JPH0895743A - Controlling method for cursor position - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To improve the operability without requiring a large manipulated variable by temporarily breaking off the proportional relation between the manipulated variable and cursor movement quantity of a cursor controller and moving a cursor apparently discontinuously, i.e., making a skip. CONSTITUTION: To skip a cursor position 12 to fixed positions 13-16 on a screen 11 with operation switches 22-25, a cursor origin 17 is fixed on the screen 11 and the cursor is moved temporarily to the cursor origin 17 and then moved to the respective fixed positions 13-16 since the cursor controller, namely, a mouse 20 can control only the relative position relation of the cursor. Consequently, even when the cursor is moved large by being skipped, no large manipulated variable is required. The cursor position control method with good operability is obtained.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method of controlling a cursor position operation system in a screen display type data terminal device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Cursor control devices such as a mouse, a joystick, and a trackball that are commonly used today obtain a cursor movement amount proportional to an operation amount, and therefore, even if a fine cursor movement is required, Desired control can be performed by finely operating the control device. However, since the amount of movement of the cursor is always proportional to the amount of operation, if the cursor is to be largely moved on the screen, the cursor control device needs to be largely operated.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned prior art, fine control can be performed by fine operation. On the contrary, large control requires large operation, which deteriorates operability.

An object of the present invention is to provide a method of controlling a cursor position which does not require a large amount of operation even when the cursor is to be largely moved and has improved operability.

[0005]

The structure of the present invention for achieving the above object is such that the cursor position on the screen of a screen display type data terminal device is displayed on the screen by operating an operation switch provided on the cursor control device. It is characterized in that a predetermined amount is skipped in a predetermined direction, or a predetermined position on the screen is skipped.

[0006]

When the cursor is largely moved, the proportional relationship between the operation amount and the cursor movement amount in the cursor control device is temporarily cut off, and the cursor is apparently discontinuously moved, that is, skipped. As a result, operability is improved without requiring a large amount of operation.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1, the cursor position 12 on the screen 11 of the screen display type data terminal device 10 is provided separately from the hit button 21 of the mouse 20, and an up button 22, a down button 23 and a left button 2 are provided.
4 and the operation switch of the right movement button 25 are used to skip a certain amount in any of the up, down, left, right, and diagonal directions as indicated by the arrow.

FIG. 2 shows a case in which the cursor position 12 is skipped to the fixed positions 13 to 16 on the screen 11 by the operation switches 22 to 25. In the case of skipping to the fixed positions 13 to 16, since the cursor control device, that is, the mouse 20 can usually control only the relative positional relationship of the cursor, the cursor origin 17 is set on the screen 11 and the cursor is temporarily moved to this cursor. After moving to the origin 17, each fixed position 1
The movement is controlled to 3 to 16.

FIG. 3 shows a cursor control device such as a mouse 2.
0 shows a control circuit for cursor skip built in 0, a detection circuit 31 for making the operation amount required for normal operation proportional to the cursor movement amount, a signal generation circuit 32 for generating a skip signal, and an operation switch 22. The switch circuit 34 switches between the output from the detection circuit 31 and the output from the signal generation circuit 32 via the control circuit 33 by the operations of 25 to 25. Here, a signal for a basic defined skip pattern is constantly generated from the signal generation circuit 32, and the operation switches 22 to 25
The control circuit 33 and the switching circuit 34 adjust the necessary signal combinations and output amounts in accordance with the operation pattern, and output. In addition to such hardware, the skip control can be performed by changing software called handler software built in the cursor control device.

[0010]

According to the present invention, a large amount of operation is not required even when the cursor is largely moved by skipping the cursor. Therefore, it is possible to realize a cursor position control method with good operability.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a situation of skipping a cursor position on a screen.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing another example of a situation where a cursor position is skipped on the screen.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a skip control circuit used in the cursor position control method of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 screen display type data terminal device 12 cursor position 20 mouse 22-25 operation switch 31 detection circuit 32 signal generation circuit 33 control circuit 34 switching circuit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A cursor position on the screen of a screen display type data terminal device is skipped in a predetermined direction on the screen by operating an operation switch provided on the cursor control device, or is fixed on the screen. A method for controlling a cursor position, characterized by skipping to a different position.