JPH0651929A - Window display control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the operability of a window system by easily registering and displaying the changed display form of a window. CONSTITUTION:This window display control system is performs the display control of the window and equipped with a window display information registration part 5 to register display information such as the display position or display size of the window corresponding to the respective windows, window display information change part 6 to change the corresponding window display information of the window display information registration part based on the changing instruction of display form information from an operator to the window, and window display change part 8 to change the display form of the window based on the window display information changed by this window display information change part 6.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a window display control technology in a window system, and more particularly to a window display control system suitable for efficiently performing window display control corresponding to an operating environment of an operator. Is.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there has been provided a window system capable of operating a plurality of windows on a display device. As a typical system of this type, there is, for example, "X-Window" described in "X-Window ver.11 Programming" by Ryoichi Kinoshita (published by Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun in 1989). In this window system, the application developer who uses the window system to determine the size and the size of the window to be displayed on the display device as a resource file of the application system (hereinafter, referred to as an application). It is a mechanism to give. Therefore, the display position and display size of the window are determined for each application.

Since the resource file is not in a form that can be changed by the operator of the application,
When the application operator changes the display position or display size of the window, after the window is displayed, it can be moved and resized (changed in size) by a method using a pointing device provided by the window system. There is. However, the display position and display size of the window changed in this way cannot be saved.

As a conventional technique for solving such a problem, there is provided a system for saving the screen state immediately before the operating system is stopped. According to this technique, the saved state can be restored when the operating system is started. However, this technique cannot save and reproduce the screen state in the middle of the operation. For this reason, the applicable range is extremely limited. For example, in order to match the display position and display size of the application window with the environment of the operator of the application, complicated operations are required each time, and It was a heavy burden.

[0005]

The problem to be solved by the present invention is that, in the prior art, the display position and the display size of the window to be displayed on the display device are predetermined by the application that displays the window. It is difficult for the operator of the application to change the definition of the display position and the display size of the window, and it is not possible to efficiently obtain the window display form that suits the operating environment of the operator of the application. The purpose of the present invention is to
To solve these problems of the conventional technology, it is easy to study the window display form at the time of application development, and to easily set the window display form suitable for the operating environment during application installation and application use, It is to provide a window display control system capable of improving the operability of windows.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, a window display control system of the present invention is (1) a window display control system for controlling display of an arbitrary number of windows displayed on a screen of a display device. The window display information registration unit that registers the display information of the window including at least the display position and the display size of the window for each window, and the window display based on the instruction to change the display form information from the operator for the window The window display information changing unit that changes the corresponding window display information registered by the information registration unit, and changes the window display mode on the screen of the display device based on the window display information changed by this window display information changing unit. A window display changing unit is provided. (2) In the window display control system according to (1) above, when closing a window from the screen of the display device, the window display information corresponding to each window registered by the window display information registration unit is externally stored. It is characterized in that a window display information storage unit for storing in the device is provided. (3) In the window display control system according to (2) above, when the window starts to be displayed on the screen of the display device, the window display information corresponding to each window stored in the external storage device is read out to display the window. It is characterized in that a window display information installation unit for registering in the information registration unit is provided, and display is started in a display form based on the window display information registered by the window display information registration unit.

[0007]

In the present invention, the window display information such as the display position and the display size of the window displayed by the application is registered in association with each window. If there is a window display request, the window display is controlled according to the registered window display information. When the application is terminated, the registered contents of the window display information for each window thus changed when the application is used are stored in the external storage device and saved. Then, when installing the application, the window display information stored in the external storage device is taken out, and based on this window display information,
Controls the display of the window whose position and size have been changed. This makes it easy to register and call the changed window display format, and is suitable for the operating environment when examining the window display format at the time of application development, installing the application, and using the application. The display form of the window can be efficiently set.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a configuration relating to the present invention of a window display control system to which the present invention is applied. The window display control system of the present embodiment comprises a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube, cathode ray tube) and the like, and a display device 1 for displaying a window.
And an input device 2 including a keyboard, a mouse, etc., for inputting an instruction to change the display position, display size, or display form of the window of the operator, and information for performing window display control according to the present invention. The processing device 3 and an FDD (Flexible Disk Drive)
ve Unit, floppy disk device, etc., and an external storage device 4 for storing application programs and the like.

The information processing device 3 registers window display information such as the display position and display size of the window on the display device 1 using the display management table 5a for each window by using the window display information registration unit 5 And changing the window display information corresponding to the window displayed on the display device 1 via the input device 2 based on the instruction to change the display form information from the operator Based on the contents of the unit 6, the application processing unit 7 that performs application-specific processing using windows, and the window display information registration unit 5, display control of windows on the screen of the display device 1 used by the application processing unit 7 is performed. When the window display changing unit 8 and the window are closed, The window display information storage unit 9 for storing the registered contents of the window display information registration unit 5 in the external storage device 4, and the corresponding window display information is read from the external storage device 4 when the window is opened. The window display information installation unit 10 to be registered in the registration unit 5 and the main control unit 11 that controls the overall operation of the information processing device 3 such as input / output control with the display device 1, the input device 2, and the external storage device 4. The number of windows displayed on the screen of the display device 1 is configured based on a change instruction from the operator that is input via the input device 2 at the start of displaying the window and while the window is being displayed. The display mode such as display position and display size is controlled to be changed.

In this embodiment, the dialog 12 is displayed on the screen of the display device 1, and the operator can register the change of the window display form through the dialog 12. You can give instructions. In addition, the display management table 5 of the window display information registration unit 5
a is a window ID 50 for registering an identifier indicating the type of each window, a display position (x, y) 51 for registering a display address (X coordinate, Y coordinate) of each window on the display device 1, and each window. The display size (w, h) 52 is used for registering the size of the width by the width and height which are the distances of the xy coordinates from the display position.

With this configuration, the window display control system of this embodiment first associates window display information such as the display position and display size of the window displayed by the application processing unit 7 with each window,
It is registered in the display management table 5a of the window display information registration unit 5. Then, if there is a window display changing operation from the operator using the input device 2, the window display information changing unit 6 changes the registered contents of the display management table 5a in response to the changing operation. At the end of the application processing unit 7, the window display information storage unit 9
The registered content of the display management table 5a of the window display information registration unit 5 is stored in the external storage device 4 and saved. Then, when the application processing unit 7 is started up again, the window display information installation unit 10 extracts the window display information stored in the external storage device 4 and registers it in the window display information registration unit 5, and the window display information is registered. Based on, the display control of the window whose position and size are changed is performed.

In this way, it is possible to easily register and call the changed window display form,
Examination of the display form of the window at the time of developing the application to be processed by the application processing unit 7,
It is possible to efficiently set the window display mode suitable for the operating environment at the time of installing and using the application. Hereinafter, regarding the change in the value of the display management table 5a based on the change instruction input by the operator using the input device 2 for the window displayed on the display device 1 and the change operation of the display form of the window,
This will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an embodiment of the window display control operation according to the present invention of the window display control system in FIG. The first embodiment is shown in FIG.
In (a), an initial display screen 20 of the display device 1 of FIG.
As shown in FIG. 2B, the contents of the display management table 5a are the window ID (IDentifica).
corresponding to W (11) in the
(0, 0) is registered in the display position (x, y) 51, and (300, 200) is registered in the display size (w, h) 52.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view showing an embodiment of the window display control operation according to the present invention of the window display control system in FIG. The second embodiment is shown in FIG.
In (a), the initial display screen 3 of the display device 1 of FIG.
0 for two windows W (21) 31, W (2
2) 32 is displayed, and as shown in FIG. 3B, the content of the display management table 5a is the window ID 5
Corresponding to W (21) and W (22) at 0, respectively, (0, 0) and (50, at the display position (x, y) 51.
50) in the display size (w, h) 52, (200, 1
00) and (100, 50) are registered.

Application processing unit 7 in FIG.
When performing processing using the three windows shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the operator changes the display position and display size of each window in order to create an operating environment suitable for the processing. However, in the window display control system of the present embodiment in FIG. 1, the change information is registered in the display management table 5a of the window display information registration unit 5 in FIG. 1 as shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing an embodiment of the window display control operation according to the present invention of the window display control system in FIG. The third embodiment is shown in FIG.
And each window W (1
1), W (21), and W (22) are display-controlled according to the operating environment of the operator. In FIG. 4A, the display screen 40 is the window W in FIG.
The window W ′ (11) 41 in which the display position and the display size of (11) 21 are changed and the display positions and the display sizes of the two windows W (21) 31 and W (22) 32 in FIG. Window W'changed
(21) 42 and W '(22) 43 are displayed.

The display control of these windows is shown in FIG.
As shown in (a), it is performed based on the contents of the display management table 5a.
Regarding the window W (11), the display position is (0,
The display size has been changed from (300, 200) to (200, 100). The display positions of the windows W (21) and W (22) are (50, 50) and (20, 80), respectively.
Both display sizes are changed to (100, 50).

In this way, when each window used in the application processing unit 7 in FIG. 1 is set to an operation environment suitable for processing, in the window display control system of this embodiment in FIG. 1, each changed window is displayed. The window display information registration unit 5 of FIG. 1 registers the display position and the display size of, and when the processing is completed, the window display information registration unit 5 stores the same in the external storage device 4 of FIG. As a result, the operator can easily obtain the window display form suitable for the operating environment.

Next, the processing procedure according to the present invention of the window display control system in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to the flowcharts in FIGS. FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing a first embodiment of the processing procedure according to the present invention of the window display control system in FIG. Book first
In this embodiment, the window display information changing unit 6 in FIG.
And a window display control operation by the window display changing unit 8, which receives a window display control request (display request or cancellation request) from the window display application processing unit 7 in FIG. 1 (step 50).
1), this request is, for example, the window W in FIG.
In the case of the display request of (11) 21 (step 502), the corresponding display position and display size are acquired from the display management table 5a in FIG. 2 by using the window ID "W (11)" as a key (step 503). . Then, the window W (11) is displayed on the display device 1 of FIG. 1 (step 504).

In step 502, if the window display control request from the window display application processing unit 7 in FIG. 1 is a window deletion request, the display position and display of the window W (11) to be the deletion request are displayed. The size is acquired (step 505) and stored in the display management table 5a in FIG. 4 (step 506),
The relevant window W (11) is deleted (step 50).
7). Then, the processing result is returned to the window display application processing unit 7 which is the display control request source (step 508).

FIG. 6 is a flow chart showing a second embodiment of the processing procedure according to the present invention of the window display control system in FIG. The second embodiment shows a window display control procedure at the time of installing an application. First, the application processing unit 7 of FIG. 1 performs a process peculiar to the installation (step 601). If the operator selects an instruction to change the display position and the display size of the window based on the dialog 12 shown in FIG.
2), the window display information installation unit 10 in FIG.
Reads the display information of the corresponding window from the external storage device 4 of FIG. 1 into the window display information registration unit 5 of FIG. 1 with the contents of the display management table 5a of FIG. 4 (step 603). Then, the window W '(11) 4 shown in the display management table 5a in FIG.
1, W '(21) 42, W' (22) 43 are all displayed on the display device 1 of FIG. 1 (step 604).

When the operator further changes the display position or the display size of the window by operating the input device shown in FIG. 1, for example, the mouse with respect to the window thus displayed, the window display information shown in FIG. 1 is changed. The unit 6 changes the registered contents of the display management table in response to the change (step 605). When the operation of the application is ended, the window display changing unit 8 shown in FIG.
1 erases all windows displayed on the screen of the display device of FIG. 1 (step 606), and the window display information storage unit 9 of FIG. 1 stores the changed contents of the display management table in the external storage of FIG. The data is written to the device 4 (step 607). As described above, in the second embodiment, when the application is installed, the window suitable for the operating environment is displayed based on the operator's selection. Therefore, the operator newly performs the operation of changing the display mode of the window. You don't have to.

FIG. 7 is a flow chart showing a third embodiment of the processing procedure according to the present invention of the window display control system in FIG. The third embodiment shows a procedure for registering display information of a window when using an application. First, the application processing unit 7 in FIG. 1 displays the window, erases the window, changes the position and size, and so on. Before performing the processing specific to each application (step 702), the window display information of each application is read from the external storage device 4 of FIG. 1 into the display management table 5a of the window display information registration unit 5 of FIG. 1 (step 701). ). During execution of the processing peculiar to each application in step 702, the window is displayed or erased, or the display position or the display size of the window is changed based on the instruction from the operator.

After the processing unique to each application is completed, if the display position or display size of the window is changed (step 703), the dialog 12 as shown in FIG. 1 is displayed, and the result of changing the window display form is displayed. The operator is asked whether or not to record (step 704). If the change is selected, the window display information storage unit 9 of FIG. 1 writes the contents of the display management table 5a of FIG. 1 to the external storage device 4 of FIG. 1 as the display control information of each application (step 705). ).

As described above with reference to FIGS. 1 to 7, in the window display control system of this embodiment, it is easy to register and call the window display mode changed according to the operating environment of the operator. , Considering the window display form at the time of AP development, and installing AP,
Further, it is possible to efficiently perform the operation related to the window display, such as setting the window display mode suitable for the operating environment when using the AP.

The present invention is not limited to the embodiment described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 7. For example, in the processing of step 602 of FIG. 6, the initial screen is selected based on the operator's selection. 1 and the display suitable for the previous operating environment are switched, but the window display information installation unit 10 of FIG. 1 causes the external storage device 4 of FIG. 1 to display, for example, the display management table 5a of FIG. The contents may be automatically read into the window display information registration unit 5 in FIG.

[0027]

According to the present invention, it is easy to register and call a changed window display form, and it is possible to examine the window display form at the time of developing the AP, install the AP, and use the AP. It is possible to efficiently set the window display mode suitable for the operating environment at any given time, and improve the operability of the window system.

[0028]

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a configuration relating to the present invention of a window display control system to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a window display control operation according to the present invention of the window display control system in FIG.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a window display control operation according to the present invention of the window display control system in FIG.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a window display control operation according to the present invention of the window display control system in FIG.

5 is a flowchart showing a first embodiment of a processing procedure according to the present invention of the window display control system in FIG.

6 is a flow chart showing a second embodiment of the processing procedure according to the present invention of the window display control system in FIG.

7 is a flowchart showing a third embodiment of the processing procedure according to the present invention of the window display control system in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 display device 2 input device 3 information processing device 4 external storage device 5 window display information registration unit 5a display management table 6 window display information change unit 7 application processing unit 8 window display change unit 9 window display information storage unit 10 window display information installation Part 11 Main control part 12 Dialog 20 Display screen 21 Window W (11) 30 Display screen 31 Window W (21) 32 Window W (22) 40 Display screen 41 Window W '(11) 42 Window W' (21) 43 window W '(22) 50 Window ID 51 Display position (x, y) 52 Display size (w, h)

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Kenji Fujisawa Inventor Kenji Fujisawa 1-16-5, Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Inside Hitachi Information Systems, Inc. Central Research Laboratory

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A window display control system for controlling display of an arbitrary number of windows displayed on a screen of a display device, wherein display information of windows including at least a display position and a display size of the windows is displayed for each window. Window display information registration means for correspondingly registering, and window display information changing means for changing corresponding window display information registered by the window display information registering means based on an instruction to change the display form information from the operator for the window. And a window display changing means for changing the display form of the window on the screen of the display device based on the window display information changed by the window display information changing means. 2. The window display control system according to claim 1, wherein when the window is closed from the screen of the display device, the window display information corresponding to each window registered by the window display information registration means is stored. A window display control system characterized by comprising window display information storage means for storing in an external storage device. 3. The window display control system according to claim 2, wherein when the display of the window on the screen of the display device is started, the window display information corresponding to each window stored in the external storage device is read out. ,
A window display control system characterized by comprising window display information installation means for registering with the window display information registration means, and starting display in a display form based on the window display information registered by the window display information registration means.