JPH02297286A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the efficiency of a document processing by operating an icon with an input device, and displaying required minimum documents on a display device. CONSTITUTION:When a signal to instruct the readout of a document file to perform the edit of the document at an input information analyzer 14a, an instruction signal to read out the content of the document file corresponding to the icon designated with a cursor including information required for the edit such as the size and arrangement of a character, etc., is outputted. Also, either instruction to read out the document file or part of it is outputted from a document file readout device 13b to a document storage device 12 replying to the readout instruction of the document file or the partial readout instruction of the document file outputted based on the judgement of the input information analyzer 14a. Meanwhile, a device 13a judges on which icon the cursor is superimposed, and the document file corresponding to the icon on which the cursor is superimposed in the device 12 is instructed. Then, the content of the document file corresponding to the icon is displayed 11.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a document processing device, and in particular, a method for displaying a part of the contents of a document in a document storage device on a display device to display a desired document file. The present invention relates to a document processing device that allows easy searching.

(Conventional technology) In information processing systems such as workstations,
There is a device that manages data files such as documents stored in a document storage device using icons displayed on the screen of a display device.

In such a device, when a document stored in a document storage device is read out to a display device and document processing such as addition, correction, and compositing with other documents is performed on the document, normally,
By looking at the name of the icon, it is determined whether the file represented by the icon stores the required document.

You can also actually open the icon and display the document on the screen,
You may find the document you need by checking the contents of the document. In this case, a certain document icon is selected with an input device such as a mouse, and the document is in a state where document processing such as correction/editing is possible. In other words, information such as font size, character arrangement in the document, etc. Displaying the accompanying document on the screen is called opening the icon.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen with icons opened. Before the icons are opened, there are icons named “Umi2”, “Umi3°” and “Umi3°” which are not shown.
An icon named "Umi 1" is displayed on the screen.

In FIG. 8, among these icons, the icon named "Umi 1#", which is not shown, is
The cursor 24 is placed over the icon using an input device such as a mouse, the icon is opened, and the document file corresponding to the icon is displayed on the screen. “As a result of opening the icon named Umi 1°, document 61 is displayed on the screen.

In this conventional example, the icon named “Umi1” is
The document 61 corresponding to the icon is not shown because it is displayed on the screen and also deleted from the screen.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) The above-described conventional technology had the following problems.

In other words, if there are many similar names to the icons representing the document contents in the file, the contents of the document cannot be determined from the name alone, so as mentioned above, you can open the icon and view the contents of the document. I have to check it out.

However, opening icons and displaying multiple documents one by one on the screen was time consuming and inefficient.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems and provide a document processing device for efficiently searching document files by displaying a part of the document file on the screen (rather than opening an icon). It's about doing.

(Means and Effects for Solving the Problems) In order to solve the above-mentioned problems and achieve the objects, the present invention aims to move a cursor to indicate an icon, and to select a document file corresponding to the indicated icon. The present invention is characterized in that it is equipped with an input device for instructing to read a copy, an input information analysis means for detecting the instruction for reading a copy, and a means for reading a part of a document file stored in a document storage device. .

According to the present invention having the above configuration, only the minimum necessary amount of characters from a document file is displayed, so that data for identifying multiple document files displayed with icons with similar names can be displayed in a short time. can be provided to

(Example) The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, an input device 15 issues a signal for moving a cursor displayed on the screen or giving instructions to an icon or the like at the moved position.

As the input device 15, a pointing device such as a mouse is used, for example. Hereinafter, the input device 15 will be referred to as the mouse 15.

The input control device 14 issues a preset instruction to the document editing device 13 in response to the instruction from the mouse 15 .

In the document editing device 13, data is written to and read from files in the document storage device 12 according to instructions from the input control device 14. The read character information is then displayed on the display device 11.

An example of the mouse 15 is shown in the perspective view of FIG.

A rolling element (not shown) is provided at the bottom of the mouse 15, and when the mouse 15 is moved while the rolling element is in contact with the table, a pulse signal corresponding to the amount of rotation of the rolling element is generated. Display device 1 according to the number of pulse signals
The cursor is moved on the screen of 1. On the other hand, mouse 15
Operation buttons 71 and 72 are provided at the top of the screen, and when the operation buttons 71 and 72 are pressed down, a signal for giving an operation instruction to an icon or the like is output to the input control device 14.

Next, the operation of the document processing apparatus having the above configuration will be explained.

4 to 7 are diagrams showing examples of documents and icons displayed on the screen of the display device 11, and FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of this embodiment.

When the document processing device is activated, three icons 21, 22 . . . with similar names are displayed as shown in FIG.
23 and a cursor 24 are displayed on the screen.

The mouse 15 is operated to move the cursor 24 on the screen and bring it above the icon 21.

Next, the operation buttons 71 and 72 of the mouse 15 are pressed down. In this embodiment, when both of the operation buttons 71 and 72 are pressed down, a sentence with a predetermined number of characters from the document corresponding to the icon is displayed on the screen while the pressed state is maintained. The operation of pressing both of the operation buttons 71 and 72 is different from the button operation of the mouse 15 performed to open an icon and display the document file corresponding to the icon.

FIG. 5 shows a state in which the cursor 24 is superimposed on the icon 21 and a portion 31 of the document is displayed.

If part 31 of the document is not part of the desired document,
By applying the above operation to the icons 22 and 23, a desired document can be searched.

The operation when one icon 21 corresponds to a plurality of document files is as follows.

First, as shown in Fig. 6, place the cursor 24 on the icon 21 and press down the operation buttons 71 and 72.
A document file list 41 stored in the file corresponding to 1 is displayed.

Next, as shown in FIG. 7, when the cursor 24 is placed on one of the document files shown in the list 41 and the operation buttons 71 and 72 of the mouse 15 are pressed down, a portion 51 of the document is displayed. This operation is repeated until the desired part of the document is displayed.

The above operation will be explained according to a flowchart.

In FIG. 3, first, in step S1, the mouse 15
A determination is made as to whether both buttons 71 and 72 provided on the screen have been pressed down (clicked).

If it is determined that both buttons 71, 72 have been pressed, the process proceeds to step S2, where it is determined whether the cursor 24 is over the document icon.

If it is determined that the cursor 24 is located on the document icon, the process proceeds to step S3, and a part of the document file corresponding to the document icon on which the cursor 24 is superimposed in the document storage device 12 is transferred to the document editing device 13. is read into.

In step S4, a part of the read document file is displayed on the window of the display device 11.

In step S5, the operation buttons 71 and 72 of the mouse 15 are
It is determined whether or not both of the buttons 71 and 71 are pressed down.
．． If either one of 72 is not pressed down, the process advances to step S6 and the window is erased.

If it is determined in step S5 that both operation buttons 71 and 72 are still pressed down, step S5
is repeated, while the document continues to be displayed in the window on the screen.

As described above, according to this embodiment, a signal different from the instruction signal for opening the icon (a signal output by pressing down both buttons 71 and 72) is sent to the mouse 1.
5, the document from the document file corresponding to the icon designated by the mouse 15 is displayed with a predetermined number of characters.

This partial display of the document is shorter than opening the icon and displaying the entire document, and it does not display the document with the information necessary to make edits to the document. Therefore, it can be output on the screen in a short time.

The functions of the present invention described above according to the embodiments will be explained with reference to the functional block diagram shown in FIG.

In the figure, in the human power information analysis means 14a, the signal inputted from the input means 15 is a signal representing an instruction to read a document file for document editing, or a signal representing an instruction to read a part of a document file for document retrieval. Signal?1. A determination is made as to whether the signal is a signal representing another instruction (such as the amount of mouse movement).

When the input information analysis means 14a detects a signal instructing the reading of a document file for document editing, it analyzes the contents of the document file corresponding to the icon specified by the cursor, including the character size, arrangement, etc. An instruction signal for reading out information including information required for editing is output.

In addition, when a signal instructing to read part of the document file for document search is detected, the content of the document file corresponding to the icon specified by the cursor, for example, " An instruction such as "Read byte worth of data" is output.

The document file reading means 13b outputs one of the instructions to the document storage means 12 in response to the instruction to read the document file or the instruction to read a part of the document file output based on the judgment made by the input information analysis means 14a. do.

On the other hand, the document editing means 13a, for example, based on the mouse movement amount instruction output from the input information analysis means 14a,
It is determined which icon the cursor is overlapping with, and the document file corresponding to the icon overlaid with the cursor in the document storage means 12 is designated.

Then, the contents of the document file corresponding to the designated icon are displayed on the display means 11 in accordance with the file readout signal from the document file readout means 13b.

(Effects of the Invention) As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention, the minimum necessary number of documents can be displayed on the display device by operating icons using the input device. Therefore, information necessary for document retrieval can be output to the display device in a short time, and document processing efficiency can be improved.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the functions of an embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing the hardware configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 3 is a flowchart showing the control operation of the embodiment, and Figs. 4 to 7 are illustrations of icons and documents displayed on the screen. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display with icons opened, and FIG. 9 is a perspective view showing an example of a mouse. 11...Display device, 12...Document storage device, 13.
...Document editing device, 14...Manual control device, 14a.
...Cursor position detection means, 14b...Document partial reading instruction detection means, 14c...Reading character amount setting means,
14d...Document reading means, 15...Manual device, 1
5a...Cursor moving means, 15b...Document part reading instruction means Agent Patent attorney Michi Hiraki (1 person) Figure 8 Figure 9

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) In a document processing device that has a document editing device that reads a document from a document file stored in a document storage device and displays it on a display device, move the cursor to specify an icon, and respond to the specified icon. The present invention further comprises an input means for instructing to read a part of a document file stored in the document storage device, an input information analysis means for detecting the read instruction, and a means for reading a part of the document file stored in the document storage device. Characteristic document processing device.