JP3068032B2 - Slide bar display control device - Google Patents

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a slide bar display control device used in a system application using a graphical interface in the field of a user interface of a computer system, and more particularly to an improved display and input of a slide bar. About the method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In many computer programs, a GUI called a slide bar or a scale visit is used as an interface for designating a range of numerical values.
(Graphical User Interface) basic components are used.

[0003] A slide bar is generally called a bar portion that specifies a range of values that can be set, and a slider that allows the user to set a value by sliding within the range of the bar using a graphical selection device such as a mouse. It usually consists of a rectangular interface. The user normally moves the slider by moving the mouse pointer while keeping the mouse pointer pressed on the slider and moving the mouse while holding down the mouse button. In addition, by performing an operation of clicking a mouse button on the bar portion, the slider is moved at a stroke to a position where the mouse button is clicked. In this way, input values can be determined for the system.

A bar has an upper limit and a lower limit set by the system or the application, and the input value is determined by the relative display position of the slider on the bar. When the slider is slidably displayed in the horizontal direction, normally, the lower limit is set to the left end of the bar, and the upper limit is set to the right end of the bar. Therefore, when the slider is at the left end, the value indicated by the slide bar is the lower limit, and when the slider is at the right end, the value indicated by the slide bar is the upper limit.
When the slider is at the middle point of the bar, the value indicated by the slide bar is an intermediate value between the upper limit and the lower limit. In this way, by using the slide bar, it is possible to easily input a relative value (display position of the slider) within the range of the upper and lower limits (the length of the bar).

When this slide bar is newly displayed on the screen, for example, when a slide bar for setting a certain value is displayed, both ends of the bar are set as upper and lower limits, and the current set value is displayed at the position of the slider. I do. It is to be noted that a scale can be displayed on the bar to assist user input.

[0006]

However, in the case of inputting a value using the above-described slide bar, once the slider is moved, the original value (default value) set in advance by the system / application is used. That is, when the slide bar is newly displayed on the screen, there is a problem that it is difficult to understand which value the setting value represented by the slider was set to. If it is necessary to return to the original value, an operation of returning to the initial screen by pressing a reset button or the like is performed, which is troublesome. Further, when a plurality of set values are input on the input setting screen, the set values have to be discarded. There is also a disadvantage that it is difficult for the user to recognize the difference between the default value and the current input value.

Also, when a plurality of slide bar interfaces are used, each slide bar is often operated independently, and a method of expressing the relationship between the slide bars has not been established.

In the slide bar interface,
This is for inputting one value according to the position of the slider moved by the user, and it was not possible to input two values simultaneously using one slide bar.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems. A first object of the present invention is to make it easy to confirm a default value even after moving a slider, and to make it easy to confirm an input value and a default value. An object of the present invention is to provide a slide bar display control device capable of easily recognizing a difference from the above.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a slide bar display control device which provides an improved slide bar which can be displayed in various formats.

[0011]

In order to achieve the above object, a slide bar display control device according to a first aspect of the present invention includes a bar indicating a settable value range and a bar indicating a range of a settable value. In a slide bar display control device that is provided so as to be slidable and that displays a slide bar including a slider that indicates a set value according to a display position on the bar, a fixed value that indicates a fixed value set within a settable value range Fixed value display means for displaying at least one value display mark on the bar; and setting values indicated by the slider.
The difference information from the fixed value indicated by the fixed value display mark is described above.
Difference information display control hand visually displayed on slide bar
And a step .

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the slide bar display control device according to the first aspect, the fixed value display means displays the fixed value display mark in a display format different from that of the slider.

[0013]

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the slide bar display control device according to the first aspect , the difference information display control means includes a fixed value indicated by the fixed value display mark and a set value indicated by the slider as difference information. Is displayed.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the slide bar display control device according to the first aspect , the difference information display control means includes a fixed value indicated by the fixed value display mark and a set value indicated by the slider as difference information. And the magnitude of the difference between the respective values is displayed together with the magnitude relation of.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the slide bar display control device according to the first aspect , the difference information display control means displays difference information by changing a color display of the slider.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the slide bar display control device according to the first aspect , the difference information display control means changes a color display of a bar portion between the slider and the fixed value display mark. Is used to display difference information.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in the slide bar display control device according to the fourth aspect , the difference information display control means indicates the magnitude of the difference between the values by a display color density.

According to an eighth aspect of the present invention, in the slide bar display control device according to the first aspect , the difference information display control means includes a direction identification indicating a direction such as an arrow between the fixed value display mark and the slider. The difference information is represented by the display format of the sign.

According to a ninth aspect of the present invention, in the slide bar display control device according to the first aspect , the difference information display control means displays a pseudo three-dimensional representation between the fixed value display mark and the slider. It represents difference information.

A slide bar display control device according to a tenth aspect of the present invention is the slide bar display control device according to the first aspect, wherein difference information between the set value indicated by the slider and the fixed value indicated by the fixed value display mark is output as sound. It has control means.

According to an eleventh aspect of the present invention, in the slide bar display control device according to the tenth aspect , the difference information sound output control means is configured to determine a magnitude of a fixed value indicated by the fixed value display mark and a set value indicated by the slider. The output sound is changed according to the relationship and the magnitude of the difference between the values.

A slide bar display control device according to a twelfth aspect of the present invention is provided with a bar indicating a range of settable values and a bar slidable within the range of the bar, wherein the set value is represented by a display position on the bar. In a slide bar display control device for displaying a slide bar including a slider on a screen, a slide bar display means for displaying a plurality of the slide bars at a designated position on a screen, A fixed value display means for displaying at least one fixed value display mark indicating a fixed value on each of the bars; a set value indicated by the slider and the fixed value display mark;
The difference information from the fixed value indicated by the
Difference information display control means for visually displaying, a slide bar display for recognizing a display position of the slide bar on the screen, a display position of the slider on the bar, and a display position of the fixed value display mark on the bar. And a position recognition means, wherein the slide bar display means displays at least one of the sliders or the fixed value display marks on the displayed plurality of slide bars in a connected manner.

According to a thirteenth aspect of the present invention, in the slide bar display control device according to the twelfth aspect , the slide bar display means displays the center portion of the plurality of slide bars in a superimposed manner so as to display a radar chart. Is what you do.

According to a fourteenth aspect of the present invention, in the slide bar display control device according to the twelfth or thirteenth aspect , the slide bar display means deletes anything other than the connection from the screen display.

A slide bar display control device according to a fifteenth invention is the slide bar display control device according to the fourteenth invention, wherein a value can be set by directly operating a connection displayed on the screen.

[0027]

[0028]

[0029]

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

Embodiment 1 FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram showing Embodiment 1 of a computer system equipped with a slide bar display control device according to the present invention. In this computer system, a main memory 2 and an auxiliary memory 3 for storing various programs are connected to a central processing unit (CPU) 1 by a bus 7 in a known manner. Further, many user interface components such as a display device 4, a mouse 5, a keyboard 6, and the like are connected to the CPU 1 by a known method. The display device 4 includes a graphical user
A slide bar is displayed along with other components of the interface (GUI). Also, if the CPU 1
The user controls the position of the point indicating mechanism by using the mouse 5 and / or the keyboard 6 in order to follow the operation of the mouse. In order to control the position of the point indicating mechanism, a suitable graphical selection device such as a light pen or a tablet may be used in addition to the mouse 5 and the keyboard 6 exemplified here. The point indicating mechanism includes, for example, a display pointer on a display screen of the display device 4. The user-controlled graphical selection device has a click mechanism,
Signal CP when user presses click mechanism
Send to U1. The graphical selection device also has a drag mechanism, and sends a signal to the CPU 1 when the drag mechanism is operating. The drag mechanism can be substituted by an operation of moving the graphical selection device while holding down the click mechanism. In the present embodiment, the input to the slide bar is determined by the click mechanism and the drag mechanism.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a basic configuration of the slide bar. The slide bar 8 includes a bar 9 that specifies a range of values that can be set, and a slider 10 that indicates a set value according to a display position within the range of the bar 9 and indicates an input value by sliding. There may be a scale 11 for assisting the input of the data. The user operates the slide bar 8 using the mouse pointer 12. That is, when the mouse pointer is moved on the bar 9 and a click operation is performed, the slider 10 moves to the position of the mouse pointer 12. Also, mouse pointer 1
When 2 is moved onto the slider 10 and a drag operation is performed,
The slider 10 also moves in accordance with the movement of the mouse pointer 12.

FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram of the slide bar display control device according to the present embodiment. The slide bar display control device shown in FIG. 3 includes a slide bar display control unit 13, an input processing control unit 14, a slide bar display position recognition unit 15, a difference information calculation unit 16, and a setting value database 17. Of these, the input processing control unit 1
Reference numeral 4 controls input of a graphical selection device such as a mouse, receives an input value based on a display position of a slider or the like, and detects a position of a mouse pointer. The set value database 17 is a database that stores values set and input through the input processing control unit 14. The slide bar display position recognition unit 15 is provided as slide bar display position recognition means, and recognizes the display position of the slide bar on the screen, the display position of the slider on the bar, and the display position of the fixed value display mark on the bar.
The difference information calculation unit 16 calculates a difference between a set value stored in the set value database 17 and an input value set by a slide bar on the screen. The slide bar display control unit 13 is a main component for controlling the display of the slide bar.
It has a difference information display section 19 and a fixed value display section 20.

The slide bar display section 18 is a slide bar display means for displaying one or more slide bars at designated positions on the screen, and displays the slide bars in various formats described later. The difference information display unit 19 constitutes a difference information display control unit together with the difference information calculation unit 16, and displays the difference information calculated by the difference information calculation unit 16 on the screen with a predetermined display effect. The fixed value display unit 20 is provided as a fixed value display unit, and displays at least one fixed value display mark indicating a fixed value set within a settable value range on a bar. The fixed value is a default value when the slide bar is displayed on the screen, and is a value that is not updated during the display of the slide bar. Therefore, the fixed value display mark indicating the fixed value does not move during the display of the slide bar even if the slider is moved.
In the present embodiment, since the set values up to the previous time are displayed as fixed values, the fixed value display unit 20 retrieves the current set values from the set value database 17 and displays them. It is also possible to treat a recommended value of the system (application) obtained by calculation or the like as a fixed value. Each component of the slide bar display control device that performs each function is shown in FIG.
This is realized by operating a predetermined application or the like in the CPU 1 of the computer system shown in FIG.

Next, before describing the operation of the present embodiment, a display format of a slide bar that can be displayed in the present embodiment will be described.

FIG. 4 is a diagram schematically showing a slide bar displayed in the present embodiment. The slide bar 8 displayed in the present embodiment is obtained by incorporating a fixed display mark characteristic of the present embodiment into a normal slide bar interface. As described above, the present embodiment is characterized in that the above-described fixed value display mark is displayed when the slide bar is displayed.

When displaying the slide bar interface, the fixed display mark 21 is displayed at a position calculated in advance by the system or the application. FIG. 4 (A)
Since the fixed display mark 21 has the same rectangular shape as that of the slider 10, the fixed display mark 21 is displayed in a color different from that of the slider 10 so that the user can easily distinguish the mark. Note that, in the drawings, the difference in color cannot be represented, so that the fixed display mark 21 is represented with a decoration for convenience. In the drawings shown below, differences in colors, densities, and the like are represented by ornaments.

In this embodiment, when the fixed display mark 21 is clicked on with a mouse operation, the slider 10 is operated to move to a position overlapping the fixed display mark 21. Thus, not only can the user always know the set value at the start of the slide bar display, but also the input value can be easily returned to the initial set value. As described above, since the user does not need to remember the position of the setting value, the operation performed by the user can be easily canceled.

In the example shown in FIG. 4B, the fixed display mark 21 is represented by a triangular mark at the display position of the scale 11. In this manner, the fixed display mark 21 is
It is not necessary to display in the same rectangle as that of the slider 10, and the user can easily distinguish it by expressing it in a shape different from the slider 10, such as a triangle or a circle. When the user clicks on the triangular fixed display mark 21 with a mouse operation, the slider 10 moves to the position indicated by the fixed display mark 21 in the same manner as described above.

When the fixed display mark 21 indicates a recommended value instead of a set value, the input value can be easily set to the recommended value. For example, when setting the brightness of an image in an application, if the brightness value automatically calculated by the application is assigned as the fixed value indicated by the fixed display mark 21, the input value can be easily changed to the recommended value by moving the slider 10. can do.

Further, as shown in FIG. 4 (C), the fixed value display section 20 can display a plurality of fixed display marks 21 and 22 in the slide bar interface displayed in the present embodiment. . For example, by setting and displaying the first recommended value calculated by the system on the fixed display mark 21 and the second recommended value on the fixed display mark 22, the user can quickly set any of the recommended values. It is possible. Further, by displaying the recommended value calculated by the system on the fixed display mark 21 and the value set by the previous processing on the fixed display mark 22, it is possible to provide more excellent setting input processing.

In this embodiment, by displaying the fixed display mark, two values, the input value and the fixed value, are displayed on the slide bar 8.
One of the features is that difference information such as the magnitude relationship between the values and the magnitude of the difference between the values can be easily displayed.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display example of a slide bar for further clarifying the magnitude relationship between the fixed slider and the slider. In the following description, since the fixed display mark is represented by the same shape as the movable slider 10, it is referred to as a "fixed slider".

In the example shown in FIG. 5, the magnitude relation between the fixed value indicated by the fixed slider 21 and the set value indicated by the slider 10 is displayed by coloring the fixed slider 21 and the slider 10. And That is, the difference information display unit 19 performs an operation based on the fixed value indicated by the fixed slider and the set value indicated by the slider 10 to obtain the magnitude relationship, and displays the bar 23 between the displayed fixed slider 21 and the slider 10 and The bar 24 is displayed in a color set by the system / application based on the calculated magnitude relationship. For example, when the value indicated by the slider 10 is smaller than the fixed slider 21 as shown in FIG. 5A, the bar 23 is colored blue, and when the value indicated by the slider 10 is larger than the fixed slider 21 as shown in FIG. By attaching red color to the bar 24, the magnitude relationship between the user input value and the fixed value becomes clear.

When there are a plurality of fixed sliders 21 and 22 as shown in FIG.
The bars 25 and 26 between the sliders 1 and 22 and the slider 10 are displayed in the color of the result of the calculation,
It is displayed as it is in colors between 0, 22, and 21. For example, in FIG. 5C, a bar between the slider 10 when the slider 10 is smaller than the fixed slider 21 (existing to the left) is blue, and a bar between the slider 10 when the slider 10 is smaller than the fixed slider 22 is green. When the display is set to be performed, the bar 25 may be displayed in green, the bar 26 may be displayed in blue, which is the display color between the slider 10 and the fixed slider 22, or the calculation of the blue and green colors may be performed. The display may be performed in light blue.

As for the color display, the color of the slider 10 may be changed according to the positional relationship with the fixed slider 21 as shown in FIG. 5D or 5E. For example, the same effect can be obtained by displaying the slider 10 in blue when the set value indicated by the slider 10 is smaller than the fixed value indicated by the fixed slider 21, and by displaying the slider 10 in red when the set value is larger. Of course, color schemes such as red and blue are merely examples.

As shown in FIGS. 5 (F) and 5 (G), an arrow 27 which is one of the direction identification markers indicating the direction between the fixed slider 21 and the slider 10 is displayed. The magnitude relation of each value can also be shown. 5 (H) and FIG. 5 (I) show each of the sliders 10 and 10 using the pseudo three-dimensional effect.
This is an example in which the direction of the magnitude relationship between the two is explicitly shown. FIG.
As shown in FIG. 5H, when the value indicated by the slider 10 is larger than the fixed value indicated by the fixed slider 21, a pseudo three-dimensional display is performed as if the bar 28 therebetween protrudes, and FIG. As shown in (1), in the opposite case, pseudo three-dimensional display is performed as if the portion of the bar 28 between them was dented. With such a display format, similar to the effect of color display,
The magnitude relationship between the values indicated by the fixed slider 21 and the slider 10 can be clarified to the user.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a display example of a slide bar in which the effect of FIG. 5 is further emphasized, in which not only the magnitude relation of each value but also the magnitude of the difference of each value is shown as difference information. It is.

First, FIGS. 6A and 6B show FIG.
In the case where the difference information is represented by changing the color display corresponding to (C) to (C), according to the example shown in FIGS. 6A and 6B, the distance between the fixed slider 21 and the slider 10 is shown. Thus, the display color density of the bars 29 and 30 between them is changed using the gradation effect.
6A and 6B, the value indicated by the slider 10 is larger than the fixed value indicated by the fixed slider 21.
The color of the color gradually arranged from the fixed slider 21 toward the slider 10 becomes darker. Since the length of the bar 30 is longer than the length of the bar 29, that is, the difference between the values is large, the color density near the slider 10 is displayed at a high density. By changing the display color in this way, a difference in distance, that is, a difference between the fixed value indicated by the fixed slider 21 and the set value indicated by the slider 10 can be represented. In the examples shown in FIGS. 6A and 6B, gradation is used, but the entire bar between the sliders 10 and 21 is colored, and the density of the color itself is changed according to the distance. You may do so.

FIGS. 6C and 6D show display formats corresponding to FIGS. 5F and 5G using arrows. As shown in this figure, the concept of the thickness of the arrow is introduced to increase the thickness of the line of the arrow as the distance between the sliders 10 and 21 increases. That is, the arrow 32 shown in FIG. 6D is displayed thicker than the arrow 31 shown in FIG. 6C because the distance between the sliders 10 and 21 is longer.

FIG. 5 using a pseudo three-dimensional expression
The display formats corresponding to (H) and (I) are shown in FIGS.
It is shown in (F). As shown in this figure, the concept of height is introduced into the pseudo three-dimensional display, and the height of the pseudo three-dimensional display portion is increased as the distance between the sliders 10 and 21 increases. That is, the pseudo three-dimensional display portion 3 shown in FIG.
6F is displayed higher than that of No. 3 because the distance between the sliders 10 and 21 is longer in the pseudo three-dimensional display portion 34 shown in FIG.

When the display effect of the difference information is displayed by the arrow or the pseudo three-dimensional display part, the arrow or the pseudo three-dimensional display part may be colored so that the magnitude of the difference becomes clearer. . When the magnitude of the difference is shown in FIGS. 5D and 5E in which the color of the slider 10 itself is changed,
The color of the slider 10 itself can be displayed by gradually increasing the color according to the distance from the fixed slider 21.

The present embodiment is also characterized in that a plurality of slide bars can be displayed in association with each other in addition to the above. This display format will be described. First, a basic GUI display method will be described with reference to FIG.

A slide bar used as a basic component of the GUI structure is displayed in a window 35 in an actual system as shown in FIG. The slide bar display position recognition unit 15 according to the present embodiment has a function of notifying a system or an application of a display distance of the slider 10 and the fixed slider 21 from a reference point 36 in the window 35. The distance of the display position can be expressed as a positive direction of the X axis to the right on the display screen, and a positive direction of the Y axis to the downward direction. For example, when the reference point 36 in the window 35 in FIG. , The slider 10 is (60, 16), and the fixed slider 21 is (80, 1).
6). Of course, the example shown here is merely an example showing the position of each of the sliders 10 and 21, and the reference point 36 in the window 35 may be set anywhere in the window 35, and the forward direction of the axis may be reversed. .

FIG. 8A is a diagram showing an example in which the slider 10 and the fixed slider 21 of each slide bar are connected by lines 37 and 38 using the features described with reference to FIG. Slide bar display section 18 in the present embodiment
By vertically arranging the slide bars and connecting the sliders 10 and 21 on the slide bars with lines, the correlation between the items whose set values are displayed on the slide bars can be easily understood. This display format is suitable for the case of inputting while adjusting the magnitude relationship of numerical values between a plurality of groups.

The display example shown in FIG. 8B corresponds to the display example shown in FIG.
Is displayed by hiding the slide bar itself. The values shown in FIG. 8B (lines 37,
38) is the same as FIG. 8A, but the object operated by the user can be displayed as if it were a line graph by deleting the slide bar itself from the screen. Since the user can change the setting value by directly operating the line graph using the mouse pointer 12, the user feels as if the line graph is used as an input tool. The slide bar display control device 13 can be realized by performing the same processing as the movement processing of the slider 10 being displayed, without merely displaying the slider 10 on the screen. In FIG. 8, the slider 1
Although the connection is made with the 0 and the fixed slider 21, at least one of them may be connected and displayed according to the purpose of use.

In this embodiment, one of the features is that two input values can be obtained from one slide bar having one slider, and this characteristic feature is shown in FIG. This will be described with reference to FIG.

In a normal slide bar, as shown in FIG. 9A, the input value is uniquely determined only by the display position of the slider 10 on the bar. In the present embodiment, however, in FIG. As shown in B), the slide bar 8 itself is rotated so that the magnitude of the rotation can be used as another input value. That is, the slide bar display position recognizing unit 15 in the present embodiment is also provided as a display angle detecting unit, and the inclination 39 of the slide bar 8 from the reference direction on the screen.
Will be detected.

In order to perform the rotation operation of the slide bar 8, a flag for determining whether the slide bar is rotatable and a key input from a keyboard are used to distinguish from the normal slider movement interface. .
For example, when the mouse operation is performed while pressing the shift key, the interface is such that the slide bar 8 is rotated if the rotatable flag is set, and the rotation operation is disabled if the flag is cleared. . Note that these input processes using a keyboard or the like are performed by the input process control unit 14.

The rotation of the slide bar 8 can be used as a launch angle, a slope 39 of the slide bar 8, and a magnitude of a force for projecting the position of the slider 10 by, for example, a parabolic simulation input. According to the present embodiment, it is possible to simply treat them as two input values, and in this way, it is possible to make an input as if setting a two-dimensional value. In addition, the rotation of the slide bar 8 causes the slide bar 8 to be a component only in the vertical and horizontal directions.
Can be used in various places on the screen.

FIG. 10 shows a slider 10 and a fixed slider 2.
1 is a diagram showing a radar chart type display and input format using a position notification function and a slide bar rotation function. This can be achieved by displaying a plurality of slide bars superimposed on the same location and rotating the slide bars by a predetermined angle with respect to the center portion of each slide bar, thereby displaying a radar chart type. In this display, the difference information may be displayed by displaying the bar between the slider 10 and the fixed slider 21 in color. Further, when connecting the sliders with the lines 37 and 38, it is also possible to provide the user with an even more visible interface by coloring the area surrounded by the lines 37 and 38.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the slide bar can be displayed in various forms. Here, the processing in the present embodiment executed when displaying the slide bar described above is performed. This will be described with reference to the flowcharts shown in FIGS. This process
The event is driven by the GUI of the computer system, and is mainly performed by the slide bar display control unit 13 based on the message format. First, displaying the slide bar on the screen, such as when a window including the slide bar is newly opened or when the window including the slide bar is hidden by another window and then displayed on the screen again, is referred to as G.
The processing performed each time the UI is detected by a known method will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

According to FIG. 11, when the slide bar is displayed, the rotation status of the slide bar itself is set (step 101). After that, the slider 10 and the fixed slider 21 to be displayed need to be displayed on the bar 9, so the basic position of the bar 9 is first set. Subsequently, the position of the fixed slider 21 and the position of the slider 10 are set (steps 102 and 103). Each display position of the fixed slider 21 and the slider 10 can be obtained based on the value read from the setting value database 17.
Next, it is determined using a flag whether or not the slide bar is in a visible state (step 104). If the slide bar is in a visible state, the bar is determined based on the display position information set in the above processing.
A slide bar including a slider and a fixed slider is displayed on the screen (step 105). Then, processing for visually displaying the difference information in the various display formats described above is performed (step 106). The details of this processing are shown in FIG. 13, and the contents will be described later. If the state is invisible, steps 105 and 106 are skipped.

FIG. 12 shows the GU of the computer system.
12 is a flowchart illustrating a process performed on a slide bar when an event drive notification occurs according to I, and is a process corresponding to step 105 in FIG. 11. This process is performed by the slide bar display control unit 13 in accordance with the mouse click operation received by the input process control unit 14.

Referring to FIG. 12, when an event occurs on the slide bar, it is first determined whether or not the event has occurred by pressing a mouse button (click operation) (step 110). If the mouse button has not been pressed, the processing ends without performing any processing.
When the mouse button is pressed, steps 111, 11
At 2, 114 and 116, the place where the mouse button was pressed is determined. This is because the processing to be performed differs depending on the pressed position.

First, in step 111, it is determined whether or not the position where the mouse button is pressed is on the slider. If it is on the slider, it waits for a new event notification (step 117). Here, when an event occurs, it is determined whether or not the event is caused by the user releasing the mouse button (step 118). If it is released, it is determined that no operation has been performed, and the process ends. If the mouse button is kept depressed, the slider is moved and displayed in accordance with the position of the mouse pointer (step 119). Then, the process returns to step 117, and when the mouse button is released (step 118), the process ends. The processing of steps 117, 118, and 119 describes general processing during a mouse drag operation.

When it is determined in step 111 that the location where the mouse button was pressed is not on the slider, it is determined whether the location where the mouse button was pressed is on the fixed slider (step 112). If it is on the fixed slider, the process is terminated after the slider is moved to the position of the fixed slider (step 11).
3). The operation of this slider corresponds to the operation described with reference to FIG.

When it is determined in step 112 that the position where the mouse button is pressed is not on the fixed slider, it is determined whether or not the position where the mouse button is pressed is on the scale (step 114). If it is on the scale, the process is terminated after moving the slider to the position of the scale (step 115). This is a general processing operation.

When it is determined in step 114 that the position where the mouse button was pressed is not on the scale, it is determined whether or not the position where the mouse button was pressed is on the bar (step 116). If it is not on the bar, the process is terminated. If it is determined that it is on the bar, the mobility of the slide bar itself is determined (step 120).
If the slide bar itself is not in a movable state, that is, if the slide bar does not support rotation, the slider is moved to the position of the mouse pointer (step 122). If the slide bar itself is movable and supports rotation, a keyboard event is checked to determine whether a key that allows rotation (movable key) is pressed (step 121). If the movable key is not pressed for rotation, the operation of step 122 is executed and the process is terminated as in the case where rotation is not supported. If the movable key has been pressed, an event from the mouse is waited for (step 123), and it is determined whether or not the mouse button has been released (step 124). When the mouse button is not released, the slide bar is continuously rotated in accordance with the operation of the mouse (step 12).
5). This indicates that the user is in the process of adjusting the tilt of the slide bar, and the tilt is determined when the mouse button is released (step 12).
3, 124). The operation here is from step 117 to 1
Although substantially the same processing as the drag operation of No. 19 is performed, the processing of steps 123 to 125 corresponds to the operation described with reference to FIGS. 9 and 10 for the slide bar in the present embodiment.

Next, a method of realizing the display effect described with reference to FIGS. 4 to 6 will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. This processing is called by the GUI of the computer system at the time of display processing and at the time of moving the slider, and is performed by the slide bar display control unit 13. In addition,
The processing described here corresponds to step 106 in FIG.
This is processing equivalent to.

First, it is determined whether or not there is a display effect (step 130). The display effect is a content that visually displays difference information including a magnitude relationship indicating a difference between a set value and a fixed value and a difference. In the above example, the display effects of color display, arrows, pseudo three-dimensional display, slide bar rotation display, radar chart type display, and slider connection display correspond to display effects. In the present embodiment, the presence / absence of display of the display effect and the display format in the case of display are selectable. If nothing is set for the display of the display effect, the process is terminated. If the display effect has been set, step 1
The positions of the slider and the fixed slider are calculated for each fixed slider by the processing from step 31 to step 134, and the effect is calculated. The negative effect calculation in step 132 and the positive effect calculation in step 133 are processes for calculating which side of the fixed slider and how far the slider is, based on the position between each fixed slider and the slider. This calculation result is used when calculating the display effect in steps 136 and 137. The above calculation process is repeated by the number of fixed sliders (step 13).
4).

After calculating difference information (compatibility and magnitude of difference) between the fixed value indicated by each fixed slider and the value indicated by the slider, a display method of the difference information, that is, an actual expression form of the display effect is generated. Therefore, it is determined whether the display effect is composite (composite effect) (step 13).
5). The composite effect is, for example, when a plurality of fixed sliders 21 and 22 are present as shown in FIG.
The display effect is obtained by calculating the display color of No. 6 by calculation or the like. Therefore, in the case of the bar 26, the bar 26 can be displayed in light blue by performing the composite effect calculation, that is, the calculation of the blue and green colors (step 137). On the other hand, in the case of the bar 25, the simple effect calculation is performed, and the bar 25 is displayed as it is in green (step 136). After performing the above calculation for the display effect, the slide bar display control unit 13 performs display according to the display effect such as the color and gradation determined based on the calculation result (step 1).
38). In this process, the slider connection display and the internally created slide bar shown in FIG. 8 are deleted from the screen.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, a slide bar can be displayed with various display effects. That is, by providing the fixed slider and displaying the current set value and the recommended value, the user can easily recover to the original set value and set the recommended value. In addition, the difference between the fixed value and the input value can be displayed so as to be easily recognized visually. In addition, a plurality of slide bars can be displayed in a radar chart type, and each slider included in each slide bar can be connected and displayed in association with each other. Further, two input values can be set with one slide bar. In addition, the present invention can be applied to user interfaces having various shapes other than those described above, such as a slide bar having a non-rectangular shape, such as an arc-shaped slide bar.

The hardware configuration of the present embodiment is not limited to that shown in FIG. 1. It is also possible to provide a number of peripheral units as is known to experts in this technical field. It is easy for a computer user interface operator to make certain changes to the above method without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention. It is also within the scope of the present invention to use an appropriate status, register, or flag indicating the state of the slide bar, or to slightly change the display format of the slider itself.

Further, in this embodiment, the operation has been described by using the mouse control pointer.
It can be changed to a track ball or other suitable user-controlled graphical selection device, or an event similar to a mouse operation can be generated by input from a keyboard.

The processing in the present embodiment shown in FIGS. 11 to 13 is not limited to this, and can be rearranged as appropriate.

Embodiment 2 In the first embodiment, the difference information is visually displayed in a color display or the like to be recognized by the user. The present embodiment is characterized in that the user is made to recognize the difference information by sound output. Accordingly, a difference information sound output control means for outputting difference information as sound is provided instead of the difference information display section shown in FIG. The difference information sound output control means includes, for example, a speaker,
It is executed by the PU 1 and is configured by a driver that operates the speaker.

For example, the magnitude relationship between the fixed value indicated by the fixed slider 21 and the set value indicated by the slider 10 is distinguished by a continuous sound or an intermittent sound. When the magnitude of the difference is also added to the magnitude relationship for recognition, the user can change the magnitude of the difference by changing the output sound such as the pitch and length of the sound according to the magnitude of the difference between the values. You can know intuitively.

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According to the present invention, a fixed value is displayed by a fixed value display mark which does not move and is provided separately from the slider when the slide bar is displayed. Accordingly, if a fixed value is displayed as the set value at the start of the slide bar display, the user does not need to remember the position of the first set value even after moving the slider. In addition, it is easy to cancel the operation performed by the user, that is, to return to the original set value. Further, if a fixed value is displayed as a recommended value of the system or the like, the user can easily adjust the value to be input to the recommended value.

Further, the difference can be clarified by visually displaying the difference information (the magnitude relation, the magnitude of the difference, etc.) between the fixed value indicated by the fixed value display mark and the set value indicated by the slider. . For example, by expressing the difference information by adding a color or changing the display (density or the like) of the color, the magnitude relationship can be clearly expressed. Further, the magnitude relationship can be clearly expressed by using a direction identification sign or a pseudo three-dimensional expression instead of the color.

Further, it is possible to intuitively notify the user of the magnitude relationship between the values and the magnitude of the difference by sound output without visually displaying the values.

Further, by connecting the slide bars or the fixed value display marks in the slide bars displayed side by side, it is possible to easily understand the correlation between the items for which the set values are displayed on each slide bar. .

Further, by deleting the slide bar itself from the screen while leaving the connection, the object operated by the user can be displayed as if it were a line graph.

Further, the setting value can be changed by directly operating the line graph when the slide bar is not displayed, which is convenient.

Further, since the slide bar can be displayed so as to be rotatable, the slide bar, which was conventionally a component only in the vertical and horizontal directions, can be used in various places on the screen.

Further, since the slide bar is displayed so as to be rotatable, and the inclination of the slide bar from the reference direction is also treated as an input value, two input values can be obtained from one slide bar.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram showing a first embodiment of a computer system equipped with a slide bar display control device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a basic configuration of a slide bar displayed in the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a functional block configuration diagram of a slide bar display control device according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram schematically showing a slide bar displayed in the first embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram schematically illustrating a slide bar representing a magnitude relationship between values in the first embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram schematically illustrating a slide bar representing a magnitude relationship between values and a magnitude of a difference in the first embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram used to describe a basic display method of a slide bar according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example in which each slider on a plurality of displayed slide bars is connected in the first embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a method for setting two values from a slide bar in the first embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example when a slide bar is displayed in a radar chart type in the first embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing a process for displaying a slide bar on a screen according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing processing performed on a slide bar displayed in the first embodiment.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing processing for realizing a display effect on a slide bar in the first embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Central processing unit (CPU), 2 main memory, 3
Auxiliary memory, 4 display device, 5 mouse, 6 keyboard, 7 bus, 8 slide bar, 9 bar, 10 slider, 11 scale, 12 mouse pointer, 13
Slide bar display control unit, 14 input processing control unit, 15
Slide bar display position recognition unit (display angle detection means),
16 difference information calculation unit, 17 setting value database, 1
8 Slide bar display, 19 Difference information display, 20
Fixed value display part, 21, 22 Fixed display mark (fixed slider), 23 to 26, 28 to 30 bar, 27, 3
1, 32 arrow, 33, 34 pseudo stereoscopic display part, 35
Window, 36 reference points, 37, 38 lines, 39
Tilt.

Continuation of front page (56) References JP-A-7-191974 (JP, A) JP-A-5-314269 (JP, A) JP-A-6-28349 (JP, A) JP-A-6-242877 (JP) , A) Japanese Patent Publication No. 7-19200 (JP, B2) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G06F 3/00 601-680 G06F 3/14-3/153 340

Claims (15)

(57) [Claims] 1. A slide for displaying, on a screen, a slide bar including a bar indicating a settable value range and a slider slidably provided within the bar and indicating a set value by a display position on the bar. In the bar display control device, fixed value display means for displaying at least one fixed value display mark indicating a fixed value set within a settable value range on the bar, and a setting value indicated by the slider and the fixed value. The value display mark indicates
The difference information from the fixed value is visually displayed on the slide bar.
A slide bar display control device , comprising : difference information display control means for displaying. 2. The slide bar display control device according to claim 1, wherein said fixed value display means displays said fixed value display mark in a display format different from that of said slider. Wherein the difference information display control means, the slide of claim 1, wherein the displaying the magnitude relationship between the set value indicated by the fixed value and the slider indicated by the fixed value display marked difference information Bar display control device. 4. The difference information display control means displays, as difference information, a magnitude relationship between a fixed value indicated by the fixed value display mark and a set value indicated by the slider, and a magnitude of a difference between the values. The slide bar display control device according to claim 1, wherein Wherein the difference information display control means, the slide bar display control device according to claim 1, wherein the displaying the difference information by changing the color display of the slider. Wherein the difference information display control means, the slide of claim 1, wherein the displaying the difference information by changing the color display of the bar portions between the fixed value display mark and the slider Bar display control device. 7. The slide bar display control device according to claim 4, wherein the difference information display control means indicates the magnitude of the difference between the respective values by a display color density. Wherein said difference information display control means according to claim 1, characterized in that represent a difference information by the display format of the orientation identification label indicating the direction of an arrow or the like between the said fixed value display mark slider The slide bar display control device described in the above. Wherein said difference information display control means, the slide bar display according to claim 1, wherein a representative of the difference information by displaying a pseudo stereoscopic representation between the said fixed value display mark slider Control device. 10. A slide bar display according to claim 1, further comprising: difference information sound output control means for outputting sound of difference information between a set value indicated by the slider and a fixed value indicated by the fixed value display mark. Control device. 11. The difference information sound output control means changes an output sound according to a magnitude relationship between a fixed value indicated by the fixed value display mark and a set value indicated by the slider, and a magnitude of a difference between the values. The slide bar display control device according to claim 10, wherein: 12. A slide for displaying, on a screen, a slide bar including a bar indicating a settable value range and a slider slidably provided within the bar and indicating a set value according to a display position on the bar. In the bar display control device, a slide bar display means for displaying a plurality of the slide bars at designated positions on a screen, and at least one fixed value display mark indicating a fixed value set within a settable value range. Fixed value display means for displaying on each of the bars, a set value indicated by the slider and the fixed value display mark.
The difference information from the fixed value is visually displayed on the slide bar.
Difference information display control means to be displayed, and slide bar display position recognition means for recognizing a display position of the slide bar on the screen, a display position of the slider on the bar, and a display position of the fixed value display mark on the bar. And a slide bar display control device, wherein the slide bar display means displays at least one of the slider or the fixed value display mark on the displayed plurality of slide bars in a connected manner. 13. The slide bar display control device according to claim 12, wherein said slide bar display means displays a radar chart by superimposing and displaying central portions of the plurality of slide bars. 14. The slide bar display means according to claim, characterized in that to erase the non-connection from the screen display 12
Or the slide bar display control device according to 13 . 15. The slide bar display control device according to claim 14 , wherein a value can be set by directly operating a connection displayed on the screen.