JP4725501B2 - File information display device, file information display program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an apparatus and a program for displaying information related to a file.

  Each folder icon of a folder formed in the storage device is generally displayed on the screen by a file management application such as Explorer, which is standard equipment in Windows (registered trademark) of Microsoft Corporation.

  In a conventional file management application, information on a file such as a file name or thumbnail displayed on the screen in the file information display area is dragged and dropped on the folder icon displayed in the folder display area (tree view). A file stored in a folder can be easily moved or copied to another folder simply by performing a so-called drag and drop operation.

  Further, in the conventional file management application, when displaying information about the file in the file information display area, first, a file information display space is provided as a virtual work space, and the information about the file is expanded in the file information display space. Some display the entire or part of the file information display space in a file information display area. When only a part is displayed, the range of the file information display space displayed in the file information display area can be indicated by the scroll bar and the display range can be moved.

  In addition, in the file information display space where the information related to the file is expanded, the information related to the file can be expanded in the thumbnail format, and the thumbnail can be arbitrarily moved in the file information display space by a drag and drop operation. it can.

JP 2001-337765 A JP 11-338610 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-269053

  In a conventional file management application, a file can be moved or copied to another folder by a simple operation as described above. However, it has not been possible to designate where the folder is to be moved or copied (hereinafter referred to as “move” for convenience). Therefore, when information about a file stored in the folder is displayed in the file information display area by clicking the folder icon of the destination folder, the position of the moved file is displayed in any position in the file information display area. I had to find out if it was displayed. It is sufficient if the number of files stored in the folder is small. However, when a large number of files are stored, it is troublesome to find information on the moved file from the file information display space.

  As described above, since the file information in the thumbnail format expanded in the file information display space can be arbitrarily moved in the file information display space by a drag and drop operation, the file corresponding to each folder of the movement source and the movement destination It is possible to specify the display position of the file information by displaying both the information display spaces on the screen and dropping them at desired positions in the destination file information display space. However, since a display area for displaying both file information display spaces on the screen is necessary, the operability is not always good due to the relationship with the screen size of the display.

  An object of the present invention is to improve the operability with respect to the display of information about files.

  The file information display device according to the present invention displays a folder display area in which folder icons indicating the existence of respective folders storing files are displayed, and a file information display area in which information on files stored in each folder is displayed. Display means, a drop position detection means for detecting a drop position when information on a file selected from those displayed in the file information display area is dropped on the folder icon, a display range of the folder icon, , A position in the file information display space corresponding to the drop position on the folder icon detected by the drop position detection means in association with the range of the file information display space where the information about the file stored in the folder is expanded The selected file File information management means for associating related information and a file information display space in which information on files stored in a folder corresponding to the folder icon selected from the folder icons displayed on the screen is expanded or part of the file information display space And display processing means for displaying in the information display area.

  Also, folder display processing means for expanding the folder icon in the icon display space and displaying all or part of the icon display space in the folder display area, and the position of the cursor indicating the position where the information on the selected file is dropped Cursor position detecting means for detecting the folder icon, wherein the folder display processing means enlarges and displays the folder icon on which the cursor is superimposed.

  Further, the file information management means, when information on a plurality of files is selected from those displayed in the file information display area, at a position in the file information display space corresponding to the drop position on the folder icon, Information relating to the selected file is bundled and associated.

  A file information display program according to the present invention includes a folder display area in which a folder icon indicating the existence of each folder for storing files is displayed, and a file information display area in which information on files stored in each folder is displayed. Display means for displaying a screen, drop position detection means for detecting a drop position when information on a file selected from those displayed in the file information display area is dropped on the folder icon, display range of the folder icon In the file information display space corresponding to the drop position on the folder icon detected by the drop position detecting means, in association with the range of the file information display space where the information about the file stored in the folder is expanded. position, File information management means for associating information about the selected file, the entire file information display space in which information about the file stored in the folder corresponding to the folder icon selected from the folder icons displayed on the screen is expanded, or one Function as display processing means for displaying the part in the file information display area.

  According to the present invention, the display range of the folder icon is associated with the range of the file information display space of the folder, and the folder icon is simply dropped at a desired position on the folder icon of the destination folder. Information about the file can be arranged at a position relative to the drop position on the file information display space. Thereby, operability can be improved.

  Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
FIG. 1 is a hardware configuration diagram of a computer corresponding to a file information display apparatus according to the present invention. The computer used in this embodiment can be realized with a general-purpose hardware configuration that has existed in the past. That is, as shown in FIG. 1, the computer 1 is provided with a CPU 2, a ROM 2, a RAM 3, an HDD controller 5 connected to a hard disk drive (HDD) 4, a mouse 6 and a keyboard 7 provided as input means, and a display device. An input / output controller 9 for connecting each display 8 and a network controller 10 provided as a communication means are connected to an internal bus 11.

  FIG. 2 is a functional block configuration diagram of the file information display device 20 in the present embodiment. The file information display device 20 manages folders in a hierarchical relationship, such as, for example, Documents (registered trademark) manufactured by Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. or Windows (registered trademark) system manufactured by Microsoft Corporation. It is assumed that a file management system capable of displaying on a display device in a tree structure is provided. In addition, the file information display device 20 includes an input processing unit 21, a drop position detection unit 22, a file information management unit 23, a display processing unit 24, a display space information storage unit 25, and a file storage unit 26. The input processing unit 21 receives user operation content using the mouse 6 and the keyboard 7 input from the input / output controller 9. The accepted user operation naturally includes a click operation and a drag-and-drop operation, but the drop position detection unit 22 detects a drop position on the folder icon when it is dropped on the folder icon. To do. This position detection will be described in detail later. Further, in the present embodiment, the display range of the folder icon and the range of the file information display space where the information related to the file stored in the folder is expanded are managed in association with each other. Although this point will be described in detail later, the file information management unit 23 is selected by a drag operation by the user at a position in the file information display space corresponding to the drop position on the folder icon detected by the drop position detection unit 22. Correlate information about the selected file. The display processing unit 24 displays the hierarchical relationship of each folder generated when the file is stored in the file storage unit 26 on the display 8 in a tree structure. In addition, information related to files stored in the display target folder is displayed on the display 8. The display of information about folders and files on the display 8 is basically performed by the function of the file management system, so that the processing function provided by the display processing unit 24 in this embodiment is incorporated in the file management system. Will be. The display space information storage unit 25 stores information for specifying the development position of the file information on the file information display space provided corresponding to each folder. The file storage unit 26 stores files to be displayed. In the present embodiment, the file storage destination has no characteristics. Therefore, only the file storage unit 26 is shown as the storage destination of the file to be displayed for the sake of convenience. Possible files can be displayed.

  Each component 21-24 in the file information display apparatus 20 is implement | achieved by cooperation operation | movement of the computer which forms the file information display apparatus 20, and the program run by CPU1 mounted in the computer. The display space information storage unit 25 is realized by the RAM 3 or the HDD 4 of the file information display device 20, and the file storage unit 26 is realized by the HDD 4. Further, the program used in this embodiment can be provided not only by communication means but also by storing it in a recording medium such as a CD-ROM.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a display example of a window screen displayed by the display processing unit 24 in the present embodiment. The window screen displayed by the display processing unit 24 includes a folder display area 31 and a file information display area 32. In the folder display area 31, a folder icon 33 is displayed so that the hierarchical relationship of folders can be grasped. More precisely, the folder icon 33 is expanded in the folder icon display space, and when the folder icon display space is wider than the folder display area 31, a scroll bar 34 is displayed by the file management system. The user can display the folder icon display space located in the range selected by operating the scroll bar 34 in the folder display area 31. The basic display control for the folder display area 31 is the same as that of the file management system that has existed before, except for the characteristic display control of the present embodiment described later.

  In the file information display area 32, information 35 relating to the file stored in the selected folder is displayed. In the present embodiment, information related to a file is also referred to as file information. However, file information includes information specifying each file such as a file name and image information when thumbnails are displayed, and attribute information related to the file such as a file size. Applicable. In this embodiment, file information is displayed in a thumbnail format, but in FIG. 3, only the file name is shown for convenience. For example, the file information can be switched between thumbnail display or list display and display format by selecting a desired display format from a pull-down menu displayed by selecting the display button 36 on the menu bar. . Further, it is possible to select an arrangement order for displaying the file information. The display control for the file information display area 32 is the same as the display control described for the folder display area 31. That is, the information about the file stored in the selected folder is expanded in the file information display space, and when the file information display space is wider than the file information display area 32, a scroll bar is displayed by the file management system. FIG. 3 shows an example in which the file information display space is narrower than the file information display area 32. The basic display control for the file information display area 32 is the same as that of the existing file management system except for the characteristic display control of the present embodiment described later.

  Next, the file move process in the present embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. The file move operation and the copy operation are common in that a drag and drop operation is generally performed because there is only a difference between pressing and not pressing a control key. In addition, since it is common in that an existing file is written to another folder by the operation, there is no need to explain each operation separately. Therefore, in the present embodiment, the file moving process will be described as a representative. In the present embodiment, a case where the document A stored in the folder 1 is moved to the folder 7 as shown in FIG. 3 will be described as an example. In the present embodiment, the movement of the file entity itself is not important processing content, but may be the same as before. Therefore, the description is omitted. The same applies to the embodiments described later.

  First, in order to specify a file to be moved, the user selects corresponding file information using the mouse 6, and then drags the file information to move to the folder icon 33 of the folder 7 indicating the destination folder. . An image of this operation is shown by an arrow 37 in FIG.

  The input processing unit 21 always accepts user input operations sent from the input / output controller 9. When the input processing unit 21 accepts a drop operation on the folder icon 33 due to the user performing a drop operation on the folder icon 33 (step 110), the drop position detection unit 22 moves on the folder icon 33. A drop position is detected (step 120). The position data obtained by the drop position detection process in the drop position detection unit 22 will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of the folder icon 33. The folder icon 33 is regarded as a rectangular shape, and the upper left vertex of the folder icon 33 is set to the coordinate origin (0, 0), and the lower right vertex coordinate is set to (1, 1). The coordinate data indicating the position where the mouse cursor 38 is moved and dropped by the user on the folder icon 33 in which such a coordinate system is formed is (xa, ya) (where 0 ≦ xa, ya ≦ 1). Can be represented. Accordingly, the drop position detection unit 22 detects the position of the mouse cursor 37 when the drop operation is performed, and thereby indicates a drop position representing a relative position in the dropable range (0, 0) to (1, 1). Coordinate data (xa, ya) is obtained.

  When the drop position is detected by the drop position detection unit 22, the file information management unit 23 arranges the file information on the file information display space of the destination folder 7 (step 130). The arrangement position is as follows. That is, the upper left vertex of the file information display space is the coordinate origin (0, 0), and the lower right vertex coordinate is (1, 1). Although the sizes of the folder icon 33 and the file information display space are different, the ranges are associated with each other by expressing them in (0, 0) to (1, 1). Thus, the file information management unit 23 arranges the file information at a position on the file information display space specified by the coordinate data (xa, ya) indicating the dropped relative position. Here, before describing specific processing of the file information management unit 23, display space information stored in the display space information storage unit 25 will be described.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a data configuration example of display space information stored in the display space information storage unit 25 in the present embodiment. In the display space information, a folder name, a file name, and display area coordinates are set in association with each other. The folder name is a name of the folder and is an example of information for identifying the folder. The file name is a name of a file stored in the folder, and is an example of information for identifying the file. The display area coordinates are information for specifying the display position of the file in the file information display space of the folder. In the present embodiment, since it is assumed that the file information is displayed in the thumbnail format, the display area coordinates indicate the center coordinates of the thumbnail. If necessary, the display size of the file information may be included in the display space information.

  In this example, the case where the document A is moved to the folder 7 is taken as an example. Therefore, when the document A is written into the folder 7 by the drop operation, the file information management unit 23 corresponds to the folder 7 as “document A”. The drop position “(xa, ya)” of document A is set and registered.

  Thereafter, FIG. 7 shows an example of a display screen when the folder icon 33 of the folder 7 to which the file is to be moved is clicked and information regarding the file stored in the folder 7 is displayed in the file information display area 32. Here, for convenience, the file information display area 32 and the file information display space of the folder 7 will be described as having the same size.

  When the folder icon 33 of the folder 7 is clicked, the display processing unit 24 displays information on the file stored in the folder 7 in the file information display area 32 as illustrated in FIG. At this time, the display processing unit 24 reads the display space information of the folder 7 to be displayed from the display space information storage unit 25 and displays each file information at a position determined by the Tokue value by the display area coordinates.

  According to FIG. 5, the user dropped the file information of the dragged document A on the lower right of the folder icon 33 represented by “(xa, ya)”. In accordance with this drop position, the file information of the document A is displayed at the lower right represented by “(xa, ya)” in the display range.

  When a file is moved by performing a drag-and-drop operation, the file can be easily moved by dropping it on the destination folder. However, in the past, it has not been possible to specify where the file is to be moved, but according to the present embodiment, as described above, the user can move the file on the folder icon to which the file is to be moved. By dropping at a relative position, the screen can be displayed at a position corresponding to the drop position. Conventionally, this is the place where the file information is moved to a desired position after the contents of the folder 7 are displayed or the contents of each folder at the movement source and the movement destination are displayed on the screen at the same time. In this embodiment, since it is not necessary to perform such processing operation, operability can be improved.

Embodiment 2. FIG.
While the first embodiment has described the movement process for only one file, the present embodiment describes the process for moving a plurality of files simultaneously.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a display example of a window screen displayed by the display processing unit 24 in the present embodiment. Basically, it is the same as in the first embodiment, but the number of pages constituting each document file and the page number displayed in the thumbnail are included in the file information displayed on the screen in order to clearly show the features of the present embodiment. p was included and expressed as “p / n”.

  Next, file movement processing in the present embodiment will be described. In the present embodiment, an example will be described in which the document A and the document E stored in the folder 1 are simultaneously moved to the folder 7 as shown in FIG.

  Since the movement process in the present embodiment is basically the same as that in the first embodiment, the flowchart shown in FIG. 4 is used, and overlapping processes are omitted or summarized.

  First, after the user selects a file to be moved (in this example, document A and document E), the file information is dragged to move to the folder icon 33 of the folder 7 indicating the destination folder. An image of this operation is shown by an arrow 39 in FIG.

  When the input processing unit 21 receives a drop operation on the folder icon 33 (step 110), the drop position detection unit 22 detects a drop position on the folder icon 33 (step 120). Again, coordinate data indicating the position where the drop operation has been performed is represented as (xa, ya) (where 0 ≦ xa, ya ≦ 1). However, the present embodiment is different from the first embodiment in the following points.

  FIG. 9 is an enlarged view of the folder icon 33 and corresponds to FIG. 5 in the first embodiment. In the first embodiment, the upper left vertex of the folder icon 33 is the coordinate origin (0, 0), the lower right vertex coordinate is (1, 1), and the entire folder icon 33 is associated with the file information display space. It was. In contrast, in the present embodiment, the folder icon 33 is divided into two parts to provide two modes, and different processes can be assigned to the divided areas 42 and 43. That is, the divided area 42 having the upper left vertex coordinate (0,0), the lower right vertex coordinate (0.5,1), the upper left vertex coordinate (0,0), and the lower right vertex coordinate The file information display space (1, 1) is associated. Further, the divided area 43 having the upper left vertex coordinate (0.5, 0), the lower right vertex coordinate (1, 1), the upper left vertex coordinate (0, 0), and the lower right vertex coordinate. The file information display space (1, 1) is associated. FIG. 10 shows a data configuration example of a table representing this correspondence relationship. This table may be provided inside the file information management unit 23 or may be held separately by the storage means.

  In the setting example of the table shown in FIG. 10, the upper left and lower right vertex coordinates capable of specifying the ranges of the divided areas 42 and 43 in FIG. 9 are set, and the file movement process is performed in correspondence with each area designation information. Are associated with each other. According to this example, the divided process 43 is associated with the bundling process. Although nothing is set in the divided area 42, a difference in processing due to the difference in setting will be described with a specific example.

  First, as shown in FIG. 9, the mouse cursor 38 is dropped in (xa, ya) (where 0 ≦ xa, ya ≦ 1) in the divided area 42 and then stored in the destination folder 7. Suppose that information about a file is displayed on the screen. FIG. 11 shows a display example at this time. As shown in FIG. 11, the document A and the document E to be moved are files corresponding to the relative positions (xa, ya) dropped in the divided area 42. It is displayed at each position in the information display area 32.

  On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 12, after the mouse cursor 38 is dropped at (xa, ya) (where 0 ≦ xa, ya ≦ 1) in the divided area 43, it is stored in the destination folder 7. Suppose that information about a file is displayed on the screen. A display example at this time is shown in FIG. 13. As shown in FIG. 13, the document A and the document E to be moved are bundled by executing the bundling process and then dropped in the divided region 43. It is displayed at a position in the file information display area 32 corresponding to the relative position (xa, ya). The file name after the bundling is represented as “document A” by representing one of them as a representative. However, the five-page document A and the three-page document E can be understood by referring to the number of pages included in the file information. The number of pages of the document A generated by bundling is 8 pages. Note that the bundling function itself is an existing function of an existing document management application, and thus description thereof is omitted.

  According to the present embodiment, when a plurality of documents are moved simultaneously, it is possible to instruct whether to bundle the documents at the drop position of the folder icon 33. That is, since the document can be bundled without selecting the bundling function from the edit button on the menu bar, the operability can be improved.

Embodiment 3 FIG.
As described in the above embodiments, according to the position on the destination folder icon 33, the arrangement of information related to the file to be moved in the file information display space of the folder can be determined. However, the size of the folder icon displayed in the folder information display area 31 is not always large enough.

  Therefore, in the present embodiment, the folder icon on which the mouse cursor is superimposed during the drag operation is displayed in an enlarged manner.

  FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a screen display example in the present embodiment. When it is detected that the mouse cursor 38 is superimposed on the folder icon 33 of the folder 7 selected as the movement destination, the display processing unit 24 enlarges and displays the folder icon 33 as shown in FIG. As a result, the destination position can be specified more easily.

  As described above, characteristic operations and processes have been described for each embodiment. However, these processing functions are not selectively installed in the apparatus, but all functions are installed, for example, predetermined. Either of them may be selected so as to be switchable by a key operation or the like.

  In this embodiment, the description has been made on the assumption that the drag-and-drop operation using the mouse 8 is performed. Even when means are used, the present invention is applicable.

It is a hardware block diagram of the computer corresponded to the file information display apparatus which concerns on this invention. 3 is a functional block configuration diagram of a file information display device in Embodiment 1. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a display example of a window screen displayed by the display processing unit in Embodiment 1. FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating processing when moving a file in the first embodiment. 4 is an enlarged view of a folder icon in the first embodiment. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a data configuration example of display space information according to Embodiment 1. FIG. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a display example when information regarding files stored in a file migration destination folder is displayed on the screen in the first embodiment. 10 is a diagram illustrating a display example of a window screen displayed by a display processing unit in Embodiment 2. FIG. FIG. 10 is an enlarged view of a folder icon in the second embodiment. FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a data configuration example of a table that holds information set in association with each divided area of a folder icon in the second embodiment. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a display example when information regarding files stored in a file transfer destination folder is displayed on the screen in the second embodiment. FIG. 10 is an enlarged view of a folder icon in the second embodiment. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing another display example when information regarding files stored in a file transfer destination folder is displayed on the screen in the second embodiment. 10 is a diagram showing a display example of a window screen displayed by a display processing unit in Embodiment 3. FIG.

Explanation of symbols

  1 CPU, 2 ROM, 3 RAM, 4 hard disk drive (HDD), 5 HDD controller, 6 mouse, 7 keyboard, 8 display, 9 input / output controller, 10 network controller, 11 internal bus, 20 file information display device, 21 input Processing part, 22 Drop position detection part, 23 File information management part, 24 Display processing part, 25 Display space information storage part, 26 File storage part.

Claims (4)

Display means for displaying on a screen a folder display area in which a folder icon indicating the existence of each folder storing files is displayed, and a file information display area in which information on files stored in each folder is displayed;
Drop position detecting means for detecting a drop position when information about a file selected from those displayed in the file information display area is dropped on the folder icon;
The display range of the folder icon is associated with the range of the file information display space where the information about the file stored in the folder is expanded, and corresponds to the drop position on the folder icon detected by the drop position detection means. File information management means for associating information about the selected file with a position in the file information display space;
Display processing means for displaying in the file information display area all or part of a file information display space in which information about files stored in a folder corresponding to the folder icon selected from the folder icons displayed on the screen is expanded; ,
A file information display device comprising: Folder display processing means for expanding a folder icon in an icon display space and displaying all or part of the icon display space in the folder display area;
A cursor position detecting means for detecting a position of a cursor representing a position where information on the selected file is dropped;
Have
2. The file information display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the folder display processing means enlarges and displays the folder icon on which the cursor is superimposed.   The file information management means is selected at a position in the file information display space corresponding to the drop position on the folder icon when information on a plurality of files is selected from those displayed in the file information display area. 2. The file information display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein information relating to the file is bundled and associated. Computer
Display means for displaying on a screen a folder display area in which a folder icon indicating the existence of each folder storing files is displayed and a file information display area in which information on files stored in each folder is displayed;
Drop position detecting means for detecting a drop position when information about a file selected from those displayed in the file information display area is dropped on the folder icon;
The display range of the folder icon is associated with the range of the file information display space where the information about the file stored in the folder is expanded, and corresponds to the drop position on the folder icon detected by the drop position detection means. File information management means for associating information about the selected file with a position in the file information display space;
Display processing means for displaying in the file information display area all or part of a file information display space in which information about files stored in a folder corresponding to the folder icon selected from the folder icons displayed on the screen is expanded;
File information display program to function as.

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