JPH01285985A - Guidance display device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable a user to utilize a function screen with good use efficiency of the screen while receiving adequate guidance display by causing the degree of operation mastery to be recognized by the system and displaying the adequate guidance and function screen adequate for the level. CONSTITUTION:The degree of mastery of the operation by the operator 102 is inputted by a means 103 for inputting the degree of mastery and a means 104 for selecting and displaying the guidance functions so that the guidance meeting the inputted degree of mastery is selected from the plural guidances and is displayed on the CRT screen. The function screen corresponding to the displayed guidance is selected from the plural function screens and is displayed on the CRT screen when the guidance is displayed on the CRT screen. The guidance needed for the operator 102 of the system is thereby displayed on the CRT screen and the function screen corresponding to the guidance is eventually displayed. The effective utilization of the CRT screen is thus enabled.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Object of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention is directed to a system that is necessary for operating a computer using a CRT display device, for example, in a computer system such as a plant monitoring and control system. The present invention relates to a guidance display device that displays guidance on a CRT screen.

(Prior Art) FIG. 11 shows a display example of a CRT screen using a conventional guidance display method. FIG. 12 shows a display example of only a part of FIG. 11, that is, the guidance portion. In FIG. 11, in the CR7 screen 6, operation guidance with fixed content is displayed in a guidance display area 8 corresponding to the function screen 7, and a key person canilia 9 for screen operation is also provided.

(Problem to be solved by the invention) In the conventional guidance display, regardless of the operating level of the operator, no matter who the operator is, the same operator is proficient in system operation. Even though
The same guidance display is always displayed. Therefore, for example,
The guidance display shown in FIG. 12 will always be displayed on the screen shown in FIG. 11.

When guidance with fixed content is displayed in this way, the following problems arise. That is, the guidance display is for all operators to read in common. Therefore, there is no need to display it in detail like in an operation manual. On the other hand, if only abbreviations are displayed without displaying explanatory text, the guidance display will be difficult for first-time users to understand. Therefore, the displayed content is somewhere between the two. However, if this is done, it will be difficult for beginners to understand, and conversely, for experienced users, the guidance display will be tedious and lack conciseness.

As a way to solve such problems to some extent,
Conventionally, an auxiliary key such as a [HELP] key has been used. In other words, when the operator does not understand the operation, a more detailed explanation of the operation can be sent to C.
It is displayed on the RT screen from time to time. but,
Even in such a case, a novice user has to press the [HELP] key to request an operation explanation every time he or she operates the screen, resulting in a complicated and inconvenient operation.

As briefly mentioned above, the above problem not only occurs for different operators, but also occurs when the same operator gradually becomes proficient in operating the system. In other words, even if a user is at a beginner level when the system is introduced, he or she will gradually become accustomed to operating the system and become an expert.

In such cases, it is obvious that displaying guidance for beginners at the time of system installation would be troublesome.

The problems with the conventional method are not limited to the inconvenience of the content of the guidance as described above, but also affect the efficiency of screen usage. That is, if the guidance is displayed in detail enough to read the manual, a considerable area of the CRT screen will be filled up. However, conventionally, more guidance is displayed than necessary for a skilled operator, which is irrational because the efficiency of screen usage decreases and the display items 11 are limited. For example, in Figure 11,
The selection items of category 1 on the function screen 7 are limited to six items 1 to 6. In this case, if the guidance content shown in Fig. 12 is more than the operator needs, the guidance display area 8 becomes larger than necessary and occupies a large area, which reduces screen usage efficiency. It will be unnecessarily degraded.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and its purpose is to:
It is an object of the present invention to provide a guidance display device that can make the content of guidance display and the content of a function screen appropriate according to the operator's skill level regarding operations.

[Structure of the invention]

(Means for Solving the Problems) As shown in FIG. 1(a), the guidance display device of the present invention uses a CRT display device 100 to
A guidance display device for displaying guidance indicating CRT screen operation procedures for operating a CRT screen on the CRT screen, which includes a proficiency level input means 103 for inputting the operating proficiency level of the operator 102, and various levels of the proficiency level. From among a plurality of pre-stored guidances, the guidance corresponding to the proficiency level input by the proficiency level input means is selected and the CRTii! A guidance selection display means 104 to be displayed on the CRT screen selects a function screen corresponding to the guidance displayed on the CRT screen from among a plurality of pre-held function screens having contents corresponding to the plurality of guidances respectively. A functional surface curve selection display means 105 is displayed on the CRT screen.

(Function) The operating proficiency level of the operator 102 is input by the proficiency input means 10B. The guidance selection display means 104 functions according to the input proficiency level.

That is, in the guidance selection/display means] 04, the guidance corresponding to the input proficiency level or a plurality of guidances is selected and displayed on the CR7 screen. CR7
When guidance is displayed on the screen, the function screen selection display means 105 selects the function screen corresponding to the displayed guidance or from among a plurality of function screens, and selects C.
Displayed on the R7 screen. As a result, on the CR7 screen,
Guidance required by the system operator 102 is displayed, and a function screen corresponding to the guidance is displayed, thereby making effective use of the CRT screen.

(Embodiment) In FIG. 1(b) showing an embodiment of the present invention, a CRT control unit 1 that controls and displays manual operations among the functions possessed by the computer system is a well-known screen display, key input processing, etc. The screen control section 2 for performing the operation and the level setting section 3 for making the system recognize the operation level of the operator are blanked.

The level setting section 3 has a function of recognizing the current proficiency level (operation level) of the operator 4 regarding system operations and storing it within the system.

The screen control unit 2 also controls appropriate guidance and function screens according to the operation level recognized by the level setting unit 3.
Displayed on the RT display device 5 and displayed on the CRT between the device and the operator 4
It realizes and controls dialogue.

In FIG. 1(b), it is shown that information is transmitted between the level setting section 3 and the operator 4 through a system different from the CRT display device 5; You can also do it like this.

Before explaining the operation of the above device, let us explain the CRT using the above device.
Examples of screen displays are shown in Figures 2 (a) and (b).

Shown in (C). In the same figure, (a) is the beginner's screen for beginners operating the system for the first time, (b) = 7 - is the intermediate screen for intermediate operators who are a little used to it, and (c)
shows an advanced user's screen for an advanced operator f'1 who is skilled in the operation. The CRT screen 6 has function screens 7a to 7C, guidance display areas 88 to 8C, and key display areas 9a to 9C, similar to the conventional CRT display example shown in FIG.

Corresponding to FIGS. 2(a), (b), and (c), display examples of each guidance display area are shown in FIG. 3(a),
Shown in (b) and (c). The content of the guidance display, for beginners as shown in FIG. 3(a), displays detailed explanation literature to the level of reading an operating manual.

In the version for intermediate users shown in FIG. 3(b), a simple literature with only key points of operation is displayed.

In FIG. 3(c), sentences are not used as much as possible, and simple abbreviations etc. are displayed. In other words, it is possible to display guidance that is truly needed according to the level of the operator.

In this way, due to the difference in the amount of guidance displayed, the second
As shown in FIGS. (a) to (C), the sizes of the guidance display areas 8a to 8C are made smaller from the area 8a for beginners to the area 8c for advanced users. As a result, the contents of the function screens 7a to 7C can be enriched by increasing the number of display items for advanced users.

Next, we will mainly explain the operation of the screen control unit 2 shown in FIG. 1 in order to display the screens shown in FIGS. This will be explained with reference to the flowchart in FIG.

It is assumed that the screen display request from the operator 4 in FIG. 1(b) is input to the screen control unit 2 as the screen number of the screen requested to be displayed. First, the screen control unit 2 takes out the requested screen number (step 1). Next, the level information of the operator currently set by the level setting section 3 is retrieved (step 2). Here, it is assumed that the level information is divided into three parts, ``for beginners'', ``intermediate users,'' and ``advanced users'', each corresponding to a numerical value of 1°2.3. Based on the extracted level information, it is determined what the current level is (step 3). Thereafter, screen data corresponding to the determined level is extracted (steps 4 to 6). The extracted screen data is shown in FIG. 2(a) above.

It is for displaying the function screens 78 to 7c shown in (b) and (C), and the contents are different depending on the level as described above. Further, guidance data corresponding to the determined level is extracted (steps 7 to 9).

Examples of configurations of the above screen data and guidance data are shown in FIGS. 5 to 7.

FIG. 5 shows the area where the screen display data is stored. As shown in FIG. 5, screen data 10. of various function screens 7a to 7c. ~10I1
1 are stored in random order. In this case, data for beginners to advanced in-house data may be mixed.

Moreover, FIG. 6 shows the display data of the guidance display areas 8a to 8c, and similarly to the screen data 10, to 10,
Guidance data 11 to 11k used for one display
are stored in a mixed manner. Screen data 10. ~10I
Il and guidance data 11-11. In both cases, the storage location of each data is its pointer 2, to 12 . and 1
3113.

Screen data 101 to 10 and guidance data 11 to 11 shown in FIGS. 5 and 6 include steps 4 to 10 in FIG.
In step 9, the screen is retrieved according to the display request screen number and the current operation level. In order to take it out, a screen display table (screen display table) shown in FIG. 7 is provided. The table is for beginners, intermediate and advanced users]
It is divided into 4°15.1.6. those table 1
4 to 16 are display screen numbers 17□ to 1 at the above operation level.
7. screen data 10 to be displayed when requested;
~10I11 and the pointer where guidance data 11~11 are stored]~12.13~13k are stored in the screen data pointer storage areas 18, ~18n and guidance data storage areas 19□~19n in the table. ing. Therefore, the fourth
In the screen display table corresponding to the operation level by the processing of steps 4 to 9 in the figure, the display request screen numbers 17 to 1 are
Screen data 10.7o. ~10I! 1 and guidance data 111 to 11 storage pointers 121 to 12I
Know l,, 13□~13k, screen data 101~10
, guidance data 11 to 11k can be extracted.

Thereafter, the function screen based on the retrieved screen data 101 to 10m and the guidance based on the guidance data 1] to 11k are displayed on the CRT display device (step 10), and after displaying the key persons 9a to 9c, the system waits for key input (
Step 11).

Next, the operation of the level setting section 3 shown in FIG. 1(b) will be explained. The level setting is performed on the CRT display device 5 as mentioned above.
can be used to input information in an interactive manner with the operator. An example of the CRT display image in that case is shown in FIG. In FIG. 8, the CR1 screen 6 includes a display section 20 of the currently set level and a level resetting type canilia 21.
is provided. This screen allows the operator to freely change the operation level. That is, a flowchart explaining the operation of the level setting section is shown in FIG. In FIG. 9, a request to display a level setting screen is accepted by interrupt processing using the BREAK key on the keyboard (step 12), and then the screen is displayed (step 13).

Furthermore, the currently set operation level information is retrieved and displayed (step 14), and then a key input by the operator is waited for (step 15). Step 16: Once the key is input, the input level information is stored in the system.
), the operation of the level setting section ends. Operation level information is stored in a common area within the system and displayed on the screen m mentioned above.
Share and use information with Sugobe 2. Thereby, the level information set by the level setting section 3 is reflected in the operation of the screen control section 2. Therefore, when the operator changes the level, it becomes possible to display the screen and guidance according to the level each time.

According to the embodiments described above, the above effects can be obtained. That is, based on the level setting screen shown in FIG. 8, the operator can freely communicate his or her level of skill to the system. As a result, the system can provide a guidance display that matches the level communicated and a function screen that matches the guidance display (for example, with improved screen efficiency), as shown in FIG.

As a result, for example, the beginner's name can be changed to [HEL] every time the operation is performed.
There is no need to press the [P] key or the like to display a detailed explanation. Even without pressing the [HELP] key, you can always operate the system while receiving explanations on the screen in easy-to-understand text. In addition, an expert can enlarge the functional screen display area and have the system provide rich information without receiving unnecessary guidance displays.

The level setting section 3 in FIG. 1(b) may be any means that can input information regarding the operator's level into the system. Therefore, for example, the level setting section 3 can be an input means using a magnetic card reader, as shown in FIG. In the input means, the operator 4 causes the magnetic card reader 23 to read a card that matches the user's level from among the plurality of magnetic carts 22 holding information corresponding to the operation level information, and the operator 4 reads the card that matches the user's level into the level setting section 3. Notify. The level setting section 3 recognizes the operation level from the information on the card 22.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the guidance display device of the present invention, the system can recognize the operating proficiency level of the operator and display appropriate guidance and function screens that match that level, so that the operator can display appropriate guidance displays. You can use the function screen with high screen usage efficiency while receiving the message. Therefore, the operability of the system is improved, and the CRT screen area can be used more efficiently.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the entirety of the present invention and an external block diagram showing the whole of one embodiment of the present invention; FIGS. 2 and 3 are explanatory diagrams showing display examples of a CRT display screen according to the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the one-screen control section, FIGS. 5 to 7.
The figure is a memory map showing the structure of screen data to realize the operation of the screen control unit, Figure 8 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a CRT screen display for setting the operation level, and Figure 9 is an illustration of the operation level setting unit. Flowchart 1 showing the operation, FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing another example of the level setting section, FIG.
FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a CRT display screen by a conventional guidance display device. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... CRT control part, 2... Screen control part, 3... Level setting part, 5... CRT display device, 7a-7c...
・Function screen, 8a-8c...guidance display area,
10-10...Screen data, 11-]1.・・I
1ml guidance data, ] 4 to 16... Screen display table, 100... CRT display device, 101... Calculator,
102... Operator, 103... Proficiency level input means, 1
04... Guidance selection display means, 105... Function screen selection display means. Applicant's agent Sato -Yu = 16 - (c)

Claims (1)

[Claims] CR for operating a computer using a CRT display device
A guidance display device that displays guidance indicating T-screen operating procedures on its CRT screen, comprising: a proficiency level input means for inputting an operator's operating proficiency level; Guidance selection and display means for selecting guidance corresponding to the proficiency level inputted by the proficiency input means from among the plurality of guidances and displaying it on a CRT screen; and pre-holding contents corresponding to each of the plurality of guidances. Select the function screen that corresponds to the guidance displayed on the CRT screen from among the multiple function screens and press that screen.
A guidance display device comprising: a function screen selection display means for displaying on an RT screen.