JPS62152039A - Mouse control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the load of an operator to always by conscious of the shift amount between a mouse cursor position and a pointed display position, by displaying the mouse cursor by the information on the positions excluding the mouse. CONSTITUTION:A mouse cursor is positioned at a system function field of a display device 5 and a mouse button 3a is operated. Then the information of said operations are processed by a program 2 of a mouse controller and sent to a main body device 1. Then a hop-up menu is displayed on the device 5 and at the same time the mouse position information corresponding to an executing field is supplied to a mouse position information input part 4. Then the mouse cursor is shifted to the executing filed. Thus the load of an operator to always be conscious of the shift amount between the position of the mouse cursor and the pointed display position.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to man-machine interface technology using input/output devices, and particularly to an input/output control method using a mouse.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, in this type of control method, the display position of the mouse cursor is linked to the movement of the mouse in the operator's hand.
For example, when the operator wants to position the cursor at a certain position in the upper right corner of the screen, the operator must move the mouse toward the upper right corner, and the position of the mouse cursor on a certain screen, such as in a pop-up menu, Even when the system could identify the problem to some extent, the operator had to move the mouse at hand.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

In the conventional mouse cursor control method described above, the mouse cursor control was dependent only on the actions of the device operator, and therefore had the following main drawbacks.

■ The operator moves the mouse in accordance with the movements of the device, giving the operator a feeling of being followed (slave feeling).

■ The operator is burdened with having to constantly be aware of the amount of movement between the position of the mouse and the position on the display pointed to by the mouse cursor.

[Means for solving problems]

In order to eliminate such drawbacks, the present invention provides display control means for displaying a mouse cursor on the display using position information other than the mouse.

[Effect]

In the present invention, the burden of having to constantly be aware of the amount of movement between the position of the mouse cursor and the position on the display to be pointed at is reduced.

〔Example〕

FIG. 1 is a system diagram showing an embodiment of a mouse control method according to the present invention, and FIGS. 2 to 4 are display state diagrams showing display states of a display device.

In FIG. 1, l is a main unit, 2 is a mouse control device/program as display control means, 3 is a mouse, 3a is a mouse button, 4 is a mouse position information input unit, and 5 is a display device. 2 to 4, 6 is a mouse cursor, 7 is a system function field in the menu bar for calling a system function, 8 is a pop-up menu showing a system function, 9 is an interrupt field for interrupting a function call, Reference numeral 10 is an execution field that allows execution of the selected function, and reference numeral 11 is a field that indicates default of the system function.

In this embodiment, the mouse cursor 6 is initially positioned in the system function call field 7, but at the same time the pop-up menu 8 is displayed, the mouse cursor 6 is positioned in the execution field 10.
It is characterized in that the mouse cursor 6 is positioned at.

The device information consisting of the mouse 3 is the mouse control device/
The information is processed by the program 2 and transmitted to the main device 1, and at the same time becomes information for displaying the mouse cursor 6 on the display device 5. For example, in an environment such as a workstation where a user interface using a mouse is provided, a mouse cursor 6 and a system function field 7 are displayed as shown in FIG.

Here, if the operator needs to use a system function, for example, as shown in FIG.
When pressed, this information is processed by the mouse control device/program 2 and transmitted to the main device 1. Main unit 1
As shown in FIG. 3, at the same time a pop-up menu 8 is displayed on the screen of the display device 5, the mouse position information corresponding to the execution field 10 is inputted into the mouse position information input section 4. The mouse control device/program 2 receives the position information from the mouse position information input section 4, and
As shown in FIG. 4, the mouse cursor 6 is moved to the execution field 10 of the pop-up menu 8 and displayed on the display device 5.

In this way, information other than the position information from the mouse 3 can be used to change the execution field 1 from the system function field 7.
The mouse cursor 6 can be moved and displayed to 0, and the operator can immediately permit execution of the desired function.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention provides a mouse control method in which a mouse cursor is displayed at a position on a display corresponding to mouse position information, and a display control means for displaying a mouse cursor on a display based on position information other than the mouse. This has the effect of reducing the burden of having to constantly be aware of the amount of movement between the position of the mouse cursor and the position on the display to be pointed, and improving operability.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system diagram showing one embodiment of a mouse control method according to the present invention, and FIGS. 2 to 4 are display state diagrams showing display states of a display device constituting this method. 1... Main unit, 2... Mouse control device/program, 3... Mouse, 3a... Mouse button, 4... Mouse position information input section, 5... Display device, 6... Mouse cursor, 7... System function field, 8... Pop-up menu, 9... Interrupt field, 10... Execution field, ll... System def old field.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A mouse control method for displaying a mouse cursor at a position on a display corresponding to positional information of a mouse, characterized by comprising display control means for displaying a mouse cursor on a display based on positional information other than the mouse. .