JPH0365719A - Function guide display device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the operability of a terminal equipment, and to lighten the burden on an operator by changing automatically the contents of a function guide when some program is started. CONSTITUTION:Provided that some program 7 is started in the terminal equipment, a CPU 6 informs a function guide displaying function controller 2 of the name of this program. The device 2 selects a displaying message corresponding to this program 7 from a function guide displaying message storage device 3. At such a time, some displaying messages are registered beforehand in the device 3. Thus, since the names of the programs supposed to be started in this terminal equipment and the required function guiding messages are stored in the device 3 as being coordinated to each other, the displaying message selected by the function guide displaying function control device 2 can be displayed by a function guide display part 5.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a function guide label for a terminal device, and particularly relates to changing work of a function guide label.

[Conventional technology]

In a typewriter-style terminal device, in addition to keys for inputting alphanumeric characters and special characters, depending on the function of the terminal device,
There are function keys as keys for instructing the functions. There was a function guide label that explained the contents of this function key.

Conventionally, as function guide labels, labels indicating the contents of function keys have been placed on the keyboard of the terminal device, or the contents have been displayed on the display of the terminal device.

The contents of this function key sometimes change each time the program started on the terminal device changes. For this reason, I had to prepare several types of function guide labels.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

As mentioned above, when the contents of a function key change, a function guide that matches the program is manually selected. At this time, it was a tedious task to choose from among several types of function guide labels.

Also, when displaying the function guide on the display, due to the distance between the display and the keyboard,
It was sometimes difficult to operate.

The purpose of the present invention is to automatically change the function guide label using a terminal device without human intervention.
The object is to improve the operability of the terminal device and reduce the burden on the operation page.

[Means to solve the problem]

The function guide display device of the present invention includes a function guide display means for displaying the contents of a function key, a function guide display function control means for controlling the display means, and a terminal device for displaying the contents displayed by the function guide display means. and function guide display message storage means for storing a function guide display message in association with the program started at the computer.

〔Example〕

Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, a function guide display device 1 is composed of a function guide display function control device 2 and a function guide display message storage device 3, and a function guide display section 5 is provided on a keyboard 4 separately from this. The function guide display section 5 is designed to be able to freely display a wide variety of guides and to be incorporated into the keyboard 4.

First, assume that a program 7, which is a certain terminal device, is started. The CPU 6 notifies the function guide display function control device 2 of the program name. The function guide display function control device 2 selects a display message corresponding to the program 7 from the function guide display message storage device 3. At this time, it is assumed that some display messages are registered in advance in the function guide display message storage device 3. Further, the function guide display message storage device 3 stores the name of a program that is expected to be activated on the terminal device and the function guide message required by the program in association with each other.

The display message selected by the function guide display function control device 2 is displayed on the function guide display section 5.

Further, even when a certain program 7 is running, when the program 7 wants to change the contents of a function guide, the program 7 notifies the CPU 6 of which function guide to display. The CPU 6 passes the contents to the function guide display function control device 2. The function guide display function control device 2 searches the function guide display message storage device 3 based on the contents received from the CPU 6, and displays the contents on the function guide display section 5.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention automatically changes the contents of the function guide when a certain program is started, thereby eliminating the need for multiple function guide labels, which were previously prepared, and the need to manually change the function guide. Nor.

Furthermore, by preparing several function guides for one program, the variety of function keys can be increased.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1...Function guide display device, 2...Function guide display function control device, 3...Message storage device for function guide display, 4...Keyboard, 5...Function guide display section.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A function guide display means for displaying the contents of the function keys, a function guide display function control means for controlling the display means, and a correspondence between the contents displayed by the function guide display means and the program to be started on the terminal device. 1. A function guide display device comprising a function guide display message storing means for storing function guide display messages.