公开(公告)号：US4435778A

公开(公告)日：1984-03-06

申请号：US264368

申请日：1981-05-18

申请人： William C. Cason ,  Rex A. McCaskill ,  Francisco A. Karner

发明人： William C. Cason ,  Rex A. McCaskill ,  Francisco A. Karner

IPC分类号： G06F12/00 ,  G06F3/153 ,  G06F15/00 ,  G06F17/21 ,  G06F17/22 ,  G06F17/24 ,  G09G5/32

CPC分类号： G06F17/2264 ,  G06F17/24

摘要： An improved text processing method is disclosed which permits spatially related data to be displayed and edited by the same method employed to display and edit conventional text type data in an interactive text processing system which includes a keyboard, a display device, and a microprocessor.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种改进的文本处理方法，其允许通过在包括键盘，显示设备和微处理器的交互式文本处理系统中显示和编辑常规文本类型数据的相同方法来显示和编辑空间相关数据。

公开(公告)号：US4723210A

公开(公告)日：1988-02-02

申请号：US645622

申请日：1984-08-30

申请人： Barbara A. Barker ,  Rex A. McCaskill

发明人： Barbara A. Barker ,  Rex A. McCaskill

IPC分类号： G06F17/21 ,  G06F17/22 ,  G06F15/20

CPC分类号： G06F17/218 ,  G06F17/2229

摘要： Improvements in an application composite editor for compound documents containing not only text but also graphics and tables facilitate the manipulation of object sets in the formatting algorithm. The editor works with a page layout philosophy wherein data objects reside on the page and data resides in the data objects. All pages reside within a document object, and some data objects may have additional objects within them. Objects are data-specific entities that the user can manipulate on the page. All objects exist within a specified boundary on the page, and this boundary is defined as an object set boundary. Object sets may be moved into positions on the page such that more than one object set is occupying a single displayable area on the page. Such an arrangement of objects creates a structure called a superblock. A superblock is any displayable area containing two or more object sets positioned so that the object sets overlap one another, reside side-by-side or extend above or below one another. A text object set may not be overlapped by any other object set. Although the superblock is itself a complex structure, the creation of this structure by the editor greatly simplifies integration of different data types on the page for the user and allows the user to manipulate a group of object sets within a single displayable area on the page with relative ease. Moreover, formatting of the document is facilitated by the editor since the superblock is treated as an object set without taking into consideration the complexity inside the superblock structure except when a page end decision must be made.

摘要翻译： 复合文档的应用程序复合编辑器的改进不仅包含文本，还包含图形和表格，有助于在格式化算法中对对象集的操作。 编辑器使用页面布局理念，其中数据对象驻留在页面上，数据驻留在数据对象中。 所有页面都驻留在文档对象中，一些数据对象可能在其中具有其他对象。 对象是用户可以在页面上操作的特定于数据的实体。 所有对象都存在于页面上指定的边界内，此边界定义为对象集边界。 对象集可以移动到页面上的位置，使得多于一个对象集合占据页面上的单个可显示区域。 这种对象的排列创建一个称为超级块的结构。 超级块是包含两个或更多对象集的任何可显示区域，这些对象集被定位成使得对象集合彼此重叠，并排放置或彼此相邻或相隔。 文本对象集合可能不会与任何其他对象集重叠。 尽管超级块本身是一个复杂的结构，但由编辑器创建的这种结构大大简化了用户页面上不同数据类型的集成，并允许用户在页面上的单个可显示区域内操作一组对象集， 相对容易 此外，由于编辑器容易地对文档进行格式化，因为除了必须进行页面结束决定之外，超级块被视为对象集而不考虑超级块结构内的复杂性。

公开(公告)号：US4698625A

公开(公告)日：1987-10-06

申请号：US739371

申请日：1985-05-30

申请人： Rex A. McCaskill ,  John S. Wang

发明人： Rex A. McCaskill ,  John S. Wang

IPC分类号： G06F3/037 ,  G06F3/033 ,  G06F3/048 ,  G09G5/00 ,  G09G5/08 ,  G09G5/36 ,  G09G1/16

CPC分类号： G06F3/04842 ,  G06F3/04845

摘要： A technique is disclosed which facilitates the selection by a user of a graphic object on a display screen. Selection is by means of a pointing cursor which is moved about the display screen by means of a pointing device having a select button. When the pointing cursor is brought within a predetermined distance of a graphic object, the point on the graphic object closest to the pointing cursor is highlighted to show the user that that graphic object would be selected if the select button were pressed. If the user presses the select button when a point on a graphic object is highlighted, the entire graphic object is highlighted to indicate that it has been selected.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种便于用户在显示屏上选择图形对象的技术。 选择是借助于通过具有选择按钮的指示装置围绕显示屏幕移动的指示光标。 当指点光标在图形对象的预定距离内时，最接近指点光标的图形对象上的点被突出显示，以向用户显示如果按下了选择按钮，则选择该图形对象。 如果用户在图形对象上的某个点突出显示时按下选择按钮，则会突出显示整个图形对象以指示已选择。

公开(公告)号：US5121499A

公开(公告)日：1992-06-09

申请号：US735698

申请日：1991-07-25

申请人： Rex A. McCaskill ,  Beverly H. Machart ,  Harry E. O'Steen

发明人： Rex A. McCaskill ,  Beverly H. Machart ,  Harry E. O'Steen

IPC分类号： G06Q50/00 ,  G06F17/24 ,  G06Q10/00

CPC分类号： G06F17/246 ,  G06F17/243

摘要： A mechanism allows for programming the order of cells for an operator to enter data in a spreadsheet. Each cell of the spreadsheet may be provided with a "next cell" attribute, and these attributes as well as other attributes for the cells are stored in a table. The "next cell" attribute may be a constant, such as the name of the next cell, or it may be a logic expression so that the next cell to be edited can be different depending on some condition. When the operator presses the NEXT CELL key, the "next cell" attribute is searched by accessing the attribute table, and if a "next cell" attribute is found, it is evaluated to determine the next cell to be edited.

摘要翻译： 机制允许编程单元格的顺序以使操作员在电子表格中输入数据。 电子表格的每个单元可以被提供有“下一个单元”属性，并且这些属性以及单元的其他属性被存储在表中。 “下一单元”属性可以是常数，例如下一个单元的名称，或者它可以是逻辑表达式，使得待编辑的下一个单元可以根据某些条件而不同。 当操作员按下NEXT CELL键时，通过访问属性表来搜索“下一个单元格”属性，如果找到“下一个单元格”属性，则评估它确定要编辑的下一个单元格。

公开(公告)号：US4663615A

公开(公告)日：1987-05-05

申请号：US686519

申请日：1984-12-26

申请人： Irene H. Hernandez ,  Rex A. McCaskill ,  Barbara A. Barker

发明人： Irene H. Hernandez ,  Rex A. McCaskill ,  Barbara A. Barker

IPC分类号： G06F3/153 ,  G06F3/048 ,  G06F17/21 ,  G09G5/14 ,  G09G5/34 ,  G09G1/16

CPC分类号： G09G5/14 ,  G06F17/211

摘要： A method of, and system for, creating a document on a real time basis and providing a view of adjoining portions of the document. A data object is specified for creating a window on a display screen and data is input into the window. When the window has been filled with data, input of additional data will result in scrolling of the data, and the data will become larger than the window. Upon completion of the data object, the input data is stored, but a windows' worth of data continues to be displayed. When another data object is specified, another window is created on the screen for input of data. The operations are the same as with the first described window. As additional windows are created, the screen will become full. When this occurs, there will be a scrolling of the windows. As each data object is built, it is linked to the preceding data object. Upon completion of input to a window, the window is linked to a preceding window and to the data input into the window.

摘要翻译： 一种用于实时创建文档并提供文档的相邻部分的视图的方法和系统。 指定数据对象用于在显示屏幕上创建窗口，并将数据输入窗口。 当窗口填充数据时，附加数据的输入将导致数据滚动，并且数据将变得大于窗口。 在完成数据对象后，输入数据被存储，但窗口的数据值继续显示。 当指定另一个数据对象时，在屏幕上创建另一个窗口以输入数据。 操作与第一个描述的窗口相同。 随着其他窗口的创建，屏幕将变满。 当这种情况发生时，会有一个滚动窗口。 随着每个数据对象的构建，它被链接到前面的数据对象。 完成对窗口的输入后，窗口将链接到前一个窗口并输入到窗口中的数据。

公开(公告)号：US4434475A

公开(公告)日：1984-02-28

申请号：US264303

申请日：1981-05-18

申请人： Rex A. McCaskill ,  John W. McInroy ,  Paul D. Waldo

发明人： Rex A. McCaskill ,  John W. McInroy ,  Paul D. Waldo

IPC分类号： G06F3/02 ,  G06F3/14 ,  G06F15/00 ,  G06F17/21 ,  G06F17/24 ,  G06F3/153

CPC分类号： G06F17/243

摘要： An improved method is disclosed for assisting the operator of an interactive text processing system. The method assists the operator in entering interactively selection criteria to be used in selecting records from the existing file. The improved method involves displaying to the operator the header portion of the existing file, along with a predetermined number of "qualifying rows" in response to the operator having identified to the system the task to be accomplished and the name and the location of the existing file in the system.The method further involves movement of the cursor vertically and horizontally to row and column positions for entering of the selection criteria. After entering criteria into the displayed rows, the next operation of the cursor down key while in the last row is interpreted as an instruction to the system to add an additional row so that another "logical OR" selection criteria can be added to the previous criteria.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种用于辅助交互式文本处理系统的操作者的改进方法。 该方法帮助操作员输入交互式选择标准，用于从现有文件中选择记录。 改进的方法包括向操作者显示现有文件的标题部分以及响应于操作者已经向系统识别要完成的任务的预定数量的“合格行”以及现有文件的名称和位置 文件在系统中。 该方法还包括将光标垂直和水平移动到用于输入选择标准的行和列位置。 在将条目输入到显示的行中之后，在最后一行中下一个光标向下键的操作被解释为系统添加附加行的指令，以便可以将另一个“逻辑或”选择标准添加到先前的标准 。

公开(公告)号：US4962475A

公开(公告)日：1990-10-09

申请号：US168368

申请日：1988-03-15

申请人： Irene H. Hernandez ,  Rex A. McCaskill

发明人： Irene H. Hernandez ,  Rex A. McCaskill

IPC分类号： G06F17/24 ,  G09G5/14

CPC分类号： G09G5/14 ,  G06F17/24

摘要： A method for tailoring a master document to obtain a special document. The master document is made up of data objects and portions of the data objects. Included in the portions are pointers to corresponding data objects. The portions are windowed and displayed. Selection of a window will result in a view port being opened through the window into a corresponding data object. The data object can then be scrolled to obtain a desired portion to be included in the special document. As each desired portion is obtained, it is stored and becomes part of the special document.

摘要翻译： 一种用于定制主文档以获取特殊文档的方法。 主文档由数据对象和数据对象的一部分组成。 部分中包含指向相应数据对象的指针。 这些部分被窗口显示。 选择一个窗口将导致视图端口通过窗口打开到相应的数据对象中。 然后可以滚动数据对象以获得要包括在特殊文档中的期望部分。 当获得每个所需部分时，它被存储并成为特殊文档的一部分。

公开(公告)号：US4739314A

公开(公告)日：1988-04-19

申请号：US739369

申请日：1985-05-30

申请人： Rex A. McCaskill ,  John S. Wang ,  James T. Repass

发明人： Rex A. McCaskill ,  John S. Wang ,  James T. Repass

IPC分类号： G06F3/12 ,  G06F17/21 ,  G09G5/32 ,  G09G3/02

CPC分类号： G06F17/21

摘要： An easy-to-use technique for specifying measurements of a document to be printed uses a pointing method, such as a cursor which is moved around a display screen by means of a pointing device having a select button. The pointing cursor is moved to each desired location in a predetermined sequence, and the select button is pressed. The values of the measurements so selected are calculated based on the relative position of the pointing cursor at the time the select button is pressed.

摘要翻译： 用于指定要打印的文档的测量的易于使用的技术使用诸如通过具有选择按钮的指示设备在显示屏幕周围移动的光标的指示方法。 指示光标以预定顺序移动到每个所需位置，并且按下选择按钮。 所选择的测量值基于按下选择按钮时指点光标的相对位置来计算。

公开(公告)号：US4723211A

公开(公告)日：1988-02-02

申请号：US645630

申请日：1984-08-30

申请人： Barbara A. Barker ,  Irene H. Hernandez ,  Rex A. McCaskill

发明人： Barbara A. Barker ,  Irene H. Hernandez ,  Rex A. McCaskill

IPC分类号： G06F17/21 ,  G06F15/20

CPC分类号： G06F17/211

摘要： Improvements in an application composite eidtor for compound documents containing not only text but also graphics and tables facilitate the manipulation of object sets in the formatting algorithm. The editor works with a page layout philosophy wherein data objects reside on the page and data resides in the data objects. All pages reside within a document object, and some data objects may have additional objects within them. Objects are data-specific entities that the user can manipulate on the page. All objects exist within a specified boundary on the page, and this boundary is defined as an object set boundary. Object sets may be moved into positions on the page such that more than one object set is occupying a single displayable are on the page. Such an arrangement of objects creates a structure called a superblock. A superblock is any displayable area containing two or more object sets positioned so that the object sets overlap one another, reside side-by-side or extend above or below one another. A text object set may not be overlapped by any other object set. Although the superblock is itself a complex structure, the creation of this structure by the editor greatly simplifies integration of different data types on the page for the user and allows the user to manipulate a group of object sets within a single displayable area on the page with relative ease. Moreover, formatting of the document is facilitated by the editor since the superblock is treated as an object set without taking into consideration the complexity inside the superblock structure except when a page end decision must be made.

摘要翻译： 用于复合文档的应用程序复合代码的改进不仅包含文本，而且还包含图形和表格，有助于格式化算法中对象集的操纵。 编辑器使用页面布局理念，其中数据对象驻留在页面上，数据驻留在数据对象中。 所有页面都驻留在文档对象中，一些数据对象可能在其中具有其他对象。 对象是用户可以在页面上操作的特定于数据的实体。 所有对象都存在于页面上指定的边界内，此边界定义为对象集边界。 对象集可以被移动到页面上的位置，使得多于一个的对象集占用单个可显示的对象集合在页面上。 这种对象的排列创建一个称为超级块的结构。 超级块是包含两个或更多对象集的任何可显示区域，这些对象集被定位成使得对象集合彼此重叠，并排放置或彼此相邻或相隔。 文本对象集合可能不会与任何其他对象集重叠。 尽管超级块本身是一个复杂的结构，但由编辑器创建的这种结构大大简化了用户页面上不同数据类型的集成，并允许用户在页面上的单个可显示区域内操作一组对象集， 相对容易 此外，由于编辑器容易地对文档进行格式化，因为除了必须进行页面结束决定之外，超级块被视为对象集而不考虑超级块结构内的复杂性。

公开(公告)号：US4481603A

公开(公告)日：1984-11-06

申请号：US264625

申请日：1981-05-18

申请人： Rex A. McCaskill ,  John W. McInroy ,  Paul D. Waldo

发明人： Rex A. McCaskill ,  John W. McInroy ,  Paul D. Waldo

IPC分类号： G06F7/22 ,  G06F3/02 ,  G06F3/048 ,  G06F3/14 ,  G06F12/00 ,  G06F17/21 ,  G06F17/24

CPC分类号： G06F17/24 ,  G06F17/211

摘要： An information processing system (10) has a terminal (12) which functions with a diskette storage (14). The terminal (12) includes a display screen (16) and keyboard (18) wherein an operator enters alphanumeric characters and predefined commands. A file of information is stored on the diskette storage (14). The file is made up of a plurality of records. Each of the records comprises a plurality of fields. The fields include character fields, arithmetic fields and text fields. The text fields include alphanumeric, punctuation and control characters, the character fields include alphanumeric and punctuation characters and exclude control characters and the arithmetic fields include numeric characters and exclude control characters. By inputting commands to the keyboard (18) the operator reads a record from storage (14) and displays it on the screen (16). The content of the fields in the record are displayed on the screen (16) except for the text fields. For each text field there is displayed an asterisk (60). The operator selects a text field by positioning a cursor (62) beneath the corresponding asterisk and then inputting a down cursor command. In response to the down cursor command the terminal (12) opens a text window on the screen (16) and displays the corresponding text field on the lower portion (16b) of the screen (16). The operator is then free to edit the text field. After completion of the editing the operator enters a command to incorporate the edited text field with the selected record. The record with the edited text field can then be returned to the file in the storage (14).

摘要翻译： 信息处理系统（10）具有与软盘存储器（14）一起工作的终端（12）。 终端（12）包括显示屏（16）和键盘（18），其中操作员输入字母数字字符和预定义的命令。 信息文件存储在软盘存储器（14）上。 该文件由多个记录组成。 每个记录包括多个场。 字段包括字符字段，算术字段和文本字段。 文本字段包括字母数字，标点符号和控制字符，字符字段包括字母数字和标点符号，排除控制字符，算术字段包括数字字符，排除控制字符。 通过向键盘（18）输入命令，操作者从存储器（14）读取记录并将其显示在屏幕（16）上。 记录中的字段的内容显示在除了文本字段之外的屏幕（16）上。 对于每个文本字段，显示一个星号（60）。 操作员通过将光标（62）定位在相应的星号下方然后输入向下光标命令来选择文本字段。 响应于向下光标命令，终端（12）在屏幕（16）上打开文本窗口，并在屏幕（16）的下部（16b）上显示相应的文本字段。 然后，操作员可以自由地编辑文本字段。 编辑完成后，操作员输入一个命令，将编辑的文本字段与选定的记录合并。 具有编辑的文本字段的记录可以返回到存储器中的文件（14）。