JPH11272401A - Mouse cursor control method and recording medium storing program for implementing the method - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Problem] A user judges the number of mouse clicks visually or audibly by changing a display state of a mouse cursor or an output state of a voice according to the number of times a mouse button is continuously clicked. Mouse cursor control method made possible. A mouse cursor control unit detects a number of mouse clicks based on detection of a click of a mouse button from a mouse operation information acquisition unit, determination time information, and information of a timer, and a mouse cursor. According to the display information of the mouse cursor corresponding to the number of mouse clicks stored in the control information 5 in advance, and the sound information such as the pitch, the display of the mouse cursor and the sound output are controlled by the number of clicks.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a mouse cursor control method and, more particularly, to a mouse cursor control method which enables a user to recognize the number of continuous clicks of a mouse button in an information processing apparatus using a mouse. About.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional information processing apparatus using a mouse on a computer such as a window system changes a display state of a mouse cursor according to a type of an object pointed by the mouse cursor, a position in a window, and an execution state of an application program. Generally, the configuration is changed so that the user can recognize the type of operation that can be processed with the mouse and the execution state of the application program.

As another conventional technique, there is known a technique in which an application program associated with an object is started by designating the object with a mouse and double-clicking the object. Further, as another conventional technique, a technique of outputting a sound indicating that the mouse button has been clicked when the mouse button is clicked is also known.

On the other hand, as a conventional technique relating to a mouse operation environment, for example, a technique described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 04-360223 is known. This prior art relates to a pointing device operation environment setting method capable of easily setting a mouse operation environment suitable for a user, and includes an event of a mouse moving distance, a click length, and a double click interval. An event determination unit to receive, a timer for measuring the time of the event, a control unit for setting an operation environment from the time interval between the events, and an environment storage unit for storing the set values are provided, and the mouse is operated according to the display of the dialog box. By operating, a mouse operation environment is set from the event information.

[0005]

The prior art described above is
For example, if a beginner unfamiliar with mouse operation double-clicks an object on the PC screen, it is determined whether a double-click is actually detected on the PC side.
Since the operator cannot visually or auditory judge, the operability is impaired, such as double-clicking on this object again, even though the computer actually detects the double-click. have.

[0006] On the other hand, in the above-described prior art, contrary to the above operation, when a beginner who is not used to mouse operation tries to double-click on the screen of the personal computer, the timing of clicking the mouse is late. When a double click cannot be detected on the personal computer side, there is also a problem that the operator does not notice this and continues to wait for the application program to be started.

That is, according to the above-described prior art, it is difficult for the operator to visually or audibly judge that the mouse button has been double-clicked, so that it is difficult for the operator to continue proper operation. There is a problem that is.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and to change the display state of a mouse cursor and the output state of a voice according to the number of times a mouse button is continuously clicked, thereby enabling a user to change the display state. It is an object of the present invention to provide a mouse cursor control method in which the number of mouse clicks can be visually or auditorily determined and a recording medium storing a program for realizing the method.

[0009]

According to the present invention, an object of the present invention is to provide an information processing apparatus using a mouse, or a method of using a mouse to position a cursor near an object displayed on a screen. In a mouse cursor control method in an information processing device which performs a series of processes associated with the object by clicking a button, when a mouse button is clicked, a display state of the mouse cursor is changed according to the number of clicks. It is achieved by doing.

[0010] Further, the object is to start measuring the elapsed time when the mouse button is clicked, and to increase the number of mouse clicks when a click of the next mouse button is detected within a predetermined time. Judge and
This is achieved by changing the display state of the mouse cursor according to the number of clicks of the mouse button.

The object of the present invention is to change the display state of the mouse cursor by displaying the number of clicks near the mouse cursor, by changing the shape or color of the mouse cursor itself, or It is achieved by performing in combination.

Further, the object is to change the sound output state in accordance with the number of clicks when a mouse button is clicked, and to change the sound output state in addition to changing the mouse cursor display state. Is achieved by changing

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, an embodiment of a mouse cursor control method according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, by using a mouse to position a cursor near an object displayed on a screen and clicking a button of the mouse,
The present invention is suitably applied to an information processing device that performs a series of processes associated with the object.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of a system for implementing a mouse cursor control method according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining mouse cursor control information.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a processing operation according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, 1 is a mouse device, 2 is a mouse operation information acquisition unit, 3 is continuous click determination time information, 4 is a timer, 5 is mouse cursor control information, 6 is a mouse cursor control unit, and 7 is a continuous click count storage area. ,
8 is a screen display control unit, 9 is an audio output control unit, 10 is a terminal screen display unit, and 11 is an audio output device.

A system for implementing the method according to the embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 1 includes a mouse device 1, a mouse operation information acquisition unit 2, continuous click determination time information 3, and a timer 4.
Mouse cursor control information 5, mouse cursor control unit 6, continuous click count storage area 7, screen display control unit 8, audio output control unit 9, terminal screen display unit 10,
The mouse cursor controller 6 controls the entire mouse cursor control method according to the present invention.

In the system shown in FIG. 1, the mouse operation information acquisition section 2 receives operation information of the mouse device 1 and
The mouse cursor position information and the mouse button click information are passed to the mouse cursor control unit 6. The continuous click determination time information 3 is a value for determining that the mouse button has been continuously clicked when the time interval between successive mouse button clicks is within this time. The timer 4 is a timer for measuring an elapsed time from the previous click of the mouse button, and the start and stop of the timer 4 are controlled by the mouse cursor control unit 6 according to the click state of the mouse button.

The mouse cursor control information 5 includes mouse cursor display information passed by the mouse cursor control unit 6 to the screen display control unit 8 and audio data by the mouse cursor control unit 6 according to the value stored in the continuous click count storage area 7. This is audio output information to be passed to the output control unit 9, and is registered in advance. The mouse cursor control unit 6 calculates the value of the continuous click count storage area 7 based on the click information of the mouse button received from the mouse operation information acquisition unit 2 and the comparison result between the time measured by the timer 4 and the continuous click determination time information 3. Is updated, the mouse cursor display information is passed to the screen display control unit 8, and the voice output information is passed to the voice output control unit 9 according to the values of the mouse cursor control information 5 and the continuous click count storage area 7.

The screen display control unit 8 displays a mouse cursor on the terminal screen display unit 10 according to the mouse cursor display information passed from the mouse cursor control unit 6. Also,
The audio output control unit 9 outputs audio to the audio output device 11 according to the audio output information passed from the mouse cursor control unit 6.

The above-mentioned mouse cursor control information 5 is composed of display information for determining the display image and display color of the mouse cursor to be displayed, corresponding to the number of successive clicks of the mouse button, and audio information such as pitch. FIG. 2 shows an example of the control information. In the example shown in FIG. 2, when the number of consecutive clicks of the mouse button is “0”, a normal cursor is displayed in white, a 500 Hz sound is output, and when the number of consecutive clicks of the mouse button is “1”, the cursor is close to the cursor. Is set to display a numerical value 1 and display them in blue, and to output a sound of 700 Hz. In addition, the number of consecutive mouse button clicks “2”
In this case, it is set that a numerical value 2 is displayed near the cursor, these are displayed in blue, and a 1000 Hz sound is output.

The mouse cursor control information in the present invention does not need to be limited to the information shown in FIG. 2, but includes a display image of the mouse cursor itself, an image displaying the number of clicks near the mouse cursor, and a display of the mouse cursor. The display color of the image, the display color of the image displayed near the mouse cursor, the name of a file storing the display information of the mouse cursor, and the like may be used. Further, the sound output information may be a sound length, a sound intensity, a pitch, the number of times of sounding, an utterance content, a sound obtained by combining a plurality of sounds, a name of a file storing sound information, and the like. .

Next, the operation of the mouse cursor control according to one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. The processing described with reference to FIG. 3 can be executed by a program.
M, a storage medium such as a floppy disk, and the like, which are installed in a computer, can execute each processing. (1) First, the value of the continuous click frequency storage area 7 is set to “0”.
And the information corresponding to the current number of continuous clicks, in this case, “0”, is obtained from the mouse cursor control information 5 (steps 101 and 102). (2) The mouse cursor is obtained according to the mouse cursor control information obtained in step 102. Is displayed and audio is output. Here, since the mouse has not been clicked yet, a normal cursor corresponding to the number of continuous mouse button clicks “0” is displayed in white, and a sound of 500 Hz is output (steps 103 and 104).

(3) The click state of the mouse button is acquired, and it is checked whether the mouse button has been clicked (steps 105 and 106).

(4) If the mouse button is clicked in the check in step 106, the timer 4 is started, the value of the continuous click count storage area 7 is incremented by 1, and mouse cursor display information is obtained. Returning to the processing from 102, the processing is continued. At this time, even if the timer 4 has already been started and the timer is being counted, the timer 4 is controlled to start counting again from the beginning (step 10).
7, 108).

(5) If the mouse button is not clicked in step 106, the current timer time is compared with the continuous click determination time. If the timer time is less than the continuous click determination time, a mouse click is performed. The process returns to the process from step 105 for acquiring the state and continues (step 109).

(6) In the comparison processing in step 109, when the timer time exceeds the continuous click determination time,
The timer 4 is stopped, and the process returns to step 101 for initializing the number of continuous clicks, and the process is continued (step 110).

According to the embodiment of the present invention described above, the display state of the mouse cursor can be changed and the audio output state can be changed according to the number of successive clicks of the mouse button. It is possible to easily recognize the number of consecutive clicks, and it is easy to grasp the timing when the mouse button is continuously clicked, such as a double click.

Although the above-described embodiment of the present invention has been described as changing the form and sound of the mouse cursor according to the number of clicks of the mouse button, the present invention changes the form of the mouse cursor and changes the sound. May be used alone.

[0029]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible for the user to easily recognize the number of times the mouse button is continuously clicked. To make it easier to grasp the timing when clicking.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a system that implements a mouse cursor control method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating mouse cursor control information.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a processing operation according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 mouse device 2 mouse operation information acquisition unit 3 continuous click determination time information 4 timer 5 mouse cursor control information 6 mouse cursor control unit 7 continuous click count storage area 8 screen display control unit 9 audio output control unit 10 terminal screen display unit 11 audio Output device

Claims (9)

[Claims] 1. A mouse cursor control method in an information processing apparatus using a mouse, wherein when a mouse button is clicked, the display state of the mouse cursor is changed according to the number of clicks. . 2. An information processing apparatus for performing a series of processes associated with an object by positioning a cursor near an object displayed on a screen using a mouse and clicking a button of the mouse. In the mouse cursor control device, the maximum number of successive clicks of the mouse button for performing the series of processes is set as an upper limit, and the mouse cursor is controlled according to the number of clicks of the mouse button within the upper limit number of times. A mouse cursor control method characterized by changing a display state of a mouse cursor. 3. An information processing apparatus for performing a series of processes associated with an object by positioning a cursor near an object displayed on a screen using a mouse and clicking a button of the mouse. In the mouse cursor control device, the measurement of the elapsed time starts when the mouse button is clicked,
A mouse that, when a click of the next mouse button is detected within a predetermined time, determines that the number of mouse clicks has increased, and changes the display state of the mouse cursor according to the number of clicks of the mouse button. Cursor control method. 4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the change of the mouse cursor display state is performed by:
4. The mouse cursor control method according to claim 1, wherein the number of clicks is displayed near the mouse cursor. 5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the change of the mouse cursor display state is performed by:
4. The mouse cursor control method according to claim 1, wherein the mouse cursor control method is performed by changing a shape or a color of the mouse cursor itself or a combination thereof. 6. The mouse cursor control method according to claim 1, wherein a sound output state is changed in addition to the mouse cursor display state. 7. A mouse cursor control method in an information processing apparatus using a mouse, wherein, when a mouse button is clicked, a sound output state is changed according to the number of clicks. 8. An information processing apparatus for performing a series of processes associated with an object by positioning a cursor near an object displayed on a screen using a mouse and clicking a button of the mouse. In the mouse cursor control device, the maximum number of successive clicks of the mouse button for performing the series of processes is set as an upper limit, and a sound is output according to the number of clicks of the mouse button within the upper limit number of times. A mouse cursor control method characterized by changing a state. 9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the number of clicks of the mouse button is counted, and the display state of the mouse cursor is changed or the output state of the sound is changed according to the counting result.
9. A recording medium storing a program for realizing the mouse cursor control method according to any one of items 8 to 8.