JPH0244396A - Moving method for cursor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To surely allow the cursor to approach an object input field and to improve the operability of a cursor movement on a display by depressing a scroll key, etc., in the direction where there is an input field to which it is desired to move the cursor. CONSTITUTION:A stop position or the stop position and the moving direction of a cursor to be moved are detected, and an address of the nearest input field to the stop position or the nearest input field to the stop position on the moving direction side of the original position of the cursor is calculated, and the cursor is moved to this address. Accordingly, while a scroll key, etc., are being depressed, the cursor moves automatically to the nearest input field from a place being at the time point when the depression is stopped. In such a way, the operability of the cursor movement on a display can be improved.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to a method for moving a cursor displayed on a display.

[Conventional technology]

An example of a cursor and input field is shown in FIG. A cursor 2 on the display screen of the display device 1 can be moved back and forth between input fields 3 by pressing a scroll key on a keyboard or the like. Note that the position of the input field 3 can be specified arbitrarily. Further, as an example of means for moving the cursor, a scroll key on a keyboard is shown in FIG. The cursor can be moved to any input field using arrow keys 4, 5, 6.7 in four directions (up, down, left and right). Here, a conventional method of moving a cursor will be explained with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 5(a), when the cursor is at position 8, pressing the right scroll key once will search the input field to the right. If it reaches the right edge of the display, it moves down one line and searches from left to right again. until an input field is found.
Repeat this process. When the input field is found, the cursor moves to the found position 9. Note that when the search for the input field reaches the bottom right corner, the search starts from the top left corner. Left/up/downward scrolling is also shown in Figure 5 (b), (c),
As shown in (d), the cursor is moved in the same way as the right scroll key.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

Problems with conventional cursor movement are discussed in Part 6.
This will be explained using figures. When attempting to move the cursor 2 to the input field 10, the right scroll key is pressed because the manual field IO is on the right side of the cursor 2. However, since the input field 10 is located slightly above the cursor 2, it is not searched. the result,
The cursor 2 moves to the manual field 11 in the lower left direction. In this conventional method, the direction in which you want to move the cursor and the direction of the scroll key you press do not necessarily match, so you cannot move the cursor as you want. There were some drawbacks. This invention allows the cursor to reliably move closer to the desired input field by pressing a scroll key or the like in the direction of the input field to which the cursor is to be moved, thereby improving the operability of moving the cursor on the display. The objective is to provide a method for moving the cursor.

[Means to solve the problem]

Detect the stop position or the stop position and movement direction of the cursor being moved, calculate the address of the input field closest to the stop position, or the input field closest to the stop position on the movement direction side from the original position of the cursor, and Move the cursor to the address.

[For use]

While pressing down on a scroll key, etc., the moving cursor automatically moves to the nearest input field from where it was when the pressing stopped.

[Embodiments of the invention]

FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining a cursor moving method according to the present invention. FIG. 1(a) shows a case where an attempt is made to move the cursor 2 to the input field 10. Since the input field 10 is located on the right side of the cursor 2, when the right scroll key is pressed, the cursor 2 starts moving to the right. When the cursor 2 comes closest to the input field IO (for example, around the cursor movement position 12 by the scroll key), when the user stops pressing the scroll key, the cursor 2 automatically moves to the nearest input field 10. Note that in the figure, numeral 11 indicates another input field. A flowchart of the cursor control processing at this time is shown in FIG. 2(a). In the conventional method of moving the cursor 2, the push button depends on whether the input field 10 is located above or below the current position of the cursor 2 (or relative to the input field where the cursor 2 is currently located). I had to change the orientation of the scroll key to lower it. At this time, if the cursor 2 and the input field 10 are far apart, the positional relationship between the two may not be clear and it may be difficult to determine which scroll key to press, but this does not happen with the present invention. Next, in FIG. 1(b), the cursor 2 is moved to the input field 10.
This is what happens when you try to move it to . Cursor 2 instantly presses the right scroll key and moves to position 12.
, the cursor 2 searches only the range 14 on the movement direction side, that is, the right side, depending on the position before the movement, and searches for the manual force field 13 at the original position and the next closest human force field 1.
Automatically move to human field 10 instead of 1. A flowchart of the cursor control processing at this time is shown in FIG. 2(b). The effective range of automatic movement of the cursor 2 also exists for the left, up, and down scroll keys. As shown in Figure 1(b), if the search range is set to the direction of movement from the position before the cursor movement, and there is no input field in this range, this search range will be invalidated. , the cursor can be automatically moved to the nearest input field other than the input field it was originally in. It is also possible to configure the cursor so that if you keep pressing the scroll key, the cursor will reach the edge of the display device, but if you hold the cursor there and stop pressing the scroll key, the cursor will automatically move to the nearest input field. .

【Effect of the invention】

According to this invention, it is now possible to automatically move the cursor to an input field by simply operating one scroll key in the direction in which you want the cursor to move.
The operability of moving the cursor on the display can be improved.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is an explanatory diagram of the cursor movement method according to the present invention, Fig. 2 is a flowchart of the cursor control processing according to the invention, Fig. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the cursor and input field, and Fig. 4 is an explanatory diagram of the scroll key. The configuration diagram, FIG. 5, and FIG. 6 are explanatory diagrams of a conventional cursor moving method. 2-Cursor, 3.10. Il, I single field, 4, 5, 6.7 - scroll key, 12 - movement position, 14 - search range. I (1 person Ibuji (i5) (b) (b) Plan 2 diagram

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1) In a device in which a cursor displayed on a display device is moved to an input field using a scroll key or the like of a keyboard, a stop position of the cursor moved by the scroll key or the like is detected; A method for moving a cursor, comprising calculating the address of an input field closest to the stop position, and moving the cursor to the address. 2) In a device in which a cursor displayed on a display device is moved to an input field using a scroll key or the like on a keyboard, the moving direction and stop position of the cursor moved by the scroll key or the like are detected, and the cursor is A method for moving a cursor, comprising calculating the address of an input field closest to the stop position on the moving direction side from the original position, and moving the cursor to the address.