JPH07334338A - Window controller - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To display plural windows so that their display contents do not overlap with one another by displaying windows, opened by clicking plural selected icons, on a screen and dynamically making adjustments by enlargement or reduction so that they do not overlap with one another when they overlap with one another as to the window controller which displays plural windows on the screen so that they do not overlap with one another. CONSTITUTION:This controller is equipped with a window size calculation part 4 which adjusts the widths and heights of overlapping windows on the basis of the selected icons and previously specified screen size if the windows selected with the icons overlap with one another when arranged on the screen, a contents display processing part 5 which calculates an enlargement/reduction rate for displaying the contents in the windows after the adjustment, and a display processing part 6 which displays the contents in the windows at the calculated enlargement/reduction rate.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a window control device for displaying a plurality of windows on a screen without overlapping them.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In conventional window control, one iconified window is selected and displayed at a default position and with a default size, and data and graphics are displayed inside the window. Similarly, select the next icon to display the window in the default position and the default size, move it to a position where it does not overlap when it overlaps, and reduce the size when it overlaps. But each time, I operated it to arrange multiple windows so that they could be seen easily.

[0003]

Therefore, when a plurality of icons are opened and a plurality of windows are arranged on the screen so that the contents are displayed in each window and the users work while looking at each other, the windows overlap each other. In this case, there is a problem that either window or both windows must be moved, the size must be reduced, or the user must operate each time.

The present invention solves these problems.
The purpose is to display windows that have multiple selected icons open on the screen and dynamically adjust them so that they do not overlap when they overlap, so that the display contents of multiple windows can be displayed without being hidden. .

[0005]

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of the principle of the present invention. In FIG. 1, the window control device 1
Is to expand or reduce the size (width, height) of the windows corresponding to a plurality of selected icons so that they do not overlap on the screen 8 or to expand or reduce the display content. The number analysis unit 2, the screen size analysis unit 3, the window size calculation unit 4, the content display processing unit 5, and the display processing unit 6 are included.

The icon selection number analysis unit 2 analyzes the number of icons selected on the screen 8. The screen size analysis unit 3 analyzes the size of the screen 8 on which a window can be displayed.

The window size calculation unit 4 adjusts the size (width, height) of the window so that it does not overlap the screen 8. The content display processing unit 5 enlarges or reduces the content in the window and displays the content, or enlarges or reduces the size of the window when the content cannot be displayed.

The display processing unit 6 displays the contents in a window. The display device 7 is provided with a plurality of windows on the screen 8 to display the contents.

[0009]

According to the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, based on the number of selected icons analyzed by the icon selection number analysis unit 2 and the size of the screen 8 on the display device 7 by the screen size analysis unit 3, When the window size calculation unit 4 attempts to arrange the windows selected by the icon on the screen 8 so that the positions of the windows do not overlap, the window size calculation unit 4 adjusts the width and height of the overlapping windows so that they fit each other, and the content display The processing unit 5 calculates the enlargement / reduction rate for displaying the content in the adjusted window, and the display processing unit 6 displays the content in the window at the calculated enlargement / reduction rate.

Further, the window size calculation unit 4 displays the screen 8
When the window selected by the icon is placed so that the positions of the windows do not overlap, the overlapping and adjusting the width and height of the overlapping windows, and the content display processing unit 5 adjusts the adjusted window. If there is a window whose contents could not be displayed, increase the size (width or height or both) of the window and adjust the size (width or height or both) of related windows that can be displayed. The display processing unit 6 displays the contents in these adjusted windows.

At this time, the content display processing unit 5 widens the size (width or height or both) of the windows that could not display the content, and narrows the size (width or height or both) of the related windows that could be displayed. When the content cannot be displayed even after the adjustment, the content is further expanded / reduced so that it can be displayed in the window, and the display processing unit 6 displays the expanded / reduced content in the adjusted window.

Therefore, by displaying a window in which a plurality of selected icons are opened on the screen 8 and dynamically adjusting the window size and contents so as not to overlap by expanding / contracting when the windows overlap. It is possible to display the display contents of multiple windows without hiding.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, the construction and operation of an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 2 shows a flowchart for explaining the operation of the present invention. In FIG. 2, S1 selects an icon.
For this, the user selects a plurality of window icons to be displayed on the screen 8 of the display device 7, for example, on the screen of FIG.

In S2, the number of selected icons is obtained. this is,
The icon selection number analysis unit 2 in FIG. 1 obtains the number of icons selected by the user in S1. In S3, the screen size is calculated. This is because the screen size analysis unit 3 in FIG.
The size (width and height) of the screen 8 on which the window can be actually displayed on the display device 7 is calculated.

In S4, the window size for each window is calculated. This calculates the size of the window corresponding to the icon selected in S1, for example the size (width and height) of the window on the screen 8 with reference to the window information set by default.

In step S5, it is determined whether display is possible by default. This is to prevent the windows from overlapping when trying to arrange them on the screen 8 based on the size (width and height) of each window calculated in S4. Determine if it was placed. In the case of YES, since the plurality of windows can be arranged so as not to overlap on the screen 8, the process proceeds to S6. On the other hand, in the case of NO, it is not possible to arrange the windows so that they do not overlap each other on the screen 8. Therefore, in S8, the width and height of the windows are adjusted, that is, the width and height of the windows that cannot be displayed are increased. Or
Adjustments such as widening the remaining width and height are repeated for each predetermined small size by trial and error, and it is determined in S9 whether all the windows can be displayed (arranged) on the screen 8 or not. The expansion / contraction ratio of the display contents is calculated according to the expansion / contraction of the size, and the process proceeds to S6. On the other hand, when NO is determined, it is determined that all the windows cannot be displayed on the screen 8, and an error message is displayed in S11.

In step S6, it is determined whether the contents can be displayed. YE
In the case of S, the contents are displayed in the respective windows in S7. On the other hand, in the case of NO, since it has been found that the contents cannot be displayed in each window, an error message is displayed in S11 and the user is informed accordingly.

As described above, in response to the user selecting a plurality of icons, the size of the screen 8 is automatically calculated, and the window corresponding to the selected icon is overlaid on the screen 8 in the default size. Place it so that it does not become
The contents are displayed in each window when they can be arranged. When the windows cannot be placed on the screen 8 due to overlapping, the width and height of the windows are narrowed, and when there are extra windows, the windows are widened so that the windows cannot be placed on the screen 8 at all. After that, the scaling rate is calculated so that the content can be displayed in each window, and the content is displayed in each window at this scaling rate. With these, the user can simply select a plurality of icons to be displayed, and the contents are automatically expanded and reduced in a window having a non-overlapping position and a non-overlapping size on the screen 8. When referring to the contents of other windows while editing data or graphics, the inconvenience of not seeing part of the window contents disappears, and the operation to make them visible (window resizing operation, window The operation of moving the display position of (1), the operation of specifying the scaling ratio of the display content, etc.) is unnecessary.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a specific example of the present invention. In this case, two icons are selected according to the flowchart of FIG. 2 and two windows are displayed on the screen 8.

FIG. 3A shows an example in which icons are displayed on the screen 8. Icon corresponding to the window to be displayed on the screen 8 Here, the user selects two hatched icons with the mouse.

FIG. 3B shows a state in which the window and the display contents are displayed on the screen 8 in the default size (not displayed in the present invention). In this state, window 1 and window 2 overlap and a part cannot be seen.

FIG. 3C shows an example in which the window width and height are adjusted and the display contents are enlarged / reduced so as to eliminate the state of FIG. 3B. (1) Adjusting the width and height of the window 1 and the window 2: In the state of FIG. 3B, the two windows 1 and 2 cannot overlap each other on the screen 8 and cannot be displayed as a whole. The widths of window 1 and window 2 are narrowed by the same amount. Next, in response to the narrowing of this width, I checked whether there was an excess in the height. Since both window 1 and window 2 had extra space here, widen the height of the extra part, As a result, the window 1 is displayed in the width and height of the area obtained by dividing the entire screen 8 into two as shown in the figure.
And adjust window 2.

(2) Calculation of scaling ratio of contents displayed in window 1 and window 2: In (1), the width of window 1 and window 2 is narrowed at the same ratio here (narrowed to half the width of screen 8). Since the height is expanded (expanded to the height of the screen 8), the expansion / contraction ratio capable of displaying the display content within this size is calculated. Then, it is displayed in the window 1 and the window 2 at the scaling ratio as shown in the figure.

By the above (1) and (2), after the window 1 and the window 2 are adjusted to the same size on the screen 8 here, the scaled contents in the adjusted window 1 and the window 2 are automatically adjusted. To be displayed. As a result, the user can see all the contents of the window 1 and the window 2 without the situation that a part of the window is hidden and invisible as shown in FIG.

Next, referring to the flowchart of FIG.
The case where the sizes of the windows 1 and 2 are not equal but different ratios so that all the contents can be displayed in the windows 1 and 2 will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

In FIG. 4, S21 is the screen size W.
Calculate 0 and H0. S22 is the window size W
1, H1 and window sizes W2, H2 are calculated. This is obtained, for example, by calculating the width W1 and the height H1 of the window 1 and the width W2 and the height H2 of the window 2 in FIG.

In step S23, W1 = W2 = (W0 / 2) is obtained. This is obtained by equally dividing the width W0 of the screen 8 to obtain the width W1 of the window 1 and the width W2 of the window 2.

In step S24, it is determined whether the contents can be displayed. This determines whether the contents can be displayed in the width W1 of the window 1 and the width W2 of the window 2 which are equally divided in S23. If YES, both window 1 and window 2 were able to display the entire contents, so
The window size (width in this case) is OK, and the contents are displayed in the windows 1 and 2, respectively. On the other hand, in the case of NO, since the entire contents cannot be displayed in the window 1 or the window 2, the process proceeds to S25.

In step S25, it is determined whether or not all windows could display the contents. In the case of YES, the contents cannot be displayed in all the windows, so there is no window for narrowing the width, and the process ends as NG. On the other hand, in the case of NO, it was found that some windows that could display the contents and some windows that could not display the contents coexisted.
In 6 here, the width W1 of the window 1 whose contents could not be displayed is expanded, the width W2 of the window 2 whose contents can be displayed is narrowed by the expanded amount, and the process returns to S24, and when YES is determined, the window 1 is displayed. The content is displayed within the widened width W1 of the window and the content is displayed within the narrowed width W2 of the window 2. As a result, as shown in FIG. 5, the width W1 of the window 1 is widened as shown to display all the contents,
The width W2 of the window 2 is narrowed as shown, and all the contents are displayed.

As described above, by providing the procedure shown in FIG. 4 in which the width W1 is widened and the width W2 is narrowed in accordance with the internal capacity for displaying the window 1 and the window 2 inside, the internal capacity to be displayed in the window is adjusted. It is possible to dynamically adjust the width of the window. Similarly, the heights H1 and H2 are dynamically expanded or narrowed according to the internal capacity displayed in the window.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory view of a specific example of the present invention (part 2).
Indicates. In this specific example, the default windows 1 and 2 as shown in FIG.
According to the flowchart of FIG. 4, the width W and the height H are dynamically adjusted according to the display amount displayed in the window. At this time, the display contents of the windows 1 and 2 are equally reduced here. Furthermore, if the reduction ratios of the display contents of the window 1 and the window 2 are made different, it is possible to display even if the difference in the display contents is large.

[0033]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Open the window with the selected multiple icons on screen 8
Since the window size and contents are dynamically adjusted so that they are displayed on top and overlap so that they do not expand and contract so that they do not overlap, the display contents of multiple windows can be displayed on the screen 8 without being hidden. You can With these, (1) a window and its contents can be displayed from a plurality of icons at the same time without overlapping.

(2) By displaying a plurality of windows and their contents so that they do not overlap, it is possible to easily edit the contents of another window while referring to the contents of one window.

(3) Even if a large number of icons are opened and a plurality of windows are displayed at the same time, it is possible to avoid the inconvenience that the window size is reduced and the contents overlap and become invisible.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a principle block diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart explaining the operation of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram (Part 1) for explaining a specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining another operation of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram (part 2) for explaining a specific example of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1: Window control device 2: Icon selection number analysis unit 3: Screen size analysis unit 4: Window size calculation unit 5: Content display processing unit 6: Display processing unit 7: Display device 8: Screen

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A width of a window that overlaps when an attempt is made to arrange the windows selected by the icon on the screen so that the positions of the windows are not overlapped based on the selected icon and the screen size designated in advance. And window size calculation unit (4) that adjusts the size so that the height and the height fit together.
And a content display processing unit (5) for calculating a scaling ratio for displaying the contents in the adjusted window, and a display processing unit (6) for displaying the contents in the window at the calculated scaling ratio. A window control device characterized by the above. 2. The width of the overlapping windows when trying to arrange the positions of the windows selected by the icons on the screen so that they do not overlap each other based on the selected icon and the screen size specified in advance. And window size calculation unit (4) that adjusts the size so that the height and the height fit together.
When there is a window whose contents could not be displayed in the adjusted window, the size (width or height or both) of the window is expanded, and the size of the related window that can be displayed (width or height or A window control device comprising: a content display processing unit (5) for performing adjustment for narrowing both) and a display processing unit (6) for displaying the content in the adjusted window respectively. 3. The content display processing unit (5) according to claim 2.
Cannot expand the size of the window (width or height or both) that could not be displayed, and can not display the content even if adjustments are made to narrow the size (width or height or both) of the related windows that could be displayed. A window control device, which further expands or contracts the contents so that the contents can be displayed in the window.