JPH1049338A - Command button control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate a selection of a command button by displaying an enlarged command button on a command control screen based on the information on a command button management file. SOLUTION: A command button management file 106 stores the position information on a command button included in a window used as a command control screen serving as a display area of the command button, the information on an enlargement ratios, etc., of the command button, the position information on the command button included in a command button display window, etc. The origin coordinate of the command button display window is stored with the upper left part of an information display part 4 defined as an origin. However, the coordinate of the display area of every enlarged command button is stored with the left upper part of the command button display window defined as an origin. The enlargement ratio is stored as an enlargement ratio that is used when an original command button is enlarged.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a command button control system in an information processing apparatus which displays command buttons for instructing various processes in a control screen.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as to a method of enlarging and reducing a display screen in accordance with an operation by a mouse as a pointing device, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 5-127853 (display enlarging / reducing method), a method of enlarging / reducing a display screen is disclosed. Change the screen display magnification (enlargement, reduction) centering on the position of the mouse cursor on the display screen when the press operation of the mouse button which is the instruction input key is measured continuously for a certain period of time
There is a known way to do this. Further, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No.
In Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication (Image data enlargement display position designation method), to designate the enlargement range of image data, the enlargement range of the image data is set to an arbitrary position as the mouse cursor moves, and the enlargement position of a certain size is designated. A method of using the inside of the frame is known.

Further, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 3-269612 (mouse input method of a multi-window display system) discloses control data necessary for window operations such as window movement and enlargement / reduction based on on / off information of a mouse button. A mouse input method of a multi-window display system that controls display of a window by giving priority to registration of movement information of a mouse cursor over queue registration is disclosed.

[0004] In recent years, high-speed processing computers have been offered at a remarkably low price due to technical innovations in hardware and the like. Such a high-speed processing computer is usually equipped with a multi-windows system, and various programs are created by making full use of a GUI (Graphical User Interface). A mouse is connected to such a high-speed computer as a pointing device.
A mouse cursor is displayed on the information display section as the information display screen. Various control screens displayed by the program are displayed as one or more windows in the Windows system. The program displays various information (characters, images, and the like) in the window, and displays a button (hereinafter, referred to as a command button) or an execution menu for a user to instruct the program to execute. The user can operate the mouse to move the mouse cursor over the command button, and press the button on the mouse to instruct the program to execute the process associated with the command button.

[0005]

In the high-speed processing computer as described above, there are many functions to be realized in one control screen, many other elements to be displayed, and command buttons in one control screen. When the space for arrangement is small, the size of the command button to be displayed is reduced, so that the command button is displayed in the limited space.

However, if the size of the command button is reduced, it is not easy to place the mouse cursor on the command button, which causes a decrease in operability. The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a command button control method of an information processing apparatus that can easily select a command button.

[0007]

An information processing apparatus according to the present invention comprises an information display unit for displaying various information, a pointing device such as a mouse, and a command for controlling various information processing commands on the information display unit. A control screen, and a mouse information processing unit that displays as a mouse cursor on the information display unit based on movement information of the pointing device and input instruction information of an instruction input unit associated with the pointing device; A command button that is displayed in the command control screen and is a button for instructing execution of a command for information processing, display information related to the command button, and a command button management file that manages range information of the command control screen. When the mouse cursor is moved within the command control screen And an enlarged command button display control unit for displaying an enlarged command button, which is an enlargement of the command button displayed in the command control screen, on the command control screen based on the information of the command button management file. Further, the enlarged command button display control unit, if not all enlarged command buttons can be displayed in the command control screen, a scroll button in the command control screen as a button to scroll the contents of the command control screen Is an enlarged command button display control unit that scrolls the display of the enlarged command button displayed in the command control screen by pointing the scroll button with the mouse by the mouse, , The mouse cursor is on the command button If it gets in the area to start a large display (command control screen),
Based on the information in the command button management file, an enlarged command button is changed and displayed instead of the command button displayed in the command control screen. Therefore, after the enlarged command button is changed and displayed, the user positions the mouse cursor on the enlarged command button displayed in the command control screen and presses the mouse button (instruction input key) on the mouse. The coordinate information of the mouse cursor indicating the position of the mouse cursor that changes according to the mouse movement information output from the mouse information processing unit and the press information of the mouse button are passed to the enlarged command button display control unit. The enlargement command button display control unit determines which enlargement command button is selected based on the coordinate information of the mouse cursor. In the command control window displaying the enlarged command button, if all the command buttons displayed before the enlargement cannot be enlarged and displayed, the command buttons displayed in the command control screen are displayed. A scroll button for scrolling in the command control screen is displayed, and by pressing the scroll button, all the original buttons can be displayed and selected.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the information processing apparatus according to the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of the information processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 shows a command button management file for managing command buttons on a command control screen displayed in the information display unit.
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the storage format.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing a normal display state of a command control screen including the command buttons. FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing a command control screen when an enlarged command button is displayed as an enlarged command button. It is. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of an enlargement command button display control unit for controlling display of the enlargement command button on the display unit.

In FIG. 1, a portion surrounded by a dotted line is a computer main body, and is hereinafter referred to as a main controller 1. The main controller 1 is connected to a keyboard 2 for inputting instructions for various information, a mouse 3 used as a pointing device, and an information display unit 4 for displaying various information such as a command control screen. In this embodiment, a mouse is used as an example of the pointing device.
In addition to the mouse, the pointing device according to the present invention also includes a pointing device integrated with a keyboard called Quick One adopted in a notebook computer manufactured by Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. , Pad type, track ball type, etc.

The main control unit 1 includes a memory for storing the display control processing procedure shown in FIG. 5, a system control unit 101 for performing various controls including an operating system and a multi-windows system as basic software of a computer, and a mouse. Receiving the movement information from the mouse 3 and the pressing information of the mouse button which is the instruction input key on the mouse 3,
Mouse information processing unit 10 for controlling display of a mouse cursor
2. A window memory 103 for storing various control screens for each window in the form of a bitmap, a display memory 104 for storing image information output and displayed on the information display unit 4 in the form of a bitmap, and general information for the information display unit 4. A display control unit 105 for performing display control; a command button management file 106 for managing display information such as a position of a command button displayed on the command control screen, and coordinates of an area of the command control screen for starting enlarged display of the command button; , An enlarged command button display control unit 107 that performs control such as display of an enlarged command button that enlarges and displays the original command button.

The command button management file 106 includes information on the position of the command button in a window (hereinafter, abbreviated as a command button display window) as a command control screen, which is a display area of the command button, and the magnification of the command button. And the like, the number of command buttons in the command button display window, position information of each command button, and the like, and the storage format is configured as shown in FIG. Enlarged command button information as information on the enlarged command button on Windows is prepared for the number of command buttons displayed in the command button display window. For each command button, the X point of the starting point of the command button is provided.
The coordinates and the Y coordinates, and the X and Y coordinates of the end point of the command button are provided for each command button.

The above-mentioned position information is composed of an X coordinate and a Y coordinate of a start point and an X coordinate and a Y coordinate of an end point.
In this embodiment, the starting point of the command button is the upper left point of the command button, and the ending point of the command button is the lower right point of the command button. The coordinates of the command button display window are stored as coordinates with the origin at the upper left of the information display unit 4. The coordinates of each command button are stored as coordinates with the origin at the upper left of the command button display area that is the command control screen. As the information of the enlarged command button in the command button display window,
X and Y coordinates of the start point of the enlargement command button in the window, width and height of the window, enlargement magnification, X and Y coordinates of the start point of the enlargement command button display area in the command button display window, and X coordinate of the end point And the Y coordinate.

As described above, the origin coordinates of the command button display window are stored as coordinates having the origin at the upper left of the information display section 4. The coordinates of the display area of each enlarged command button are stored at the upper left of the command button display window. Is stored in coordinates with the origin as the origin. The enlargement magnification is stored as the magnification when the enlargement command button is enlarged and displayed from the original command button. The command button management file 106 has been created in advance when the program was created.

In the example shown in FIG. 2, only one command button is stored, but a plurality of command buttons may be stored. In some cases, an ID for identifying a program is stored together so that information on command buttons of a plurality of programs can be stored. Next, a command button control method in the information processing apparatus of the present embodiment configured as described above will be described with reference to a flowchart of FIG.

When the program is started (step S)
1) The system control unit 101 stores bitmap data of the window of the control screen of the program in the window memory 1
Transfer to 03. Here, the display image is divided into bits for the entire display range in order to be displayed on the information display device, and information captured as a set of these bits is collectively expressed as bitmap data, and is generally referred to as bitmap data. ing. The bitmap data of the control screen transferred to the window memory is further transferred to the display memory 104,
The information is displayed on the information display section 4 (step S2). The control screen displayed here contains the command button management file 1
06 includes command buttons managed by the user. At this point, the system control unit 101 reads the command button management file 106 and stores the command button management information in an internal memory.

In the initial state, the command button is set to be displayed in a normal size (in the size before the enlargement), so that the system control unit 101 determines whether or not the enlargement command button is displayed. Is turned off (step S3). FIG. 3 shows an example of a control screen in which command buttons are displayed in a normal size. The dotted rectangle in FIG. 3 indicates the command button display area, which is not displayed on the actual control screen.

The operation of the user including pressing the keyboard 2 and moving the mouse 3 including the movement of the mouse 3 means a command to the information processing apparatus, and the information processing started by the information processing apparatus based on the command will be described below. Called an event. First, an event occurs when the user presses the keyboard 2 or operates the mouse 3 (step S4). Although various events actually occur, FIG. 5 describes only processes related to a mouse movement event and a mouse button press event related to the command button control method of the present invention. In step S5, it is determined whether the event type is a mouse movement event or a mouse button press event. If the processing event is a mouse move, the process proceeds to step S6. If the process event is a mouse button press, the process proceeds to step S11.

In step S6, the mouse information processing unit 10
2 notifies the system controller 101 of the current mouse cursor coordinates. In step S7, if the enlargement display flag is ON, the display of the enlargement command button has already been performed, so the process returns to step S4 and waits for the occurrence of the next event. If the enlarged display flag is OFF, it is checked whether or not the mouse cursor coordinates are within the command button display window (step S8). If it is not within the command button display window, the process returns to step S4 and waits for the next event. On the other hand, if it is in the command button display window, it means that the mouse cursor has entered the command button display window, and the enlarged command button displayed by enlarging the command button displayed in the command button display window is displayed Then, the enlarged display flag is set to ON (step S10). Thereafter, the process returns to step S4 and waits for the next event. In the display processing of the enlarged command button in step S9, the system control unit generates a window for displaying the enlarged command button based on the information of the command button management file 106, and the window memory 10
3, the bitmap data of the original command button (normal size command button) stored in the window memory 103 is read out, and the bitmap is enlarged according to the enlargement ratio specified in the command button management file 106. This is done by transferring to the button display window.

In the display processing of the enlarged command button in step S9, the origin X coordinate and the origin Y coordinate of the area of the command button display window, the starting point X of the command button 1
Assuming that the coordinates, start point Y coordinate, end point X coordinate, end point Y coordinate, and magnification are X0, Y0, X1, Y1, X2, Y2, and N, respectively, the start point in the command button display window of the enlarged command button 1 X coordinate, start point Y coordinate,
The end point X coordinate and the end point Y coordinate are respectively X0 + X1 ×
N, Y0 + Y1 × N, X0 + X2 × N, Y0 + Y2 × N
And That is, the bitmap data of the original command button is enlarged and transferred to the coordinates. further,
The bitmap data of the enlarged command button in the window memory 103 is transferred to the display memory 104 and displayed on the information display unit 4.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a command button display window as a window displaying the enlarged command button. When the bitmap data of the enlarged command button is transferred to the window memory 103, if all the command button data cannot be displayed in the command button display area of the command button display window, FIG.
The left and right arrow buttons are displayed as shown in FIG. 1, and the remaining command buttons are displayed when the arrow buttons are pressed.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S5 that the event type is a mouse button press, the process proceeds to step S11.
In the mouse information processing unit 102, the system control unit 10
1 is notified that the current mouse button has been pressed and the mouse cursor coordinates at that time. In step S12, when the enlarged display flag is ON, the process proceeds to step S13, and when it is OFF, the process proceeds to step S18. Step S
In step 13, the coordinates of the mouse cursor notified in step S11 are compared with the command button position information in the command button management file 106 to check which command button the mouse button has been pressed. If it is pressed on the command button, the process corresponding to the command button is executed (step S14), and if not, the process returns to step S4 to wait for the next event (step S15). If the command button is not pressed on the command button in step S13, the process returns to step S2 to display the command button display window before enlargement, thereby deleting the command button display window on which the enlarged command button is displayed. Then, the enlarged display flag is returned to OFF, and after that, the next event occurrence is awaited.

On the other hand, in step S12, if the enlargement display flag is OFF, a process corresponding to pressing a normal command button before enlargement is performed (step S18). If the program is not ended, the process returns to step S4, and the next step is performed. Wait for an event to occur (step S15).

[0024]

According to the conventional information processing apparatus, the command buttons are displayed in a limited space by reducing the size of the command buttons to be displayed. However, the command buttons are reduced in size. This makes it difficult to position the mouse cursor on the command button, thereby reducing operability. However, in the command button control method of the present invention, the mouse cursor enters a command button display window which is a command button display area. Then, the command button is automatically enlarged and displayed, and the mouse cursor can be easily positioned on the command button. Therefore, when there are many functions to be realized on one control screen or when there is little space for arranging the command buttons in one control screen, even if the size of the command buttons is reduced, the operation can be performed. Does not lead to a decline in gender. In the command control window displaying the enlarged command button, if all the command buttons displayed before the enlargement cannot be enlarged and displayed, the command buttons displayed in the command control screen are displayed. A scroll button for scrolling in the command control screen is displayed, and by pressing the scroll button, all the original buttons can be displayed and selected.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an overall configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a storage format of a command button management file according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing a normal display state of a control screen including a command button in one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing a control screen when an enlargement command button is displayed in one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure related to control of a command button in one embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main control device 101 System control part 102 Mouse information processing part 103 Window memory 104 Display memory 105 Display control part 106 Command button management file 107 Enlarged command button display control part 2 Keyboard 3 Mouse 4 Information display part 1

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An information display unit for displaying various information, a pointing device such as a mouse, a command control screen for controlling various information processing commands on the information display unit, movement information of the pointing device, and a pointing device. A mouse information processing unit for displaying a mouse cursor on the information display unit based on input instruction information of instruction input means associated with the information processing unit. A command button which is a button for instructing execution of the command button, display information related to the command button, a command button management file for managing the range information of the command control screen, and a mouse cursor moved into the command control screen. In the case, the command button management file information Zui, the command buttons control method characterized by comprising the expanded command button display control unit for displaying an enlarged command button enlarging a command button displayed in the command control screen to the command control screen, a. 2. The enlargement command button display control unit according to claim 1, wherein when all enlargement command buttons cannot be displayed in the command control screen, a scroll button is used as a button for scrolling the contents of the command control screen. A command that is additionally displayed in a command control screen, and is an enlarged command button display control unit that scrolls the display of the enlarged command button displayed in the command control screen by indicating the scroll button with the mouse. Button control method.