JPH05151048A - File display system of information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the file control system by the information processor which is improved in operability and operation efficiency by easily and speedily displaying file attribute information which has information quantity enough to confirm the contents of a file. CONSTITUTION:When a decision part 11 decides that input information inputted with a mouse 3 indicates the attribute display of the file, the attribute of the file specified with the mouse 3 is displayed. A readout part 12 reads the attribute of the file corresponding to an inputted file name out of a file attribute storage part 72 and transfers it to a RAM 6, where the attribute is held. Then a display rewriting part 14 displays the attribute of the file held in the RAM 6 in a window on a display part 4.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a file display system in an information processing device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an information processing apparatus equipped with a display device for displaying graphic information such as icons and windows and a cursor and a coordinate input device for indicating and selecting icons and windows according to the position of the cursor is generally used. As shown in FIG. 8, a file display format in which a closed file is displayed by an icon (file icon 41) and an opened file is displayed in a window (file window 42) or an editor opened in the file window. Is taking.

In such a format, the file icon is selected by the coordinate input device to call the file, the file is displayed in the window, and the file opened in the window is closed by the operation of the coordinate input device. The basic operation is to create a file icon (see FIGS. 4 and 5). And this file icon is usually displayed together with the file name.

By the way, an icon expresses things in an image by a combination of a figure and words. According to the knowledge from the user interface, the expression by icons is more plural than the expression by words, and It is said to be familiar and easy to remember. Therefore, the content, name, etc. of the file are symbolically displayed using such an icon.

[0005]

However, in the file display format as described above, there is a case where it is difficult to identify a file that is closed by displaying the file icon only because the amount of information is small.
Therefore, in the past, even if the only purpose was to check the contents of the file, you had to read the entire file each time or open the editor one by one,
There is a problem of poor efficiency.

[0006] Further, for example, like an Apple computer, there is an object that can instruct a file icon and read out the information of the icon from the menu. In this case also, the icon instruction and the menu display, etc. However, there is a problem that the operation is troublesome.

The present invention has been made in order to solve such a problem, and it is possible to read the entire file
Provides a file display method in an information processing device that improves operability and work efficiency by compensating for the lack of information when specifying a file and displaying the file attribute information that has an amount of information that allows the contents of the file to be confirmed easily and quickly The purpose is to do.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object, a file display system in an information processing apparatus according to the present invention displays an icon corresponding to a file and opens the corresponding file by instructing the icon. A file display method of an information processing device for performing closing / closing, and storage means for storing attribute information of the file;
By changing the instruction method of the icon, a file designating unit for designating the reading of the attribute information of the file corresponding to the icon, and the attribute information of the file designated by the file designating unit are read from the storage unit. An attribute information reading unit and an attribute display unit for displaying the attribute information read by the attribute information reading unit are provided.

[0009]

With the above configuration, by designating the file whose attribute is desired to be displayed, the attribute information of the designated file can be obtained without opening the entire file.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT A preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

<First Embodiment> FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an apparatus used in this embodiment. 2 is a schematic perspective view of the input device of this embodiment. In the block diagram of FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a CPU, which executes various processes according to a control program stored in the ROM 5 to control the entire apparatus. A RAM 6 is used as a work area of a control program and a data buffer. Reference numeral 3 is a mouse for inputting coordinates. The mouse cursor 31 displayed on the display unit 4 is moved by the mouse 3,
Input a figure and specify the position. The mouse 3 is also provided with a mouse button 32 for selecting an edit target and instructing the start of an operation (see a general perspective view of the input / output device in FIG. 2). Reference numeral 4 denotes a display unit, which is a bitmap display that displays characters input by the keyboard 2 and coordinate points input by the mouse 3. A disk device 7 stores file data,
save.

The file display processing function of this embodiment executed by the above-mentioned apparatus will be described in detail with reference to the functional block diagram of FIG.

The information input by the mouse 3 is fetched by the determination unit 11 and it is determined whether the instruction is a file display instruction, a file close instruction, or a file attribute display instruction (hereinafter referred to as an instruction. This is referred to as content determination processing). Then, the following processing is executed corresponding to the instruction of each input information.

When the input information from the mouse 3 is a file display instruction, the file is displayed according to the file display processing flowchart shown in FIG. The reading unit 12 reads a file corresponding to the input file name from the file storage unit 71 of the disk device 7 and reads it from the RAM 6
It is transferred and held (step S41). Further, the display rewriting unit 14 displays the file transferred to the RAM 6 on the window of the display unit 4 (steps S42 and S4).
3) The corresponding file icon is deleted (step S44).

When the input information from the mouse 3 is a file display end instruction, a file closing process is executed according to the file display end process flowchart shown in FIG. First, the display rewriting unit 14 erases the window in which the file is displayed (step S51) and displays the corresponding file icon (step S54).
Meanwhile, the writing unit 13 writes the contents of the file and the file attributes held in the RAM 6 to the file storage unit 71 and the file attribute storage unit 72, respectively (step S
52).

When the input information from the mouse 3 is a file attribute display instruction, the file attribute display processing is executed according to the file attribute display processing flowchart shown in FIG. First, the reading unit 12 reads the attribute of the file corresponding to the input file name from the file attribute storage unit 72, transfers it to the RAM 6 and holds it (step S
61). The display rewriting unit 14 displays the file attributes on the window of the display unit 4 (steps S62 and S6).
3).

Next, the instruction content judgment processing in the above-mentioned judgment unit 11 will be described. The instruction content of the input information from the mouse 3 is determined by where the mouse cursor 31 is and how the mouse button 32 is pressed. There are various ways of pressing the mouse button 32, for example, clicking the mouse button 32 after moving the mouse cursor 31 over the target and immediately releasing the mouse button, double-clicking to perform two consecutive clicks in a short time, and clicking. Similarly, there is a press in which the mouse cursor 31 is moved onto the target and the mouse button 32 is kept pressed while the cursor position is fixed.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the instruction content judgment processing of the input information from the mouse 3 in this embodiment. FIG. 8 shows the display unit 4 in a state in which the file display process is executed.
It is a figure showing the example of a screen display. FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a screen display example of the display unit 4 in a state where the file attribute display processing is executed. Hereinafter, the instruction content determination process of the determination unit 11 will be described with reference to FIGS.

In the input waiting state of step S71,
When the mouse cursor 31 is moved onto the file icon 41 and clicked, the process proceeds to step S73, and the above-mentioned file display process (flowchart in FIG. 4) is executed. That is, the clicked file is displayed in the file window 42.
And the corresponding file icon 41 is erased.
FIG. 8 shows a state where the file 3 is clicked and the contents of the file 3 are displayed.

When the mouse cursor is moved to the file name area 43 in the file window 42 and clicked in the input waiting state of step S71, the process proceeds to step S72 to execute the process of closing the file (flowchart in FIG. 5). .. That is, the file window 42
Is deleted and the file icon 41 is displayed.

When the file icon 41 is pressed in the input waiting state of step S71, the process proceeds to step S74 to execute the file attribute display process (flowchart in FIG. 6). That is, the file attribute window 44 that displays the attribute of the file appears, and the attribute information of the file is displayed. In FIG. 9, the icon of file2 is pressed to display the attributes of file2. After displaying the attributes, the pressed state of the mouse 3 may be released. After that, if the switch OPEN45 is clicked, step S
Proceed to 75 and the file attribute window is deleted. Then, the process proceeds to step S73, the content of the file is displayed in the file window 42, and the file icon 41
Are deleted (file display processing is executed). If the switch CLOSE46 is clicked, step S
Proceeding to 76, the file attribute window 44 is simply erased and the state returns to the input waiting state (step S71).

By realizing the file attribute display processing as described above, the file attributes can be quickly identified,
It is possible to judge the contents of the file from the information. Furthermore, after that, the operation of reading the file as necessary, executing the display, or canceling the file attribute window if not necessary and returning to the original state can be performed smoothly, so that the operability is improved.

<Second Embodiment> FIG. 10 shows a block diagram of the second embodiment. 10 is different from FIG. 1 in that the RAM 6 is provided with the file attribute storage unit 61.

In this embodiment, the file attribute storage unit 72 of the disk device 7 is copied from the disk device 7 to the file attribute storage unit 61 of the RAM 6 when the device is started. Then, until the end of use of the device, all access to the attribute of the file is performed with the RAM 6. And RAM
The contents of the file attribute storage unit 61 of No. 6 are saved in the file attribute storage unit 72 of the disk device 7 when the use of the device is completed.

With the configuration of the second embodiment described above, the reading of the attribute of the file becomes simpler and faster.

As described above, with respect to the problem that it is difficult to identify a file only from the icon display, by associating and discriminating the content of the file from the attribute information of the file, it is possible to open the entire file. This has an effect that the attributes of a file can be easily known. Further, as a result, it is possible to avoid the trouble of reading all the files one by one to check the contents of the file as in the conventional case, and the operability is improved.

The present invention may be applied to a system composed of a plurality of devices or an apparatus composed of a single device. Further, it goes without saying that the present invention can also be applied to a case where it is achieved by supplying a program that causes a system or an apparatus to execute the processing defined by the present invention.

[0028]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to easily and quickly obtain the file attribute information having an information amount capable of confirming the contents of the file by compensating for the lack of information when the file is designated without reading the entire file. Can be displayed on the screen, improving operability and work efficiency.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an apparatus according to a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view of an apparatus according to an embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram of the device according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of file display processing.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of file display end processing.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of file attribute display processing.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart for determining the instruction content of input information from a mouse.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of a display mode in which a file display process is executed.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram of a display mode in which a file attribute display process is executed.

FIG. 10 is a block configuration diagram of an apparatus according to a second embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 CPU 2 keyboard 3 mouse 4 display unit 5 ROM 6 RAM 7 disk device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Displaying an icon corresponding to a file,
A file display method of an information processing device that opens / closes a corresponding file by designating the icon, by changing a storage unit for storing attribute information of the file and a designating method of the icon. A file designation unit for designating reading of attribute information of a file corresponding to the icon; an attribute information reading unit for reading the attribute information of the file designated by the file designation unit from the storage unit; A file display method in an information processing apparatus, comprising: attribute display means for displaying the attribute information read by the means.