JPH08249155A - Menu screen control method - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Object] An object of the present invention is to provide a menu screen for selecting cataloged contents in a book format that is easy for end users to familiarize with, and to provide an environment in which analysis can be performed with an image of opening a book. [Structure] In the present invention, a menu screen of files managed in a hierarchical relationship is in a book format, and a sticky note (tag) is provided on the left side of the book
The tag titles 33 to 37 can be set with the image of sticking. This tag title is the first level of the menu,
A second-level menu icon 3 in the tagged page
Display at 8. When any one of the tag titles 33 to 38 is selected (clicked) with the mouse cursor, an image for opening the page is displayed, and the page is set to the title, and the desired icon 38 is selected.

Description

Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method of controlling a menu screen, and more particularly to displaying / selecting a menu screen for efficiently specifying files managed in a hierarchical structure. Regarding the method. A conventional method of controlling a menu screen of a file managed in a hierarchical structure is disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 62-49.
The technique described in Japanese Patent No. 538 is known. As shown in FIG. 6, this displays a window 61 for displaying the contents of the first level (upper level) of the hierarchical structure on the display screen 60 on the display device. In this window 61, the contents 62 and 63 of the menu (directory or file) included in this level are displayed. Here, when the operator selects the menu 62, the menu 62
A new window 64 showing the contents of is displayed. In this window 64, menus 65 and 66 included in this second level are displayed. At this time, the window 64 is displayed so as to be superimposed on the window 61. [0003] The above prior art is the first
The menu of the next layer to the menu selected in the level is displayed in a new window so that when the window 64 is opened, the selected menu 62 is hidden (not shown). Open window 6
There was a problem that it became impossible to know which menu of the first level 4 was selected. The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and it is an object of the present invention to improve the operability for the end user and provide a screen of a visual image that the end user easily blends into the product. In the present invention, in order to achieve the above object, a user menu is displayed in a book format, and a sticky note can be set as a "tag title" on the left side of the book. . This sticky note corresponds to the first level menus 62 and 63 in FIG. In addition, when the tag title is clicked, an image that opens the page with that title is animated, and the second level menu is displayed as an icon in the opened page. This icon corresponds to the menus 65 and 66 in FIG. According to the present invention, the user menu is first displayed in a book format, and the user can freely add or delete the menu in this book. Next, a sticky note can be set as a "tag title" on the left side of the book, and the user can freely enter a title in the tag title. This tag title realizes hierarchical display of analysis menus with good operability. Then, by clicking with the mouse on the set tag title, an image that opens the page with that title can be displayed as an animation. Also, a menu can be set by a graphic icon for each opened page. As described above, it is possible to realize a user menu with improved end-user oriented visual image and operability. Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a hardware configuration diagram for realizing the present embodiment, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation thereof, FIGS. 3 to 5 are diagrams showing a display screen when the present invention is carried out, and FIG. It is a figure which shows a menu display. In FIG. 1, the processing device 1 is a computer including a CPU, and may be a workstation, a personal computer, or any type thereof. The display device 2 visually displays information such as a CRT display and a liquid crystal display. The input device 3 is means for inputting information such as a keyboard and a touch panel, and is further connected to the mouse 4.
The output device 5 is for outputting information of a printer or the like on paper. The storage device 7 is for storing information, and is an external storage device such as a hard disk or a floppy disk. Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. First, when the system of the present embodiment is started up and the "user menu" is clicked from the initial screen (not shown) with the mouse, the user menu screen initial display process is executed and the first page screen is displayed (step 21).
At this point, the title name and the menu icon and menu icon name belonging to the tag title are downloaded from the storage device 7 to the processing device 1. These menus, icons, etc. are registered in the processing apparatus 1 in advance by the operator, and the type and the number are arbitrary. An example of displaying this menu is shown in FIG. FIG. 3 shows what is displayed on the display device 2.
A window 31 is provided on a part or the whole of the display screen of the display device.
Is displayed. This window is one of the windows displayed by a known multi-window operating system. The book 32 is displayed in a stereoscopic image in the window 31. Tag titles 33 to 37, which mean sticky notes, are the contents of the first-level menu, and in FIG. 3, the page of “preliminary calculation” is opened, and the subordinate menus are displayed in the icon format. Specifically, the icon 38 and the menu name 3 corresponding to the icon
9 is displayed. From this state, transition to the tag title screen of the next page is performed. The operator then specifies the first level of the menu. This designation is performed by designating any one of the tag titles 33 to 37 and the icon 38 with the mouse cursor 40 (positioning the mouse cursor to a desired one and clicking the left button of the mouse).
The processing device 1 recognizes whether or not the menu screen is clicked and determines the click position (step 2).
2). If it is the tag title that was clicked (step 23), a menu page of the specified tag title is displayed as a moving image (step 24), and the menu screen of the specified tag title is displayed (step 2).
5). How to turn this page will be described with reference to FIG. When the tag title 34 "product" is selected by the mouse cursor 40 as shown in FIG. 3, an animation is displayed so that the "preliminary calculation" page located above this product is turned. This is displayed so that the page 41 is flipped from left to right (in the image of turning the pages of an actual book) like the one-screen image during the moving image processing shown in FIG. 4, and as a result, it is flipped as shown in FIG. Display the tag titles belonging to the specified page on the right side of the book. Here, the tag “preliminary calculation” 33 has been moved to the right page. In this way, a tag is attached to the actual page, and when the page is turned, the image itself that moves together with the tag is displayed in the window 31 of the display device. By doing this, the tag title 34 located on the left side
It is possible to judge at a glance that the menu contents of the tag title 34 at the top among the items 37 to 37 are currently displayed, and the icon 51 of the menu contents and the menu name 52 are displayed on the page. Next, when the icon 51 is clicked (step 26), the application having the menu name 52 is activated. If the clicked position is neither the tag title nor the icon, it is determined whether or not this process ends, and if not, the process returns to step 21 (step 27). Tag title 3 displayed on the right page of FIG.
It goes without saying that if 3 is clicked, the page is turned from right to left as in step 24. Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited to the contents of the embodiments and various applications and modifications can be made without departing from the scope thereof. For example, when the second level menu indicated by the icon 38 is selected and the menu has the third level menu, the second level menu is referred to as the tag titles 33 to 3.
The present invention can be applied to a multi-level menu by rearranging the menu at position 7 and displaying the third level menu on the page. Further, if the tag titles are colored and the colors are sorted according to the colors so that the positions of the tags can be rearranged, the tags can be easily classified. According to the present invention, the following effects can be expected. (1) The user menu is converted into a book format, and the animation display in which the page is opened by clicking the tag title is supported, thereby improving the visual image required for end-user-oriented products. (2) A tag title is added to the book format, and the concept of pages is adopted to realize hierarchical display of analysis menus with good operability.

[Brief description of drawings] FIG. 1 is a hardware configuration diagram for implementing this embodiment. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a flowchart of the operation of this embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an image of an initial display screen. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a screen image during video processing. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a screen image after the page break ending process. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a conventional menu display. [Brief description of reference numerals] 31 windows 32 books 33-37 Tag Title 38 icons 39 Menu name

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Naoko Tasaka             12 890 Kashimada, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture             Information Systems Division, Hitachi, Ltd. (72) Inventor Minoru Oyamada             12 890 Kashimada, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture             Information Systems Division, Hitachi, Ltd.

Claims (1)

Claims: In a menu screen control method for a display device that handles data managed in a hierarchical structure, a menu selection screen is displayed as a book image, and higher level data is displayed as a sticky note attached to the book. The lower level data corresponding to the sticky note is displayed in an icon format on the page to which the sticky note is attached, and when the menu is designated, the image is displayed by turning the page to the page of the sticky note selected by the instruction means. A method for controlling a menu screen, characterized by executing the processing of a selected icon after turning over a page.