JP4779515B2 - Window process control program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a window process control program, and more particularly to a window process control program for controlling the operation of a window process in accordance with an operation of a pointing device.

  As represented by Microsoft Windows (registered trademark), an operating system (OS) having a window system has become the mainstream of the present day. A user of a computer equipped with the OS can move the window within the screen by dragging and dropping the window using a pointing device, or by clicking a predetermined button of GUI (Graphical User Interface). An event can be input to the window process corresponding to the window, or the window process can be terminated. Here, the “window process” refers to a process that operates with window display (the same applies hereinafter).

  However, the operation using this pointing device is troublesome. For example, consider a procedure for creating an e-mail with e-mail software, sending it to a destination, and then exiting the e-mail software. After creating the e-mail content, the user confirms the position of the send button on the screen, moves the pointing device over the send button, and clicks the send button. As a result, the e-mail is transmitted to the destination. Thereafter, the position of a button for closing the window on the screen (in many cases, an X pattern button) is confirmed, and in many cases, the pointing device is moved over the small button and the button is clicked. This closes the e-mail software window and ends the e-mail software process.

  As described above, it is troublesome to visually confirm the operation site on the screen and perform an operation that requires a certain degree of accuracy.

  On the other hand, as a method of eliminating such annoying operation, an event input by a so-called mouse gesture is realized, and is installed in, for example, Opera of a web browser. In this case, different events can be input in accordance with the movement trajectory of the pointer corresponding to the pointing device. Further, as a document disclosing a technique for inputting a different event according to the movement trajectory of the pointer, there is, for example, Patent Document 1.

However, the conventional technique has a disadvantage that a mouse gesture corresponding to an event to be input must be stored in advance for each event. Further, in Patent Document 1, the operation has to be performed at a specific position on the screen as in the case of the conventional button operation, and there is a problem that a certain degree of accuracy is required for the operation.
JP 2000-330711 A

  The present invention improves the disadvantages of the conventional example, and in particular, a plurality of different events can be input by the intuitive and common movement operation of the pointing device, and the position on the screen where the operation is performed is also narrowly limited. The challenge is to provide a user-friendly event input environment. In particular, it is an object to realize the function in a process of transmitting or publishing content to a specific destination.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention has devised a program for causing a computer to execute the following steps.
(1) An operation determination step of detecting an operation of the pointing device and determining by calculation whether the operation is an operation of “throwing” a window corresponding to the window process.
(2) A process state consultation step for reading, from the storage unit, a process state flag recorded and updated in the storage unit by the window process when an operation of “throwing” a window corresponding to the window process is detected as a result of the operation determination step ,
(3) If the window process state is in the first state as a result of the process state consultation step, a process end step for terminating the window process;
(4) If the window process state is in the second state as a result of the process state consultation step, a sending step of transmitting or releasing the content being handled by the window process to a predetermined destination via the communication means.

  Preferably, the first state is a state in which a destination is not specified in the window process, and the second state is a state in which a destination is specified in the window process.

  Here, various means for detecting the “throw” operation are conceivable, but as a pointing device operation, a drag and drop operation is intended, and as a condition for detecting the operation as a “throw” operation, The case where the speed of the operation exceeds a threshold value, the case where the acceleration of the operation exceeds the threshold value, the case where the end coordinates of the operation are outside a predetermined region, and the like can be considered. Further, the operation speed and acceleration can be calculated based on the values obtained by calculating the movement coordinate distance of the pointer in unit time.

  In the program of the present invention, if the window process can be terminated (first state) and the user drags and drops the window with a pointing device, if the user can determine the intention to “throw” to the operation, the window is displayed. Judge that it is unnecessary and terminate the window process. In addition, if the content handled by the window process can be sent or published (second state) and the user drags and drops the window with a pointing device, if the user can determine the intention to “throw” to the operation, It is determined that the content being handled is intended to be released to the destination, and the content is transmitted or disclosed to the destination.

  According to this, regardless of whether the user wants to end the window process or to send or publish the content handled by the window, the user simply needs to perform a “throw” operation, and as a result, the process ends. Whether to send or publish content is automatically determined according to the state of the process, so it is possible to input a plurality of different events by intuitive and common movement operation of the pointing device, and the operation It is possible to provide a user-friendly event input environment so that the position on the screen is not narrowly limited, and in particular, in the process of transmitting or publishing content to a specific destination, the function can be realized. it can.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a content publishing system to which the present invention is applied. The contents to be disclosed are stored in the relay server 20 in advance. The relay server 20, the user terminal 10 instructing the release of the content, and the destination terminal 30 notified of the release of the content are connected to a data communication network 40 such as the Internet, so that data communication can be performed mutually. It is possible.

  The window process control program of the present invention is executed in the user terminal 10. The user terminal 10 is configured as follows. The user terminal 10 is a modem that transmits and receives data between an input unit 1 including a pointing device such as a mouse, a display unit 2 that is a computer display that displays a window screen provided by a window process, and a data communication network 40. And the like, a storage means 4 including a RAM, a ROM and a large-capacity storage, and an information processing means 5 which is a processor for processing information inputted / outputted by these means.

  In this embodiment, the information processing means 5 executes a window process for publishing content to a predetermined destination, and also executes the window process control program of the present invention along with the execution of this process. Here, the window process program and the window process control program may be downloaded from the relay server 20 or other external computer to the user terminal 10 and executed.

  The storage unit 4 includes a process state flag for storing the state of the content publishing window process. This process status flag stores a distinction as to whether or not a destination as a content publication destination is designated in the window process. In addition, the storage unit 4 stores candidates (destination candidate identifiers) that can be selected as destinations of content disclosure destinations in the window process.

  The window process executed by the information processing means 5 provides the GUI shown in FIG. A window corresponding to the window process is provided with a content display area 22 for displaying the content 21 to be published, and a destination designation area 24 for designating a destination 23 as a publication destination of the content 21.

  The information processing means 5 performs the following processing as the present window process is executed. When the information processing unit 5 is requested by the input unit 1 to select a destination to which the content 21 is disclosed, the information processing unit 5 reads the destination candidate identifier from the storage unit 4 and displays a list of destination candidate identifiers on the display unit 2.

  The user of the user terminal 10 operates the input unit 1 and selects a destination for publishing the current content 21 from the list of destination candidate identifiers displayed on the display unit 2.

  The information processing unit 5 that has received the selection of the destination displays the selected destination candidate identifier 23 in the destination designation area 24 and stores the selected destination in the storage unit 4. In addition, a flag indicating the state (second state) in which the destination is specified is set in the process state flag of the storage unit 4. Here, the destination candidate identifier includes an association between a code that can individually identify the destination candidate and an icon representing each destination candidate. In the destination designation area 24, the icon 23 of the selected destination candidate is displayed. It is supposed to be.

  In addition, the user can operate the input unit 1 to request deletion of the destination displayed in the destination designation area 24.

  The information processing unit 5 requested to delete the destination deletes the destination icon 23 instructed to delete from the destination designation area 24 and also deletes it from the destination stored in the storage unit 4 as the content publication destination. As a result, when there is no destination stored as the content publishing destination, the process state flag is returned to a flag indicating a state where the destination is not specified (first state). The initial value of the process state flag is a flag indicating the first state, that is, a state in which no destination is specified.

  At a certain timing, when the user operates the pointing device within the window area corresponding to the window process of the present case and drags and drops the window, the information processing means 5 executing the window process control program of the present invention is executed. The process shown in FIG. 3 is executed.

  The information processing means 5 determines whether the drag & drop operation corresponds to a “throw” operation (S1, S2). In this embodiment, it is determined whether or not the movement speed of the pointer during drag and drop by the pointing device exceeds a preset threshold value, and when the movement speed exceeds the threshold value, the operation is a “throw” operation. judge. There are various methods for calculating the moving speed of the pointer. For example, when a window is captured by the pointing device, the position coordinates of the pointer on the screen are stored and a timer is started, and then the window is dragged. When it is dropped, the position coordinate on the screen of the pointer is stored and the timer is stopped. A method of setting D / t as the moving speed of the pointer based on the moving distance D of the position coordinates and the elapsed time t is considered as an example. In addition to this, various methods described in the section “Means for Solving Problems” are conceivable.

  If the information processing means 5 determines that a “throw” operation has been performed as a result of the determination, the information processing means 5 scrolls the window being operated to the outside of the display area of the screen along the moving direction of the pointer, Turn off the display. It is only necessary to appropriately set how far the window is scrolled and when the window is erased. However, such a display effect gives the user the feeling of throwing the window. Further, the information processing means 5 refers to the process status flag and determines whether or not a destination for publishing the content is designated at that time (S3).

  If the destination is not designated, the information processing means 5 ends the present window process (S4). At this time, after the display process is completed, the information processing means 5 ends the present window process.

  On the other hand, when the destination is designated, the information processing means 5 notifies the relay server via the communication means 3 so that the designated content is disclosed to the destination (S5). This notification includes designation of content to be published and designation of a destination to be published. Since the designation of the destination to be disclosed is stored in the storage unit 4 when the destination is selected, it is read from the storage unit 4 and included in the notification.

  When the relay server receives the designation of the content to be published and the designation of the destination to be published by this notification, the relay server distributes the content to the terminal 30 of the user of the destination.

  The delivery method is a method of sending by e-mail, a method of other push delivery, or a notification notifying that the content has been released, and the user of the destination terminal 30 is in the relay server 20 for this. A method of accessing the content can be considered.

  After sending the above notification to the relay server 20, the information processing means 5 redisplays the window corresponding to the present window process at the original display position before the drag and drop operation. At this time, the destination is reset to no state. The process status flag 4 returns to the state where the destination is not designated (first state), the display of the destination in the destination designation area 24 is erased, and the destination stored in the storage unit as the destination of the content release is also released. Then, the execution stage of the window process control program returns to the process of step S1 described above. Further, the present window process for publishing content continues processing.

  On the other hand, if it is determined in step S2 that the process is not the “throw” process, the information processing means 5 determines that the drag and drop process is a normal movement of the window and moves the display position of the window.

  According to the present embodiment described above, a user who publishes content can end the window process or publish the content by an intuitive “throw” operation, and can perform these operations by operating a common pointer. Can be done and handled easily.

  The embodiment of the present invention is not limited to the above, and various modifications are possible. For example, the relay server 20 is an e-mail server, and the notification of content release from the user terminal 10 to the relay server 20 is transmission of an e-mail to a destination with the content as an attached file. The content can be made public by receiving. In this case, the relay server 20 is divided into an email sending server and a receiving server. When the information processing means 5 detects a “throw” operation, the processing may be changed according to the position of the pointer of the pointing device in the window at that time. For example, when the position of the pointer is at the first position in the window, the window process is terminated. When the position of the pointer is at the second position in the window, the content is published and the window process is performed. If the position of the pointer is at the third position in the window, only the content is published and the window process is not terminated. Further, when the information processing means 5 detects a “throw” operation, the processing may be changed according to the moving direction of the pointer. For example, when the moving direction of the pointer is the first direction, the first process is performed, and when the moving direction is the second direction, the second process is performed.

1 is an overall configuration diagram of a content publishing system including a user terminal that executes a program of the present invention. It is a block diagram of GUI displayed on the user terminal of FIG. It is a flowchart of the window process control program which the user terminal of FIG. 1 performs.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Input means 2 Display means 3 Communication means 4 Storage means 5 Information processing means 10 User terminal 20 Relay server 30 Destination terminal 40 Data communication network

Claims (2)

A window process control program that causes a computer to execute the following steps.
(1) an operation determination step of detecting an operation of the pointing device and determining by calculation whether the operation is a “throw” operation of dragging and dropping a window corresponding to the window process;
(2) As a result of the operation determination step, when an operation of “throwing” a window corresponding to a window process is detected, a process state consultation in which a process state flag recorded and updated in the storage unit by the window process is read from the storage unit Step,
(3) As a result of the process state consultation step, if the state of the window process is in the first state, a process end step for terminating the window process;
(4) If the state of the window process is in the second state as a result of the process state consultation step, transmission that transmits or publishes the content being handled by the window process to a predetermined destination via communication means Step.   The window process according to claim 1, wherein the first state is a state in which the destination is not specified in the window process, and the second state is a state in which the destination is specified in the window process. Control program.

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