JP6127892B2 - Multi-window control system and program for the system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a system for controlling a window in a touch panel type display / input system in which a plurality of windows are superimposed and displayed on the same screen on a touch panel type display / operation screen, and a program for the system.

  Nowadays, in many operating systems, a multi-window display capable of displaying a plurality of windows simultaneously on one operation screen is adopted. As a result, various applications, folders, warning displays, etc. can be opened in the operation screen, and a desired operation or confirmation can be performed simply by selecting a desired window (pop-up display is displayed). (For the technology related to the system to be performed, see the invention described in Patent Document 1.)

  Multi-window display improves user operability. However, in a system that operates using a touch panel rather than using a keyboard or mouse (for example, the operation screen of a tablet or various devices), if the number of open windows increases, In order to display the basic operation screen displayed in the hierarchy, it is necessary to close each window by pressing the “Close” button of the window above it. It takes. The same problem occurs when operating with a mouse. However, in general, a keyboard can be used in an apparatus that can use a mouse, and in that case, a simpler operation such as a shortcut key operation is possible.

JP 2012-053581 A

In order to solve the above-described problem, for example, it is conceivable to display a button of a “close all windows” function in addition to a normal “close” button in all windows (see, for example, FIG. 7). However, this causes problems such as the original display area of the window being cut off or the appearance being deteriorated.
Although it is possible to arrange a “close all windows” button only in a specific window, an operation of searching for and selecting the specific window is required.
It is also conceivable to provide a physical switch or button for executing the “close all windows” function in the hardware itself, but this has a problem that it is expensive.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a multi-window control system capable of closing all windows at once with a small number of operations in a touch panel capable of displaying a plurality of windows.

The multi-window control system according to the present invention, which has been made to solve the above problems,
recognizing depression operation recognition portion that within a given region of the a) screen is pressed,
b ) a button presence determination unit for determining whether or not a button exists at the pressed position;
c) a window number determination unit for determining whether or not a predetermined number of windows are displayed on the screen;
d) When it is determined by the button presence determining unit that there is no button at the pressed position , and the window number determining unit determines that the number of windows displayed on the screen is equal to or greater than the predetermined number , and the confirmation display unit for displaying a confirmation dialog window on the screen,
Based on the execution command to e) the confirmation dialog window is input, characterized in that it comprises a full window batch termination unit to perform close all windows displayed on the screen operation.

  According to the multi-window control system according to the present invention, since a plurality of windows can be closed at a time by a simple operation, it is possible to reduce the burden on the user's operation. In addition, there is no need to add extra buttons to each window, so even if each window is small, the area can be fully used, and there is also an advantage that unnecessary changes in the screen design do not occur. . Conversely, a small window can be displayed to display sufficient information. Furthermore, since no physical switch or button is required, there is an effect that no excessive additional cost is required.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a multi-window control system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The schematic block diagram of all the window processing parts of a multi-window control system. The flowchart which shows operation | movement of a multi-window control system. A display example of a touch panel display. Screen example where a confirmation dialog is displayed on the touch panel. The other example of a display of a touchscreen display. Example of a window with a button that closes all windows.

  An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a multi-window control system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

  The multi-window control system according to this embodiment is a system that operates on a predetermined operating system (OS), and includes a touch panel 11 and an input / output processing unit 12.

  The touch panel 11 includes a display 14 that displays various types of information, and a touch input detection unit that detects a coordinate value of a touch input that is input via a user's finger, a stylus pen, or the like that is provided on the display 14. 13 and. The input / output processing unit 12 responds to requests from various applications 20 in addition to an operation receiving unit 15 that receives coordinate values from the touch input detection unit 13 of the touch panel 11, a screen display unit 16 that displays an image on the display 14. The display unit 16 includes a window display unit 17 for displaying a window, an all window processing unit 18 described later, and the like. The entity of the input / output processing unit 12 is one functional unit of a computer including, for example, a CPU (Central Processing Unit) and a memory.

The screen display unit 16 causes the display 14 to display a basic screen B (see FIGS. 4 to 6), which is a basic screen on which various operation settings on the OS can be performed.
The window display unit 17 displays one or a plurality of windows on the basic screen B according to a command from the application 20 or according to an operation performed by the user on the OS. The plurality of windows displayed by the window display unit 17 may overlap each other as shown in FIG. 4, for example, or may not overlap each other as shown in FIG.
The operation reception unit 15 refers to the display image of the screen display unit 16 according to the coordinate value of the touch input detected by the touch input detection unit 13 to determine which display element of which window the command is input to. Make a decision. This determination result is passed to the corresponding application 20, and the application 20 performs processing corresponding to the touch input. Depending on the contents of the processing, an instruction to change the display is sent from the application 20 to the window display unit 17 of the input / output processing unit 12, and the input / output processing unit 12 changes the display accordingly. .

Hereinafter, the operations of the screen display unit 16 and the all window processing unit 18 which are characteristic configurations of the multi-window control system according to the present invention will be described with reference to the schematic configuration diagram of FIG. 2 and the flowchart shown in FIG.
As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the screen display unit 16 and the all window processing unit 18 can refer to the number of setting windows stored in the value storage unit 19 which is usually a nonvolatile memory. is there.

  As shown in FIG. 4, which is a display example of the display 14 on the touch panel 11, a partial area of the basic screen B is designated in advance as the designated area Z. In the example of FIG. 4, the designated area Z is designated as a thin area at the top of the basic screen B, but this may be at the bottom of the screen, left or right, any of the four corners, or the center. Information on the range of the designated area Z is also stored in the value storage unit 19.

  In the example of FIG. 4, three windows W1 to W3 are displayed so as to overlap each other. Each of the windows W1 to W3 is provided with close buttons C1 to C3. When the user touches the close button C2, for example, an operation of closing the window W2 is performed. In FIG. 4, the designated area Z is not completely transparent but slightly translucent so that the user can identify the range of the designated area Z. As a result, even if a part of the window is positioned below the designated area Z, that part of the window (part of the window W1 in the example of FIG. 4) can be sufficiently visually recognized.

  As illustrated in FIG. 4, when a touch operation is performed on the designated area Z, a pressing operation recognition unit 161 of the screen display unit 16 is detected by a signal transmitted via the touch input detection unit 13 and the operation reception unit 15. Then, it is determined that the touch input is within the designated area Z (step S1). Further, the button presence determination unit 162 of the screen display unit 16 determines whether or not there is a button for accepting any operation at the location of the touch input (step S2). If there is a button at the location of the touch operation ("No" in step S2): For example, an operation button or a close button C1 of the window W1, or an icon arranged on the basic screen B exists ), The process of the button (or icon, etc.) is executed (step S7: for example, the window W1 is closed), and the process ends.

  If there is no button at the location of the touch operation (“Yes” in step S2), the process proceeds to step S3, and the screen display unit 16 performs a process corresponding to the detected touch input on the all window processing unit 18. I leave it to.

  In the all window processing unit 18 entrusted with the processing, first, the window number determination unit 181 determines whether or not the number of currently opened windows is equal to or greater than the number of set windows stored in the value storage unit 19. It is assumed that “3” is designated as the default value for the number of setting windows.

  If the determination in step S3 is “No”, the process ends. On the other hand, if the determination is “Yes”, the process proceeds to step S4, and as shown in FIG. 5, the confirmation display unit 182 of the all window processing unit 18 “can I close all windows? ? Is displayed on the forefront of the basic screen B (before all the windows). When the user presses a “cancel” button included in the confirmation window D (“No” in step S5), the process ends. On the other hand, when the user presses the “OK” button (Yes in step S5), the all-window batch end unit 183 of the all-window processing unit 18 closes all the open windows W1 to W3 (step S6) and performs processing. Exit.

  Since the number of setting windows is “3”, the number of user operations necessary to close all windows is (1) pressing the designated area Z and (2) pressing “OK” in the confirmation dialog. All the windows can be closed with a smaller number of times than when the “close button” included in each of the three open windows is pressed one by one. However, since the number of operations (number of touches) may vary depending on the situation and environment, it is desirable that the number of setting windows can be changed from this default value.

  The multi-window control system according to the present invention is applied to, for example, an operation / display panel provided in an analysis / measurement apparatus that measures a physical quantity, but is not limited to this, and multi-window control systems of all kinds and fields are used. The present invention can be applied to a window type touch panel display / input system.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 ... Touch panel 13 ... Touch input detection part 14 ... Display 12 ... Input / output processing part 15 ... Operation reception part 16 ... Screen display part 161 ... Press-down operation recognition part 162 ... Button presence determination part 17 ... Window display part 18 ... All window processing Part 181 ... Number of windows determination part 182 ... Confirmation display part 183 ... Batch end part of all windows 19 ... Value storage part B ... Basic screen W1 to W3 ... Window C1 to C3 ... Button to close window Z ... Designated area D ... Confirmation window

Claims (4)

recognizing depression operation recognition portion that within a given region of the a) screen is pressed,
b ) a button presence determination unit for determining whether or not a button exists at the pressed position;
c) a window number determination unit for determining whether or not a predetermined number of windows are displayed on the screen ;
d) When it is determined by the button presence determining unit that there is no button at the pressed position , and the window number determining unit determines that the number of windows displayed on the screen is equal to or greater than the predetermined number , and the confirmation display unit for displaying a confirmation dialog window on the screen,
Based on the execution command to e) the confirmation dialog window is input, multi-window, characterized in that it comprises a full window batch termination unit to perform close all windows displayed on the screen on the operation Control system.   The multi-window control system according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined area is displayed translucently.   The multi-window control system according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined number is three. A program for a multi-window control system in a touch panel display / input system, comprising:
pressing operation recognition portion recognizes that the predetermined area is pressed in a) screen,
b ) a button presence determination unit that determines whether or not a button exists at the pressed position;
c) a window number determination unit for determining whether or not a predetermined number of windows are displayed on the screen;
d) When it is determined by the button presence determining unit that there is no button at the pressed position , and the window number determining unit determines that the number of windows displayed on the screen is equal to or greater than the predetermined number , confirmation display unit for displaying a confirmation dialog window on the screen, and
Based on the execution command to e) the confirmation dialog window is input, multi-window, characterized in that to function as all windows batch termination unit to perform all operation of closing the window displayed on the screen Program for control system.

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