JPH0736653A - Information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain a picture easy to see by using a systematic control box for the window picture focused at present to present a picture control function. CONSTITUTION:A systematic control execution processing part 4 receives a message to the systematic control box from a system control part 5 and acquires the handle of the window displayed in the top view out of windows other than the systematic control box. The scroll style defined by this handle and contents of a registered table is acquired. This scroll style and the message received from the system are compared with each other; and if the message is valid it is transmitted to the window in the top view as the message from the system. When the window focused at present does not have horizontal and vertical scroll styles, the control box is not displayed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus having a window system and a swap function.

More specifically, the present invention includes (1) an information processing apparatus having a window system capable of simultaneously opening a plurality of windows: (2) a window system for visually displaying a file by an icon. Information processing apparatus: (3) Information processing apparatus having automatic open swap function:

[0003]

2. Description of the Related Art (1) Conventionally, in an information processing apparatus equipped with a window system, screen control of individual windows is realized by displaying and controlling horizontal and vertical scroll bars. It was

(2) Conventionally, in an information processing apparatus equipped with a window system, a title showing its characteristics is displayed on an icon, and when the number of icons increases, screen information increases and the screen becomes complicated. .

The display form of the icon is always the same unless the user changes it.
The user has modified the icon display form each time the work form is changed.

(3) Conventionally, as an information processing apparatus having a swap function, a swap area as large as the capacity of the external storage device can be secured, and can be handled in the same manner as a memory.

[0007]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention]

(1) In the conventional example described in the above item (1), when a plurality of windows having the same horizontal / vertical scroll bars are displayed on a narrow display, the effective display range of the window used by the user is limited, I couldn't get a comfortable working space. Further, there is a problem that the same control window is displayed on the screen and the appearance is not neat.

Therefore, a first object of the present invention is to provide an information processing apparatus capable of efficiently performing work on an easy-to-see screen without the work area in the window screen being pressed by the horizontal / vertical scroll bars. To provide.

(2) In the conventional example described in the above item (2),
Even if the screen becomes complicated as the number of icons increases and the title character strings overlap with each other, there is no countermeasure, and the user needs to change the display form of the icons in order to improve work efficiency. Also, there was no need to constantly display on the screen the icons of applications that are rarely used.

Therefore, a second object of the present invention is to provide an information processing apparatus capable of displaying more information on a limited display screen.

(3) In the conventional example described in the above item (3),
There has been a problem that the swap area wastes the allowable capacity of the external storage device, and puts a strain on the work space of the application operating in parallel with the swap function.

Therefore, a third object of the present invention is to automatically use the swap area even if the free area on the external storage device is compressed by the swap area secured on the external storage device. -To provide an information processing device capable of reliably securing a space.

[0013]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

(1) In order to achieve the above-mentioned first object, the present invention provides a multi-screen capable of displaying a plurality of window screens at the same time.
In an information processing device equipped with a window system,
The first means to collectively manage the horizontal / vertical scroll bars displayed in each window at the resource level of the system, and the only one unified for all the windows having the horizontal / vertical scroll bar style. A second means for always displaying one unified control box in the top view of the screen, and a second means for providing a screen control function to the currently focused window by using the unified control box. 3 means.

(2) In order to achieve the above-mentioned second object, the present invention has a function of displaying an icon in an information processing apparatus having a window system for visually displaying a file by using an icon. A first means for setting a designated number of times of use or a designated time, a second means for updating the number of times of use of the icon, and judging whether or not the designated number of times or exceeding the designated number of times, and the use of the icon A third means for rearranging the icons that are frequently used based on the number of times so that they can be displayed preferentially, deleting the title display for the icons, and arranging the screen;
It has an icon learning function.

(3) In order to achieve the above-mentioned third object, the present invention comprises a first means capable of handling a swap area secured in an external storage device connected to a system in the same manner as a main memory, A second method for adding a time stamp and the number of times of use when allocating a swap area in the external storage device
Means, and third means for automatically releasing the less frequently used swap area based on the time stamp and the number of times of use and expanding the capacity of the external storage device.

[0016]

[Action]

(1) According to the present invention, the horizontal / vertical scroll bars displayed in the individual windows are all hidden by the first means for collectively managing at the resource level of the system, and the horizontal / vertical scroll bars are It provides a control interface with a second means to always display a single unified control box for all windows with titles in the top view of the screen. Then, by the third means, unified control is performed for the currently focused window screen.
Use boxes to provide screen control functions.

(2) According to another aspect of the present invention, the first means for setting the designated number of times of use or the designated time in the function for displaying the icon sets a deadline for displaying the title of the icon, and then the icon is displayed. The number of times of use is updated each time the access is made, and the display time limit is judged by the second means for judging whether the specified number of times or the specified time is exceeded. Furthermore, the third means rearranges the frequently used icons so that they can be displayed preferentially.

(3) Further, in another aspect of the present invention, the time stamp and the number of times of use are added to the swap area secured in the external storage device, and added when the free area on the external storage device becomes insufficient. By determining the frequency of use from the time stamp and the number of times of use, and automatically opening the less frequently used swap area as the capacity of a normal external storage device, it is possible to effectively use the limited resources of the system device. .

[0019]

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

Embodiment 1 FIG. 1 shows a first embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a resource control control unit, which is a resource batch management processing unit 2 that collectively manages horizontal / vertical scroll bars defined in a style of a window, and is unified for all applications. Unified control box display processing unit 3 used as
And a unified control execution processing section 4 for actually controlling this unified control box. Reference numeral 5 is a system control unit. 6 is a display connected to this system, 7 is a keyboard, and 8 is a mouse.

FIG. 2 shows a control procedure of the resource batch management processing section 2 shown in FIG.

First, in step S1, it is determined whether or not the API call issued by each application is an API for creating a window.

If the result of the determination is that it is a window creation API, it is determined in step S2 whether a horizontal / vertical scroll bar is defined in the window style. If it is defined as a result of the judgment, step S
At 3, the handle of the window is acquired.

Next, in step S4, the window / style definition passed to the system is masked by the horizontal / vertical scroll bars to invalidate the display.

Next, in step S5, the window handle and the horizontal / vertical scroll / style definition are uniquely associated and registered in the table. The registered table can be shared by each processing unit.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the unified control shown in FIG.
The control procedure of the box display processing unit 3 is shown.

Unified control box display processing unit 3
Operates in cooperation with the message management manager of the system, and hooks the window message issued from the system control unit 5 to each application in step S6.

In step S7, it is determined whether or not the hooked message is a message indicating that the focus on the window has moved. If the message does not have the focus changed, the message hooked in step S11 is sent to the window as it is.

On the other hand, if the message indicates that the focus has been changed, in step S8, the top view displayed on the top of the windows currently displayed on the screen other than the unified control box is displayed. Get the handle of the window.

The obtained handle and the above step S5
In step S9, the horizontal / vertical scroll / style definition of the window is acquired from the contents of the table registered in step S9.

In step S10, a unified control box is drawn according to the acquired scroll style. Then, in step S11, the hooked message is transmitted to the window.

FIG. 4 shows a control procedure of the unified control execution processing section 4 shown in FIG.

First, in step S12, a message for the unified control box is received from the system control unit 5.

When the message is received, step S13
At, get the handle of the window displayed in the top view among the windows excluding the unified control box.

Next, in step S14, a defined scroll style is acquired from the acquired handle and the contents of the table registered in step S5.

In step S15, this scroll style is compared with the message received from the system to determine whether it is a valid message. If the result of determination is that the message is valid, it is transmitted as a message from the system to the top view window in step S16.

As a result, the application can perform the same scrolling control it is confident as if it were a message received from the system.

FIG. 5 shows a unified control box.

This unified control box is normally displayed in the lower right corner of the screen, but even if it is overlapped by another application, this control box is a special window that is always displayed. With style.

However, if the currently focused window does not have the horizontal / vertical scroll style, this control box is not displayed. This avoids drawing unnecessary unified control boxes.

From the above, according to the present embodiment, when a plurality of window applications are executed in a limited screen in the window system device, the work area in the window is a scroll bar. Can be prevented from being oppressed by.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and the present invention can be implemented in other forms.

For example, in addition to the horizontal / vertical scroll bars, a control window redundantly used on the window screen is added to the system resources managed collectively to further customize the user. It can be a window system device.

Embodiment 2 FIG. 6 shows a second embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 6, reference numeral 11 denotes an icon learning control section, which opens a dialog box for icon registration and sets an designated time and a designated number of times.
And compare the specified time with the current time to determine if the icon is reconfigured. In addition, the icon update processing unit 13 that determines whether or not the icon has been accessed a specified number of times, and when the icon needs to be reconfigured by the icon update processing unit 13, the title displayed on the icon is deleted and the icon is frequently used. It has an icon reconfiguration processing unit 14 for redisplaying the icons in positions where they are easy to use.

Reference numeral 15 is a display 16 and a keyboard 1.
A window system control unit for controlling the input / output generated between the mouse 7 and the mouse 18.

Reference numeral 19 denotes an external storage device for storing various variables.

FIG. 7 shows a control procedure of the icon registration processing section 12 shown in FIG.

First, in step S21, the icon registration box shown in FIG. 10 is displayed on the display 16. The user uses the keyboard 17 to specify the title of the designated application, the file name (command name) of the designated application, the designated time for deleting the title of the icon, and the designated number of times of access for deleting the title of the icon in the icon registration box. Use to set the work area in the processing section.

Based on this setting, the icon learning function described below is realized. In the example of FIG. 10, the title of the icon is erased after 100 hours or 20 times of access.

In step S22, it is determined whether or not the designated time is set. If set, the current time is acquired from the window system control unit 15 and stored in the work area in the processing unit as the setting start time in step S23.

In step S24, it is determined whether or not the designated number of times is set, and if it is set, the number-of-uses counter in the work area is set to 0 in step S25.

In step S26, the above S21, S2
3, the value set in S25 is saved in a work file (Learn.ini) having the format shown in FIG. 11, and written in the external storage device 19.

With the above, the initial setting of icon registration is completed.

FIG. 8 shows a control procedure of the icon update processing unit 13 shown in FIG.

First, in step S27, the external storage device 1
The contents of the work file created by the icon registration processing unit 11 are read from 9.

In step S28, the message issued by the window system control unit 15 is monitored, and it is determined whether or not the icon is activated by clicking the mouse 18 on the display 16 or the keyboard 17.

If the icon is activated, step S
At 29, it is determined whether or not the file name to be activated is the icon registered by the icon registration process by comparing with the file name set as the command in step S21.

If it is an icon to be registered, step S3
At 0, it is determined whether or not the icon has already been learned (the icon whose title is not already displayed). If the title is currently displayed, the process continues to step S30.

If the determination branches up to this point are false, this processing section terminates without doing anything.

In step S31, the number-of-uses counter of the registered icon read in step S27 is updated by one.

In step S32, it is determined whether the number of times of use has reached the specified number of times registered. If it is satisfied, the learned ON is set in step S33. On the other hand, if the condition is not satisfied, step S3
At 4, the current time is acquired from the window system control unit 15.

Based on the acquired time and the registered time, it is determined in step S35 whether or not the registered specified time is satisfied. If the condition is satisfied, the learned ON is set in step S36.

As described above, the learned ON is set in this processing section.

FIG. 9 shows a control procedure of the icon reconstruction processing section 14 shown in FIG.

This processing unit operates at the timing of drawing an icon when the window system is activated, and the initial screen of the window is drawn through this processing unit.

First, in step S37, it is determined whether or not there is already a learning icon group for collecting learned icons.

If not, a learning icon group is created in step S38.

In step S39, it is determined whether or not the icon to be drawn is a registered icon. If it is a registered icon, it is learned ON in step S40.
It is determined whether or not is set.

If the result of the determination is false in steps S39 and S40, the title is added to the icon by normal drawing in step S43.

On the other hand, if true, in step S41, the selected icon is added to the learning icon group.

Next, in step S42, as shown in FIG. 12, the learned icon is drawn without displaying the title. As a result, the space for displaying icons becomes smaller,
The work space in the window screen will increase.

The learning function is not limited to the above-described embodiment. For example, in addition to the learning function according to the usage frequency being added to each application, the learning function is added to each application group in which a series of related application groups are collected. By adding them, more efficient work can be realized.

Embodiment 3 FIG. 13 shows a third embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 13, a swap processing control unit 21 has a processing unit 22 for securing a swap area, a processing unit 23 for using the swap area, and a processing unit 24 for releasing the swap area.

Reference numeral 25 is an external storage device to which a swap area is assigned. 26 is a system control unit, 27 is a keyboard, and 28 is a display.

FIG. 14 shows a control procedure of the processing section 22 for securing the swap area shown in FIG.

First, in step S51, the external storage device 2
It is determined whether or not there is enough swap area to secure the swap area.

In step S52, a swap area is secured in the external storage device in page units.

In step S53, the current time at this time is acquired as a time stamp.

In step S54, the time stamp and the number of times of use (reset to 0 when secured) are associated and registered in the time stamp table.

FIG. 15 shows a control procedure of the processing section 23 using the swap area shown in FIG.

First, in step S55, it is determined whether or not there is a swap area available. If there is a swap area, the number of times of use and the time stamp data registered for that swap area are updated in step S56.

Then, in step S57, the swap area is accessed in the same manner as the memory. A general swap function is used for this access method.

FIG. 16 shows a control procedure of the processing section 24 for releasing the swap area shown in FIG.

When the application notifies that the work space is insufficient, the system control unit 26 requests the memory allocation. At this time, in step S58, it is first determined whether the area of the capacity requested by the system control unit 26 has been released.

If it is not released, the time registered in the time stamp table is displayed in step S59.
A maximum of 5 candidates are selected from the oldest in the stamps.

Next, in step S60, the region with the least number of uses is selected from the five selected candidates.

In step S61, the selected swap area is released. Then, in step S62, the data of the number of times of use and the time stamp associated with the released swap area is deleted from the time stamp table.

After that, the process returns to step S58 and the same processing is repeated until the requested memory area is released.

As a result, the application can avoid the memory shortage due to the swap area.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and the present invention can be implemented in other forms.

For example, the second means of the present invention (claim 3).
By comparing the added time stamp with the time of the timer equipped in the information processing device, the time-specified automatic release function that automatically releases the unused swap area at a predetermined time is realized. It is possible.

Further, if the logic for implementing the present invention is applied to the main memory of the information processing apparatus,
The unused area in the main memory can be effectively used, and high-speed swap access is realized.

[0096]

By implementing the present invention, the effects listed below can be obtained.

(1) According to the present invention, the work area in the window screen is not squeezed by the horizontal / vertical scroll bars, and the work can be efficiently performed on the easy-to-see screen.

(2) According to the present invention, the increase in access to an application icon or the passage of time determines that the user is sufficiently aware of the application and determines the title of the icon displayed on the screen. For example, wasteful information on the screen can be organized by erasing as shown in FIG. As a result, more information can be displayed on a limited display screen.

(3) According to the present invention, even if the free area on the external storage device is compressed by the swap area secured on the external storage device, the work area used by the application is automatically released by the swap area. A space can be surely secured.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of a resource collective management processing unit.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of a unified control display processing unit.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of a unified control execution processing unit.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a unified control box.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of an icon registration processing unit.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of an icon update processing unit.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of an icon reconfiguration processing section.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an icon registration box.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a format of a work file.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of a window screen.

FIG. 13 is a block diagram showing a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of a swap area allocation processing unit.

FIG. 15 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of a swap area utilization processing unit.

FIG. 16 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of a swap area release processing unit.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 resource control control unit 2 resource batch management processing unit 3 unified control box display processing unit 4 unified control execution processing unit 5 system control unit 6 display 7 keyboard 8 mouse 11 icon learning control unit 12 icon registration processing unit 13 icon update processing Part 14 Icon reconfiguration processing part 15 System control part 16 Display 17 Keyboard 18 Mouse 19 External storage device 21 Swap processing control part 22 Processing part that secures swap area 23 Processing part that uses swap area 24 Processing part that releases swap area 25 external storage device 26 system control unit 27 keyboard 28 display

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. In an information processing device having a multi-window system capable of displaying a plurality of window screens simultaneously, the horizontal and vertical scroll bars displayed in the individual windows are collectively managed at the system resource level. The first way, and the second way to make the top view of the screen always have a single unified control box that is unified for all the above windows with horizontal and vertical scroll bar styles. An information processing apparatus comprising: a third means for providing a screen control function to the hit window by using the unified control box. 2. An information processing apparatus having a window system for visually displaying a file by using an icon, a first means for setting a designated number of times of use or a designated time for a function for displaying an icon, and an icon. Second means for updating the number of times of use of the icon, and determining whether or not the specified number of times or a specified time has been exceeded, and to enable priority display of an icon with a high frequency of use based on the number of times of use of the icon. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a third means for rearranging, deleting the display of titles for icons to organize the screen, and having an icon learning function. 3. A first means capable of handling a swap area secured in an external storage device connected to a system in the same manner as a main memory, and a time stamp and a time stamp when securing the swap area in the external storage device. A second means for adding the number of times; and a third means for automatically releasing a less frequently used swap area from the time stamp and the number of times of use to expand the capacity of the external storage device. A characteristic information processing device.