JPS6211927A - Cursor menu controller - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain the shift of a display area for selection items to an optional position by securing such a system where the form of a cursor is changed into the displays of plural selection items after selection of an icon and selects an optional item indicated by a cursor. CONSTITUTION:A menu controller 18 gives a command to a pointing device controller 13 to receive the state of an additional switch. A cursor controller 17 gives a command to the controller 18 to display the menu data held by a designated icon as long as a main switch is pushed and the state of the switch corresponds to the position information on the icon. Then, the controller 17 extracts the menu data out of an icon data controller 14 and changes the form of the cursor into the one where the menu data is defined as a selection item. An analyzer 16 for additional switch of pointing device sends the pushing frequency of a secondary switch back to the controller 18 when the main switch is pushed. Using this data on the pushing frequency, the controller 18 decides the selected menu item.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of Industrial Application The present invention is directed to calculation 1i881 in which functions are displayed and selected using icons, and when one icon is selected, the cursor shape changes to display a plurality of selection items. This invention relates to a cursor menu control device that performs a control operation to select an arbitrary item from among the selection items displayed by the cursor.

BACKGROUND ART FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a conventional computer device, where 1 indicates A, L
, , U, , 2 is memory, 3 is display memory, 4 is CRT
A device 5 generates a video signal from the contents of the display memory 3;
A display management device for displaying on the RT device 4; 6 a pointing device management device that controls the pointing device and manages data input; 7 a A, L, Ll, l memory 2, a display management device 5, and a pointing device management device; This is a management device that controls the operations of 6.

The operation of the icon control of the conventional metering device configured as described above will be explained below.

First, the management device 7 sends the display data of the icon to be displayed from the memory 2 to the display memory 3, and sends it to the display control device 5.
Display the blank 1 on the CRT device 4[- using .

At the same time, the position of the icon display area displayed on the display menu 3F is memorized. In many cases, the number of icons displayed is multiple.

Next, the management device 7 inputs, from the pointing device management device 6, information on the position of the cursor of the CRT device 4F, which moves according to the movement of the pointing device, when the switch belonging to the pointing device I-1 group is pressed.

If the input cursor position Bt is within the icon display area of any of the first stored icons, the menu item corresponding to that icon is displayed on that icon -]-.

Next, control S! ii Placement 7 is pointing device system m
+ device 6 is used to detect the position at which the attached switch of the pointing device is clicked on the displayed menu item and executes the function of the menu item corresponding to that position.

Problems that the invention attempts to solve However, in the configuration as described in 2 above, when selecting a menu item, the menu item is displayed on the selected icon, so the content of the screen below the display area of the menu item is The problem was that it was impossible to see.

In view of this point, the present invention has been developed to provide a cursor shape in which when one icon is selected, the shape of the cursor changes to display multiple selection items, and an arbitrary item can be selected from among the displayed selection items. The object of the present invention is to provide a cursor menu management device that controls display and menu selection.

Means for Solving the Problems The cursor menu management device according to the present invention includes a pointing device management device that manages information from a pointing device, the function of each icon, the position on the screen, the shape of the icon, and the pointing device management device that manages information from the pointing device. An icon data management device that stores and manages menu data to be displayed when the icon is selected, an icon display management device that displays the icon on the screen, and a pointing device management device.
In particular, there is a switch analysis device attached to a pointing device that generates menu selection information using information about switch operation, and an icon data management device that controls the display of the cursor and displays the contents of the menu data managed by the icon data management device when an icon is selected. A cursor management device that displays as a shape, a pointing device management device, an icon data management device, an icon display management device, a switch analysis device attached to a pointing device, and a cursor management device! The present invention is characterized by comprising a menu management device that controls and manages icon selection operations and menu selection operations.

Effect 41 The present invention has the above-described configuration, so that the menu management device receives information (
(including location information) from the pointing device management device, the icon data management device is used to check whether the corresponding icon exists -4, and if it exists, the icon data management device is used to retrieve the menu of that icon. , transform the shape of the cursor into a menu item using a cursor management device.

Next, the menu management device selects a menu item based on the operation of the switch using a switch analysis device attached to a pointing device. Since the menu item is essentially a cursor, the display area of the selected item can be moved to a desired position by a cursor movement operation, and the area covered by the menu item display area can also be easily seen. can.

Embodiment FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a cursor menu management device in an embodiment of the present invention. In Figure 1, 8 is A
, L, LJ, , 9 is memory, 10 is display memory, 11
12 is a CRT device; 12 is a display control H1i& which generates a video signal from the contents of the display memory 10 and displays it on the CR1-device fi11; 13 is a pointing device management device that controls the pointing device and manages data input; and 14 is a pointing device management device. An icon data management device that manages the functions of each icon, its position on the screen, the shape information of the icon, the number of menus, and the menu data displayed when an icon is selected; 15 is an icon data tube]! l! An icon display management device 16 displays icons on the screen using the icon data managed by the pointing device management device 14, and an icon display management device 16 retrieves switch operation information from the pointing device management device 13 and provides information for menu item selection. The analyzer 17 of the switch attached to the pointing device to be created controls the shape of the cursor υj (), and when an icon is selected, changes the shape of the cursor to a menu selection item based on the menu data managed () by the icon data management device 14. Controls the cursor management device to be changed, the pointing device management device 13, the icon data management device 14, the icon display management device 15, the pointing device attached switch analysis device 16, and the cursor management device 17,
A menu management device that controls icon selection operations and menu selection operations, 19 denotes A, L, tJ, 8, display management device 1
2 and the menu management device 18.

The operation of the cursor menu control device of this embodiment configured as described above will be described below.

First, it is assumed that data for each icon is initially set in the icon data management device 14 as shown in FIG. The icon data includes an icon function identifier 20 indicating the function of the icon, and position information 2 of the icon on the screen.
1. Icon shape information 22, number of menus that the icon has 23, and menu data 24 that is the menu content
It is assumed that these data are stored in the format of , and that these data continue for each icon.

It is also assumed that the cursor moves on the CRT device 11 according to the movement of the pointing device, and that the pointing device has at least two switches 7 (a main switch and a sub switch).

In this embodiment, menu items are selected by selecting an icon using the main switch, then the cursor is placed on the selected item, and the selection order 11 is determined by the number of times the sub switch attached to the pointing device is pressed. To end the selection process, the main switch is pressed once again, which returns the cursor to its normal shape.

Furthermore, it is assumed that an icon is displayed on the CRT device 11'' as shown in FIG. .

The actual operation will be explained using flowchart 1 in FIG.

First, in block 25, the menu management device 18□ gives a command to the pointing device management device 13 to determine the state of the switch attached to the pointing device (information on whether the switch has been pressed, the current cursor position,
switch number, etc.).

If the main switch is pressed, the next block 26 is processed. If the main switch is not pressed, the process of block 25 is repeated.

In block 26, the cursor management device 18 sends an icon to the icon data management device 14 in which the position of the cursor when the main switch is pressed is registered in the icon data management device 14 among the switch states obtained in block 25. Give a command to check whether there is something corresponding to the location information of , and if the existence is confirmed by the report, block 2
The process moves to block 7, and if it does not exist, the process returns to block 25.

In block 27, the menu control device 18 instructs the cursor management device 11 to display the menu data of the icon specified in block 25. In response to this command, the cursor management device 17 retrieves the menu data of the designated icon from the icon data management device @14, and changes the cursor shape to a shape that indicates the menu data as a selection item. In this case, the screen display changes as shown in FIG. 3(b).

In block 28, the menu control IBM 18 requests data for selecting a menu item from the pointing device attached switch analysis device 16. The pointing device attached switch analysis device 16 counts the number of times the sub switch has been pressed, and returns the number of times the sub switch has been pressed to the menu management device 18 at the time the main switch is pressed. The menu control device 18 determines the selected menu item using data on the number of times the sub switch has been pressed, which is returned from the pointing device attached switch analysis device 16.

In block 29, the menu management device 18 informs the management device 19 of the selected icon and its selected menu item, waits until the function is executed and finished, and at the end, the menu management device 18 returns the cursor
The cursor is returned to the normal state and four commands are given, and the processing is moved to block 25.

In the above embodiment, the selection of a menu item is determined by the number of times the sub switch is pressed, but the selection information may be represented by a code depending on the combination of a short press or a long press.

As described in detail, according to the present invention, in order to display menu items by deforming the cursor, the area covered by the menu item display area (cursor display area) on the screen is It can be easily seen by moving. Additionally, menu items can be displayed anywhere on the screen.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a dimensional diagram showing the configuration of a cursor menu management device according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the storage format of icon data managed by the icon data management device of the same embodiment, and FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen in the same embodiment, FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the same embodiment, and FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the configuration of a conventional computer device using icons. 1...A, L, LJ, 2...Memory 3...
・Display memory 4... CRT device 5... Display control device @ 6... Device 7... Management device 8... A, L, tJ, 9... Main 10.
...Display function 11...CRT device 12...Display control bag 13...Pointing device management device 14...I-1 data management device 15...Icon display tube connection w16... Switch analysis device attached to pointing device 17...Cursor control m + equipment fi
t 18... Menu control device H19... Management device Patent applicant Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Figure 2 (a) (b) Figure 3 Figure 4

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a computer device that uses icons to display and select functions, there is a pointing device management device that manages information from the pointing device, the function of each icon, its position on the screen, the shape of the icon, and when the icon is selected. An icon data management device that stores and manages menu data to be displayed, an icon display management device that displays icons on the screen, and information about the operation of the switches, which is received from the pointing device management device, to generate menu selection information. a cursor control device that controls the display of a cursor and displays the contents of menu data managed by the icon data management device as a cursor shape when an icon is selected; a pointing device management device; A cursor menu control device comprising an icon data management device, an icon display management device, a pointing device attached switch analysis device, and a menu control device that controls the cursor control device and manages icon selection operations and menu selection operations.