TWI746022B - Input system for controlling readonly property to avoid popping up virtual keyboard and input method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

An input system for controlling readonly property to avoid popping up a virtual keyboard and an input method thereof are provided. By setting up an input area to read only, setting up the input area readable and writable after a predetermined time for the input area gains focus, input a target data not gotten through a virtual keyboard into the input area, and setting up the input area to read only before the virtual keyboard displayed, the system and the method can control not to display virtual keyboard, and can achieve the effect of improving user experience without additional tools or plug-ins.

Description

System and method for controlling read and write attributes to avoid pop-up virtual keyboard

An input system and input method that does not display a virtual keyboard, in particular, a system and method that controls read and write attributes to avoid pop-up virtual keyboards.

On current mobile devices, when encountering an input interface that includes a form or requires user input, most operating systems running on the mobile device will pop up a preset virtual keyboard to provide user input. However, in practice, some fields in the form or input interface do not necessarily need to be entered by the user to operate the virtual keyboard. Instead, other hardware input provided on the mobile device can be used. For example, when the mobile device has a barcode scanner When functioning, the mobile device can input the data represented by the barcode into a specific field of the form or input interface through the barcode scanning function.

However, even if the user uses other hardware other than the keyboard on the mobile device for data input, the operating system on the mobile device will still pop up a virtual keyboard on the touch screen of the mobile device, causing the form or input interface to be covered by the virtual keyboard. In fact, the displayable range becomes smaller, which causes inconvenience to the user.

In order to solve the problem that the displayable range becomes smaller when the virtual keyboard is displayed without using the virtual keyboard, there are also solutions to actively close the virtual keyboard immediately or after waiting for a period of time after the virtual keyboard is displayed, although such a solution can solve the above-mentioned problems. Problem, but because the virtual keyboard will still be displayed, it will also affect the user experience (UX).

In summary, it can be known that the virtual keyboard must pop up when the user enters in the form or input interface for a long time in the prior art. Therefore, it is necessary to propose improved technical means to solve this problem.

In view of the problem in the prior art that the virtual keyboard will inevitably pop up when the user enters in the form or input interface, the present invention discloses a system and method for controlling read and write attributes to avoid popping up the virtual keyboard, in which:

The system for controlling read and write attributes to avoid pop-up virtual keyboards disclosed in the present invention at least includes: a display module for displaying an input interface, the input interface including an input area; a focus judgment module for judging whether the input area has a focus, The display module is also used to display the mask layer when the input area is focused; the object setting module is used to set the input area to be read-only, and to set the input area to cancel the read-only after a predetermined time when the input area is focused ; The input module is used to obtain the target data, and the object setting module is used to input the target data into the input area after canceling the read-only input in the input area. The target data is not obtained through the keyboard.

The method for controlling read and write attributes to avoid popping up a virtual keyboard disclosed in the present invention includes at least the steps of: displaying an input interface, which includes an input area; setting the input area to be read-only; and displaying a mask when the input area is focused Layer, and set the input area to cancel the read-only after a predetermined time, and enter the target data not obtained through the keyboard into the input area.

The system and method disclosed in the present invention are as above. The difference between the system and the prior art is that the present invention sets the input area to be read-only, and when the input area gets the focus, set the input area to cancel the read-only after a predetermined time. The target data that is not obtained through the keyboard is input into the input area, and the input area is set to read-only before the virtual keyboard is displayed, so as to solve the problems of the previous technology and improve the user experience without using additional tools or plug-ins Technical efficacy.

In the following, the features and implementation of the present invention will be described in detail with the drawings and embodiments. The content is sufficient to enable any person familiar with the relevant art to easily and fully understand the technical means used by the present invention to solve the technical problems and implement them accordingly. The achievable effect of the present invention.

The present invention can control the mobile device not to pop up or display the virtual keyboard when the focus (onFocus) of the input area is obtained without modifying the operating system of the existing mobile device. The input area can be a single-line or multi-line text input box, but the present invention is not limited to this.

The virtual keyboard provided by the present invention is a user interface displayed on the touch screen of a mobile device for executing computer programs. The user of the mobile device can input data by clicking a specific icon on the user interface.

In the following, the system architecture diagram of the system for controlling the read/write attributes mentioned in the present invention to avoid popping up the virtual keyboard is used to illustrate the operation of the system of the present invention. As shown in "Figure 1", the system of the present invention is applied to a computing device 100, and includes a focus judgment module 110, a display module 120, an input module 130, an object setting module 150, and an event monitoring module that can be attached. Group 160.

The focus determination module 110 is responsible for determining whether the input area displayed by the display module 120 has the focus. The focus judgment module 110 can judge whether the input area has obtained focus by checking the attributes related to obtaining the focus in the input area, for example, judge whether the attribute focus is true, if it is, it means the input area has the focus, if it is otherwise, it means the input area No focus or loss of focus. However, the method for the focus determining module 110 to determine whether the input area has a focus is not limited to the above.

In some embodiments, the focus determining module 110 may first determine whether the computing device 100 is in a non-keyboard input mode. If so, the focus determining module 110 may further determine whether the input area has the focus, if not, the computing device 100 In the keyboard input mode, the focus judgment module 110 can end the execution.

The display module 120 is responsible for displaying the input interface, and the input interface displayed by the display module 120 may include one or more input areas.

The display module 120 is also responsible for displaying a mask layer on the input interface when the input area of the input interface displayed by the focus determination module 110 is focused. The mask layer displayed by the display module 120 is usually a transparent layer that can cover the input interface. For the user of the computing device 100, various objects in the input interface can still be viewed through the mask layer. That is, regardless of whether the mask layer is displayed by the display module 120 or not, the screen displayed by the computing device 100 that the user of the computing device 100 sees is the same.

The display module 120 can also cancel the display mask layer when the focus determination module 110 determines that the input area of the displayed input interface loses focus, that is, does not display the mask layer covering the input interface.

The input module 130 is responsible for obtaining target data. The target data obtained by the input module 130 is the data that the user wants to input, which is usually formed by arbitrary arrangement of any number of characters, letters, numbers, and symbols, but the present invention is not limited to this.

It should be particularly noted that in the present invention, since the virtual keyboard is prevented from being displayed, the input module 130 does not obtain the target data through the virtual keyboard. In some examples. The input module 130 can obtain the target by scanning the barcode or recognizing the text in the captured image through a device, module, unit, or component (not shown in the figure) such as barcode scanning or image processing provided on the computing device 100 Data, but the present invention is not limited to this.

The object setting module 150 is responsible for setting the input area in the input interface displayed by the display module 120 to be readonly, so that data cannot be input into the input area. In some embodiments, the object setting module 150 may set the input area to be read-only when the focus determining module 110 determines that the computing device 100 is in the non-keyboard input mode, and if the focus determining module 110 determines that the computing device 100 is on the keyboard In the input mode, the object setting module 150 may not set the input area to be read-only.

The object setting module 150 is also responsible for setting the input area to be non-read only after the focus judgment module 110 judges that the input area displayed by the display module 120 gets the focus for a predetermined time, that is, cancels the read-only state of the input area, so that the input The data in the area can be read, and data can also be entered into the input area. The above-mentioned predetermined time is less than the time when the virtual keyboard is popped up or displayed.

The object setting module 150 is also responsible for inputting the target data obtained by the input module 130 into the input area after canceling the read-only setting of the input area.

The object setting module 150 may also set the input area to lose focus when the event monitoring module 160 determines that the input area displayed by the display module 120 cannot continuously obtain the focus. The object setting module 150 may also set the input area to be read-only when the focus judgment module 110 judges that the input area loses focus.

The object setting module 150 can set whether the input area is read-only by setting attributes related to the read-only state in the input area. For example, the object setting module 150 can set the attribute readonly in the input area to true. , Thereby setting the input area to a read-only state; the object setting module 150 can also set the readonly attribute in the input area to false, thereby setting the input area to a non-read-only state. However, the manner in which the object setting module 150 sets the input area as read-only or non-read-only is not limited to the above.

Similarly, the object setting module 150 can set whether the input area is focused or loses focus (that is, the focus is not acquired) by setting the attributes related to the focus of the input area. For example, the object setting module 150 can set the input area The attribute focus in is set to true, so that the input area is set to get focus, and the focus attribute in the input area can also be set to false, so that the input area is set to not get focus or lose focus. However, the manner in which the object setting module 150 sets the input area to obtain or lose focus is not limited to the above.

The event monitoring module 160 may start to monitor the click event after the focus determination module 110 determines that the input area displayed by the display module 120 has the focus, that is, after the display module 120 displays the mask layer. Generally speaking, a click event is generated by a user clicking or clicking on a touch input device such as a touch screen or a touch pad of the computing device 100.

The event monitoring module 160 can also determine whether the input area continues to obtain focus based on the occurrence position of the monitored click event and the position of the currently focused input area. For example, after monitoring the click event, the event monitoring module 160 can obtain the coordinates of the monitored click event occurring on the mask layer displayed on the display screen of the displayed module 120, and can obtain the current focus. The position of the input area in the display screen, such as the coordinates of the upper left corner and the lower right corner. Then, the event monitoring module 160 can determine whether the location of the click event falls within the range of the currently focused input area. If so, the event monitor The module 160 can determine that the currently focused input area continues to obtain the focus, and if the location of the click event does not fall within the range of the currently focused input area, the event monitoring module 160 can determine that the currently focused input area is lost focus.

Next, an embodiment is used to explain the operating system and method of the present invention, and please refer to "Figure 2A" for the flow chart of the method for controlling the read and write attributes mentioned in the present invention to avoid popping up the virtual keyboard. In this embodiment, it is assumed that the computing device 100 includes a touch screen and a scanning device.

First, the display module 120 can display the input interface (step 201). In this embodiment, it is assumed that the display module 120 can display an input interface including a form, and the form includes a plurality of text input boxes (input areas).

After the display module 120 displays the input interface (step 201), the input module 130 can start scanning text or bar codes through the scanning device of the computing device 100 to obtain target data.

Similarly, after the display module 120 displays the input interface (step 201), the object setting module 150 can set the input area in the input interface displayed by the display module 120 to be read-only (step 215). In this embodiment, if the computing device 100 only provides input through the scanning device, the object setting module 150 can directly set the input area to be read-only; and if the computing device 100 provides both the scanning device input and the virtual keyboard input, the focus The judging module 110 can first judge whether the computing device 100 is a non-keyboard input mode, for example, according to the signal generated by the hardware switch set on the computing device 100, it can judge whether the hardware switch is turned to the position indicating the scanning input or When pressed to make the computing device 100 enter the non-keyboard input mode, the object setting module 150 can set the input area to be read only when the focus determination module 110 determines that the computing device 100 enters the non-keyboard input mode; but if the focus determination mode The group 110 determines that the computing device 100 does not enter the non-keyboard input mode, and the object setting module 150 may not set the input area to be read-only.

After the object setting module 150 sets the input area displayed by the display module 120 as read-only (step 215), the focus determination module 110 can determine whether the input area displayed by the display module 120 has the focus (step 220).

When the focus determination module 110 determines that the input area displayed by the display module 120 is in focus, for example, if the user clicks the input area on the touch screen of the computing device 100, the display module 120 may display an overlay on the touch screen. The mask layer of the input interface previously displayed by the display module 120 (step 230). In this embodiment, although the input area has the focus, data cannot be input because the input area is set to read-only. Therefore, the operating system running on the computing device 100 will not display or display on the touch screen of the computing device 100. The virtual keyboard pops up.

After the predetermined time for the display module 120 to display the mask layer (step 230), the object setting module 150 may set the input area that has the focus to cancel the read-only (step 251). In this embodiment, it is assumed that the object setting module 150 can set the focus-obtained input area to cancel read-only 100 milliseconds after the display module 120 displays the mask layer.

After the object setting module 150 sets the focused input area to cancel read-only (step 251), the object setting module 150 can input the target data obtained by the input module 130 into the focused input area (step 255). ). In this embodiment, assuming that the operating system running on the computing device 100 will pop up or display a virtual keyboard on the touch screen of the computing device 100 after 300 milliseconds after the input area is canceled to read-only, the object setting module 150 can Before the operating system running on the computing device 100 pops up or displays the virtual keyboard, that is, within 300 milliseconds after the object setting module 150 is set to cancel the read-only setting, the target currently acquired by the module 130 through the scanning device of the computing device 100 is input The data is set to the input area where the focus is obtained, so that the target data is input into the input area where the focus is obtained.

After the object setting module 150 inputs the target data obtained by the input module 130 into the input area where the focus is obtained (step 255), before the operating system in the computing device 100 pops up or displays the virtual keyboard, in this embodiment also That is, 300 milliseconds before the object setting module 150 is set to cancel the read-only setting, the object setting module 150 can again set the focused input area to be read-only, so as to prevent the operating system of the computing device 100 from popping up or displaying the virtual keyboard. In this way, through the present invention, the input of target data can be completed through an input device other than a keyboard without popping up or displaying a virtual keyboard.

Similarly, after the object setting module 150 inputs the target data obtained by the input module 130 into the input area where the focus is obtained (step 255), the present invention can also be as shown in the flow of "Figure 2B", the focus determination module 110 can again determine whether the focused input area continues to be focused (step 220). If the focus determination module 110 determines that the input area that has the focus loses focus, the display module 120 may cancel the display mask layer (step 270).

If the focus determining module 110 determines that the focused input area is still focused, the object setting module 150 can again set the continuously focused input area to be read-only, so as to prevent the operating system of the computing device 100 from popping up or displaying a virtual keyboard , Afterwards, the object setting module 150 can set the input area with the focus to cancel the read-only (step 260) after setting the input area to be read-only for a predetermined time, so as to re-set the input module 130 to the previous object setting module The other target data obtained after setting the target data in the input area where the focus is obtained are input into the input area where the focus is obtained (step 255).

In addition, if the present invention further includes the event monitoring module 160, the present embodiment can also input the target data obtained by the input module 130 in the object setting module 150 to obtain the focus as shown in the flow of "Figure 2C". After entering the input area (step 255), the event monitoring module 160 can start to monitor the click event (step 281). In this embodiment, since the input interface displayed by the display module 120 also has a mask layer displayed by the display module 120, the user's operations on the touch screen of the computing device 100 will fall on On the mask layer, the event monitoring module 160 can monitor click events falling on the mask layer.

When the event monitoring module 160 monitors a click event, it can determine whether the currently focused input area can continuously obtain focus according to the location of the click event and the position of the currently focused input area (step 285). If yes, the object setting module 150 can set the input area that has the focus to cancel the read-only (step 260) after setting the input area to be read-only for a predetermined time, so that the input module 130 can be used in the previous object setting module again The other target data obtained after setting the target data in the input area where the focus is obtained are input into the input area where the focus is obtained (step 255).

If the event monitoring module 160 determines that the currently focused input area cannot be continuously focused, the object setting module 150 may set the focused input area to lose focus (step 291), and the display module 120 may cancel the display mask The object setting module 150 can set the previously focused input area to be read-only (step 295).

In summary, it can be seen that the difference between the present invention and the prior art is that after setting the input area as read-only, when the input area gets the focus, the input area is set to cancel the read-only after a predetermined time, and the input area is not obtained through the keyboard. The target data is input into the input area, and the input area is set to read-only technical means before the virtual keyboard is displayed. This technical means can solve the problem that the virtual keyboard in the prior art must be displayed in the form or input by the user. The problem that pops up when inputting in the interface, so as to achieve the technical effect of not using additional tools or plug-ins and improving the user experience.

Furthermore, the method of controlling the read and write attributes of the present invention to avoid pop-up virtual keyboards can be implemented in hardware, software, or a combination of hardware and software.

Although the embodiments of the present invention are disclosed as above, the content described is not intended to directly limit the scope of patent protection of the present invention. Any person with ordinary knowledge in the technical field to which the present invention belongs, without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, makes slight modifications to the form and details of the implementation of the present invention, all belong to the patent protection of the present invention. Scope. The scope of patent protection of the present invention shall still be determined by the scope of the attached patent application.

100: computing equipment 110: Focus Judgment Module 120: display module 130: input module 150: Object setting module 160: event monitoring module Step 201: display the input interface Step 215: Set the input area in the display interface to read only Step 220: Determine whether the input area has the focus Step 230: display the mask layer Step 251: Set the input area to cancel the read-only after the predetermined time Step 255: Enter the target data that is not obtained through the keyboard into the input area Step 260: Set the input area to be read-only, and set the input area to cancel the read-only after a predetermined time Step 270: Cancel the display mask layer Step 281: listen for click events Step 285: Determine whether the input area continues to obtain focus according to the location of the click event Step 291: Set the input area to lose focus Step 295: Cancel the display of the mask layer and set the input area to be read-only

Figure 1 is a system architecture diagram of the present invention for controlling read and write attributes to avoid pop-up virtual keyboards. Figure 2A is a flow chart of the method for controlling read and write attributes to avoid popping up a virtual keyboard according to the present invention. FIG. 2B is a flowchart of an additional method of the method for controlling read and write attributes to avoid pop-up of the virtual keyboard according to the present invention. Figure 2C is a flowchart of the additional method for monitoring click events according to the present invention.

Step 201: display the input interface

Step 215: Set the input area in the display interface to read only

Step 220: Determine whether the input area has the focus

Step 230: display the mask layer

Step 251: Set the input area to cancel the read-only after the predetermined time

Step 255: Enter the target data that is not obtained through the keyboard into the input area

Claims (10)

A method for controlling read and write attributes to avoid pop-up virtual keyboard, the method includes at least the following steps: An input interface is displayed, and the input interface includes an input area; Set the input area as read-only; and When the input area gets the focus, perform the following steps: Show a mask layer; and After a predetermined time, the input area is set to cancel the read-only, and a target data obtained through the keyboard is input into the input area. The method for controlling read and write attributes as described in claim 1 to avoid pop-up of a virtual keyboard, wherein the method further includes determining that the input area is continuously obtained after the step of inputting the target data that is not obtained through the keyboard into the input area When focusing, set the input area as read-only again, set the input area to cancel the read-only after the predetermined time, and input another target data not obtained through the keyboard into the input area again. The method for controlling read and write attributes to avoid popping up a virtual keyboard as described in claim 1, wherein the method further includes monitoring a click event after the step of inputting the target data that is not obtained through the keyboard into the input area, and According to the occurrence position of the click event on the mask layer and the position of the input area, it is determined whether the input area continuously obtains the focus. The method for controlling read and write attributes as described in claim 3 to avoid pop-up virtual keyboards, wherein the method further includes setting the input area to lose focus after the step of determining that the input area cannot continuously obtain focus, and canceling the display of the mask Layer and set the input area as a read-only step. The method for controlling read and write attributes to avoid pop-up of a virtual keyboard as described in claim 1, wherein the method further includes the step of determining whether it is a non-keyboard input mode before the step of setting the input area as read-only. A system for controlling read and write attributes to avoid pop-up virtual keyboards, the system includes at least: A display module for displaying an input interface, the input interface including an input area; A focus judgment module for judging whether the input area has a focus, and the display module is further used for displaying a mask layer when the input area has a focus; An object setting module for setting the input area as read-only, and for setting the input area to cancel the read-only after a predetermined period of time after the input area obtains the focus; and An input module is used to obtain a target data, and the object setting module is further used to input the target data into the input area after canceling read-only in the input area, wherein the target data is not obtained through a keyboard. The system for controlling read and write attributes to avoid pop-up virtual keyboards as described in claim 6, wherein the system further includes an event monitoring module for monitoring a click event after the display module displays the mask layer, and According to the position of the click event on the mask layer and the position of the input area, it is judged whether the input area keeps getting the focus. The object setting module is used to set the input area when the input area cannot keep getting the focus. lose focus. The system for controlling read and write attributes as described in claim 7 to avoid pop-up virtual keyboards, wherein the display module is further used for canceling the display of the mask layer when the focus determination module determines that the input area loses focus, and the object is set The module is further used to set the input area to be read-only when the focus judgment module judges that the input area loses focus. The system for controlling read and write attributes as described in claim 6 to avoid pop-up of a virtual keyboard, wherein the input module obtains the target data through scanning. The system for controlling read and write attributes to avoid pop-up of virtual keyboard as described in claim 6, wherein the focus determining module is further used to determine whether the input area is in a non-keyboard input mode before determining whether the input area has the focus.

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