CN100367173C - Control method of control bar of multi-display system and apparatus therefor - Google Patents
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The present invention discloses a control method for control bars in a multi-display system, and the multi-display system comprises a main display device, a secondary display device and display adapters of the main display device and the secondary display device. The method comprises the steps: parameters of a display domain of each effective display device in the system are collected; the parameters of the display domain are converted and stored; a control bar is generated in each effective display device in the system according to the converted parameters of the display domain; an operation command to the control bar of the display device from an effective input device is received; a corresponding control command is executed. The present invention also discloses a control device for control bars in a multi-display system.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to the data processing technique relevant, especially relate to a kind of control method and device of control group of multi-display system with graphical user interface.
Background technology
Since first personal computer (PC) came out, computer technology had obtained swift and violent development, and the operation of computing machine is also more and more convenient, more and more hommization.
Be born at computing machine several leading year, the user facing to be uninteresting textual interface, can only pass through the order line input instruction, make the operation of computer hard to understand.Therefore, as the easy-to-use computation mode of a kind of user oriented convenience, people's demand has been satisfied in the appearance of graphical user interface (GUI) and the application in operating system thereof.Graphical user interface makes that handling computer makes things convenient for interesting as ordinary people's Management Television, for extensively popularizing of computer established conclusive basis.We can say that present computing machine not merely has been a computational tool, more purposes is to satisfy people in recreation, the network information, video, the demand of each side such as audio frequency.
Mouse has also promoted the development of GUI as the strong indication operation tool of GUI in self-growth, and the development of GUI provides an effective interface platform for the development of multiple task operating system.
Along with the lifting of CPU (central processing unit) frequency of operation and the development of multiple task operating system, people can carry out multiple parallel work-flow on a computing machine, on one side this means and can listen to the music, Yi Bian browsing page, one side and friend carry out instant chat, Yi Bian carry out documents editing.At this moment, the size of display screen becomes the new restriction of people's operational computations machine, since the restriction of present technology etc., the price comparison costliness of giant-screen, therefore need to adopt a plurality of displays to replace large screen display, many display techniques of computing machine are also developed day by day thus.
The user can be worked between a plurality of application programs simultaneously for many display techniques, and can information source of multiple execution, can on any or all displays, show, and not change the size of information and image, with respect to traditional individual monitor system, multi-display system more can be increased work efficiency, thereby be subjected to great welcome, and especially in finance, financial accounting, stock, recreation etc. have the field of specific demand to display screen.
Accepted, affirm and like in view of the multi-display pattern, support the technology of multi-display pattern constantly to weed out the old and bring forth the new with using by increasing people.
The multi-display pattern adopts main display device and time this behavior of display device to realize that at present the most frequently used is WINDOWS (form) operating system of Microsoft.But in the multi display method of prior art, system-level control function can only be activated on main display device, brings greater inconvenience to the user.
See also Fig. 1, multi-display system is formed (only show among the figure its two) by many display devices, and wherein display device 110 is main display device, and display device 120 is a time display device.All control modules (such as the control knob, the window that dwindles, beginning knob etc.) all are presented on the main display device, and inferior display device can only be attached as of main display device.The user is the different work of operation on different display devices, when the user finishes current operation on display device 120, when wanting to log off, certainly will cursor of mouse to be moved on the main display device 110, " shutdown system " this routine that just can activation system has bigger not convenient part.Similarly,, think to amplify again this window, must move on to the window that just can find on the control strip on the basic display unit 110 after dwindling to cursor, so very inconvenient if on inferior display, a window is dwindled.
Another inconvenience is exactly, adopt the window of the phonetic transcriptions of Chinese characters input of Microsoft's standard can only be presented on the main display device 110, cause the operator when input Chinese character on inferior display device 120, must see two screens simultaneously by eyes, on the screen of inferior display device 120, see the literal of input, on the screen of main display device 110, select correct literal then, on the screen of inferior display device 120, check the correctness of word content simultaneously, comparatively inconvenience and expending time in of operation.
Summary of the invention
The technical matters that the present invention solves is to provide a kind of control method and device of control group of multi-display system, can no matter be main display device or time display device at current display device, carries out system-level operation.
For this reason, the technical scheme of technical solution problem of the present invention is: a kind of control method of control group of multi-display system is provided, and described multi-display system comprises main display device and time display device and display adapter separately; The method comprising the steps of:
1) the display field parameter of each effective display device in the acquisition system;
2) described display field parameter is stored and changed;
3) according to generating control group in the effective display device of display field parameter each in system after the aforementioned conversion;
4) according to the information of effective input equipment, the display field at selected this effective input equipment place is for activating display field, and the display device of setting the cursor place is the display device of control group efficient in operation;
5) receive the operational order of effective input equipment, carry out and described operational order control commands corresponding the control group in the display device.
Preferably, described step 5) also comprised before fill order and judges that whether described operational order is activating the display field input.
Preferably, the generative process in the described step 3) specifically is to duplicate all control strips, generates independently control strip at each display device.
Preferably, the generative process in the described step 3) specifically is to generate the main control bar at main display device; Only generate the shortcut of control knob at each display device.
Preferably, conversion described step 2) specifically is the required data structure of data-switching one-tenth generation control group with the display field parameter space.
Preferably, described step 5) comprised also that before fill order the parameter by the display field parameter space converts current operational order to operating system discernible control command.
The present invention also provides a kind of control device of control group of multi-display system, and described multi-display system comprises main display device and time display device and display adapter separately; Described control device comprises:
Information acquisition device is used for realizing the collection of the display field volume coordinate information parameter of each display device of multi-display system;
Message handler is used to realize the storage and the calculating of aforementioned information of being gathered;
The control group maker is used for calculating the information that obtains according to message handler and is effectively generating control group on the display device;
Steady arm judges according to canned data in the message handler which display field current effective input equipment is at, judges that whether current input is the operation to system's control group;
Actuator is used to carry out the associative operation of input command.
Preferably, described control group maker duplicates all control strips, generates independently control strip at each display device.
Preferably, described control group maker generates the main control bar at main display device; Only generate the shortcut of control knob at each display device.
With respect to prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects as follows: because the present invention generates control group according to the display field parameter of gathering at each display device (main display device is time display device still) of multi-display system, thereby make the user no matter under which kind of situation, can on current display device, do system-level operation.Its positive effect is: can increase work efficiency, reduce cursor displacement, on any one display device, can control total system, make that the operation of a plurality of displays is the same with individual monitor convenient, can conveniently in the system of multi-display, realize collaborative work.
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Fig. 1 is the control model synoptic diagram of the multi-display system of prior art;
Fig. 2 is the block diagram of control device of the present invention;
Fig. 3 is a control method process flow diagram of the present invention;
Fig. 4 is the processing flow chart of information acquisition device and message handler;
Fig. 5 is the processing flow chart of control group maker;
Fig. 6 is the synoptic diagram of the control model of multi-display system of the present invention;
Fig. 7 is the processing flow chart of steady arm;
Fig. 8 is the processing flow chart of actuator.
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The present invention is based on that computer platform under the multi-display mode of operation realizes.
See also Fig. 2, control device of the present invention comprises information acquisition device 210, message handler 220, control group maker 230, steady arm 240 and actuator 250.
Described information acquisition device 210 is used for realizing the collection of the display field volume coordinate information parameter of each platform independent display of multi-display system; Described message handler 220 is used to realize the storage and the calculating of aforementioned information of being gathered; Described control group maker 230 is used for generating control group on each effective display; Described steady arm 240 judges according to canned data in the message handler 220 which display field current effective input equipment is at, judges that whether current input is the operation to system's control group; Described actuator 250 is used to carry out the associative operation of input command.
See also Fig. 3, the flow process of control method of the present invention comprises:
Step S310 is by the display field parameter of effective display device in information acquisition device 210 acquisition systems;
Step S320 send by message handler 220 and handles and storage;
Display field parameter after step S330, control group maker 230 handle according to message handler 220 generates a control group on each effective display device in system, the outward appearance of control group is consistent with the system current operating system style of moving;
Step S340, steady arm 240 is according to the designator coordinate parameters of effective input equipment, the display field at selected its place is for activating display field, corresponding display device is that control group can be carried out display device, this means that the operation of only being done in activating display field to control group is only effective operation;
Step S350, actuator 250 is made corresponding action.
Seeing also Fig. 4, is the processing flow chart of information acquisition device and message handler.
Step S410, the operating system of startup multi-display system;
Step S420 judges whether system supports many display modes; If then enter step S430; If not, then return;
Step S430 gathers the display parameter of each display device; Described display parameter comprise screen size, resolution, display field coordinate parameters etc.
Step S440 is kept at the display field parameter space with aforementioned display parameter.
Step S450, the data of message handler conversion display field parameter space are set up the required data structure of control group maker and steady arm.
Seeing also Fig. 5, is the processing flow chart of control group maker.
Step S510 judges whether to show fully control group; If then enter step S520; If not, then enter step S530;
Step S520 is showing with the identical control group of main display device style on the display device each time; As shown in Figure 6;
Step S530 only shows the control knob of main control on display device each time.
That is to say that the generating mode of control group can be that all control strips are all duplicated portion, all is control strip independently on each display device; Also can be to show the main control bar on main display device, only show the shortcut of crucial control knob on other display device, in fact real control be turned round also on main display device.
Seeing also Fig. 7, is the processing flow chart of steady arm.
Step S810 obtains the coordinate domain at cursor place;
Step S820 according to the data message of display field parameter space, judges the display field at cursor place belongs to which display device in the system;
Step S830, the display device at locking cursor place is set the display device that this display device is the control group efficient in operation.
Seeing also Fig. 8, is the processing flow chart of actuator.
Step S910 judges whether the request from input end; If then enter step S720; If not, then return;
Step S920 judges that whether request is from the display device that locks; If then enter step S730; If not, then return;
Step S930 by the setup parameter of display field parameter space, converts current request to order that operating system can be discerned.
In sum, the invention provides a kind of feasible method, guarantee that the computing machine user under the multi-display pattern indiscriminately ad. as one wishes does some system-level operations under the effective display device of any one in system easily, such as entering sleep pattern, under MS-DOS, moving etc., avoided user " from afar " with cursor indicator, point to main display device This move such as mouse device, people-oriented more thereby make the multi-display pattern.
In order further to understand the present invention, the present invention will be described in detail below in conjunction with instantiation.
Example one
Example one is made up of a notebook computer and the external display of notebook computer VGA interface.
The system default notebook computer is main display device, is responsible for showing POST information; External display is a time display device.User's play CD under main display device under the operating system, editor WORD document is made the work form on inferior display device.
After the user enabled many control group function under the multi-display pattern, control group can appear on the display screen and externally connected with display screen of notebook computer simultaneously.The user is in this editing of the enterprising style of writing of external display, behind the end-of-job, want to log off, at this moment, the user can directly close media player under current display, and log off or directly enter park mode, and needn't be moved back into the enterprising line correlation operation of basic display unit to mouse again.
And when the window of working on this display dwindles all in the control group in this display, like this can be so that the displacement of cursor is the shortest.
As seen, the many control group function under the multi-display pattern can be given full play to the multi-display system advantage, improves user's work efficiency and joyful sense.
Example two
Example two supports microcomputer and 4 display devices of many display modes video card to form by connecing one in one.
Under the default conditions, it is main display device that system selectes the equipment that video card output interface 1 (can be the VGA interface, DVI interface or any display interface) connect, and shows POST information.
Under the operating system, the user opens the many control group function (this function also can be arranged to give tacit consent to opening after the system that enters, thereby opens again after avoiding entering system at every turn) under the multi-display pattern, and control group can appear on each display screen.The user can network and consult stock market, can carry out financial statement analysis, can play the extremely strong recreation of visual impact.The user can open new application program on any display screen, can shutdown system, can do any all operations that under traditional multi-display pattern, only under main display device, just can have.Thereby, protect greatly and continued the pleasure of the senses that the multi-display banding is given the user.
The above only is a preferred implementation of the present invention; should be pointed out that for those skilled in the art, under the prerequisite that does not break away from the principle of the invention; can also make some improvements and modifications, these improvements and modifications also should be considered as protection scope of the present invention.
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1. the control method of the control group of a multi-display system, described multi-display system comprise main display device and time display device and display adapter separately; It is characterized in that the method comprising the steps of:
1) the display field parameter of each effective display device in the acquisition system;
2) described display field parameter is stored and changed;
3) according to generating control group in the effective display device of display field parameter each in system after the aforementioned conversion;
4) according to the information of effective input equipment, the display field at selected this effective input equipment place is for activating display field, and the display device of setting the cursor place is the display device of control group efficient in operation;
5) receive the operational order of effective input equipment, carry out and described operational order control commands corresponding the control group in the display device.
2. control method according to claim 1 is characterized in that, described step 5) also comprised before fill order judges whether described operational order is activating the display field input.
3. control method according to claim 1 and 2 is characterized in that, the generative process in the described step 3) specifically is to duplicate all control strips, generates independently control strip at each display device.
4. control method according to claim 1 and 2 is characterized in that, the generative process in the described step 3) specifically is to generate the main control bar at main display device; Only generate the shortcut of control knob at each display device.
5. control method according to claim 1 and 2 is characterized in that, described step 2) conversion specifically be that the data-switching of display field parameter space is become to generate the required data structure of control group.
6. control method according to claim 5 is characterized in that, described step 5) comprised also that before fill order the parameter by the display field parameter space converts current operational order to operating system discernible control command.
7. the control device of the control group of a multi-display system, described multi-display system comprise main display device and time display device and display adapter separately; It is characterized in that described control device comprises:
Information acquisition device is used for realizing the collection of the display field volume coordinate information parameter of each display device of multi-display system;
Message handler is used to realize the storage and the calculating of aforementioned information of being gathered;
The control group maker is used for calculating the information that obtains according to message handler and is effectively generating control group on the display device;
Steady arm judges according to canned data in the message handler which display field current effective input equipment is at, judges that whether current input is the operation to system's control group;
Actuator is used to carry out the associative operation of input command.
8. control device according to claim 7 is characterized in that, described control group maker duplicates all control strips, generates independently control strip at each display device.
9. control device according to claim 7 is characterized in that, described control group maker generates the main control bar at main display device; Only generate the shortcut of control knob at each display device.
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