JPS61235893A - Cursor control system - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] This bulletin contains application data before electronic filing, so abstract data is not recorded.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a cursor control method for controlling cursor movement on a display device such as an information processing device.

[Conventional technology]

Generally, when an operator inputs information into an information processing device,
A method is used in which information is input while an information processing apparatus and an operator interact on a display screen using a keyboard and a display device that displays sounds of input information from the keyboard. At this time, a common method is to display a cursor on the display screen to indicate where on the display screen information is to be entered from the keyboard. The cursor that specifies this input position is
Usually, the operator freely moves the keys indicating the up, down, left, and right directions on the screen to input the information desired by the operator into the information processing device.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

Traditional cursor movement methods like this.

If the cursor moves only up, down, left, or right on the display screen using the down, left, and right keys, the operator may move the cursor diagonally, causing danger.1 For example, if the cursor moves in the upper left direction. In such cases, you must first move the cursor to the left several times and then move the cursor upward several times, and moving the cursor diagonally is not directly possible. Therefore, there is a drawback that the operation by the operator is complicated.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to eliminate this drawback and provide a cursor control system that allows the cursor to be moved in diagonal directions.

[Means for solving problems]

The present invention has a keyboard having keys for instructing cursor movement directions of up, down, left, and right, a control unit that processes and displays information input from the keyboard, and a display unit that displays the information. In the cursor control method of a device with It is characterized by being controlled so that

〔Example〕

Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a system including an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the display of the display device shown in FIG.
is a display device, 4 is a cursor movement key provided on the keyboard 1 in the top direction, 5 is a right cursor movement key, 6 is a down cursor movement key, and 7 is a right cursor movement key. . In this section, when one of the keys 4 and 6 and one of the keys 5 and 7 are pressed at the same time, the cursor double-moves in a diagonal direction.
-Characteristics.

The information input from the keyboard 1 is processed by the control device 2 and displayed on the display device 3 as necessary.
For example, when performing Japanese input processing using a word processor, etc., Japanese characters are displayed as shown in Figure 2.
Cursor 8 indicates the next input position.

If the operator needs to move the cursor, for example to position 9 on the display screen, the operator can use the down cursor movement key 6 and the right cursor movement key 7 on the keyboard l.
When both are pressed, this information is transmitted to the control device 2, and the first control unit gt2 instructs the display device to move the cursor 8 diagonally downward and to the right. In this way, the operator
Press the cursor movement keys 4, 5, 6.7 on keyboard 1 individually, or press each key 4, 5.5, 6.6, 7.
Move the F cursor up to press the combination of 7 and 4 together.
You can move left, down, right, diagonally upper left, diagonally lower, diagonally lower right, and diagonally upper right.

〔Effect of the invention〕

In view of the above-described features, the present invention provides a keyboard having up/down, left/right cursor movement keys, up/left, down/left,
When the down and right cursor movement keys and the up and right cursor movement keys are pressed together, the cursor is controlled so that it moves diagonally to the upper left, diagonally to the lower left, diagonally to the lower right, and diagonally to the upper right. This has the effect that the cursor can be moved more easily than when the cursor only moves up, down, left, and right.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram including an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG.
FIG. 2 is a diagram completely showing an example of the display of the display device of FIG. 1; In the figure,

Claims (1)

[Claims] A device having a keyboard having keys for instructing cursor movement directions of up, down, left, and right, a control unit that inputs, processes, and displays information from the keyboard, and a display unit that displays the information. In the cursor control method,
The cursor is controlled to move diagonally when one of the up and down cursor movement direction keys and one of the left and right cursor movement direction keys are pressed at the same time. cursor control method.