JPH04333150A - Electronic information processing device that displays internal status - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] This bulletin contains application data before electronic filing, so abstract data is not recorded.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic information processing device.

0002

2. Description of the Related Art In conventional electronic information processing devices, internal status is displayed on a portion of the screen in addition to the original information. Such an area is called a border area, and internal information is notified to the user using symbols and the like. However, the disadvantage of this method is that symbols are displayed superimposed on the original processing information to notify internal information, so when directly processing screen data, for example when printing the screen, the border area Symbols were also printed.

[0003] As a method to compensate for such drawbacks, the screen data information is saved in a separate memory area and processing is performed on that memory area, thereby displaying the screen data while displaying the internal processing status on the screen. There is a way to handle this.

0004

However, in this case, it is necessary to secure a memory area for saving the screen data, which is difficult to achieve when memory has only a limited capacity.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention provides an electronic information processing device configured to display an internal state, in which a display screen on which contents to be processed are displayed is divided into two areas,
An internal state characterized in that when one area is being processed, a message indicating that the process is being processed is displayed in the other area, and when the other area is being processed, a message indicating that the process is being processed is displayed in the one area. This is an electronic information processing device that displays.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The basic technical idea of the present invention is to divide the screen into a plurality of areas and use the area for displaying internal processing status and the area for processing in a time-divided manner. FIG. 1 shows an example of a flowchart of an electronic information processing device to which the present invention is applied. Note that this flowchart shows only some of the many processing processes built into the electronic information processing device to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a simplified diagram showing the display state of the screen of an electronic information processing device to which the present invention is applied. In FIG. 2(a), 21 indicates the entire screen, and 22 indicates the display area. In the display area 22, sentences or figures are displayed. For example, when a command for screen printing is input, a so-called interrupt process is activated, and the flowchart of the present invention starts at step F1.

In the following step F2, the screen 22 is divided into two areas, area A and area B, as shown in FIG. 2(b).
The internal state, in this case "Currently printing", is drawn in area B, and the upper half of the screen information is redrawn in area A in step F3. As a result, the screen appears in Figure 2 (c
), screen information and internal status are displayed. In the subsequent step F4, direct processing for area A, that is, screen printing is performed.

When the screen printing of area A is completed, in step F5, as shown in FIG. 2(d), “
"Currently printing" is drawn, and the lower half of the screen information is redrawn in area B in step F6. In the subsequent step F7, screen printing of area B is performed. When the end of the process is confirmed in step F8, the flowchart of the present invention ends.

[0010] In this embodiment, an example in which the display area is divided into two has been explained, but the number of divisions is not limited to two.
If the display area is divided into three or more parts, this can be easily achieved by repeating the above operations. In addition, if screen printing extends to multiple pages, Figure 2(e)(f)
), it is also possible to display a processing page.

[0011]

[Effect of the invention] When processing screen data in electronic information equipment, by dividing the screen and using the area for processing and the area for displaying the internal processing status, it is possible to avoid using a special memory area. , it becomes possible to directly process screen data while simultaneously conveying processing details to the user.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

[Fig. 1] An example of a flowchart of an electronic information processing device to which the present invention is applied.

[Fig. 2] An example of a screen state of an electronic information processing device to which the present invention is applied.

Claims (1)

[Claims] Claim 1: In an electronic information processing device configured to display an internal state, a display screen on which contents to be processed are displayed is divided into two areas, and when one area is being processed, processing is performed in the other area. An electronic information processing device for displaying an internal state, characterized in that when the other area that follows is being processed, the one area is displayed to indicate that the processing is in progress.