Edit screen display control device to confirm data layout without switching to screen showing entire layout
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorSatoshi Furuya
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Abstract
An edit screen display control device allows an operator to confirm a layout of data during an editing process on an edit screen without switching to a layout screen showing an entire screen. It also realizes an editing efficiently using a given area without reducing the amount of information displayed on the edit screen. When graphics are edited on the edit screen of the display, the graphics on the edit screen are automatically enlarged/reduced in accordance with the movement, change, deletion, etc. of the graphics to be edited on the edit screen so that the entire edit area can be displayed and a layout process is prioritized in the editing process.
Claims12
An edit screen display control device comprising:
- selecting means for selecting at least one of a plurality of elements on a screen;
- display means for displaying the elements selected by said selecting means in an enlargement/reduction area on the screen;
- editing means for performing an editing process on an element in the selected elements;
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- enlargement/reduction control means for controlling the display means to display an enlargement/reduction of the selected elements in the same enlargement/reduction area that the selected elements are displayed based on the editing process performed on the element by said editing means.
An edit screen display control device in a system having a display screen, comprising:
- means for specifying an area in the display screen as an enlargement/reduction area;
- means for recognizing that an element in the display screen is encompassed by the enlargement/reduction area;
- means for monitoring a movement amount of an external input device during an editing operation for controlling an enlargement/reduction of the recognized element in the same enlargement/reduction area encompassing the recognized element;
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- means for editing the recognized element in a state in which the recognized element can be enlarged/reduced.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.