JPH0954668A - Device and system for displaying menu screen - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the device and system for menu screen display which generates and displays a menu screen minimizing the number of operations needed to reach a target menu when a user wants to use the target menu. SOLUTION: This device consists of a fixed menu screen display means 110 which displays a previously fixed menu among menus that the user utilize to, generate a drawing on a fixed menu screen, a menu registering means 116 for user utilization which registers the menu selected out of the fixed menus by the user with the pointing device 101 for use, and a user-only menu screen display means 117 which displays a user-only menu generated newly according to the registered selected menu on a user-only menu screen.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a display device and a display system for a menu screen displayed on a two-dimensional drawing device on a computer, and more particularly, to automatically reuse a menu used by a user. The present invention relates to a menu screen display device and a display system for organizing menus and creating and displaying a menu screen for a user.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when a user inputs a drawing created by a designer by using a two-dimensional drawing device (hereinafter referred to as CAD) on a computer, the user must follow a fixed operation according to a CAD system. CAD in advance from the menu screen
A fixed menu set by the system (for example, generation, movement, deletion of figures such as lines and circles, input and change of characters such as kanji, kana, and English) was selected to create a drawing.

In these CAD systems, the number of menus is large, and it is difficult to display all the menus on the same menu screen at one time. Therefore, the menus can be grouped or hierarchized to provide an easy-to-understand menu screen. It is generally built. However, in a system with such a structure, the user needs to perform several operations on the parent menu screen, child menu screen, etc. before reaching the target menu, which is essentially necessary to execute the target menu. Not the operation will be repeated many times.

Therefore, when the number of menus is large, the grouped or hierarchically structured menu screen causes an increase in the number of menu operations, which causes an operation error and is one of the factors that lowers the drawing creation efficiency. .

One of the solutions to the above problem is to prepare two menu screens so that both menu screens can be used at the same time. The first menu screen is fixed by the CAD system, and the other is created by the user himself. The user-dedicated menu screen is created in accordance with the means provided by the CAD system, in which the user selects a menu that he / she often uses, in advance.

[0006]

However, in the conventional technique using the above-mentioned two menu screens, it is necessary to newly create a menu screen dedicated to the user, and it is expected that the menu screen will be frequently used and registered in advance. Such menus are not always used well, and it is not the optimum menu screen for selecting the target menu with the minimum number of operations. Therefore, it did not lead to the expected improvement in operability and improvement in drawing creation efficiency.

Further, if the drawing application is changed, the type of menu to be used also changes, so that it takes time and effort to create a new menu screen. This method does not eliminate the inconvenience of the operation for the user who creates the drawing.

That is, in the prior art, since the user-only menu screen is created based on the uncertain factor that the user himself / herself expects the usage menu, the optimum menu screen cannot be created. Therefore, there is a problem that the increase in the number of menu operations cannot be solved.

An object of the present invention is to provide a menu screen display device and a display system for creating and displaying a menu screen in which the number of operations required to reach the menu is minimized when the user wants to use the desired menu. To do.

[0010]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is a two-dimensional drawing device on a computer, which is a pointing device device for selecting a menu used by a user to create a drawing. A menu screen display device having a control device for controlling display of the selected menu and a display device for displaying the menu on a screen, wherein the control device is a fixed menu that is a fixed menu that is fixed in advance among the menus. Fixed menu screen display means for displaying on a screen, and a user for registering a selection menu selected from the fixed menus by the pointing device device for use by the user.
The use menu registration means and a user-dedicated menu screen display means for displaying a user-dedicated menu newly created based on the registered selection menu are provided.

Another feature of the present invention is a selection step of selecting a menu used by a user to create a drawing in a two-dimensional drawing device on a computer, and a control step of controlling display of the selected menu. And a menu screen display method having a display step of displaying the menu on a screen, wherein the control step includes a fixed menu screen display step of displaying a fixed menu that is fixed in advance among the menus on a fixed menu screen, A user use menu registration step of registering the selection menu selected in the selection step for use by the user from fixed menus, and a new creation based on the registered selection menu. Display the user-only menu on the user-only menu screen Display the user-only menu screen Lies in that it has a step.

[0012]

According to the present invention, the fixed menu screen display means displays on the fixed menu screen a fixed menu that is fixed in advance among the menus used by the user to create a drawing. The user use menu registration means registers the selection menu selected by the pointing device for use by the user from the fixed menus.
The user-dedicated menu screen display means displays a user-dedicated menu newly created based on the registered selection menu on the user-dedicated menu screen.

Thus, the user can use both the fixed menu screen and the user-dedicated menu screen, and the menu frequently used by the past user is preferentially displayed on the user-dedicated menu screen. Therefore, the number of menu operations can be minimized.

[0014]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A menu screen display device and a display system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows the overall functional configuration of a menu screen display device according to an embodiment of the present invention. The pointing device device 101 selects a menu to be used from the fixed menu on the fixed menu screen displayed by the fixed menu screen display means 110 of the control device 102.

The number of times of use, the time of use, and the time of use of the selected selection menu are calculated by the number-of-uses calculation means 113, the usage-time calculation means 114, and the usage-date / time calculation means 115, respectively. The value is registered in the user use menu registration means 116.

The user-dedicated menu screen display information setting means 111 sets the display information of the user-dedicated menu screen when the pointing device device 101 is selected to set the display information and the user inputs a value.

User-dedicated menu screen display means 117
Displays on the display device 103 a user-dedicated menu screen of a user-dedicated menu newly created based on the selection menu registered by the user-use menu registration means 116 when the pointing device device 101 is selected to display. To do.

When the pointing device unit 101 selects to save the user-dedicated menu, the user-dedicated menu storage unit 118 sets a unique screen name for the user-dedicated menu screen by using the screen name setting unit 119. Save the screen. The user-dedicated menu discarding unit 120 is the pointing device unit 101.
When it is selected to be discarded by, the user-dedicated menu screen with the specified screen name is discarded.

FIG. 2 shows the detailed functional structure of the user-dedicated menu screen display means shown in FIG. The user-dedicated menu screen 4 is displayed in order of the number of times of use 1 when the pointing device device 101 designates the order of the number of times of use
21, the menu is displayed by the use time order display means 122 when the use time order display is designated, and by the use date order display means 123 when the use date order is specified.

Further, the menu displayed on one user-dedicated menu screen 4 is the menu duplication display avoiding means 12
4, the menu having the same name is not displayed more than once, and the menu uniform display means 125 allows the menus to be displayed uniformly even if the menu character string length varies. Further, the menu list scrolling means 126 allows the menu to be freely scrolled.

FIG. 3 shows an overall screen structure of a menu screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The main menu screen 1 is a screen for displaying a menu for specifying a file to be printed, setting display information such as the display position of the user-dedicated menu screen, and the number of display menus.

The parent menu screen 2 is a screen for displaying a menu showing grouped processes such as circuit drawing and attribute input.

The child menu screen 3 is a screen for displaying a menu specifically showing the contents of the grouped processing, and the display is switched in association with the menu selected on the parent menu screen 2.

The drawing screen 5 is a drawing area for describing figures and character strings.

First, the menu operation for drawing will be described. From the main menu screen 1,
As shown in, select the file 31 to be plotted,
Through the open 32, a menu corresponding to the contents of the drawing is selected from the parent menu screen 2 as shown in FIG. For example, the circuit 41 is selected to create a circuit diagram, and the attribute 42 is selected to input an attribute.

As an example, it is assumed that the circuit 41 is selected. Then, since the circuit 41 is selected on the parent menu screen 2, the child menu screen 3 displays a child menu for the circuit drawing 50 corresponding to the parent menu screen, as shown in FIG.

The child menu for the circuit drawing 50 includes a menu for creating symbols, paths and the like. here,
The symbol is a graphic such as the symbol 6 shown on the drawing screen 5 in FIG. 3, and the path is a line like the path 7 shown on the drawing screen 5.

When the symbol 51 is selected from the child menu screen 3, the symbol can be drawn at any position on the drawing screen 5. When the path 52 is selected, the path can be drawn at any position on the drawing screen 5. Here, menus such as “symbol” and “path” selected from the child menu screen 3 are automatically registered and displayed on the user-dedicated menu screen 4 as shown in FIG.

On the user-dedicated menu screen 4, the menus of other child menu screens 3a as shown in FIG. 9B can also be registered in a mixed manner. Therefore, the attribute 42 is selected on the parent menu screen 2 and the corresponding menu is selected. When the comment generation 53 is selected from the attribute input child menu screen 3a displayed as
"Comment generation" is registered and displayed after "symbol" and "path" on the user-dedicated menu screen.

The user-dedicated menu screen 4 can be displayed at any position on the drawing screen 5.

From the above, for example, when a user wants to create a symbol, even if the current child menu screen is a menu for attribute input, the user menu screen is displayed without switching the child menu screen for circuit drawing. If you select "Symbol", you can draw the symbol.

If a comment is to be created, even if the child menu screen is a circuit drawing menu, the comment can be selected by selecting "Create comment" from the user-dedicated menu screen without switching the child menu screen for attribute input. Can be created.

Therefore, if the user-dedicated menu screen is used, the number of operations for selecting the menu is reduced and the operability is improved.

Next, the main menu screen of FIG. 4 and FIG.
The procedure for setting the user-dedicated menu screen 4 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

First, a menu is selected from the main menu screen 1 (step 401), it is determined whether the menu is the user-dedicated 33 (402), and if it is the user-dedicated 33, the menu is selected from the submenu ( 40
3). Next, it is determined whether or not the selected menu is save 34, plural designation 35, discard 36, and setting 37 (40
4) The following processing is executed according to the selected menu.

In the case of the save 34, the screen name setting screen 60 as shown in FIG. 5 is displayed, and the screen name is set by the name setting means (411) to display the user-dedicated menu screen 4 currently being created. It is possible to save with the set screen name (412).

In the case of the plural designation 35, by selecting the screen name of the one to be used from the plurality of user-dedicated menu screens 4 already stored from the user-dedicated menu screen name list 61 shown in FIG. 6 (410). ), A plurality of user-dedicated menu screens 4 can be used at the same time.

In the case of the discard 36, it is possible to discard the designated screen by designating the screen name to be discarded from the user-dedicated menu screen name list shown in FIG. 6 (408) (409).

In the case of setting 37, a screen display information setting screen 62 as shown in FIG. 7 is displayed, and the user-dedicated menu screen display information setting means 111 causes screen display position information, menu display number information, and display pattern information. When each of the values is set (405, 406, 407), the user-dedicated menu screen 4 is displayed according to the value.

Next, the procedure for registering a menu on the user-dedicated menu screen will be described with reference to FIGS. 10 and 13.

FIG. 10 is a display example of the user-dedicated menu screen 4 of FIG. 3, in which (a) shows the order of the number of times of use, (b) shows the order of use time, and (c) shows the order of use date and time. FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing a procedure for registering a menu on the user-dedicated menu screen.

First, when the file 31 is selected from the main menu screen of FIG. 4 (step 201) and then the submenu open 32 is selected (202), the drawing can be drawn on the drawing screen 5 of FIG.

Next, as a drawing operation, a menu is selected from the parent menu screen 2 of FIG. 8 (203). Next, the menu is judged (204), and the child menu screen is displayed corresponding to the selected menu (205, 20).
7). For example, when the circuit 41 is selected from the parent menu screen 2, the child menu screen 3 of FIG.
The circuit drawing 50 is displayed from the child menu screen 3 of (a) (205).

Next, from the child menu screen 3 to the symbol 51
When the or path 52 is selected (208) and the drawing operation is executed (209), the symbol 6 as shown in the drawing screen 5 of FIG. 3 is displayed.
And pass 7 can be drawn. Next, it is judged whether the drawing operation is completed normally (210), and if it is completed normally, the number of times of use is calculated by the number-of-uses calculation means 113 (211),
Subsequently, the use time calculation means 114 calculates the use time (212), and the use date / time calculation means 115 calculates the use date / time (213).

Next, the menu duplication display avoiding means 124 searches for whether the menu of the symbol 51 or the path 52 is already registered in the user-dedicated menu (214).
Here, it is determined whether or not there is duplication (215). If there is no duplication, the user use menu registration means 116
The menus are sequentially and automatically registered in the user-dedicated menu (216).

FIG. 10A shows the number-of-uses calculation means 113.
In this example, the number of times the menu is used is calculated, and the menu is displayed from the top to the bottom in the descending order of the number of times. The screen name is called sequence 1, and the path is used 79 times, the comment is generated 60 times, and the symbol is used 31 times. It is shown that.

FIG. 10B shows the usage time calculating means 114.
In this example, the menu usage time is calculated and the menus are displayed from top to bottom in the order of increasing time. The screen name is called sequence 2, 40 minutes for comment generation, 7 minutes for path, and 7 minutes for symbol. Is shown.

FIG. 6C shows an example in which the menu use date and time is determined by the use date and time calculation means 115 and the menus are displayed from the bottom to the top in the order of newest date and time. The screen name is called sequence 3 and the symbol is 10 0:00, pass 10:03
5 indicates that the comment generation is used at 11:20.

Next, taking the example of FIG. 10A, a menu "comment generation" using the user-dedicated menu screen 4
The operation procedure of will be described. Here, "comment generation" means
It is a menu showing how to input a character string for adding a name to a symbol or a path.

FIG. 11 is an example of an overall view of a pointing device for selecting a menu and displaying a user-dedicated menu screen. The left button 81 is used to select a menu, and the middle button 82 is used to display the user-dedicated menu screen 4. FIG. 14 shows a flowchart of the display method of the user-dedicated menu screen 4 and the operation processing procedure. First, pick point 8 on line 7 in FIG.
The pointing device is moved to and the middle button 82 is picked (step 301). Next, it is judged whether or not the display position, the number of display menus, and the value of the display pattern have been set by the user-dedicated menu screen display information setting means 111 (302). If they have been set, the user set value is set. (304), if not set, a default value (system setting value) is set (303).

Next, it is judged whether or not a plurality of user-dedicated menu screens to be displayed are designated (305). If a plurality of user-dedicated menu screens are designated, all of the user-dedicated menu screens 4 are set from the pick point 8. It is displayed at the relative display position (306). If not specified, the default user-dedicated menu screen 4 is displayed at the setting relative display position from the pick point 8 (307).

The user-dedicated menu screen 4 has a use count order display means 1 when the menu use count order display is designated.
When the menu use time order display is designated by 21, the use time order display means 122 is used, and when the menu use date / time order display is used, the use date order display means 123 is used.
The menu list is displayed.

On the displayed user-dedicated menu screen of FIG. 10A, the menu list can be freely moved up and down and displayed by operating the scroll bar 55. Here, from the user-only menu screen, the left button 81
By selecting the comment generation in step (308), the comment can be generated.

When a menu is selected from the user-dedicated menu screen 4, the user-dedicated menu screen 4 is automatically deleted (309).

Next, a comment is generated (310),
It is determined whether the processing has been completed normally (311). In the case of normal end, the number of times of use calculation means 113 calculates the number of times of use (312), and then the usage time calculation means 114.
The use time is calculated by (313), and the use date / time calculating means 115 calculates the use date / time (314).

Next, the user use menu registration means 116.
Thus, the menu information is sequentially and automatically registered in the user-dedicated menu screen 4 (315).

[0059]

According to the present invention, it is possible to automatically organize the menus that the user actually frequently uses, create a new menu screen, and display the menu screen at a position where the user can easily operate. Therefore, when the user wants to use the target menu, the number of operations required to reach the menu can be reduced, and the operability and the drawing creation efficiency can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an overall functional configuration of a menu screen display device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of user-dedicated menu screen display means of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an overall screen configuration of a menu screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display example of a main menu screen.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display example of a screen name setting screen of a user-dedicated menu screen.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a display example of a user-only menu screen name list.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a display example of a display information setting screen of a user-dedicated menu screen.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a display example of a parent menu screen.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a display example of a child menu screen.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a display example of a user-dedicated menu screen.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing a procedure for setting a user-dedicated menu screen.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of a pointing device.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing a menu registration procedure of a user-dedicated menu screen.

FIG. 14 is a flow chart showing a display and operation procedure of a user-dedicated menu screen.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Main menu screen, 2 ... Parent menu screen, 3 ... Child menu screen, 4 ... User menu screen, 5 ... Drawing screen, 6 ... Symbol, 7 ... Path, 8 ... Pick point, 31 ...
File, 32 ... Open, 33 ... User only, 34 ... Save, 35 ... Multiple designation, 36 ... Discard, 37 ... Setting, 41 ...
Circuit, 42 ... Attribute, 50 ... Circuit drawing, 51 ... Symbol,
52 ... Path, 53 ... Comment generation, 55 ... Scroll bar, 60 ... Screen name setting screen, 61 ... User-only menu screen name list, 62 ... Screen display information setting screen, 81 ...
Left button, 82 ... Middle button, 101 ... Pointing device device, 102 ... Control device, 103 ... Display device, 1
10 ... Fixed menu screen display means, 111 ... User menu screen display information setting means, 113 ... Use frequency calculation means, 114 ... Use time calculation means, 115 ... Use date / time calculation means, 116 ... User use menu registration means, 117
User-specific menu screen display means 118 User-specific menu storage means 119 Screen name setting means 12
0 ... User dedicated menu discarding means, 121 ... Use frequency order displaying means, 122 ... Use time order displaying means, 123 ... Use date order displaying means, 124 ... Menu duplicate display avoiding means,
125 ... Menu uniform display means, 126 ... Menu list scrolling means

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A two-dimensional drawing device on a computer, a pointing device device for selecting a menu used by a user to create a drawing, a control device for displaying and controlling the selected menu, and the menu. In the menu screen display device having a display device for displaying on a screen, the control device displays fixed menu screen display means for displaying a fixed menu that is fixed in advance on the fixed menu screen among the menus, and A user use menu registration means for registering a selection menu selected by the pointing device device for use by the user, and a user-only menu newly created based on the registered selection menu. Has a user-dedicated menu screen display means for displaying on the user-dedicated menu screen A menu screen display device characterized by the following. 2. The control device according to claim 1, further comprising user-dedicated menu storage means for storing a plurality of the user-dedicated menu screens by giving a unique screen name to the user-dedicated menu screen. Menu screen display device. 3. The menu screen display device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the user-dedicated menu screen display means simultaneously displays a plurality of the user-dedicated menu screens corresponding to the screen names. 4. A selection step of selecting a menu used by a user to create a drawing in a two-dimensional drawing device on a computer, a control step of displaying and controlling the selected menu, and displaying the menu on a screen. In the menu screen display method having a display step, the control step includes a fixed menu screen display step of displaying a fixed menu that is fixed in advance in the menu on a fixed menu screen, and the fixed menu screen from among the fixed menus. A user-use menu registration step of registering the selection menu selected in the selection step for the user to use, and a user-specific menu screen for newly creating a user-specific menu based on the registered selection menu. Characterized by having a user-only menu screen display step to be displayed on the screen How to display the menu screen. 5. The control step according to claim 4,
A menu screen display method comprising: a user-specific menu saving step of saving a unique screen name for the user-specific menu screen. 6. The user dedicated menu screen display step according to claim 4 or 5, wherein when there are a plurality of user dedicated menu screens, a plurality of user dedicated menu screens corresponding to the screen name are displayed simultaneously. A method for displaying a menu screen, characterized by: 7. A menu screen display method for displaying a menu used by a user to create a drawing on a screen with a two-dimensional drawing device on a computer, wherein a fixed menu that is fixed in advance among the menus is a fixed menu screen. And a step of displaying a fixed menu screen displayed on the user dedicated menu screen newly created based on the selection menu selected from the fixed menus for the user to use on the user dedicated menu screen. A dedicated menu screen display step, a usage count calculation step for automatically calculating the usage count of a menu used from the fixed menu screen and the user-dedicated menu screen, and a menu used from the fixed menu screen and the user-dedicated menu screen. Usage time calculation step to automatically calculate usage time And a use date / time calculation step for automatically calculating the use date / time of the menu used from the fixed menu screen and the user-dedicated menu screen, and the menu selected from the fixed menu screen is automatically registered to the user-dedicated menu screen. User-use menu registration step, user-specific menu saving step of saving a plurality of user-specific menu screens with unique screen names, and discarding the user-specific menu screen by specifying the screen name The user-specific menu discarding step can be performed to easily create the menu screen suitable for the user, and the user can select the menu that the user wants to use without switching the fixed menu screen. It is possible to reduce the number of times the menu is operated. How to display the menu screen.