WO2022218150A1

WO2022218150A1 - Window display method and electronic device

Info

Publication number: WO2022218150A1
Application number: PCT/CN2022/083912
Authority: WO
Inventors: 尹剑锋; 石超然
Original assignee: 华为技术有限公司
Priority date: 2021-04-15
Filing date: 2022-03-30
Publication date: 2022-10-20
Also published as: CN115220826A

Abstract

Provided in the present application are a window display method and an electronic device. The method comprises: an electronic device capturing a first message of a window change; the electronic device acquiring, according to the first message, a first target window having a superposition order; the electronic device dividing, according to vertex coordinates of a window in a desktop, a display region, apart from a taskbar, of the desktop of the electronic device into a plurality of regions; the electronic device respectively marking the plurality of regions by using window handles, wherein each of the plurality of regions cannot be marked repeatedly; the electronic device determining, according to the window handles which mark the plurality of regions, a second target window, which is visible to a user, in the desktop; the electronic device determining, according to the first target window and the second target window, a third target window that is invisible to the user; and the electronic device minimizing the third target window. By means of the technical solution, system resources occupied by an electronic device can be reduced, thereby reducing power consumption of a system.

Description

Window display method and electronic device

This application claims the priority of the Chinese patent application with the application number 202110406595.0 and the application title "Window Display Method and Electronic Device" filed with the China Patent Office on April 15, 2021, the entire contents of which are incorporated into this application by reference .

technical field

The present application relates to the field of electronic technology, and more particularly, to a method and electronic device for window display.

Background technique

When a user uses an electronic device, such as an electronic device installed with a Windows operating system (microsoft windows), it is often necessary to open multiple windows, and each opened window will occupy corresponding system resources. When a window is visually visible to the user , the system allocates relatively more resources to it. When a window is minimized, the system reduces the resources allocated to the minimized window to save power consumption.

In some cases, when a user opens multiple windows, some windows are blocked by upper-layer windows, resulting in them being located on the display screen of the electronic device, but invisible to the user's vision. Such windows still occupy a large amount of system resource.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present application provides a window display method and electronic device. The technical solution can identify and minimize invisible windows displayed on the desktop by the electronic device, thereby reducing system resources occupied by the electronic device and reducing system power consumption.

In a first aspect, a method for displaying a window is provided, the method is applied to an electronic device, and the method includes: the electronic device captures, by the electronic device, a first message of a window change; the first target window; the electronic device divides the display area of the desktop of the electronic device except the task bar into multiple areas according to the vertex coordinates of the window in the desktop; the electronic device uses the window handle to Each area in the multiple areas cannot be marked repeatedly; the electronic device determines the second target window visible to the user in the desktop according to the window handles marked by the multiple areas; the electronic device The device determines a third target window invisible to the user according to the first target window and the second target window; the electronic device minimizes the third target window.

Based on the embodiments of the present application, the electronic device may acquire the first target window opened by the user in the desktop after capturing the message of the window change, and then divide the part of the desktop of the electronic device except the taskbar into two parts according to the vertex coordinates of the window in the desktop. multiple areas, and then use the window handle to mark the multiple areas, so that the second target window visible to the user in the desktop can be determined, and the invisible third target window can be determined in combination with the first target window, and then the third target window can be determined. The target window is minimized. The technical solution can identify invisible windows in the desktop displayed by the electronic device and minimize them, thereby reducing the system resources occupied by the electronic device and reducing the power consumption of the system.

With reference to the first aspect, in some implementations of the first aspect, acquiring, by the electronic device, a first target window having a stacking order according to the first message includes: acquiring, by the electronic device, a desktop according to the first message The bottommost window except the desktop window in the stacking order of the inner windows; the electronic device searches for all windows from the bottommost window upward according to the stacking sequence of the windows in the desktop, and obtains the first target window, wherein , the first target window is a window that can be displayed in response to a user's operation.

Based on the embodiments of the present application, the electronic device can obtain all the windows that can be displayed in response to the user's operation according to the stacking order of the windows in the desktop, which is beneficial to the subsequent calculation of invisible windows.

With reference to the first aspect, in some implementations of the first aspect, the electronic device divides the desktop display area of the electronic device except for the taskbar into multiple areas according to the vertex coordinates of the windows in the desktop, including: The electronic device divides the length of the display area in the first direction into a plurality of parts according to the coordinates of the vertices of the window in the desktop in the first direction; the electronic device divides the length of the display area in the first direction into a plurality of parts; The coordinates in the second direction divide the length of the display area in the second direction into a plurality of parts.

Based on the embodiment of the present application, the display area of the desktop of the electronic device except the taskbar is divided into multiple parts in the first direction according to the coordinates of the vertices of the windows in the desktop in the first direction, and the desktop of the electronic device except the taskbar is divided into multiple parts. The outer display area is divided into multiple parts in the second direction according to the coordinates of the vertices of the windows in the desktop in the second direction, so that the display area can be divided into multiple areas, which is conducive to the subsequent calculation of invisible windows.

With reference to the first aspect, in some implementations of the first aspect, the electronic device uses a window handle to mark the multiple regions respectively, including: the electronic device starts from the most recent window according to the stacking order of the windows in the desktop. The top-level window starts, and is marked down sequentially using the window handle.

Based on the embodiments of the present application, the window handles are used to mark the topmost window in sequence according to the stacking sequence of the windows in the desktop, so that the windows visible to the user in the desktop can be determined.

With reference to the first aspect, in some implementations of the first aspect, before the electronic device acquires a first target window with a stacking order according to the first message, the method further includes: the electronic device The first message is stored in a first queue, and the first queue retains one message at a time; the electronic device reads the first message from the first queue.

With reference to the first aspect, in some implementations of the first aspect, an interval at which the electronic device reads the first message from the first queue is greater than or equal to a first preset duration.

The technical solution can avoid excessive message stacking and cause misoperation.

With reference to the first aspect, in some implementations of the first aspect, the third target window includes a first window and a second window, and the first window partially blocks the second window, and the second target The window includes a third window, and before the electronic device minimizes the third target window, the method further includes: inserting, by the electronic device, a fourth window after the first window; A fifth window is inserted after the second window; wherein the fourth window and the fifth window are invisible to the user.

Based on the embodiments of the present application, by inserting an additional window after the window to be minimized, the additional window can be used as the reference position of the minimized window in the window stacking sequence, so as to avoid the stacking sequence disorder after the restoration of the minimized window.

The position and size of the fourth window on the desktop may be the same as or different from the first window, and the position and size of the fifth window on the desktop may be the same as or different from the first window. The fourth and fifth windows hardly occupy system resources.

Optionally, the fourth window can also be inserted before the first window, and the fifth window can also be inserted before the second window.

With reference to the first aspect, in some implementations of the first aspect, the method further includes: in response to a user's first operation, the electronic device inserts the first window after the fourth window, and inserts the first window into the fourth window. The second window is inserted after the fifth window; the electronic device displays a first interface, the first interface includes the first window and the second window, wherein the first window is partially blocked the second window.

Based on the embodiments of the present application, when the minimized first window and the second window are restored, they are inserted into the fourth window and the fifth window respectively in the original order, so that their positions in the window stacking order can be guaranteed to be the same as the smallest window. It is the same as before the minimization, so that the stacking order after the minimization window is restored can be avoided.

With reference to the first aspect, in some implementations of the first aspect, the third target window includes a first window, the second target window includes a second window and a third window, and the third window partially blocks The second window and the first window partially block the second window, and before the electronic device minimizes the third target window, the method further includes: the electronic device creates a sixth window, The sixth window is located before the first window; wherein, the vertex coordinates of the sixth window are located outside the desktop of the electronic device.

Based on the embodiment of the present application, the vertex coordinates of the sixth window are located outside the desktop of the electronic device, but the position of the sixth window in the window stacking sequence is located before the first window, and the sixth window can be displayed when the third window disappears The operation of the system finding the focus window is captured, so that the position of the first window and the second window in the window stacking order will not be affected.

With reference to the first aspect, in some implementations of the first aspect, the method further includes: in response to a second operation of the user, displaying, by the electronic device, a second interface, where the second interface includes the first window and the second window, wherein the first window partially blocks the second window.

Based on the embodiment of the present application, the second operation may be an operation of minimizing or closing the third window, and then the sum of the first window may be restored to its original position. The technical solution can avoid the stacking sequence disorder after the minimized window is restored.

In a second aspect, an electronic device is provided, comprising one or more processors; one or more memories; the one or more memories store one or more computer programs, the one or more computer programs comprising instructions, When the instructions are executed by one or more processors, the method for causing a window to be displayed as described in the above first aspect and any possible implementation manner thereof is executed.

In a third aspect, a chip is provided, the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is configured to receive a signal and transmit the signal to the processor, and the processor processes the signal such that The method for displaying a window as described in the first aspect and any possible implementation manners thereof is performed.

In a fourth aspect, a computer-readable storage medium is provided, wherein computer instructions are stored in the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer instructions are executed on a computer, the first aspect and any one of the above-mentioned possibilities are made possible. The method of window display described in the implementation mode is executed.

In a fifth aspect, a computer program product is provided, comprising computer instructions, when the computer instructions are executed on an electronic device, the method for displaying a window as described in the above first aspect and any possible implementation manner thereof be executed.

Description of drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a group of GUIs provided by an embodiment of the present application.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of coordinates after discretization of the window in FIG. 1 .

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of marking a handle to a window according to an embodiment of the present application.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of another group of GUIs provided by an embodiment of the present application.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of another group of GUIs provided by an embodiment of the present application.

FIG. 6 is a schematic timing diagram of a window display provided by an embodiment of the present application.

FIG. 7 is a schematic flowchart of a method for window display provided by an embodiment of the present application.

FIG. 8 is a schematic flowchart of calculating invisible windows in FIG. 7 .

FIG. 9 is a schematic flowchart of a method for displaying a window provided by an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed ways

The technical solutions in the present application will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The window display method in the embodiments of the present application can be applied to electronic devices such as tablet computers, notebook computers, personal computers, ultra-mobile personal computers (UMPC), netbooks, and personal digital assistants (PDAs). In the device, the embodiments of the present application do not impose any restrictions on the specific type of the electronic device.

When users use electronic devices, they often need to open multiple windows, and each opened window will occupy corresponding system resources. When a window is visually visible to the user, the system allocates relatively more resources to it. When a window is minimized When minimized, the system reduces the resources allocated to the minimized window to save power.

In view of this, embodiments of the present application provide a window display method and electronic device, which can minimize an invisible window, and restore the minimized window to its original position when the minimized window needs to be restored. There is no perception on the top, so that it will not affect the use of users, and at the same time reduce the power consumption of the system.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a group of graphical user interfaces (graphical user interface, GUI) provided by an embodiment of the present application. Among them, (a) to (b) in FIG. 1 show the process of discretizing the windows in the display interface of the electronic device.

Referring to (a) of FIG. 1 , the GUI may be a display desktop 210 of the electronic device 200 , and the display desktop 210 may include a display area 211 and a task bar 215 therein. The display area 211 includes a window 212, a window 213 and a window 214, wherein the window stacking order (z-order) of the three windows in the display area 211 is window 213, window 212, and window 214 from top to bottom. That is, the window 213 is on the top layer of the display desktop and is the focus window.

The electronic device 200 can use the display desktop 210 as the entire canvas to obtain all the windows displayed by all users in the display desktop 210 that can be operated and displayed by keyboard or mouse, and these windows can correspond one-to-one with the windows in the task bar.

Specifically, the electronic device 200 can use a system interface, such as the getnextwindow interface, after obtaining the bottommost window in the z-order order of the windows in the display desktop 210, to search up all the windows in the z-order order, so as to obtain the information that the user can use the keyboard or All windows displayed by mouse operation.

For example, if the window 213 is a file manager window, a 212-bit Huawei Music window, and the window 213 is a Huawei Computer Manager window, the windows opened in the taskbar include File Manager, Huawei Music, and Huawei Computer Manager. Then, the electronic device 200 can obtain that the windows that the user can actually operate are the above-mentioned three windows, and the z-order order of the three windows.

Referring to (b) in FIG. 1 , the GUI shows the process of discretizing the display area 211 according to the displayed windows. In (a) of FIG. 1 , the electronic device 200 has acquired the three windows displayed in the display area 211 and the z-order order of the three windows, then the electronic device 200 can, according to the vertex coordinates of the three windows, The display area is divided into a plurality of areas.

As shown in (b) of FIG. 1 , the coordinates of the four vertices of the window 213 are A1, A2, A3, and A4, respectively, the coordinates of the four vertices of the window 212 are B1, B2, B3, and B4, respectively, and the four vertices of the window 213 The vertex coordinates are C1, C2, C3, and C4, respectively. Then, in the x-axis direction of the display area 211, by dividing the abscissas of the three windows, a total of 7 areas can be divided, and in the y-axis direction of the display area 211, by dividing the horizontal coordinates of the three windows The coordinates can be divided into 6 areas in total, and the entire display area 211 is divided into 42 small areas in total, and each area belongs to the same window. Therefore, more pixels (eg, 1280*760) in the display area 211 can be corresponded to the coordinates corresponding to the 42 small areas, thereby reducing the complexity of the calculation of the amount of data.

It should be understood that in (b) of FIG. 1 , the lower boundary of the window 214 overlaps with the upper boundary of the taskbar, for example, by one pixel. Therefore, in the y-axis direction of the display area 211, it can be divided into 6 areas in total .

In some examples, the lower boundary of the window 214 may not overlap with the upper boundary of the task bar, and at this time, the y-axis direction of the display area 211 may be divided into 7 areas, which are not limited in this embodiment of the present application .

Referring to FIG. 2 , after dividing the display area 211 into 42 small areas, the 42 small areas can be corresponding to the discretized coordinate system, the area from coordinates (0, 0) to coordinates (7, 6) in FIG. 2 Corresponding to the display area 211 in FIG. 1 , the area from the coordinates a3 (2, 2) to a2 (5, 4) in FIG. 2 corresponds to the window 212 in FIG. 1 , and the coordinates b3 (1, 1) to The area of coordinates b2 (4, 5) corresponds to the window 213 in FIG. 1 , and the area from coordinates c3 (3, 0) to c2 (6, 3) in FIG. 2 corresponds to the window 214 in FIG. 1 .

Through the above settings, more pixels in the display area 211 can be represented by the discretized coordinates. When the electronic device 200 calculates the window in the display area 211, it only needs to use the discretized coordinates of 42 It is not necessary to consider the coordinates of each pixel in the original display area 211 to perform the calculation in each area, which effectively reduces the complexity of the calculation of the amount of data.

After discretizing the vertex coordinates of the windows in the display area 211, you can start from the topmost window of the z-order (that is, the focus window) according to the z-order order of the windows, and use the window handle to perform operations on the area where the window is located. Mark, each area cannot be marked repeatedly.

Referring to FIG. 3, according to the z-order order of the windows, start marking from the topmost window 213. Assuming that the handle of the window 213 is 1, the coordinates of the area where the window 213 is located are from (2, 2) to (5, 4). The 6 regions in between are marked as 1. Then mark the window 212 located in the second layer of the z-order sequence, assuming that the handle of the window 212 is 2, since the coordinates of the area where the window 212 is located is from (1, 1) to (4, 5), a total of 12 areas, but 4 of them have been marked as 1, and each area cannot be marked repeatedly, so the remaining 8 areas are marked as 2. Then mark the window 214 at the bottom of the z-order sequence, assuming that the handle of the window 214 is 3, since the coordinates of the area where the window 214 is located is from (3, 0) to (6, 3), a total of 9 areas, but among them 2 areas have been marked as 1, 1 area is marked as 2, each area cannot be marked repeatedly, so the remaining 6 areas are marked as 3.

For the desktop window, that is, the display area 211, assuming that the handle of the desktop window is 4, the coordinates of the area where the display area 211 is located ranges from (0, 0) to (7, 6), a total of 42 areas, but 6 of them have been Marked as 1, 8 areas are marked as 2, 6 areas are marked as 3, each area cannot be marked repeatedly, so the remaining 22 areas are marked as 4.

After all the regions are marked, the electronic device 200 can traverse all the regions and count the number of different marked window handles, so as to know the number of visible windows in the display region 211 .

Exemplarily, as shown in FIG. 3, after the 42 areas in the display area 211 are marked, and a total of 4 different window handles from 1 to 4 are counted, it can be calculated that the display area is the display area except the desktop window. In addition to 211, there are 3 visible windows. In combination with the initial acquisition of the electronic device 200, the user can operate all the displayed windows through a keyboard and mouse operation, so as to acquire which windows are invisible. The number of invisible windows can be obtained by subtracting the number of visible windows from the number of all windows obtained initially, and by comparing all the windows obtained initially with the visible windows, which windows are invisible can be obtained.

It should be understood that in this embodiment, the handle of the window 213 is 1, the handle of the window 212 is 2, the handle of the window 214 is 3, and the handle of the desktop window is 4 as an example for description. In other examples, the handle of the above window is It may also be represented by other values, which are not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

In this embodiment of the present application, for an invisible window, the electronic device can temporarily minimize the window by calling the system interface to reduce the system resources occupied by the window. When the user operates the window to make the original position of the minimized window visible, timely When the window is restored, the user has no visual perception in this process, so that it will not affect the use of the user, and at the same time, the power consumption of the system is reduced.

For the above operation of minimizing the invisible window, it can be implemented by sending a message to the window, or it can be implemented by using the native external interface showwindow of the windows system.

If a window is to be restored from minimization, the user can use a combination of shortcut keys, mouse clicks, etc. to realize it, but no matter which method is adopted, the window will be the focus window, and the restoration of the minimized window in the embodiment of the present application is Restore the window to the state before it was minimized, that is, restore the minimized window according to the z-order order of the original window.

For example, Window A blocks Window B and minimizes Window B. When the user moves Window A to expose a part of Window B, the restored Window B cannot be before Window A. If Window B is restored before Window A, the user will feel uncomfortable. , therefore, window B still needs to be behind window A after restoration, that is, the focus window is still window A.

The window display method provided by the embodiment of the present application can restore the minimized window according to the z-order order of the original window. -The case where the order is out of order.

Although the windows system provides the showwindow interface, by setting some parameters, such as the SW_SHOWNOACTIVATE parameter, the window can be restored from the minimized state to the most recent window state, including the most recent position and z-order order, but, although the restored window It will not become the focus window, but the z-order order of the windows will be easily disordered, that is, the restored window jumps to the front of all windows, but the window is not the focus window.

For example, window A blocks window B and minimizes window B. When the user moves window A to expose a part of window B, the restored window B is in front of window A, but the user's input and other operations are still in window A, which will make User feels uncomfortable.

For the small probability situation that the z-order of the window is disordered, the embodiment of the present application provides a method for displaying a window, which can avoid the occurrence of the above problem.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of another group of GUIs provided by an embodiment of the present application. Among them, the process of minimizing the invisible window and restoring the minimized window is shown from (a) to (e) in FIG. 4 .

Referring to (a) in FIG. 4 , the display area 311 of the electronic device includes a window 312 and a window 313, wherein the window 312 is located above the window 313, that is, the focus window is the window 312, and the window 312 partially blocks the window 313. After the electronic device detects the user's operation of opening the window 314, the GUI as shown in (b) of FIG. 4 may be displayed.

Referring to (b) in FIG. 4 , the user opens the window 314 , and the window 314 completely blocks the window 312 and the window 313 , that is, the focus window of the display area 311 is 314 .

Referring to (c) in FIG. 4 , at this time, a window 312b can be inserted after the window 312, the size and position of the window 312b are the same as those of the window 312, and there is no other window between the window 312 and the window 312b; the window 313b is inserted after the window 313 , the size and position of the window 313b are the same as those of the window 313, and there is no other window between the window 313 and the window 313b. Window 312b and window 313b are used to subsequently calculate whether window 312 and window 313 need to be restored. After window 312 is minimized, window 312b can replace the position of window 312 in the window z-order sequence. After window 313 is minimized, window 313b The position of window 313 in the window z-order can be substituted.

In addition, the window properties of the windows 312b and 313b can be set to make the windows 312b and 313b invisible to the user, for example, the windows 312b and 313b will not appear in the taskbar or in the preview mode, and the user cannot For example, the user cannot operate the windows 312b and 313b by using the keyboard, mouse, shortcut keys, etc., and the windows 312b and 313b basically do not occupy system resources.

After the window 312b and the window 313b are inserted, a minimize operation is performed on the window 312 and the window 313, so as to reduce the system resources occupied by them and save the power consumption of the system.

Referring to (d) in FIG. 4 , after the window 312 and the window 313 are minimized, the window 312b and the window 313b are still in their original positions, so when the user performs the minimize or close operation on the window 314, the electronic device can display the GUI shown in (e) in 4.

Referring to (e) of FIG. 4 , a window 312 and a window 313 are displayed in the display area 311 of the electronic device, and the window 312 is located above the window 313 .

After the window 314 is closed or minimized, the electronic device needs to restore the minimized window 312 and window 313, then when restoring the window 312, insert the window 312 into the window 312b, and when restoring the window 313, insert the window 313 After or before the window 313b is inserted, the position of the window 312 and the window 313 in the z-order order of the window can be guaranteed to be the same as the order before the minimization, so as to avoid the problem of disordered z-order order when the minimized window is restored. .

Specifically, the electronic device can perform the above functions by invoking the system interface. For example, after calling the showwindow interface, the electronic device calls the setwindowpos interface to execute the above function.

It should be understood that, in practical applications, the window 312 may include multiple dependent windows, then when inserting the window 312b, inserting the window 312b after the window 312 means inserting the window 312b after the window 312 and its dependent windows, so as to avoid Other visual effects issues. The same operation is also performed for the window 313 .

It should be understood that in this example, two invisible windows are used as an example for description. In other examples, the number of invisible windows may be more, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

Based on the embodiment of the present application, by inserting an additional window A1 after the invisible window A, when the window A is minimized, the window A1 can replace the position of the window A in the window z-order sequence. When the window A needs to be restored, Window A is inserted after or before window A1, so that the position of window A in the z-order of windows can be guaranteed to be the same as the order before minimization.

In some cases, when the frontmost window in the window Z-order order disappears, such as minimized or closed, the system will find the next frontmost window in the window z-order order and set it as the focus window, but This operation is almost synchronized with the operation of minimizing restore, so it may cause the window z-order order to be out of order.

For example, the windows from top to bottom in the window z-order sequence are window A, window B, and window C, and window B partially blocks window C, window A completely blocks window B, and partially blocks window C, that is, window B is the smallest , then when window A is minimized or closed to make window B visible, when the system looks for the next focus window, since window B is performing the restore operation at this time, the system will most likely find window C as the focus window, and finally The result may be that window C precedes window B, which is uncomfortable for the user.

In view of this, the embodiments of the present application provide a method for displaying a window, which can avoid the occurrence of the above problems.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of another group of GUIs provided by an embodiment of the present application. Among them, the process of minimizing the invisible window and restoring the minimized window is shown from (a) to (d) in FIG. 5 .

5 (a), the display area 411 of the electronic device includes a window 412 and a window 413, wherein the window 412 is located above the window 413, that is, the focus window is the window 412, and the window 412 partially blocks the window 413. After the electronic device detects the user's operation of opening the window 414, the GUI as shown in (b) of FIG. 5 may be displayed.

5 (b), the user opens the window 414, and the window 414 completely blocks the window 412, and partially blocks the window 413, that is, the focus window of the display area 411 is 414, and the window 413 is partially visible.

Referring to (c) in FIG. 5, at this time, a window 415 can be created, and the window 415 can be set to be able to capture the request of the system to find the focus window, then insert the window 415 above the window 412, and then insert the window 415 412 performs minimization processing to save system resources.

For the window 415, by setting the parameters of the window 415, its coordinates can be located outside the display area 411, but the position of the window 415 in the window z-order sequence is above the window 412, so when the window 414 is the smallest After the system is created or closed, the focus window found by the system is window 415, not window 412. After the electronic device detects the user's operation of closing or minimizing the window 414, the GUI as shown in (d) of FIG. 5 may be displayed.

Referring to (d) in FIG. 5 , the GUI is a display area 411 of an electronic device, the display area 411 includes a window 412 and a window 413 , and the window 412 partially blocks the window 413 . That is, the position of the window 412 in the z-order of the windows is consistent with the order before the minimization, so that the disorder of the z-order of the windows can be avoided.

In some examples, when there are multiple fully occluded windows, only the window 415 needs to be inserted into the multiple occluded windows above the topmost window in the z-order sequence of the windows to achieve the above functions.

It should be understood that the window 415 in this embodiment of the present application is invisible to the user, for example, the window 415 does not appear in the task bar or in the preview mode, and the user cannot operate the window, for example, the user uses the keyboard, mouse, The window 415 cannot be operated by shortcut keys and the like, and the window 415 basically does not occupy system resources.

Based on the embodiments of the present application, when window A is completely blocked, a window B can be created, and the window B can be inserted on top of window A, and window A can be minimized. When window A needs to be restored, the system searches for the focus Window B will be found when the window is opened, and window A can be restored normally, avoiding the disorder of the z-order of the windows.

FIG. 6 is a schematic timing diagram of a window display provided by an embodiment of the present application, which may include steps 501 to 511 .

501, hijacking a message calling a system application programming interface (application programming interface, API) function.

For example, use a hook to monitor the message calling the system API. When an API is called, the hook can first obtain the message.

502, when the API is called, the API call message is sent to the system message monitoring module.

503. The system message monitoring module sends the API call message to the window monitoring module.

504, the window monitor sends the production event message to the flow control queue according to the API call message.

For example, the production event could be minimizing the window, moving the window, etc.

505, the flow control queue saves the latest received message.

It should be understood that there is only one location in the flow control queue for saving a production event message.

506. The flow control queue generates the window change event corresponding to the production event message to the window occlusion calculation module.

507. The window occlusion calculation module obtains snapshots of all current windows.

For example, get all windows in the z-order of desktop windows.

508. The window occlusion calculation module filters all windows.

The window calculation module can filter the windows obtained in step 507 to obtain all windows that the user can operate through the mouse or keyboard, and the windows correspond one-to-one with the windows opened in the task bar.

509. The window occlusion calculation module calculates the visible window or the invisible window.

Wherein, the window occlusion calculation module can determine all visible windows through the above-mentioned discretization algorithm and handle mark, etc., and determine invisible windows in combination with all windows obtained in step 508 .

510. The window occlusion calculation module generates a window.

Exemplarily, as shown in FIG. 4 , the window occlusion calculation module generates a window 312b and a window 313b.

Exemplarily, as shown in FIG. 5 , the window occlusion calculation module generates a window 415 .

511, the window occlusion calculation module sends the minimization instruction or the restoration instruction to the minimization scene and strategy module.

Exemplarily, as shown in FIG. 4 , the window occlusion calculation module sends a minimization instruction of the completely occluded window 312 to the minimization scene and strategy module. Or when the window 312 needs to be restored, the restoration instruction of the window 312 is sent to the minimized scene and strategy module.

512 , the minimization scenario and strategy module performs a minimization operation on the window according to the minimization instruction, or performs a restoration operation on the window according to the restoration instruction.

Exemplarily, as shown in FIG. 4 , the minimization scenario and strategy module performs a minimization operation on the window 312 according to the minimization instruction of the window 312 . Or when the window 312 needs to be restored, the restoration operation is performed on the window 312 according to the restoration instruction of the window 312 .

It should be understood that the embodiment of the present application does not limit the sequential execution order of the foregoing steps 501 to 512 , or several of the steps may be executed simultaneously, etc., which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

FIG. 7 is a schematic flowchart of a window display method provided by an embodiment of the present application. The method may include steps 601 to 604 .

610, the hook monitors the system window change message, and sends the message to the queue.

Among them, use the hook to monitor the window change message of the system itself, and when the hook arrives at the window change message, the message is sent to the queue.

620, the window change message enters the queue.

Among them, there is only one position in the queue, which is used to save a window change message. After each calculation is completed, the message in the queue is continued to be read. If there is a message in the queue, the calculation will continue, but the interval between the two calculations needs to be pre-planned. Set the duration, for example, the preset duration may be 30 milliseconds (millisecond, ms). This can avoid message stacking caused by processing too many messages at the same time.

630. Calculate the invisible window according to the window occlusion algorithm.

The detailed algorithm steps in this step 630 can refer to the related description in FIG. 8 .

640, Execute the policy.

The execution strategy module can execute corresponding strategies according to the result of the window occlusion algorithm, for example, minimize the invisible window, and perform the restoration operation on the minimized window when the minimized window needs to be restored.

FIG. 8 is a schematic flowchart of calculating invisible windows in FIG. 7 . The method may include steps 701 to 704 .

631, obtain snapshots of all windows.

For example, after obtaining the bottommost window in the z-order order of the desktop window, use a system interface such as getnextwindow to find all windows up in the z-order order of the window.

632. Filter the target window, which corresponds to the window in the task bar.

By setting a filter condition, all the windows obtained in step 631 can be filtered, so as to obtain a target window that can be displayed by the user through keyboard or mouse operations, and the target window corresponds one-to-one with the windows opened in the task bar.

633. Calculate the invisible window according to the window stacking and the positional relationship.

According to the window stacking order and the positional relationship of the windows, invisible windows can be calculated. For example, the discretization operation is performed on the window through the above-mentioned discretization algorithm, and the position of the discretized window is marked with a handle to determine all visible windows, and the invisible window is determined in combination with the target window obtained in step 632.

634, sending the final calculation result.

The result calculated in step 633 is sent to the execution strategy module. For example, the execution strategy module may be the minimization scenario and strategy module in step 512 above.

FIG. 9 is a schematic flowchart of a method for displaying a window provided by an embodiment of the present application. The method can be applied to an electronic device, and the method can include steps 710 to 770 .

710. The electronic device captures the first message of the window change.

The first message may be various messages of window change, for example, various system messages triggered by minimizing the window, maximizing the window, closing the window, moving the window, and the like.

720. The electronic device acquires, according to the first message, a first target window with a stacking sequence.

The first target window may be a plurality of windows, the plurality of windows have a certain stacking order, and the first target window may be a window that can be displayed on the desktop in response to a user's operation.

For example, the first target window may be multiple windows opened by the user, wherein some of the multiple windows are displayed on the desktop, and some of the windows are minimized, or some of the windows are on the desktop but are blocked by other windows, causing the user not visible etc.

730. The electronic device divides the display area of the desktop of the electronic device except the taskbar into multiple areas according to the vertex coordinates of the windows in the desktop.

Illustratively, referring to (b) in FIG. 1 , the electronic device divides the display area 211 into a plurality of areas according to the vertex coordinates of the window 212 , the window 213 and the window 214 in the desktop.

740. The electronic device uses the window handle to mark the multiple regions respectively, and each region in the multiple regions cannot be marked repeatedly.

It should be understood that a window handle corresponds to a window one-to-one, that is, for the same window, its window handle is the same.

Illustratively, referring to FIG. 3 , a plurality of regions are respectively marked using a window handle.

750. The electronic device determines a second target window visible to the user in the desktop according to the window handles of the multiple area markers.

It should be understood that since the window handles correspond to the windows one-to-one, after marking the above-mentioned multiple areas, it is only necessary to traverse all the window handles, and determine how many visible windows there are according to how many different window handles there are. and which window that visible window is.

Exemplarily, referring to FIG. 3 , a total of 4 different window handles are marked, it can be determined that there are 4 visible windows, one of which is a desktop window, then in addition to the desktop window, there are a total of 3 visible windows in the desktop that are visible to the user. window, that is, the second target window is the three visible windows.

760. The electronic device determines, according to the first target window and the second target window, a third target window that is invisible to the user.

Wherein, after determining the visible second target window, the electronic device can determine which windows are invisible, that is, the third target window, in combination with the first target window. The third target window may be one or multiple, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

770. The electronic device minimizes the third target window.

After determining the third target window invisible to the user, the electronic device minimizes the third target window to save system resources.

It should be understood that the present application does not limit the sequential execution order of the foregoing steps 710 to 770 , or that several of the steps may be executed simultaneously, etc., which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

Optionally, obtaining, by the electronic device, a first target window having a stacking order according to the first message, comprising: obtaining, by the electronic device, according to the first message, the most windows in the desktop in the stacking sequence of windows except the desktop window. the bottom window; the electronic device searches upwards from the bottommost window for all windows according to the stacking order of the windows in the desktop, and obtains the first target window, wherein the first target window is a response to the user's Operates the windows that can be displayed.

For example, referring to (a) in FIG. 1 , the window 212 , the window 213 , and the window 214 are in the order of window 213 , window 212 , and window 214 in the order of the window stacking sequence. Then the first target window is window 213 , window 212 , and window 214 .

It should be understood that the position of the desktop window in the window stacking order is the bottommost layer.

Optionally, the electronic device divides the display area of the desktop of the electronic device except for the taskbar into multiple areas according to the apex coordinates of the window in the desktop, including: the electronic device according to the apex of the window in the desktop. The coordinates in the first direction divide the length of the display area in the first direction into a plurality of parts; the electronic device divides the display area according to the coordinates of the vertices of the windows in the desktop in the second direction The length in the second direction is divided into a plurality of parts.

Exemplarily, referring to (b) in FIG. 1 , the first direction may be parallel to the direction of the rotation axis (or the horizontal axis direction) of the electronic device, and the electronic device is in the first direction according to the window 212 in the desktop, The coordinates of the vertices of the window 213 and the window 214 in the first direction divide the display area 211 into seven parts. The second direction may be a direction perpendicular to the rotation axis of the electronic device (or the longitudinal axis direction), and the electronic device is in the second direction, according to the vertices of the window 212, the window 213 and the window 214 in the desktop in the second direction If the display area 211 is divided into 6 parts, the entire display area 211 is divided into 42 areas.

Optionally, the electronic device uses the window handle to mark the multiple areas respectively, including: the electronic device starts from the topmost window according to the stacking order of the windows in the desktop, and uses the window handle to go to the topmost window in sequence. mark down.

According to the stacking order of the windows in the desktop, the electronic device starts from the topmost window and uses the window handle to mark it downwards. For example, referring to FIG. The window handle marks it. For example, if its window handle is 1, the six areas where the window 213 is located are marked as 1. Then, the window 212 and the window 214 located after the window 213 are marked respectively, and each area cannot be marked repeatedly until all areas are marked.

Optionally, before the electronic device acquires a first target window with a stacking order according to the first message, the method further includes: the electronic device saves the first message in a first queue, and the The first queue keeps one message at a time; the electronic device reads the first message from the first queue.

For example, the first queue may be the flow control queue module in the above embodiment.

Optionally, an interval at which the electronic device reads the first message from the first queue is greater than or equal to a first preset duration.

For example, the first preset duration may be 30ms.

Optionally, the third target window includes a first window and a second window, and the first window partially blocks the second window, the second target window includes a third window, and the electronic device will Before the third target window is minimized, the method further includes: inserting, by the electronic device, a fourth window after the first window; inserting, by the electronic device, a fifth window after the second window; wherein, The fourth window and the fifth window are invisible to the user.

Exemplarily, referring to (a) to (c) of FIG. 4 , the third target window includes a first window and a second window, for example, the first window may be the window 312, the second window may be the window 313, the The third window included in the second target window may be the window 314, the fourth window may be the window 312b, and the fifth window may be the window 313b.

Wherein, the position and size of the fourth window on the desktop can be the same as or different from the first window; the position and size of the fifth window on the desktop can be the same as or different from the first window.

It should be understood that by setting the window properties of the fourth window and the fifth window, the fourth window and the fifth window can be made invisible to the user, for example, the fourth window and the fifth window will not appear in the task bar or in the preview mode. Window, and the user cannot operate the window, for example, the user cannot operate the fourth window and the fifth window using the keyboard, mouse, shortcut keys, etc., and the fourth window and the fifth window basically do not occupy system resources.

Optionally, the method further includes: in response to a user's first operation, after the electronic device inserts the first window into the fourth window, inserting the second window into the fifth window Afterwards; the electronic device displays a first interface, where the first interface includes the first window and the second window, wherein the first window partially blocks the second window.

The first operation may be an operation of the user to minimize the third window, close the third window or move the third window, so that the first window and the second window are visible to the user, then the electronic device needs to use the first window and the second window Restore from minimization.

Exemplarily, referring to FIG. 4 , the first interface may be the display interface of the electronic device in (e) of FIG. 4 , after the third window 314 is minimized or closed, the first window 312 is displayed on the desktop of the electronic device. and the second window 313, and the first window 312 partially blocks the second window 313, that is, the restored positions of the first window and the second window are the same as before the minimization.

Optionally, the third target window includes a first window, the second target window includes a second window and a third window, and the third window partially blocks the second window and the first window. Blocking the second window, before the electronic device minimizes the third target window, the method further includes: the electronic device creating a sixth window, the sixth window being located before the first window ; wherein, the vertex coordinates of the sixth window are located outside the desktop of the electronic device.

5, the first window in the third target window may be the window 412, the second window in the second target window may be the window 413, and the second window in the second target window may be the window 413. 414. The sixth window may be the window 415, and the vertex coordinates of the window 415 are located outside the desktop of the electronic device, that is, the window 415 will not be displayed on the desktop, but the position of the window 415 in the window stacking sequence is located in the first window, that is, the window 415 is not displayed on the desktop. before window 412.

Optionally, the method further includes: in response to a second operation of the user, the electronic device displays a second interface, the second interface includes the first window and the second window, wherein the first window A window partially blocks the second window.

The second operation may be an operation performed by the user to minimize the third window, close the third window, or move the third window, so that the first window is visible to the user.

For example, referring to FIG. 5 , the second interface may be the display interface of the electronic device in (d) of FIG. 5 . After the third window 414 is closed or minimized, the first window 412 and the second window 413 are displayed on the desktop of the electronic device, and the first window 412 partially blocks the second window 413, that is, the position of the first window is the same as before the minimized window. identical.

Embodiments of the present application further provide an electronic device, including one or more processors; one or more memories; the one or more memories stores one or more computer programs, and the one or more computer programs include instructions, When the instructions are executed by one or more processors, the method of causing a window to be displayed as described in any of the possible implementations above is performed.

An embodiment of the present application further provides a chip, where the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, where the communication interface is configured to receive a signal and transmit the signal to the processor, and the processor processes the signal, The method for causing the window to be displayed as described in any of the foregoing possible implementation manners is executed.

This embodiment also provides a computer-readable storage medium, where computer instructions are stored in the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer instructions are executed on the electronic device, the electronic device executes the above-mentioned related method steps to realize the above-mentioned embodiments. method of window display.

This embodiment also provides a computer program product, which, when the computer program product runs on a computer, causes the computer to execute the above-mentioned relevant steps, so as to realize the method for displaying a window in the above-mentioned embodiment.

In addition, the embodiments of the present application also provide an apparatus, which may specifically be a chip, a component or a module, and the apparatus may include a connected processor and a memory; wherein, the memory is used for storing computer execution instructions, and when the apparatus is running, The processor can execute the computer-executed instructions stored in the memory, so that the chip executes the method for displaying a window in the foregoing method embodiments.

Wherein, the electronic device, computer-readable storage medium, computer program product or chip provided in this embodiment are all used to execute the corresponding method provided above. Therefore, for the beneficial effects that can be achieved, reference may be made to the above-provided method. The beneficial effects in the corresponding method will not be repeated here.

Those of ordinary skill in the art can realize that the units and algorithm steps of each example described in conjunction with the embodiments disclosed herein can be implemented in electronic hardware, or a combination of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether these functions are performed in hardware or software depends on the specific application and design constraints of the technical solution. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality using different methods for each particular application, but such implementations should not be considered beyond the scope of this application.

Those skilled in the art can clearly understand that, for the convenience and brevity of description, the specific working process of the above-described systems, devices and units may refer to the corresponding processes in the foregoing method embodiments, which will not be repeated here.

In the several embodiments provided in this application, it should be understood that the disclosed system, apparatus and method may be implemented in other manners. For example, the apparatus embodiments described above are only illustrative. For example, the division of the units is only a logical function division. In actual implementation, there may be other division methods. For example, multiple units or components may be combined or Can be integrated into another system, or some features can be ignored, or not implemented. On the other hand, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be through some interfaces, indirect coupling or communication connection of devices or units, and may be in electrical, mechanical or other forms.

The units described as separate components may or may not be physically separated, and components displayed as units may or may not be physical units, that is, may be located in one place, or may be distributed to multiple network units. Some or all of the units may be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution in this embodiment.

In addition, each functional unit in each embodiment of the present application may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may exist physically alone, or two or more units may be integrated into one unit.

The functions, if implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as independent products, may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. Based on this understanding, the technical solution of the present application can be embodied in the form of a software product in essence, or the part that contributes to the prior art or the part of the technical solution. The computer software product is stored in a storage medium, including Several instructions are used to cause a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) to execute all or part of the steps of the methods described in the various embodiments of the present application. The aforementioned storage medium includes: U disk, mobile hard disk, read-only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), magnetic disk or optical disk and other media that can store program codes .

The above are only specific embodiments of the present application, but the protection scope of the present application is not limited to this. should be covered within the scope of protection of this application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present application shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

A method for window display, characterized in that the method is applied to an electronic device, and the method includes:

the electronic device captures the first message of the window change;

The electronic device acquires, according to the first message, a first target window with a stacking order;

The electronic device divides the display area of the desktop of the electronic device except the taskbar into multiple areas according to the vertex coordinates of the window in the desktop;

The electronic device uses the window handle to mark the multiple areas respectively, and each area in the multiple areas cannot be repeatedly marked;

The electronic device determines a second target window visible to the user in the desktop according to the window handles marked by the multiple regions;

The electronic device determines a third target window invisible to the user according to the first target window and the second target window;

The electronic device minimizes the third target window.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the electronic device obtains, according to the first message, a first target window with a stacking order, comprising:

The electronic device obtains, according to the first message, the bottommost window except the desktop window in the stacking sequence of the windows in the desktop;

The electronic device searches upwards from the bottommost window for all windows according to the stacking order of the windows in the desktop, and obtains the first target window, wherein the first target window is displayable in response to a user's operation window.
The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the electronic device divides the display area of the desktop of the electronic device except the taskbar into multiple areas according to the vertex coordinates of the windows in the desktop, including:

The electronic device divides the length of the display area in the first direction into a plurality of parts according to the coordinates of the vertices of the window in the desktop in the first direction;

The electronic device divides the length of the display area in the second direction into a plurality of parts according to the coordinates of the vertices of the window in the desktop in the second direction.
The method according to any one of claims 1-3, wherein the electronic device uses a window handle to mark the multiple regions respectively, comprising:

The electronic device starts from the topmost window according to the stacking order of the windows in the desktop, and uses the window handle to mark down in sequence.
The method according to any one of claims 1-4, wherein before the electronic device acquires the first target window with a stacking order according to the first message, the method further comprises:

The electronic device saves the first message in a first queue, and the first queue retains one message at a time;

The electronic device reads the first message from the first queue.
The method according to claim 5, wherein an interval at which the electronic device reads the first message from the first queue is greater than or equal to a first preset duration.
The method according to any one of claims 1-6, wherein the third target window comprises a first window and a second window, and the first window partially blocks the second window, the The second target window includes a third window, and before the electronic device minimizes the third target window, the method further includes:

the electronic device inserts a fourth window after the first window;

the electronic device inserts a fifth window after the second window;

Wherein, the fourth window and the fifth window are invisible to the user.
The method according to claim 7, wherein the method further comprises:

In response to the user's first operation, the electronic device inserts the first window after the fourth window, and inserts the second window after the fifth window;

The electronic device displays a first interface, the first interface includes the first window and the second window, wherein the first window partially blocks the second window.
The method according to any one of claims 1-6, wherein the third target window comprises a first window, the second target window comprises a second window and a third window, and the third The window partially blocks the second window, the first window partially blocks the second window, and before the electronic device minimizes the third target window, the method further includes:

the electronic device creates a sixth window, the sixth window is located before the first window;

Wherein, the vertex coordinates of the sixth window are located outside the desktop of the electronic device.
The method according to claim 9, wherein the method further comprises:

In response to the user's second operation, the electronic device displays a second interface, the second interface includes the first window and the second window, wherein the first window partially blocks the second window.
An electronic device, characterized in that it includes one or more processors; one or more memories; the one or more memories stores one or more computer programs, the one or more computer programs include instructions, when the one or more memories are stored The instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the method of window display of any of claims 1-10 to be performed.
A chip, characterized in that the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is used to receive a signal, and transmit the signal to the processor, and the processor processes the signal, such as The method of window display of any one of claims 1-10 is performed.
A computer-readable storage medium, wherein computer instructions are stored in the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer instructions are executed on a computer, the computer instructions according to any one of claims 1 to 10 are implemented. The window display method is executed.