JPH03135727A - Monitor device with window display function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the trouble of operation by defining and storing the combination of a screen and a window previously, and calling and displaying the window combined with the screen automatically right after the screen is called. CONSTITUTION:When correspondence to an image to be called and correspondence to a window to be called associatively with the initial display of the screen are stored in a screen and window combination control part 10 previously. An operation key 6 is operated to call a screen for monitoring the state of a process 2. Then a screen and window display control part 7 determines a screen to be called and inputs information from the process 2 through an input/output device 3 and the information is displayed 9 through a display control part 8. Further, the control part 10 checks definition data on the combination of the called screen and window for associative displaying to check whether or not there is the corresponding window. Then it is checked whether or not there is the window associated with the screen and when there is the window, the control part 10 commands the control part 7 to display the window, thereby displaying the window in a specific area of the screen which is already displayed on a display part 9.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] This invention provides a screen for collecting information from processes in an industrial plant, etc., and for monitoring information from the process and operating the process according to key operations by an operator. The present invention relates to a monitoring device with a window display function for displaying windows.

[Conventional technology]

FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram showing a conventional monitoring device with a window display function. In the figure, 1 is a monitoring device with a window display function (hereinafter referred to as a monitoring device), 2 is a process to be monitored, and 3 is a process 2 is an input/output device that collects information from 2, and 4 is a central processing unit (4) that controls the main functions of the monitoring device 1.
Hereinafter, it will be referred to as CPU 5), 5 is a memory in which programs, data, etc. used by CPU 4 are stored during control processing, 6 is an operation key for calling up and selecting a screen or window that displays information from process 2, 7 is operation key 6 8 is a screen/window display control unit that controls the display of the called screen or window; 8 is a display control unit that controls screen display according to instructions from the screen/window display control unit T; 9 is a CRT;
The display section consists of the following.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the monitoring device 1.

Next, the operation will be explained.

First, in step STI of FIG. 6, the operator presses the operation key 6.
Select and operate to call up a screen for monitoring the status of process 2. Next, in step ST2, the screen/window display control unit 7 takes in information from the process 2 via the input/output device 3 in accordance with the operation of the operation key 6, and displays the information on the display unit 9 via the display control unit 8. indicate. At the same time, the operator uses the cursor of the operating keys 6 to indicate a predetermined area or pixel for calling a window on the called screen, or uses a touch switch (t1! Select by touching the switch). Next, in step ST3, the screen/window display control unit T determines whether a window call is defined in advance for the selected portion, and if there is a definition, the call is made via the display control unit 8 in step ST4. The displayed window is displayed on the display unit 9. Next, in step ST5, if there are a plurality of windows that the operator wants to call up on the screen, the operator repeats the steps from step ST2 to step ST4 as many times as there are windows that he wants to call up. In the process flow of FIG. 6, the steps STI, Sr1, Sr1 F) marked in red are
Processing is performed by operator's operation or judgment 1), other steps ST3. The process of ST4 is the process of this monitoring device itself, and a document showing a monitoring device that operates as described above is Ichimura et al.'s CIEMAC's Hiermann Interface (Toshiba Shiviz-*Vat, 44 +No-6+
pp. 466-469.1989).

Note that the window displays information, messages, etc. from the CPU 4 and the like in a predetermined area of the called screen.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

Since the conventional monitoring device with a window display function is configured as described above, the operator selects and instructs all the windows that need to be called up one by one using the operation keys 6 or touch switches after calling up the screen. It was also necessary to call up the combinations of screens and windows one by one using this method, which are essential for routine operations used in process operations. This window calling method is the same not only for monitoring devices for process monitoring, but also for monitoring devices with a window display function for office processing such as OA. is calling. Therefore, there have been problems such as the operator's operations being extremely complicated.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a monitoring device with a window display function that can automatically display frequently used windows in conjunction with screen calls.

[Means to solve the problem]

The monitoring device with a window display function according to the present invention combines windows that are frequently used and displayed immediately after the screen is called up for each screen, defines and stores this combination in advance, and displays multiple screens by key operation, etc. When called, a window defined in combination with that screen is searched for and automatically displayed immediately after the called screen is displayed.

[Effect]

In the monitoring device with a window display function according to the present invention, when a screen is called, windows to be displayed in conjunction with the screen are searched for, and immediately after the screen is called, the searched windows are displayed.

[Embodiments of the invention]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 1, the same parts as in FIG. 5 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and explanations thereof will be omitted.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 10 denotes a screen/window combination control section including a memory for defining and storing combinations of windows to be displayed in conjunction with the screens called up by the operation keys 6.

2 and 3 show the screen/window combination control section 10.
FIG. 4 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of data defined and stored, and FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the monitoring device 1.

Next, the operation will be explained.

In advance, the correspondence between the operation keys 6 and the screens to be called up by their inputs is defined as shown in the table of FIG.

Further, the correspondence between a screen and a window that should be automatically called up in conjunction with the initial display of the screen is defined as shown in the table of FIG. 3, and is stored in the screen/window combination control section 10. The window called in conjunction with the screen is, for example, window b + cede for screens C and D in Fig. 3.
As shown in e, multiple images can be defined for one screen.

First, in step STI of FIG. 4, the operator selects the operation key 6 to call up a screen for monitoring the status of the process 2. Next, in step ST2, according to the above selection operation, the screen/window display control section 7
A call screen is determined based on the data shown in FIG. In addition, the screen
Based on the called screen, the window combination control section 10 checks the combination definition data of the called screen and the linked display window shown in FIG. 3, and checks the existence of the corresponding window. Next, in step ST3, it is checked whether there is a window to be linked to the screen, and if there is a window, in step ST4, the screen/window combination control section 10 controls the screen/window display control section 7. The display section 9 operates to display these corresponding windows and performs the same process as the screen call process described above.
display a window within a predetermined area of the already displayed screen. At this time, if there are multiple windows to be displayed in conjunction with each other, the screen/window combination control unit 10 repeats the above process for the number of called windows.

In addition, in FIG. 4, as in FIG. 6, the process of step STI marked with a red seal is the operation or judgment of the operator, and the processes of other steps ST2 to ST4 are processes of the monitoring device 1 itself. .

In the above embodiment, only the function of automatically displaying the window in conjunction with the initial display of the screen was shown, but it goes without saying that the window includes the necessary items from the initial display of the screen, and the functions that are necessary from the initial display of the screen, and the functions that are necessary during the initial display of the screen. For the latter, the necessary operation can be obtained by combining the conventional functions with the above embodiment.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, combinations of screens and windows are defined and stored in advance, and immediately after a screen is called, a window combined with that screen is automatically called and displayed. This has the effect of reducing the complexity of operator operations.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing a monitoring device with a window display function according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. 2 and 3 are data configuration diagrams showing examples of screen/window combination definition data used in the device. FIG. 4 is an operational flowchart of the same device, FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a conventional monitoring device with a window display function, and FIG. 6 is a conventional operational flowchart of the same device. 1 is a monitoring device with a window display function, 2 is a process, 3
4 is an input/output device, 4 is a CPU 16, and operation keys 9 are a display unit.
10 is a screen/window combination control unit. In addition, the same symbols in the figures indicate the same or equivalent parts. Figure 2 Figure 1

Claims (1)

[Claims] A screen/window that stores combination data of an input/output device that collects information from a monitoring target, a plurality of screens that display the collected information, and a window that displays various predetermined information within each screen. a combination control section, an operation key for calling up the combination data, a display section for displaying a screen and a window according to the called combination data, the input/output device, a screen/window combination control section, and a display section. A monitoring device with a window display function that is equipped with a central processing unit that monitors and controls the