in the graphic position storage section (4), the process immediately returns to step S1.

On the other hand, if only one piece of data indicating a figure position is stored in the figure position storage unit (4), the starting point (xs, yS) of the figure position is stored from the figure position memory unit (4) in step S11. At the same time as reading, the contents of the cursor position storage section (6) are changed so that the cursor is positioned diagonally lower right from the starting point position, that is, at the (Xs+1.YS+1) position. Along with this, the display control section (8) also displays the display section (7).
Change the displayed content. Therefore, for example, as shown in FIG. 7 (dl), the display section (7) displays the figure position having the starting point (xs, y5), and also fXs+1, Ys+i
) A cursor (60) is displayed at the position.

Furthermore, if a plurality of data indicating the position of a figure are stored in one figure position memory unit (4) as shown in Figure 6fb), among these figure positions, the position closest to the beginning of the document is the position of the figure. The cursor position storage unit (6) selects a graphic position and uses the starting point position of the selected graphic position as described above.
Change the data inside.

Specifically, the above selection is made by first reading out the starting point data of each figure position in the figure position storage section (4), and sequentially comparing the line position data in the starting point data. Select the smallest shape position. In addition, in the above comparison of row position data, when multiple figure positions having the same row position data are selected, the column position data in the starting point data of such figure position is compared and the one with the minimum column position data is selected. Select a shape position.

As an example, when the figure position data is stored in the figure position storage unit (4) as shown in FIG. 6(b) and the cursor (60) is at the position shown in FIG. 7 fc), a figure is input. Assume that a mode key is input. At this time, the main control unit (
2) selects the graphic position closest to the beginning of the document based on the data in the graphic position storage unit (4) as described above.
As is clear from FIG. 6(b), the graphic position closest to the beginning of the document is graphic position No. 12. Therefore, the main control section (2)
changes the data in the cursor position storage section (6) to data indicating the f2,2+ position. Along with this, the display control unit (8) also changes the display content of the display unit (7) in FIG.
As shown in figure l, the starting point of figure position No. 2 and the cursor (6
0) to be displayed.

When the step S11 is completed, the process returns to step S1.

(G) Effects of the Invention According to the present invention, the cursor can be moved into a graphic position by inputting a specific key (the graphic input mode key in this embodiment) only once, thereby improving the operation speed.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIGS. 2 and 7 are schematic diagrams showing the display state of the display unit in this embodiment, and FIGS. 3 and 6 are figure positions in this embodiment. Schematic diagram 5 showing the storage state in the storage unit. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the control operation of the main control unit in this embodiment, FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing the structure of a document explained as a specific example of this embodiment, and FIG. 8 is for explaining a conventional example. FIG. (1)...Input section, (2)...Main control section, (3)...
...Document data storage section, (4)...Graphic position storage section,
(5)... Graphic data storage unit, (6)... Cursor position storage unit, (7)... Display unit, (8)... Display control unit, (41) to (43)...・Figure position, (60)・
··cursor.

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A document processing system capable of creating a document containing a mixture of document data and graphic data, which includes a storage unit in which document data is stored, a storage unit in which graphic data is stored, and the graphic data in the document. a storage section that stores the position of the document, a storage section that stores the position of arbitrary data in the document as the cursor position, a display section, and a display section that displays the document and the display section based on the data in each of the storage sections. a display control section that displays a cursor; an input section that has various keys and specific keys that instruct editing of data in each of the storage sections; and an input section that controls editing of data in each of the storage sections based on input from the input section. and a main control unit for determining whether or not the cursor position indicated by the data in the cursor position storage unit is a graphic position in the document when the specific key is input. When it is determined based on the data in the position storage section that the cursor is not at a graphic position, the cursor position storage section is configured to position the cursor at the graphic position in the document based on the data in the graphic position storage section. A document processing system characterized by changing data therein.