JP3162735B2 - Display control method and device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a display control device having a window display function and an apparatus therefor.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a display device having a window display function, when a window is opened and a window screen is displayed on a screen on which information is already displayed,
The window screen is superimposed on the already displayed screen, information is displayed in the window, and the user can operate only the uppermost overlapping window.

[0003]

However, in the above conventional example, since the information displayed on the lower side of the window is covered by the overlapping of the windows, the information is viewed simultaneously with the information displayed on the upper window screen. There was a disadvantage that it could not be done. In addition, there is a drawback that the processing based on the information displayed on the lower side cannot be performed while the upper window is displayed.

The present invention has been made in view of the above conventional example, and has as its object to provide a display control method and apparatus capable of displaying information of a portion covered by a window and operating the information. .

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, a display control method according to the present invention comprises the following steps. That is, a step of opening a first window on a display screen, a step of inputting information in the first window, a step of displaying the information in the first window, and an instruction to operate the information And, based on the instructions,
A step of opening a second window so as to overlap the first window, and displaying information on work relating to the operation in a first area in the second window, wherein the second window is covered by the second window. Displaying, in the second window, information referred to by the instruction among the information of the first window in the second area;
Receiving a work on the information displayed in the second area in the second window, instructing to close the second window, and, when the second window is closed by the instruction in the step, Reflecting the work on the information displayed in the closed second window in the information of the first window covered by the opening of the second window. A control method is provided.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the first screen is displayed on the display screen.
First window opening means for opening the first window, input means for inputting information in the first window, display means for displaying the information in the first window, and an instruction for instructing an operation on the information Means, a second window opening means for opening a second window so as to overlap with the first window based on an instruction from the instruction means, and information on work relating to the operation is stored in a second window in the second window. Display control means for displaying in the second area in the second window, information displayed in the first area and cited by the instruction among the information in the first window covered by the second window; Receiving means for receiving a work on the information displayed in the second area in the second window, and instructing to close the second window When the second window is closed by an instruction from the close instruction means, the operation on the information displayed in the closed second window is performed by opening the second window. And a reflecting unit for reflecting the information in the first window covered by the first window.

[0007]

According to the above construction, the present invention provides a first display on a display screen.
When the window is opened, information is input to the first window, and the information is displayed in the first window, and an operation for the information is instructed, the first window is displayed based on the instruction. A second window is opened so as to overlap with the first window, information on work relating to the operation is displayed in a first area in the second window, and the information of the first window covered by the second window is displayed. The information to be quoted by the instruction is displayed in a second area in the second window, and an operation on the information displayed in the second area in the second window is received. Thereafter, the user instructs to close the second window, and when the second window is closed by the instruction, the work on the information displayed in the closed second window is performed by opening the second window. An operation is performed to reflect the information on the first window that has been covered.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a display device having a window display function which is a typical embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a keyboard on which keys for performing various inputs are laid out as shown in FIG. Reference numeral 2 denotes a display unit capable of displaying information by opening a window.
D or a plasma display or a CRT. A display memory 3 stores information to be displayed on the display unit 2. The display unit 2 displays various information such as information display on a display unit screen, a window screen display, and a cursor display according to the information stored in the display memory 3. 4
Is a CPU, which controls the operation of the entire apparatus based on a control program, data, and the like stored in the ROM / RAM unit 5, performs transmission and reception of information with each device component, various memories, and the like. Various types of information processing are performed using the work area secured in the process.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a text memory, which is a keyboard 1
The text information input from the user is stored. Reference numeral 7 denotes a memory for temporarily storing information to be displayed on a place other than the window screen of the display unit 2 (hereinafter, referred to as a main screen to distinguish it from the window screen) (hereinafter, referred to as a main screen memory). 8-9 are window A
A memory, a window B memory, which divides information to be displayed in a window and temporarily stores the information. A cursor position memory 10 stores a cursor position on the main screen memory. 11 to 12 are main screen memories 7 respectively.
This memory stores a transfer start position and a transfer end position when the above information is transferred to the window A memory 8 and the window B memory 9. Hereinafter, 11 is referred to as a transfer start position memory, and 12 is referred to as a transfer end position memory.

As is apparent from the above configuration, particularly the configuration of the window memory, the display device of this embodiment opens two windows (windows A and B) in addition to displaying information on the main screen. Information can be displayed.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the appearance of the display device shown in FIG. 1. In FIG. 2, the same components as those in FIG. 1 are denoted by the same reference numerals.

FIG. 3 is a plan view showing the appearance of the keyboard 1 shown in FIG. In FIG. 3, 13 is a character / numerical key for inputting characters, 14 is a function key arranged around the character / numerical key and on a key top, and 15 is a cursor on the display unit 2 which is moved left, right, up and down. A cursor control key used for moving to a desired position, 16 is an item selection instruction key to be pressed when indicating a selection item to be displayed on each screen, 17 is a selection key for instructing execution of specified various processing, 18 Is a character conversion instruction key, and 19 is a processing end instruction key.

FIGS. 4 to 12 are views showing transitions of the display state of the display unit 2 in the display device of this embodiment. In these figures, K1 and K2 indicate cursors WD1 and WD, respectively.
2 indicates a window. Further, “□” in the window WD1 indicates that the selection item is not specified, and “■” in the window WD1 indicates that the selection item is specified.

In the display device configured as described above,
When a specific operation is instructed by a key on the keyboard 1, the CPU 4 opens a window on the display unit 2 to display a window screen in which a part of the contents of the main screen is partially captured, as shown in FIGS. Instruct to display. The information on the window screen displayed in this way is further processed by instructions of various keys such as the cursor control key 15. In particular, in this embodiment, when the character conversion instruction key 18 is pressed, a window is opened and a character conversion function can be selected.

Hereinafter, the window display processing and the processing of the in-window information executed by the display device having the above-mentioned configuration will be described with reference to the diagrams showing the transition of the display state of FIGS. Will be described.

First, in step S1, the power of the display device is turned on, and the device becomes operable.
Is displayed. Subsequently, in step S2, the item selection cursor is moved to the item "input text" using the item selection instruction key 16 as shown in FIG. Here, when the selection key 17 is pressed, the screen is switched to a text input screen as shown in FIG. In step S3, characters are input from the keyboard 1 to create, for example, a text as shown in FIG. Here, the input characters are actually stored in the text memory 6.
Is stored in the display memory 3 in accordance with an instruction from the CPU 4.
Is stored in a state processed into a form that can be displayed on the display unit 2
Is processed to be displayed in.

Here, consider a case where a character conversion function, which is one of the modifications of text, is selected as one of operations using a window. In this embodiment, it is assumed that any one of full-width conversion, horizontal double conversion, vertical double conversion, quadruple conversion, and outline conversion can be selected by the character conversion function as the specific processing.

When the character conversion key 18 is pressed, it is confirmed in step S4 that the character conversion key 18 has been pressed. Here, if a key for instructing another process is pressed, a process corresponding to the instruction of the key is performed. However, since it is not directly related to the description of the embodiment of the present invention, here, step In S11, it will be described as another process.

By the way, in step S5, the process proceeds to step S5.
U4 instructs window open, and outputs information for displaying various character conversion selection menus in the window.
The data is sent from the M / RAM unit 5 to the window A memory 8. Next, the CPU 4 obtains a place to open the window based on the coordinate value of the cursor K1 stored in the cursor position memory 10, and displays the text displayed on the main screen to be covered by the window open. Find the range of Further, the CPU 4 determines the start point and end point addresses in the text memory 6 in which the corresponding text covered by the window is stored as the transfer start position and the transfer end position. It is stored in the position memory 12. Here, it is assumed that the window is rectangular, and the text memory 6 is a two-dimensional addressing type memory in which the text in the range is read out by specifying the range of the row address and the column address of the start and end points.
Subsequently, the information in the text memory 6 corresponding to the position indicated by the information in the transfer start position memory 11 to the position indicated by the information in the transfer end position memory 12 is transferred to the window B memory. Thereafter, the CPU 4 sends information of the window A memory 8 and the window B memory 9 to a part of the display memory 3, that is, an address corresponding to a position where the window is opened. As a result, the window screen shown in FIG. In FIG.
The information stored in the window A memory 8 is stored in WD1.
The information stored in the window B memory 9 is displayed on WD2. Thus, when the window is displayed, if the user wants to select a character conversion function from the information displayed on the WD 1, the user selects a desired function using the item selection instruction key 16 and uses the selection key 17 to select the desired function. To execute the selected function.

After the window is displayed, if it is desired to select an input character and perform character conversion, the process proceeds to step S6.

In step S6, as shown in FIG. 9, the cursor control key 15 is operated to move the cursor K2.
Move the displayed text to the character you want to convert. In step S7, the item selection instruction key 16
For example, as shown in FIG. 10, the item selection cursor is moved to the item of "4 times conversion" using. Next, when the selection key 17 is pressed in step S8, as shown in FIG. 11, the CPU 4 executes character conversion based on the selected item of the character designated by the cursor K2.

In step S9, it is determined whether or not to continue the character conversion. This judgment is made by processing end instruction key 1
9 is performed. Here, processing end instruction key 1
If 9 has not been pressed, the process returns to step S6, and waits for cursor movement to continue character conversion.
On the other hand, when the processing end instruction key 19 is pressed, it is determined that the character conversion is completed, and the window is closed. The display contents of WD2, that is, the window B memory 9
Is reflected on the main screen, the process returns to step S4, and returns to the display of only the main screen as shown in FIG.

Therefore, according to this embodiment, the information to be covered by the opening of the window is displayed in a part of the window, so that the information can be operated while always visually confirming the information. .

The present invention may be applied to a system including a plurality of devices, may be applied to an apparatus including a single device, or may be achieved by supplying a program to the system or the device. Needless to say, the present invention can be applied to such cases.

[0027]

As described above, according to the present invention, a first window is opened on a display screen, information is input to the first window, and the information is displayed in the first window. When the user instructs an operation on the information, the second window is opened so as to overlap the first window based on the instruction, and the information on the operation related to the operation is transmitted to the first window in the second window. Information in the first window covered by the second window, and information referred to by the instruction in the second window is displayed in a second area in the second window. Since the work on the information displayed in the area No. 2 is accepted, necessary operations can be performed while looking at only the second window, and the operability of the window is improved. A. Further, after that, the user instructs to close the second window, and when the second window is closed by the instruction, the operation on the information displayed in the closed second window is performed by the second window.
Is reflected in the information of the first window that has been covered by the opening of the second window, so that the information can be smoothly returned to the first window even after the second window is closed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a display device having a window display function, which is a typical embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the appearance of the entire display device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a plan view showing the appearance of the keyboard shown in FIG.

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FIG. 11

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing transition of the display state of the display unit screen.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing window display processing and processing for processing information in a window.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 keyboard 2 display unit 3 display memory 4 CPU 5 ROM / RAM unit 6 text memory 7 main screen memory 8 window A memory 9 window B memory 10 cursor position memory 11 transfer start position memory 12 transfer end position memory

Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] 1. A step of opening a first window on a display screen; a step of inputting information in the first window; a step of displaying the information in the first window; A step of instructing an operation; a step of opening a second window so as to overlap with the first window based on the instruction; Displaying the information referred to by the instruction in the information of the first window covered by the second window in a second area in the second window; Receiving a work on information displayed in a second area in the second window; instructing to close the second window; and Reflecting the work on the information displayed in the closed second window in the information of the first window covered by the opening of the second window when the window is closed; A display control method, comprising: 2. A step of displaying a cursor in each of the first window and a second area in the second window, based on a cursor movement instruction, without moving a cursor of the first window. Moving the cursor in a second area of the second window. 2. The display control method according to claim 1, further comprising: 3. A first window opening means for opening a first window on a display screen; an input means for inputting information in the first window; and a display means for displaying the information in the first window. Instruction means for instructing an operation on the information; second window opening means for opening a second window so as to overlap with the first window based on an instruction from the instruction means; Is displayed in a first area in the second window, and information of the first window covered by the second window, which is referred to by the instruction , is included in the first window. Display control means for displaying in a second area in the second window; accepting means for accepting work on information displayed in the second area in the second window; Closing instruction means for instructing closing of the second window; and work on information displayed in the closed second window when the second window is closed by an instruction from the closing instruction means. To
A display unit for reflecting the information in the first window covered by the opening of the second window. 4. A cursor display means for displaying a cursor in each of the first window and a second area in the second window, and a cursor in the first window is moved based on a cursor movement instruction. 4. The display device according to claim 3, further comprising: moving means for moving a cursor in a second area in the second window without moving the cursor.