JPH04323721A - Window display system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To eliminate the need for taking the number of displayable digits or rows into consideration at the time when a user produces a window since the breaking of display information is not caused due to the window size. CONSTITUTION:The user uses a keyboard or a mouse to designate the window size of display information on a display device by a window size designating means 3. Font size information is stored in a font selection table 5. A font size determining means 4 determines an optimum font size in the front selection table 5 in accordance with the designated window size. Font information is stored in a font information storage means 6. A window display means 2 uses the font information of the determined font size to display the display information in the window.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a window display method, and more particularly to a window display method for displaying windows on a display.

0002

[Prior Art] Conventional window display methods calculate the number of digits and lines that can be displayed based on the font size set in the system when displaying characters in a window, and display only the number of digits and lines that can be displayed. ing.

0003

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] With the conventional window display method described above, when a small window is created, only a small amount of data can be displayed, and the displayed data may be interrupted. If you create a window, the density of data per display area will be smaller and more blank areas will be displayed, so the user will have to consider the number of digits and lines that can be displayed when creating the window. It has the following drawbacks.

0004

[Means for Solving the Problems] The window display method of the present invention provides a window display method for an information processing system that has a function of displaying characters of a plurality of font sizes on a screen and a function of dividing and displaying a screen into a plurality of windows. In the method, a window size specifying means for a user to specify a window size of display information to be displayed on a display using a keyboard or a mouse, and a font selection table storing font information existing in the system;
The font is selected by finding the optimal font size for the number of digits and lines to be displayed from the window size specified by the window size specifying means, and determining whether the desired font size exists in the font selection table. font size determining means for determining an appropriate font size existing in the table; font information storage means for storing font information existing in the system; and font information storage means for determining the font size determined by the font size determining means. and window display means for displaying display information in a window using font information.

[0005]

Embodiments Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the window display method of the present invention. As shown in Figure 1, 1
2 is a display control means; 2 is a window display means; 3 is a display control means;
4 represents a window size designating means, 4 represents a font size determining means, 5 represents a font selection table, and 6 represents a font information storage means.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation of the font size determining means 4 shown in FIG. Further, FIG. 3 is an information configuration diagram showing an example of the font selection table 5 of FIG. 1.

First, when creating a window on the display, when the user specifies the window size using the keyboard or mouse, the window size specifying means 3 selects the horizontal and vertical sizes of the window obtained from the keyboard or mouse. Also, the number of digits and lines to be displayed are passed to the font size determining means 4. Note that the number of digits and lines to be displayed can be specified by the user, but if they are not specified, the window size specifying means 3 passes the specified values.

Therefore, as shown in FIG. 2, the font size determining means 4 determines the horizontal size of the window as Wx, the vertical size as Wy, the number of digits to be displayed as X, the number of lines as Y, and the optimal font to be found. Assuming that the horizontal size is Fx and the vertical size is Fy, Fx is obtained by dividing Wx by X, and Fy is obtained by dividing Wy by Y (S21). Next, it is determined whether or not fonts with the determined sizes of Fx and Fy exist in the font selection table 5 (S22).

On the other hand, the font selection table 5, as shown in FIG. A font horizontal size table A having an address and a font horizontal size table A for each horizontal size of the font, and vertical size information and font information storage means 6
Font vertical size table B8 with the address to ,
It is composed of B16,...BM,....

[0011] Then, it is searched to see if the horizontal size Fx exists in the font horizontal size table A, and if so, the horizontal size of the font is determined to be Fx (S22); if not, the closest value less than or equal to Fx is determined. The horizontal size of the font is determined (S23). Next, if the horizontal size of the obtained font is m, then from the horizontal size m, the font vertical size table BM
The address of is obtained (S24).

Next, it is searched to see if the vertical size Fy found in the font vertical size table BM exists, and if so,
The vertical size of the font is determined to be Fy (S25), and if there is no vertical size, the vertical size of the font whose vertical size is less than or equal to Fy and has the closest value is determined (S26). Next, assuming that the determined vertical size of the font is n, the address S of the font information storage means 6 is determined from the vertical size n of the font (S27).

Next, the obtained address S of the font storage means 6 is given to the window display means 2. Then, the window display means 2 obtains font information from the address S of the font information storage means 6 given from the font size determination means 4, creates display information in the window,
Since the information is passed to the display control means 1, the display control means 1 displays the display information in the window passed from the window display means 2 on the display.

[0014]

Effects of the Invention As explained above, the window display method of the present invention determines the font size according to the created window size. This has the effect that there is no need to consider the number of digits and lines that can be displayed when creating a .

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a window display method of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing an example of the operation of the font size determining means 4 of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is an information configuration diagram showing an example of the font selection table 5 of FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Display control means 2 Window display means 3 Window size specification means 4 Font size determination means 5 Font selection table 6 Font information storage means

Claims (1)

[Claims] Claim 1: In a window display method for an information processing system that has the function of displaying characters in multiple font sizes on the screen and the function of dividing and displaying the screen into multiple windows, the user can use the keyboard or mouse to A window size specifying means for specifying a window size of display information to be displayed on the display, a font selection table storing font information existing in the system, and displaying from the window size specified by the window font size specifying means. Font size determination, which determines an appropriate font size that exists in the font selection table by determining whether or not the font size found is present in the font selection table by determining the optimal font size for the exponent number of digits and the number of lines; means and
font information storage means for storing font information existing in the system; and window display means for displaying display information in a window using the font information in the font information storage means with the font size determined by the font size determination means. A window display method comprising: