JPH06230920A - Restoration controller for window screen - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a restoration controller capable of restoring a hidden window screen or a completed window screen from a position where it was previously displayed without moving the window screen. CONSTITUTION:A restoration screen specification control means 6 obtains the coordinate information of a cursor from the signals of a pointing device driver A and supplies a coordinate position to a window screen history control means 7 and the window screen history control means 7 sends the information of the entire window screens previously displayed at the coordinate position from a window screen history table 9 to the restoration screen specification control means 6. The restoration screen specification control means 6 displays the information of the previously displayed window screens at a display B, and when the signals for specifying the window screen to be restored are received, a restoration screen display control means 8 receives them from the window screen history control means 7 and displays the window screen for which restoration is specified.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a window screen restoration control device for managing the display of a computer window screen.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, the use of multi-window screens has become popular and a plurality of window screens are being displayed on the display. The hidden window screen is moved to redisplay the hidden window screen, or the activation command area of the belt-shaped menu bar 2 displayed at the top of the screen 1 of the specific window as shown in FIG. By operating the mouse to select 3 with the pointer 4 and pulling it down, the start command menu 5 of a plurality of lines is displayed in the left corner of the screen. In the row of the required application, the pull-down operation is canceled and the designated application is displayed on the display. Further, in order to bring up a window screen that has ended once, it is necessary to search for a window screen in which a command name that can activate the window screen is displayed.

[0003]

In such a conventional operation method, other window screens are hidden in order to find a hidden window screen, or different window screens operating on the same application are distinguished from each other. You cannot do it. In addition, there is a problem that it takes time to search for a window in which a command to be started is displayed in order to start a window screen that has been closed.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a window screen restoration control device which has better work efficiency on the window screen than ever before.

[0005]

A window screen restoration control device according to the present invention determines whether or not a window screen is restored from a signal of a pointing device driver and displays information about the window screen that can be restored. The designated control means, the window screen history control means for storing the information of the displayed window screen in the window screen history table and reading the information of the window screen from the window screen history table, and the information of the window screen to be restored. The present invention is characterized in that a recovery screen display control means for sending information of memory and an output display signal to the display section is provided in the internal storage device obtained from the history control means.

[0006]

[Operation] According to this configuration, the pointing device
The recovery screen designation control means obtains the coordinate information of the cursor from the signal of the driver and gives the coordinate position to the window screen history control means. The window screen history control means sends information of all window screens previously displayed at the coordinate position from the window screen history table to the restoration screen designation control means. The revival screen designation control means displays the information of the previously displayed window screen on the display,
When receiving a signal designating a window screen to be restored from the pointing device driver, the restoration screen display control means receives the information of the window screen designated to be restored from the window screen history control means and displays the window screen on the display.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 shows a functional block diagram of a window screen restoration control apparatus according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, A is a mouse driver, B is a display unit, C is a control unit including a restoration screen designation control unit 6, a window screen history control unit 7, a restoration screen display control unit 8, and the like, and the window screen history control is performed. A window screen history table 9 is connected to the means 2. An internal storage device D is connected to the control unit C.

As shown in FIG. 2, the window screen history table 9 has a sequence number column a indicating the order of window screen data, a process number column b of the window screen being activated, and a display coordinate column c of the window screen to be displayed. , A start command field d of the window screen, a display data field e of the window screen, and a memory information field f of the internal storage device used by the window screen. The window screen history table 9 is as shown in FIG. Sequence number column a
The process number column b, the display coordinate column c, and the start command column d are stored in the internal storage device D. Further, the display data column e and the memory information column f are stored in the external storage device E, so that a large amount of The data of can be saved. The window screen is one divided screen on the display.

Upon receiving a signal from the mouse driver A that the left and right buttons of the mouse have been pressed at the same time, the revival screen designation control means 6 transmits the position of the mouse cursor to the window screen history control means 7, and the window screen history control means. 7
Receives information about the window screen displayed at the position of the mouse cursor from. In the case of a window screen which has not ended, the sequence number of the window screen and the information of the display data are received from the window screen history table 9, and as shown in FIG.
Is displayed. Then, when the right button is released from the left and right mouse buttons that are being continuously pressed in order to restore the window screen that has not ended, the restoration screen designation control means 6 that confirms this release displays the window screen. It is decided to revive. When you release the left and right mouse buttons,
Upon confirming this, the revival screen designation control means 6 determines that the revival is not performed and restores the display display to the original state.

In the case of the completed window screen,
The start command and sequence number information for the window screen are received, and the start command menu 5 for the window screen is displayed as shown in FIG. Then, when the right button is released from the left and right mouse buttons which are continuously pressed on the displayed start command in order to restore the completed window screen, the restore screen designation control means 6 confirming this is done. Determines to restore this window screen. When the left and right mouse buttons are released, the revival screen designation control means 6 that confirms this is determined not to revive and restores the display display to the original state.

The restoration screen display control means 8 receives the sequence number of the window screen to be restored from the restoration screen designation control means 6 and the window screen information from the window screen history control means 7. In the case of a window screen that has not ended, screen display data is received from the window screen history control means 7. In the case of the completed window, a start command, memory information, and screen display data are received from the window screen history control means 7, memory information is sent to the internal storage device D, display data is sent to the display section B, and the window screen is restored. Let

The window screen history control means 7 sets the sequence number in the sequence number column a of the window screen history table 9 of FIG. 2 every time the window screen is activated.
The process number of the window screen in the process number column b,
The display coordinates of the window screen are recorded in the display coordinate column c, the start command of the window screen is recorded in the start command column d, and the display data is recorded in the display data column e. When the window screen has moved, the display coordinate data in the display coordinate column c having the same process number as the process number of the moved window screen is updated to the coordinates to which the window screen has moved. When the window screen is hidden, the data in the display data column e having the same process number as the process number of the hidden window screen is updated to the display data of the hidden window screen. When the window screen ends, information on the memory state before the end is stored in the memory information column f. By saving the information of the portion of the memory that has been used, it is possible to restore the window screen to the state just before ending when it is restored. Further, when an instruction is issued from the restoration screen designation control means 6 to retrieve information on a window screen that can be restored, the mouse cursor 4 is compared with the position of the mouse cursor from the window screen history table 9 and the data in the display coordinate column c. The sequence number of the window screen having the window screen displayed at the position, the display data, and the start command are sent to the restoration screen designation control means 6. When the sequence number indicating the window screen to be restored is sent from the restore screen designation control means 6, display data of the window screen to be restored, or start command and memory information data is sent to the restore screen display control means 8.

By doing so, the hidden window screen and the ended window screen can be restored without moving the other window screens. In the above example,
I explained using the case of using a mouse as a pointing device as an example, I pressed both the left and right mouse buttons or released the right button to specify revival, but in addition to this, I input instructions depending on the number of mouse clicks etc. can do.

In the above-described embodiment, the case where the mouse is used as the pointing device has been described as an example, but the same applies when the coordinates are input by the pen input or the instruction is input by the key input or the voice input. The effect of can be obtained.

[0015]

As described above, according to the present invention, by resuming the window screen previously displayed at the designated position, it is possible to easily redisplay and end the window screen without hiding other window screens. Since the window screen can be restored in this state, the work efficiency on the window screen can be further improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of an embodiment of a window screen restoration control device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a window screen history table according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a storage diagram of a window screen history table of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram when a revival is designated on a hidden screen.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of a case where revival is designated on the completed screen.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of a conventional example when displaying a hidden window.

[Explanation of symbols]

A mouse driver [pointing device
Driver] B display unit C control unit D internal storage device E external storage device 6 restoration screen designation control means 7 window screen history control means 9 window screen history table 8 restoration screen display control means

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A restoration screen designation control means for displaying information on a window screen that can be restored by determining whether to restore the window screen from a signal of a pointing device driver, and information for the displayed window screen. A window screen history control means for storing the information in the window screen stored in the history table and reading the window screen information from the window screen history table, and the information of the memory and the display in the internal storage device obtained from the window screen history control means for the information of the window screen to be restored. Window screen restoration control device having a restoration screen display control means for sending an output display signal to the section.