JPS62156721A - Document producing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain the mouse indication without reducing a display area to improve the operability as well as to prevent the misoperations, by using a cursor shift means, a detecting means for positions indicated by the cursor, and a pop-up display means. CONSTITUTION:A mouse 1 is operated by an operator, etc. and produces the signals proportional to the vertical and horizontal shift amounts. These signals are supplied to a PUM (pop-up) selection circuit 3 and a key buffer 4 via a mouse control circuit 2. The output of the buffer 4 is displayed on a CRT 12 via a main control circuit 5 and a picture control circuit 6. Then the button switch of the mouse 1 is operated to discriminate whether or not a cursor is set within the character area and the outer frame area of said character area in the display part of the CRT 12 via the circuit 3, a CPU control circuit 9, etc. Based on the result of said discrimination, a PUM menu corresponding to the area where the cursor is set is displayed. Thus the indication is possible with the mouse 1 without decreasing the display area. Then the operability is improved and the misoperations can be prevented with a document producing device.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to an editing device that edits a document using a display device, and more particularly to a document creation device that edits a document in correspondence with paper.

[Traditional technique]

With the development of microprocessors, document editing devices have been developed and used in various fields.

In particular, word processors and personal computers have come to be equipped with document editing functions in addition to kana-kanji conversion functions.

In these devices that edit documents, input for editing is as follows: (1) A method of inputting commands consisting of multiple characters using keys.

(2) A method in which function keys corresponding to commands are provided and the commands are operated manually.

(3) A method of displaying icons corresponding to commands on the display screen and inputting commands by pointing with a mouse or the like.

It is roughly divided into three types: (The method No. 11 has a small number of keys, for example, a keyboard consisting of kana keys and numeric keys, and is compact, but since multiple keys are operated in response to one command, the operation is complicated and even more difficult. Method (2) is easy to operate, but has the problem of increasing the number of keys and making the keyboard larger.Also, the number of characters that can be engraved on the key tops is limited. Since there is a limit to the meaning of the function (
There is also the problem that commands) are difficult to understand.

Method (3) solves the problem of method (11, (2)), and since the displayed icon is indicated with a cursor operated by a mouse, the operation is also an M car, and when issuing commands, It has the feature that it does not require a keyboard.However, for example, when the number of commands increases, the display area of icons also increases, which causes the problem that the area for displaying documents for editing becomes narrower. .

[Purpose of the invention]

In view of the above problems, the present invention allows instructions to be given using a mouse without narrowing the display area, and has good operability.
Furthermore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a document creation device that prevents erroneous operations.

[Key points of the invention]

According to the present invention, in order to achieve the above object, an editing device for editing a document includes a moving means for moving a cursor displayed on a display device, and a position indicated by the cursor is displayed on the display device. position detection means for detecting the presence of a character area in at least one of a character area that is displayed, an outer frame area of the character area, an outer frame area of a character area that is not displayed, and an external area that does not belong to the area; It is characterized by comprising a pop-up display means for selecting at least one pump amplifier menu from a plurality of pop-up menus based on the output of the detection means and displaying the selected pump amplifier menu on the display device.

And its action is as follows.

In an editing device for editing a document, a moving means for moving a cursor displayed on a display device moves the cursor to a target area and indicates the area. This target area includes a character area displayed on the display device, an outer frame area of the character area, and an outer frame area of the character area that is not displayed.
This is an external area that does not belong to the area. The position detecting means detects in which region of the region indicated by the cursor the cursor is present, and based on the detection result, the pop-up display means selects a pop-up menu corresponding to the detected region and displays the pop-up menu. Display on device.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained in detail using the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a circuit diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

The mouse 1 is a simple coordinate input device operated by an operator or the like. The mouse 1 is operated by an operator and generates a signal proportional to the amount of movement in the vertical direction, horizontal direction, etc. The generated signal is applied to the mouse control circuit 2. The mouse control circuit 2 is a circuit that determines the amount of movement from a signal proportional to the amount moved by the operator.

Furthermore, in the embodiment of the present invention, the display device (CRT)? The cursor displayed is configured to move. That is, the mouse control circuit 2
is a circuit that calculates the amount of movement and also calculates the position data of the cursor to be currently displayed from the amount of movement. The cursor position data determined by the mouse control circuit 2 is applied to a pump amplifier selection circuit 3 and a key buffer 4. The cursor position data added to the key buffer 4 is output to the main control circuit, and cursor screen information corresponding to the position is added to the screen control circuit 6 and displayed on the display device 12. With this operation, the cursor moves within the display screen of the display device 12 every time the mouse 1 is moved.

On the other hand, in addition to displaying the cursor described above, the screen control circuit 6 also displays the document data stored in the document data storage section 8 according to control signals from the main control circuit, and also displays each display area of the plurality of pages being displayed. C
RT' Performs processing to store in pH range management table 7.

The display area of the document within each page, the specified page, etc. are displayed according to the display control signal output from the main control circuit 5, and at the same time, data representing the area displayed in the CRT a area management table 8 is also displayed. is stored. FIG. 2 (Al is a separate view of the display of the embodiment of the present invention. The document structure of three pages of the document data storage section 8 is displayed on the CRT screen XP.

In the display of FIG. 3(a), all the documents on the first page P1 are displayed, and the second page P z + '4 is displayed behind it.
1e and the third page is displayed. On the first page P+, 1 exists in a specific frame area within the document area. The CRT area management table 7 stores data for distinguishing between such areas. At the time of display, the screen control circuit 6 identifies these areas and displays a target text, for example, in the target area, so the result of identifying the area at this time of display is output to the CRT RM area management table 7, and the CRT area The management table 7 stores it. By the above-described operation, the contents of the document data storage section 8 are displayed in a superimposed manner on the display device 12, and a cursor is simultaneously displayed and moved on the display section as instructed by the mouse 1.

The present invention uses the movement of the mouse 1 to move the cursor within the display screen, and when the button switch provided on the cursor is clicked, the area within the display section of the display device 7 is changed into a character area, and the area outside the character area is moved. It is determined whether the cursor is present in a frame area, a character area that is not displayed, that is, an outer frame area of a subsequent page, an external area that does not belong to these areas, or a specific frame area within the document area. Then, based on the determination result, that is, a pop-up menu corresponding to the area where the cursor is present is displayed. These operations are performed using the Bo Nobu Up Menu (T5UM
) selection circuit 3 and pop-up menu (PUM) display control circuit 9. When the mouse 1 is moved and the cursor enters the desired display screen position, the operator clicks (depresses and then releases) a button switch provided on the mouse 1. The click of this button switch is output from the mouse 1 to the mouse control circuit 2 as a click signal. When the mouse control circuit 2 receives this click signal, it outputs current cursor position information and a signal indicating that the button switch has been clicked to the pop-up menu selection circuit 3. As a result, the pop-up menu selection circuit 3 performs processing to determine where the current cursor is located on the display screen. FIG. 3 is a flowchart of the operation processing of the pop amplifier menu selection circuit. When the above-mentioned current position information of the cursor is added, processing starts (START).First, the CRT? The start address of the CRT jI area management table is set in the J area management table pointer (Sl). Then, a check S2 is performed to see if the cursor is within the area. FIG. 4 (Ta) is a CRT area management table diagram, and FIG. 4 (b) is a format diagram of each area information. The CRT H area management table sequentially stores information regarding areas within paper 1, that is, character area information, and information about frame area SK1=SKm.

Here, the paper SP1 is the page P in FIG. 2(a) mentioned above.
, represents. For example, in FIG. 2(a), the character area information represents an area where a "document" or the like is written. The information in the frame areas SKI to SKm is the second
This information represents the area of 1 in the frame of Figure (al).In addition, in Figure 2 (a), there is only 1 in one frame in page P, so the CRTSI area management table 7 contains the information for that area. Only the information of the corresponding frame area SKI is stored.If there are more than one frame area, the frame area S corresponding to that number is stored.
Information of K2 to SKm is stored. After the information regarding the area in the paper SPI, display area information of the paper SP2 and information for the target number of pages are sequentially stored. Figure 2 (In the case of 81, pages P to P3 are displayed, so paper SP2 is also displayed in the CRT area management table.
．． 3P3 display area information is stored. Figure 4 (bl is a format chart of each area information mentioned above.Each format is, for example, 8 bits, 1 byte area status, 1 byte N area position X coordinate, 1 byte area position y coordinate, area size It consists of the direction, area size, y direction, and pop-up menu number.The area status indicates whether this area is valid or not, or indicates the character, frame area, etc.The area position x and y coordinates are respectively displayed on the display screen. The coordinates of the upper left vertex are the area size, and the area size in the X direction and y direction respectively represent the length that the area occupies in the rightward or downward direction from the apex mentioned above.This area position X.

The rectangular area of the display screen is limited by the y-coordinate and area size data in the x and y directions.

Returning to the flowchart of FIG. 3, in step S2 of checking whether the mouse cursor is within the area, the above-mentioned area position X of each area information is determined.

This process detects whether the cursor exists within a rectangle defined by the y coordinate, area size x, and y direction.

At the first time, the pointer is set at the head of the table in step S1, so the character area information is read and a detection process, that is, a check is performed. Then, the next process is selected S3 based on the result. When the cursor does not exist in the area (N), the CRT area management table pointer in the pop-up menu selection circuit 3 described above is updated to the beginning of the next area in order to detect whether the cursor exists in the next area. At the same time, a determination step S5 is performed to determine whether or not area end information exists in the area pointed to by the pointer. The above-mentioned check process S2 is configured so that when the area where the cursor exists is not detected, the CRT management table pointer is updated to the next area and repeated. For example, when the cursor position data points outside the screen, it may not be detected until the end. Therefore, after processing S4, a determination S5 is performed to determine whether or not the area has ended. N
), the process is performed again from process S2. Through this discrimination process S5, area detection processing is performed until sequential detection is performed. If the mouse is within the area in the above-mentioned check process S3, the selection process S3 performs a process S6 in which the pop-up number of the area indicated by the CRT area management pointer is set in the pop-up storage unit 10. Further, when the end of the area is detected in the determination process S5 (Y), the process S6 is similarly performed.

Note that the area end information provided at the end of the table in FIG. It is stored in the pop-up menu storage unit IO. After this process S6, the process of the pump-up menu selection circuit is ended (END).

By the operation of the pop-up selection circuit 3 described above, the pop-up number corresponding to the area indicated by the cursor is stored in the pop-amp storage section.

The pop-up display control circuit 9 is a circuit that controls the display device 12 to display a pop-up menu corresponding to the pop-up menu number stored in the pop-up menu storage section 10. In addition to the above-mentioned cursor position information, the main control circuit 5 also receives a signal indicating the click of a button switch provided on the mouse 1, and in addition to controlling the cursor movement, the main control circuit 5 also performs various functions. When the button switch is clicked, the pop-up menu control circuit 9 also performs a process of outputting a control signal for displaying the next pop-up menu to be displayed to the pop-up menu display control circuit 9. In response to the control signal from the main control circuit 3, the pop-up menu display control circuit 9 displays a pop-up menu corresponding to the pop-up menu number stored in the pop-up menu storage section in the pop-up menu data table 11. read and display.

FIG. 2(b) is an example of the display on the display device 7 after the cursor M has moved into the frame area Kl and the button switch has been clicked. Since the cursor M exists within the frame Kl, in this case, a pop-up menu PUMX for editing the frame is displayed at the lower right position in the center of the display screen.

By the above-described operation, the pop-up menu PUMX is displayed by simply moving and clicking the cursor M. The pop-up menu P UMX is displayed by the pop-up menu display control circuit 9, but at the same time, each pop-up menu (frame movement, frame change, frame reduction) is displayed on the screen control circuit 6 (not shown). , manual editing), and the display area information of the pop-up menu is stored in the CRT 95 area management table 7 via the screen control circuit 6. Therefore, for example, by moving the mouse to one menu area of the pop-up menu PUMX and clicking a button switch, the next desired process such as editing can be executed. According to the present invention, these pop-up menus are displayed each time they are selected, thereby preventing erroneous operations in the selection.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above in detail, the movement of the cursor is not limited to the mouse, but may also be performed using cursor movement keys such as a keyboard. Furthermore, the present invention is not limited to displaying a plurality of pages in an overlapping manner, but can be performed in the same manner, for example, in area detection based on a layout display of a plurality of pages.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, the present invention detects the position of the cursor, displays the pop-up menu to be processed based on the position of the cursor, and further executes the process to be performed on the selected pop-up menu area. Various processes can be selected by displaying the layout of the display screen. Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to obtain a document creation device that has good operability and prevents erroneous operations without narrowing the display area.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a circuit configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a display example diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 3 is a pop-up menu operation processing flowchart, and Fig. 4 (al) and (b) are This is a format chart of information on each area.■... Mouse, 2... Mouse control circuit, 3... Pump up menu selection circuit, 5... Main control circuit, 6... Screen control circuit, 7 ... CRT area management table, 8... Document data storage section, 9... Pop-up menu display control circuit, 10...
-Pop-up menu storage section, 11...Pop-up menu data table, 12...Display device. Patent Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd. ] Figure 1 (b) Honreimei's Tora Ng Shio'J Me Mechanism Diagram Figure 2 PUM Sakakki Shaku Utsukou Jealousy A) P-Momme J! Flow diagram 3

Claims (1)

[Claims] In an editing device for editing a document, a moving means for moving a cursor displayed on a display device, a character area in which a position indicated by the cursor is displayed on the display device, and an outer frame area of the character area; a position detection means for detecting the presence in at least one of an outer frame area of a character area that is not displayed and an external area that does not belong to the area;
A document creation device comprising: pop-up display means for selecting at least one pop-up menu from a plurality of pop-up menus based on the output of the detection means and displaying the selected pop-up menu on the display device.