JPH05313848A - Window changing system for computer display - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain the dynamic and highly efficient changes of the fonts of the size changeable windows on a computer display. CONSTITUTION:A window changing system of a computer display containing a multiprocess environment of a server/client system is provided with a display, a keyboard, a mouse 2, a computer main body, a window 1 where the characters are shown on the display, a display server 3 which draws a picture on the display in response to the request of a client and informs the client of the input from a keyboard and mouse 2 as an event, and a window manager 4 which controls all windows on the display. In such a constitution, the size of the window 1 is changed with the input received from the mouse 2. Thus, a proper character size to be shown on the window 1 is retrieved, and the information equal to that obtained before the size of the window 1 is changed, is displayed with use of the fonts of different sizes.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a window changing method for a computer display capable of changing a window size, and more particularly to a window changing method for a computer display capable of changing a font size displayed in the window by changing the window size.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art The font change of a display window in a conventional computer system is specified by a server when a window is created, but the window font cannot be changed after the window is created.

[0003]

According to the above-described conventional computer window changing method, in order to change the font of a window once created, the window is closed, a new font is designated and a window is created. It has the drawback of having to.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a window changing system for a computer display capable of changing the font in a window dynamically and efficiently with respect to the size of the window.

[0005]

A method of changing a window of a computer display according to the present invention is a display, a keyboard and a mouse, a computer main body, a window for displaying characters on the display, and character data displayed in the window. A font file, a display server that draws on the display in response to a drawing request from the client, and notifies the client of input from the keyboard and mouse as events, and a window manager that manages all windows on the display. In a window change method of a computer display in a server / client multi-process environment equipped with and, the window is displayed by changing the size of the window by input from the mouse. The search for appropriate character size the same information as before to change the size of the window should be,
Display using different sized fonts.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, a window 1 of the display is designated as a window whose size can be freely changed, and a window in which the number of horizontal characters and the number of lines are set is generated in this window.
Next, when there is a window size change event from the mouse 2, the display server 3 first acquires a window size change event 6 and notifies the window manager 4 of a font search request 7. The window manager 4 detects the current vertical and horizontal sizes of the changed window 1 and stores the data in the window.
A font capable of displaying the horizontal character string to be displayed and the number of lines is searched from the font file 5 (font information 8 in FIG. 1), and the font change notification 9 is sent to the window 1. The window 1 informs the window manager 4 of a drawing request 10 due to the change of the font, and the window manager 4 sends a drawing request 11 for a window requiring drawing to the display server 3. Drawing request 1
The display server 3 that has received 1 notifies the designated window 1 of the redisplay request 12 and changes the font.

[0007]

As described above, according to the present invention, when the window size is changed, the window manager determines the font size that can be drawn on the window based on the vertical and horizontal sizes of the window. By notifying the window of the font data and notifying the window of the redisplay request from the display server, the font can be dynamically and efficiently changed.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 window 2 mouse 3 display server 4 window manager 5 font file

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A display, a keyboard and a mouse, a computer main body, a window for displaying characters on the display, a font file which is character data displayed in the window, and a drawing request from a client. A computer in a server / client multi-process environment that includes a display server that draws on a display and notifies a client of input from the keyboard and mouse as events, and a window manager that manages all windows on the display. In the window change method of the display, by changing the size of the window by the input from the mouse, the same character size as that before searching for an appropriate character size to be displayed in the window and changing the size of the window A window change method for computer displays, characterized in that the same information is displayed using fonts of different sizes.