JPH05346842A - Picture display processing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To develop and switch the registered picture of tree constitution with a little number of times for the operations. CONSTITUTION:In the case of switching display from the state of displaying the registered picture in an arbitrary hierarchy to the state of displaying the registered picture in the arbitrary hierarchy of another route, this picture display processing device displays the tree constituted picture by applying the input of 'return' from the registered picture under displaying at present and also additionally displays auxiliary information for identifying the registered picture under displaying at present and the registered picture to be displayed after being directly switched from that picture in this tree constituted picture. Then, an operator judges a process for reaching the desired registered picture to be next displayed with a minimum number of times for operations and selects the registered picture in the most-significant hierarchy from the tree constituted picture according to the process so as to directly display that registered picture and afterwards, by successively expanding pictures, the objective registered picture can be developed and displayed with a little number of times for operations.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a screen display processing apparatus for selecting and displaying a registration screen of an arbitrary hierarchy from a large number of registration screens having a tree structure.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as shown in FIG. 4, a screen can be expanded from a main screen to any registration screen of A layers A1 to A9, and B11 to B19 can be displayed from the display screen of each A layer.
With respect to the registration screen of the tree structure, which can be expanded to any of the registration screens of the B layer such as B91 to B99, and further to the registration screens of the lower layers in order of the C layer and the D layer, When selecting and displaying a screen of an arbitrary hierarchy, the following was done.

For example, if it is desired to display the screen of C111, as shown in FIG. 5, first, starting from the main screen, the expandable lower hierarchy screen displayed on the main screen, that is, the A hierarchy is displayed. The screen number A1 on the route from the screen number to C111 is the function key,
Alternatively, the A1 screen is displayed by selecting it with an input means such as a mouse, and then the screen number B11 on the root is selected from the A1 screen to display the B11 screen, and the B11 screen is displayed on the C hierarchy. Of these, the screen number C111 on the route is selected to display the C111 screen.

If the user wants to display the D9999 screen on another route on the tree structure screen of FIG. 4 while the C111 screen is being displayed, first, the C1 screen is displayed.
Select and operate the "Return" key on the 11th screen to display the B11 screen of the B layer, which is the next higher layer, and then operate the "Return" key on this B11 screen to display the A1 screen of the A layer. Then, the "Return" key is operated to return to the main screen, and thereafter, from the main screen, the route A9-B99- which is the route to reach D9999 by the same operation procedure as above.
C999-D9999 was sequentially selected from the screens of the respective layers and operated to expand the screens.

[0005]

However, in such a conventional screen display processing device, one of the registration screens having a tree structure as described above is changed to another route. If you want to select and display the screen on which you are riding, go back to the main screen one by one to the screen of the upper layer, and then select the screens of the lower layers one by one on the route on which the target screen is riding. There is a problem in that it takes time and effort to switch the screens as the tree structure grows, because the expansion operation procedure for displaying the screens must be taken.

The present invention has been made in view of the above conventional problems, and is a screen which can reduce the number of screen expansion operations necessary for switching the display between screens having different roots in a tree-structure registration screen. An object is to provide a display processing device.

[0007]

The present invention is a screen display processing device for selecting a screen of a target hierarchy from a registration screen having a tree structure and displaying the screen on a display device. Selection input means for inputting a command to select and display a screen, a return command to the upper screen, or a command to select and display an arbitrary registration screen from the tree configuration screen, and select the lower screen by the selection input means. Registration screen display processing means for displaying the selected screen on the display device when a command to display it is inputted, and the registration when the return command to the upper screen is inputted by the selection input means. Tree display processing means for displaying a tree structure screen of the screen on the display device, and a position of the current display screen is identified when the tree structure screen is displayed, and Auxiliary display processing means for identifying a registration screen that can be switched and displayed, and when the display device is displaying the tree structure screen, the selection input means allows one operation from the tree structure screen. When a command for selecting and displaying an arbitrary registration screen that can be switched and displayed is input, a tree selection display processing means for displaying the corresponding registration screen on the display device is provided.

[0008]

In the screen display processing device according to the present invention, in the case of switching from the state where the registration screen of an arbitrary layer is displayed to the registration screen of an arbitrary layer of another route,
The tree configuration screen is displayed by giving a "return" input from the currently displayed registration screen. In this tree structure screen, auxiliary information for distinguishing between the currently displayed registration screen and the registration screen that can be directly switched from there is additionally displayed.

[0009] Therefore, the operator directly determines the registration screen to be displayed next by determining the procedure for reaching the registration screen that he / she wants to display next, and selecting the registration screen of the highest hierarchy from the tree configuration screen according to the procedure. However, thereafter, the target registration screens can be expanded and displayed with a small number of operations by sequentially expanding the screens on the route on which the target registration screen is mounted.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

Although the present invention is actually a screen display processing function realized by a software program of a computer, it will be described using a functional block diagram for convenience of description. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the function of one embodiment of the present invention, which is roughly divided into a display device 1 such as a CRT display device, a keyboard for performing input operations, an input unit 2 such as a mouse, and a later-described part. The control device 3 is composed of a computer that executes the function.

The control device 3 controls the overall execution, a screen information storage part 5 for storing a large number of registration screen information and tree configuration screen information, and each of the display devices 1 to be displayed. On the display screen, a selection input process that performs input processing for a command to select and display a lower screen from the input unit 2, a return command to a higher screen, or a command to select and display an arbitrary registration screen from the tree configuration screen And part 6.

The control device 3 also receives a selection input when a command for selecting and displaying a lower screen is input by the selection input processing unit 6 and when the tree configuration screen is displayed on the display device 1. Processing for calling the selected registration screen from the screen information storage unit 5 and displaying it on the display device 1 when an instruction to select and display an arbitrary registration screen from the tree configuration screen is input by the processing unit 6 When a return command to the upper screen is input by the registration screen display processing unit 7 for performing the above and the selection input processing unit 6, the tree configuration screen showing the entire tree configuration of the registration screen is called from the screen information storage unit 5. The tree display processing unit 8 for displaying on the display device 1 is provided.

The control device 3 further performs blinking display or color change display to identify the current position of the display screen when the tree forming screen is displayed on the display device 1. In order to identify the registration screen which can be switched and displayed with one operation, the auxiliary display processing unit 9 performs color change display, lightness change display or shape change display.
Is equipped with.

Next, the operation of the screen display processing device having the above configuration will be described.

The screen information storage unit 5 has a registration screen for each layer of the tree structure shown in FIG. 4, a tree structure screen shown in FIG. 3, and display information for identifying the current display screen in this tree structure screen. Screen information such as display information for identifying a display screen that can be directly switched and displayed by a selection operation is stored.

Therefore, if one of the tree-structured registration screens shown in FIG. 4, for example, the D-level D1111 screen is displayed, as shown in FIG. The route A1 on which D1111 is on is selected by the input unit 2.

As a result, the selection input processing unit 6 recognizes that the selected screen is A1, and the control unit 4 calls the A1 screen from the screen information storage unit 5 to display the display processing unit 7.
The display screen of the display device 1 is displayed and the registration screen of A1 is displayed on the display device 1.

If the B11 screen is further selected from the A1 screen by selecting the input section 2, the B11 screen is displayed on the display device 1 in the same manner, and the C111 screen is selected from the B11 screen to select the C111 screen. By displaying the screen and selecting the D1111 screen from the C111 screen, the target D1111 screen can be displayed on the display device 1.

In this way, while the D1111 screen is being displayed, another route A9-B99-C99 is displayed.
To switch the display to the D9999 screen on the 9-D9999, select the "return" key from the input unit 2 on the D1111 screen currently displayed.

Thus, when the selection input processing unit 6 recognizes that the input is a return command, the control unit 4 calls the tree configuration screen information from the screen information storage unit 5 and gives it to the tree display processing unit 8. The tree display processing unit 8 is the display device 1.
A tree structure screen as shown in FIG. 3 is displayed.

At the time of displaying this tree structure screen, the control unit 4 causes the auxiliary display processing unit 9 to display auxiliary display information for distinguishing the screen D1111 currently displayed from other registration screens, for example, a color. Display information such as change, blink, and fill are called from the screen information storage unit 5 and given,
At the same time, auxiliary display for identifying a registration screen that can be directly switched and displayed from the D1111 screen, for example, display information such as color change of block, lightness change, shape change, and the like is given in the same manner, and the auxiliary display processing unit 9 provides this auxiliary information. It is given to the display device 1 and combined with the tree configuration screen to display a tree configuration screen as shown in FIG.

In this way, in the state where the tree configuration screen shown in FIG. 3 is displayed by the return command input from the D1111 screen, the operator switches the target screen D999.
Determine the procedure with the minimum number of operations before arriving at 9. In the case of FIG. 3, since the A layers A1 to A9 are displayed as the registration screen of the highest layer that can be directly switched and displayed from D1111, if the A9 screen is selected, the A9 screen is directly displayed on the display device 1. It becomes possible to display it. After that, from this A9 screen, A
By selecting 9-B99-C999-D9999, the D9999 screen can be expanded and displayed.

Therefore, in this case, the procedure of returning to the target screen by returning to the target screen one by one as in the conventional case, when the main screen is reached, the route on which the target screen is riding is sequentially expanded to the lower hierarchy. Compared with C111-
It becomes possible to jump five selection operations of B11-A1-main-A9, and it is possible to quickly switch to the target screen. This means that the deeper the hierarchy of the registration screen currently displayed and the deeper the hierarchy of the registration screen of the different route to be switched, the greater the effect of reducing the number of selection operations.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and in particular, the identification display mode of the registration screen currently displayed by the auxiliary display processing section 9 and the registration screen that can be directly displayed by one selection operation. The identification display mode of No. is not particularly limited to the above-mentioned embodiment, and various display modes generally used conventionally can be used.

[0026]

As described above, according to the present invention, when switching from the state where the registration screen of an arbitrary hierarchy is displayed to the registration screen of an arbitrary hierarchy of another route, the current display is displayed. By giving a "Return" input from the registration screen inside, the tree configuration screen is displayed, and auxiliary information that can identify the registration screen currently displayed in this tree configuration screen and the registration screen that can be directly switched from there is displayed. The additional registration screen is displayed by determining the procedure that enables the operator to reach the registration screen that the operator wants to display next from that display screen, and by selecting the registration screen of the highest level according to the procedure from the tree configuration screen. Is displayed directly, and after that, by sequentially expanding to lower-level screens, the target registration screen is reached and displayed. When trying to switch to another registration screen with a different route on the screen, return to the registration screen of the upper layer one layer at a time as before, and then return to the top layer and then to the registration screen of another route sequentially to the lower layers. Compared to the procedure of expanding to and displaying the target registration screen, the switching screen can be displayed with a smaller number of operations for the tree-structured registration screen.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a registration screen expansion and switching operation in the above embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a tree configuration screen in the above embodiment.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a tree structure of a general registration screen.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a conventional registration screen expansion and switching operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 display device 2 input unit 3 control device 4 control unit 5 screen information storage unit 6 selection input processing unit 7 display processing unit 8 tree display processing unit 9 auxiliary display processing unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A screen display processing device for selecting a screen of a target hierarchy from a registration screen having a tree structure and displaying the screen on a display device, and a command for selecting and displaying a lower screen on each display screen. , A selection input means for inputting a return instruction to the upper screen or an instruction to select and display an arbitrary registration screen from the tree configuration screen, and a command to select and display the lower screen by the selection input means When the registration screen display processing means for displaying the selected screen on the display device, and the return command to the upper screen by the selection input means, the tree configuration screen of the registration screen is displayed. Tree display processing means to be displayed on the device, and when the tree configuration screen is displayed, the position of the current display screen is identified, and switching display is possible with one operation. Auxiliary display processing means for performing a display for identifying the registration screen, and an arbitrary registration screen which can be switched and displayed from the tree construction screen by one operation by the selection input means when the tree construction screen is displayed on the display device. And a tree selection display processing means for displaying a corresponding registration screen on the display device when a command for selecting and displaying is selected.