JP2556493B2 - Information processing device - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a process status display in an information processing device capable of displaying multiple windows on a display screen of a display device.

[Prior art and its problems]

In the past, when processing multiple pieces of information in a multi-window on the screen of a display device in an information processing device, whether or not the processing performed in the window that disappeared behind when opening some windows ended. To find out, it is inconvenient to move the window or call it in the foreground, and when performing consecutive processing in a hidden window, it is useless to call the window if you do not know when the previous process ended There was a drawback that the input waiting time increased.

[Means and Actions for Solving Problems]

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, in an information processing device that displays a plurality of windows on a display screen and can allocate information processing to each window,
The information processing assigned to each window waits for input by checking the processing state stored in the storage means and the storage means that stores the processing state of the information processing assigned to each displayed window. By the detection means for detecting whether or not the state, and the detection means,
Display control means for displaying the whole of the window including the hidden part when an input waiting state of information processing allocated to a window at least a part of which is hidden by another window is detected. An information processing apparatus characterized by the above is provided.

〔Example〕

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Reference numeral 1 denotes a CPU that controls the entire information processing apparatus, which is a RAM 1a as a work memory for expanding process data and the like.
Have. A process management unit 2 checks and manages the process state of the CPU 1, and has a ROM 2a for storing a process management processing program described later and a RAM 2b for storing process data. A CRT control unit 2 controls a CRT display device and stores a window processing program described later.
Has ROM3a. Reference numeral 4 is a CRT output memory, 5 is a CRT display device, and 6 is an input device such as a keyboard.

2 to 4 show the information processing apparatus shown in FIG. 1, which is a CRT when a multi-window is opened and a plurality of information processes are executed.
A state of a display device is shown. 2-1, 3-1 and 4-1 are CRT screens,
Numerals 2-2 to 4-4 are windows for executing information processing.

When there is an input from the input device 6 to open a window on the screen of the CRT display device 5 to execute information processing, the process management unit 2 processes the information processing by 1 CPU and 3 CRTs.
Transfer to the control unit. The CPU 1 executes the information processing, and the CRT control unit 3 outputs the window for the information processing to the CRT memory 4. In FIG. 2, the window 2-2 has just been opened, and the windows 2-3 and 2-4 are information processing windows that have been in the execution state before that. The process management unit 2 always checks the input from the input device 6 and the information processing state of all windows, and informs the CRT control unit 3 that there is a window waiting for input after the processing is completed. In the CRT control unit 3, when there is a notification of the end of information processing, the window will come to the front.
It is output to the CRT display device 5 via the CRT memory 4 and displayed. The state in which the tasks in the window 2-4 are completed is shown in FIG. 4, and the state in which the tasks in the windows 2-3 are completed is shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the process management operation of the process management unit involved in the series of processes.

The process management unit 2 checks in step S1 whether there is an input for opening a new window from the input device or an input for executing new information processing. If there is an input, it is registered in the process table RAM2b and transmitted to the CPU1 and the CRT control unit 3 (steps S2 and S3). If there is no input, proceed directly to step S4. In step S4, the process table is searched to see if all registered processes have been searched. If there is an unsearched process, the process status is checked via the CPU1 in step S5.
If the checked process is being processed, the process returns to step S4. If it is in the input waiting state (end of processing), the process proceeds to step S7, the process is removed from the process table, the CRT control unit 3 is notified of the end of the process, and the process returns to step S4. Step S4
When the table search is completed with, the process returns to step S1.

FIG. 6 is a flow chart showing the window processing operation of the CRT control unit 3 of FIG. At step S9, it is checked whether or not there is a notification from step S3 from the process management unit 2,
If there is, in step S10, follow it accordingly via the CRT memory 4.
The window is output to the CRT display device 5. If not, the process proceeds to step S11, and if it is not checked again whether or not there is a notification from step S8 from the process management unit 2, the process returns to step S9. If so, check to see if that process's window has a hidden portion of another process's window. If not, the process similarly returns to step S9, and if there is, the window of the process that ended is output to the frontmost in step S13,
Return to step S9.

In the above embodiment, the window is output to the front on the CRT display screen to indicate the end of the information processing execution. It is also possible to raise it.

〔The invention's effect〕

In the information processing device according to the present invention, a plurality of windows are displayed on the display screen, and when the information processing is assigned to each window, a storage means for storing the processing state of the information processing is provided. By checking the information of the process, the process ends and the input waiting state is detected, and the entire window is displayed, so even if it is hidden behind another window and can not be seen, the input waiting state of the process can be surely grasped, Therefore, there is an effect that the waiting time for input can be shortened.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the information processing apparatus of the present invention. 2 to 4 are views of the CRT display screen according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a flow chart showing the process management operation of the process management unit. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a flow chart showing the window processing operation of the CRT control unit. 1 ... CPU 2 ... Process management unit 3 ... CRT control unit 4 ... CRT memory 5 ... CRT display device 6 ... Input device

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A plurality of windows are displayed on a display screen,
In an information processing device capable of assigning information processing to each window, a storage unit for storing a processing state of information processing assigned to each displayed window and a processing state stored in the storage unit By detecting, by detecting whether or not the information processing assigned to each window is in the input waiting state, by the detecting means, at least a part is assigned to a window hidden by another window. And a display control means for displaying the entire part of the window including the hidden part when an input waiting state of the information processing is detected.