JPH0981356A - Menu selection device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To move an arrow only on the menu positions to select the menus by moving discontinuously the arrow on the menu positions according to the moving extents of the arrow that moves on a display screen. SOLUTION: The signals which are inputted from a mouse 1 are counted, and the right moving direction of the mouse is detected together with its moving extent set at 5. In such a case, an arrow (a) moves to an arrow (b) set on a menu A. Then the arrow (a) moves to an arrow (c) set on a menu B when the moving extent of the mouse is set at 15. When the moving extent is set at 30, the arrow (a) moves to an arrow (d). A storage part contains an arrow position table which previously stores the relation between the menu positions and the arrow display positions. Therefore, the arrow display positions corresponding to the positions of menus A to D can be read out. Thus the arrow (a) can discontinuously move to the arrows (b) to (e).

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a menu selection device, and more particularly to a menu which can be selected by moving an arrow to a specific menu position with respect to a menu screen displayed on a display screen. Regarding selection device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, general-purpose personal computers have been actively produced. A multi-window display function is effective as a display function of such a general-purpose personal computer.

This multi-window display function is shown in FIG.
There is known one having a screen for displaying a menu as shown in FIG. As shown in the figure, this one displays menus A to G for selecting, for example, seven kinds of work on the display, and the arrow (a) displayed on the menu A is used as a mouse input. Correspondingly, if the user wants to select the menu F, for example, by sequentially moving on the broken line (b), the menu F is selected by clicking the mouse when the arrow (c) position is reached.

Further, as shown in FIG. 5, menus A to C are used.
Is displayed with a space between them, and when the arrow (F) is located in the display area of menu C, when the mouse clicks, the click is treated as valid, and menu C Had been chosen.

[0005]

However, in the conventional menu selection device shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, fine adjustment is necessary to adjust the arrow to the target menu position. For example, in FIG. At the position of arrow (d) or (e) shown, arrow (d) or (e) is protruding from the display area of menu A or B, so
Even if the mouse was clicked at this point, menu A or B could not be selected. Therefore, in FIG.
Fine adjustment such as moving the arrow to the position on Menu C like Arrow (F) was necessary.

Further, in the conventional menu selection device, in order for the operator to finely adjust the arrow position, the display area of the menu requires a large area to some extent, and conversely, a large number of menus should be displayed. There was a problem that I could not do it.

The present invention has been made in view of the above,
An object of the present invention is to provide a menu selection device capable of discontinuously moving arrows on a display screen to menu positions.

[0008]

According to the first aspect of the present invention,
In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a menu selection device that moves an arrow to a specific menu position and selects the menu with respect to a menu screen displayed on the display screen, and is an arrow that moves on the display screen. It is characterized in that it has an input means for inputting the moving amount of the arrow and an arrow moving means for moving the arrows on the display screen discontinuously to the menu position according to the moving amount from the input means.

According to the first aspect of the invention, the arrows on the display screen are discontinuously moved onto the menu position in accordance with the amount of movement of the arrows moving on the display screen, so that only the menu position is moved. This has an effect that the arrow can be moved to select the menu.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the invention according to claim 2 is characterized in that the arrow moving means has an arrow position table in which a relation between each menu position and an arrow display position is stored in advance. .

According to the second aspect of the present invention, by having an arrow position table that stores in advance the relationship between each menu position and the display position of the arrow, the arrow is moved only above the menu position and the menu concerned is displayed. Can be selected.

[0012]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a system configuration of a menu selection device 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the menu selection device 1
Is composed of a mouse, a trackball, a joystick, and the like, and has an input unit 3 for inputting the movement amount of an arrow moving on the display screen, a storage unit 5 for storing the control program and control data of the device, and a control program and control data. CPU unit 7 that controls the device and performs arithmetic processing based on
And a display for inputting the amount of movement of the arrow moving on the display screen and exchanging image data between the keyboard unit 9 for inputting characters and the CPU unit 7 and the VRAM unit 13 for displaying the image data. Control unit 11 and display unit 15
VR that expands and stores multiple windows that can be displayed
AM (Video Random Access Memory) unit 13 and LCD
It has a (Liquid Crystal Display), TV monitor, etc.
The display unit 15 displays the image developed on the RAM 13 in correspondence with the display screen size.

Next, the operation of the menu selection device 1 will be described with reference to the display screen shown in FIG. 2 and the flowchart shown in FIG. First, in step S10, the CPU section 7 stores the image data of the menu screen stored in the storage section 5 in the VRAM section 13 via the display control section 11. As a result, the display control unit 11 sequentially reads the image data of the display area stored in the VRAM unit 13, forms an image signal on the display unit 15, and outputs the image signal. As the display screen on the display unit 13, for example, as shown in FIG. 2, menus A to D are displayed, and then the arrow (a) is moved to the initial position on the display screen for display.

Next, in step S20, the execution wait state is entered in order to receive an interrupt signal from the mouse.
Here, in order to select one of the menus A to D,
When the operator moves the mouse to the right, an interrupt signal is generated from the mouse, and a pulse signal (X, Y) is generated from the built-in encoder according to the movement of the mouse.

In step S30, since the interrupt signal is generated from the mouse, it is first determined whether the click signal is input from the mouse. If it is not a click signal,
While the process proceeds to step S40, in the case of a click signal,
It proceeds to step S100.

Next, in step S40, the pulse signals (X, Y) input from the mouse are counted, and the movement component (x, y) of the mouse is calculated. Next, this moving component (x,
From y), the direction in which the xy plane is divided into eight is calculated as the moving direction of the mouse.

Next, in step S50, the movement amount I is first calculated from the movement component (x, y) of the mouse, and then,
It is determined whether this movement amount I is smaller than 10. In step S70, when the mouse movement amount I is smaller than 10, one arrow is moved in the movement direction on the display screen.

Next, in step S60, it is determined whether or not the moving amount I of the mouse is 10 or more and less than 20. If it is within this range, the process advances to step S80 to jump one arrow in the movement direction and move the arrow on the display screen.

On the other hand, if outside this range, step S
Proceed to 90, and on the display screen, move the arrow in the direction of movement 2
One jump and move. Here, step S70-
When 90 ends, the process proceeds to step S20, and the execution waiting state is entered.

Further, when the interrupt signal from the mouse is received, the process proceeds to step S30. Here, when the operator confirms the menu B and clicks the mouse, for example, the process proceeds to step S100 and the menu B
The program processing corresponding to the processing content of is executed.

When the mouse moving direction is detected as the right direction in step S40 and the moving amount I is "5" in step S50, the process proceeds to step S70, for example, arrow (a) Move to the arrow on menu A.

In the same direction, the movement amount I is "1".
If it is 5 ", the process proceeds to step S80, and, for example, arrow (a) moves to arrow (c) on menu B.
Further, in the same direction, when the movement amount I is “30”, the process proceeds to step S90, and, for example, the arrow (a) moves to the arrow (d) on the menu C.

Since the storage unit 5 stores an arrow position table that stores the relationship between the menu position and the arrow display position in advance, for example, the arrow display corresponding to the positions of the menus A to D is displayed. The position can be read, and it is possible to move from arrow (a) to arrow (b) to (e) in a discontinuous manner.

As a method of detecting the moving direction of the mouse in step S40, for example, for the moving component (x, y) of the mouse, "sign (±)" and "sign" of the moving component (x, y) are used. An azimuth table divided into eight azimuths using the y / x value "S as a parameter is calculated in advance and stored in the storage unit 5. Here, when the movement component (x, y) of the mouse is input, the direction of movement of the mouse can be obtained by collating the azimuth table based on the "sign" and the "y / x value".

As described above, since the arrow is moved discontinuously from the click target to the next target by moving the mouse, fine adjustment for moving the arrow to the click target as in the past is unnecessary. And work efficiency can be improved.

Since the click area need not be as wide as in the conventional case, the work area can be widely used and more menus can be displayed in the conventional menu area. Furthermore, because the arrows move discontinuously,
It is possible to prevent erroneous input on the menu boundary as in the past.

[0028]

As described above, according to the present invention as set forth in claim 1, the arrows on the display screen are discontinuously moved to the menu position according to the moving amount of the arrow moving on the display screen. By doing so, the arrow is moved only above the menu position so that the menu is selected, so the arrow can be moved without protruding the arrow from the display area of the menu. The fine-tuning of the above became unnecessary. As a result, the display area of the menu can be reduced to some extent, and a large number of menus can be displayed. Furthermore, since the arrows move discontinuously, it is possible to prevent erroneous input on the menu boundary as in the past.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, by having the arrow position table in which the relationship between each menu position and the arrow display position is stored in advance, the arrow can be moved only above the menu position. Since the menu is selected, the display positions of the arrows corresponding to the menu positions can be read out, and the displayed arrows can be discontinuously moved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a menu selection device 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a diagram showing a system configuration of FIG.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a display screen for explaining the operation of the menu selection device 1.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a flowchart for explaining the operation of the menu selection device 1.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a conventional menu display screen.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a conventional menu display screen.

[Explanation of symbols]

 3 input section 5 storage section 7 CPU section 9 keyboard section 11 display control section 13 VRAM section 15 display section

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A menu selection device for moving an arrow to a specific menu position with respect to a menu screen displayed on the display screen to select the menu, wherein movement of the arrow moving on the display screen. A menu selection device comprising: input means for inputting an amount; and arrow moving means for discontinuously moving an arrow on the display screen to a menu position according to a movement amount from the input means. 2. The menu selection device according to claim 1, wherein the arrow moving means has an arrow position table that stores in advance the relationship between each menu position and the arrow display position.