JPH0519735A - Displaying method for cursor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the certainty, speediness, and operability of character input by moving an input character and displaying the input position cursor fixedly to half character size in right-left scrolling on a display screen. CONSTITUTION:When the input position cursor 1-3 is displayed on a display 1 where the input character and input position cursor l-3 are displayed on the display screen and the right-left scrolling is performed, the input character is moved and the input position cursor 1-3 is displayed fixedly to the half character size. Therefore, even when the display screen is put in the right-left scrolling, the input cursor does not move, so the cursor is never lost. Further, the input position cursor 1-3 is displayed to the constant half character size even at the time of full-size character input operation, so the cursor shape need not be altered.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for displaying a cursor on a display screen.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art On a display for displaying characters (including symbols) keyed in from an input device, an input position cursor for displaying an input position is displayed on a display screen. As a method for informing the operator of the position of the input position cursor on the display screen, a method of displaying the input position cursor position coordinates on the display screen in characters (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 53-26).
(Disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 533), a method of changing the display mode and displaying a special pattern that extends to the full extent of the display screen on the X-axis and the Y-axis at the input position cursor position (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 52-52530).
Disclosed in the publication).

[0003]

In the former method, the operator can be informed of the exact position on the display screen, but on the other hand, the operator can determine the correspondence between the coordinate values displayed in characters and the position on the display screen. It has to be imagined and is inconvenient for an unfamiliar operator. In particular, if you lose the input position cursor on a screen where characters are displayed in the entire display screen with a display character capacity of 40 × 15 characters, such as the display screen of a CRT display, it is possible to find this. It is troublesome. Also, the latter method changes the display mode, and therefore cannot be confirmed in the input operation mode, and there is the inconvenience of requiring a mode switching operation.

Focusing on the above-mentioned problems, the present invention aims to solve at the same time the problems of inconvenience for an unfamiliar operator, inconvenience of mode switching operation, and inconvenience of being unable to directly determine the position. ..

[0005]

The object is to display the input characters and the input position cursor on the display screen, and to scroll the display screen by the cursor of the display. The horizontal scroll of the display screen moves the input characters. The input position cursor is fixed and displayed, and the input position cursor is displayed as a half-size character size.

[0006]

Since the input position cursor does not move even if the display screen is scrolled left and right, the cursor is not lost. Further, since the input position cursor is displayed in a constant size of half-width characters even when full-width characters are input, the cursor shape does not need to be changed.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A case where the method of the present invention is applied to a Japanese word processor will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the entire structure, and FIG. 3 is a correspondence diagram of the input device and the display screen. In the figure, a display display tube 1 displays characters input from a tablet type input device 2. The display screen of the display display tube 1 is
The input character display area 1-1 and the digit scale display area 1-2 are distinguished from each other. In the input character display area, the input position cursor 1-3 is displayed outside the input character string, and the digit scale display area 1 is displayed.
At -2, a digit scale display mark (including a digit position display character on the document displayed at an appropriate position) 1-4 and a digit position cursor 1-5 are displayed. The tablet type input device 2 is an input means including a character input key section 2-1 for inputting character data and a control key section 2-2. The control key section 2-2 includes a cursor movement control key 2-3 for inputting data for controlling the position of the cursor. Reference numeral 3 is a character pattern memory, and 4 is a control unit that executes data processing for combining these respective means and totally controlling them.

FIG. 1 shows in detail the display contents on the display screen of the display display tube 1. The digit scale display marks 1-4 are graduated in half-width character units at the same digit intervals as the character display digits on the display screen in the input character display area. The digit position cursor 1-5 is located in the digit scale display area 1-2 at the same digit position as the digit position on the display screen of the input position cursor 1-3 displayed in the input character display area. Is displayed in conjunction with. In this embodiment, the digit scale display area 1-2 is displayed with a background half-luminance,
The digit position cursor 1-5 is highlighted in black and white on the digit scale display mark 1-4.

The display state of FIG. 1 is during inputting with full-width characters, and the digit position cursor 1 of the input position cursor 1-3
This is the case where -5 is at the position of the fourth digit. According to such a display method, since the input position cursor 1-3 and the digit position cursor 1-5 are at the same digit position on the display screen, referring to the digit position cursor 1-5, The input position cursor 1-3 can be searched. Then, when the input position cursor 1-3 is moved by the cursor movement control key 2-3, the digit position cursor 1-5 is also moved together, so that the position can be easily recognized.

When scrolling left and right on the display screen, the input display character and the digit scale display mark 1-4 are moved, and the input position cursor 1-3 and the digit position cursor 1-5 are fixed on the display screen. .. Therefore, the cursors 1-3 and 1-5 are not lost by the scroll operation, and the digit position on the document surface can be imagined by the relationship between the digit scale display mark 1-4 and the digit position cursor 1-5. it can.

According to the cursor digit position display method as described above, since the input position cursor 1-3 and the digit position cursor 1-5 are always displayed at the same digit position on the display screen, mode switching is performed. It is possible to directly recognize the display position of the input position cursors 1-3 without performing the operation, which is very convenient even for an inexperienced operator. Further, when the display screen is scrolled, the input position cursor 1-3 and the digit position cursor 1-5 are immovable because their positions are fixed on the display screen, so that the cursors 1-3 and 1-5 are lost by scrolling. There is no such thing.

Further, since the cursor is displayed in the half-width character size even in the full-width character input mode, it is not necessary to perform the mode switching operation for changing the cursor shape even in the half-width character input mode.

Next, a control method for moving the digit position cursor 1-5 along with the movement of the input position cursor 1-3 will be described with reference to FIG. First, in step 401, the moving direction of the input position cursor on the display screen is determined,
Step 402 or step 40 from the moving direction
Move to 3 and find the new digit position where the cursor should be displayed,
In step 404, the address of the new display position is set in the memory. After that, the process proceeds to step 405, and the black / white inversion of the current digit position cursor displayed in the digit scale display area is erased. Then, the process proceeds to step 406, and the new digit position cursor is displayed in black / white inversion at the new digit position. It should be noted that some of these steps overlap with the processing for displaying the input position cursor at a new position, so that these processings can be used.

[0015]

As described above, according to the present invention, in the method of displaying the input characters and the input position cursor on the display screen and scrolling left and right, the left and right scrolls of the display screen display the input characters. Since the cursor is moved and the input position cursor is fixed and displayed, and this input position cursor is displayed as a half-size character size, the input character position can be confirmed directly even during scroll operations, and the character input The certainty and speed are improved, and since there is no need to switch the cursor display mode, it is possible to operate a cursor display method that improves operability.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a display screen of a display.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the configuration of a Japanese word processor.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a display screen and an input device of a Japanese word processor.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a flowchart.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Display tube, 1-1 ... Input character display area, 1-2 ... Digit scale display area, 1-3 ... Input position cursor, 1-4 ...
Digit scale display mark, 1-5 ... Digit position cursor.

Claims (1)

Claim: What is claimed is: 1. A method for displaying a cursor on a display, wherein an input character and an input position cursor are displayed on a display screen to scroll left and right, wherein left and right scrolling of the display screen moves the input character, A method of displaying a cursor, wherein the input position cursor is fixed and displayed, and the input position cursor is displayed as a half-size character size.