摘要:
A method of help-information control for displaying help information on a display unit of an information processing system executing a plurality of application programs. A status management table for storing the executing status of application programs is provided as common to these programs. During execution of a given application program, the contents of the status information table are updated successively in accordance with the executing status. Whenever an operator makes a help request, the contents of the status management table in effect at that point in time are referenced. The table is searched for the help information corresponding to the request. When found and retrieved, the information is displayed. The search is performed using a program identifier, a message identifier, and a help message searching table that includes the position information containing the corresponding help data. Each application program is equipped with a control data part that makes it possible to reference help data of other application programs.
摘要:
A system which comprises a message data base for storing help messages, a history buffer for storing the past statuses of an interactive processing system, an inference engine for determining a help message to be outputted, and a rule data base for storing the rules for determining a help message by said inference engine, determines an output help message on the basis of at least the past status history using said inference engine, furthermore outputs a help message by a user's command, selects a message data base to be used by the system at that time from a plurality of message data bases, or selects a rule data base to be used by the system at that time from a plurality of said rule data bases
摘要:
A power consumption control apparatus for an information processing apparatus having multi-tasking control which executes a plurality of information processing operations in parallel by time-divisionally switching a plurality of tasks in an arithmetic processing unit. The power consumption controlled apparatus detects an event where there are no information processing operations to be executed, sets the arithmetic processing unit to a power-saving mode in response to the event and immediately clears the power-saving mode set in the arithmetic processing unit in response to an interrupt signal from an input/output device. Alternatively, the power consumption control apparatus after detecting the event stops supply of a clock to the arithmetic processing unit or lowers a frequency of the clock in response to the event. Thereafter, the power consumption control apparatus immediately resumes supply of the clock to the arithmetic processing unit or raises the frequency of the clock in response to an interrupt signal from an input/output device.
摘要:
A method of help-information control for displaying help information on a display unit of an information processing system executing a plurality of application programs. A status management table for storing the executing status of application programs is provided as common to these programs. During execution of a given application program, the contents of the status information table are updated successively in accordance with the executing status. Whenever an operator makes a help request, the contents of the status management table in effect at that point in time are referenced. The table is searched for the help information corresponding to the request. When found and retrieved, the information is displayed. The search is performed using a program identifier, a message identifier, and a help message searching table that includes the position information containing the corresponding help data. Each application program is equipped with a control data part that makes it possible to reference help data of other application programs.
摘要:
A central processing unit, a main memory for storing graphic or character data, an external memory, an input device for inputting the graphic or character data, a shared memory for temporarily storing the graphic or character data read by the central processing unit, a display processing means for preparing a plurality of display data displayed on a display from the graphic or character data on the shared memory, and a display memory for storing the plurality of display data are connected to a bus. The display memory, the shared memory, and the external memory have first, second and third save areas for temporarily saving the overlapped display data when the plurality of display data are overlapped. The main memory is provided with a first control table for controlling display position, mutual priority for display, and a save area during overlap, regarding each of the plurality of display data stored in the display memory. The display processing means controls to display the plurality of display data on the display using the first table, the first, second and third save areas, and the display memory. In the first, second and third save areas, the first save area has highest priority and the third save area has lowest priority.
摘要:
Control is performed for each of the individual components in accordance with a table including information on clock control and power control of each component of an information processing apparatus. Clock supply is stopped or clock frequency is lowered immediately or after the lapse of a predetermined period of time since the component is brought into an unused condition. Supply of power is stopped immediately or after the lapse of a predetermined period of time. In this case, the predetermined period of time can be automatically adjusted by detecting the condition of access to the component.
摘要:
Edited data for text, patterns, graphs, and the like can be provided by editing programs dedicated to edition of each of such data. A system for editing and printing documents includes a plurality of printing program each corresponding with each of the editing programs and operating independently of one another for generating graphics commands in accordance with the edited data a printing control program for generating print images composed of dots in accordance with the graphics commands from the printing programs and a printing management program for controlling operations of the printing programs in accordance with data in a control data file which stores therein data related to printing programs such as print positions of individual edited data. The system also provides an operating system capable of multitask control, which controls a printing conditions set up program independently of the operation of the printing management program, whereby printing requests are enabled to be received in succession if such requests are made in the course of printing.
摘要:
A documentation system for editing a document in which a plurality of document data of different forms coexist in a mixed fashion and which includes one or more pages each partitioned into a plurality of regions in accordance with difference edition processing procedures. The system includes a storage for storing the document data of the above-mentioned document structure, a display for displaying the document data as images, and a program executing unit for executing the programs to process the document data within the region being subjected to the edition. The edition processing programs are provided in correspondence with different edition processing procedures such that a given one of the edition processing programs processes the edition of the document data within one of the regions in the document image being displayed on the display unit. The edition processing program executing currently the edition processing for the document data within a first region responds to a command for the edition processing for a second region other than the first region by issuing an extra-region message. The documentation system further includes a unit for executing programs to make the display unit to display thereon the document data within a region, a unit for executing a manage program for controlling activation of the edition processing program executing unit and activation of the display program executing unit, and a message transfer unit for transferring messages between the edition processing program executing unit and the manage program executing unit. The extra-region indicating message is transferred to the manage program executing unit which responds thereto by activating the edition processing program for the document data in the second region.
摘要:
A print control system for controlling a computer system comprising a processing unit, a memory unit, a display unit, an input unit and a printer. The memory unit has print request blocks each for storing information necessary for printing a document, and an area for storing a print queue for defining the print execute order of the print request blocks. The processing unit executes a print request program through which a print request provided by the operator is set together with necessary information in the print request block and the print request block is added to the print queue, a print execute program through which information stored in the print request blocks is fetched sequentially in the order of registration of the print request block in the print queue and the printer is controlled for printing operation on the basis of the information, a printing status operating program through which the contents of the print queue are displayed on the display unit, the print request block is removed from the print queue and the order of the print request blocks in the print queue is changed in conformity to instructions given by the operator, and a system management program through which those programs are activated for controlling the printing operation.
摘要:
A document creating apparatus for creating and editing a document in which a plurality of different types of descriptive element data, such as text data, graph data, pattern data, image data and other data, coexist. Plural types of edit sections are provided in correspondence with the types of data to be handled. Various types of data are edited under coordination by selecting edit sections corresponding to the types of data, respectively, while maintaining the editing function of the editing section once selected and activated so that the editing section can be selected again without losing its editing function.