GB2350991A - Identifying and closing running application programs easily - Google Patents
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Abstract
Provided are a method and system in which the icons of running application programs can be easily identified, and even beginners can easily understand how to close application programs. The icons of application programs which are not running are displayed by still pictures as is known, but the icons of running application programs are displayed in animation which changes periodically, thereby to enable the running application programs to be identified at a glance of the displayed list of icons. Further, when an application program is run, a stop button having a function of closing the application program is displayed near the icon of the application program in the displayed list of icons, and the application program can be closed by simply clicking the stop button, so that even beginners can easily perform the closing of the application program.
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2350991 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING AND CLOSING A RUNNING
APPLICATION PROGRAM EASILY
Field of the Invention
The subject invention relates to a method and a Graphical user Interface (GUI) for implementing, in a computer system in which a plurality of application programs can be concurrently run, a method for displaying a set of icons which enables the user to intuitively determine application programs which are currently running, and also to a method and GUI implementation of a method which enables the running application programs to be easily ended.
As an example of the application menu of a system in which a is plurality of application programs can be simultaneously run, there is the menu of "HP-200LX" (started to be sold in 1994) of Hewlett-Packard Co, u.s.A., which is a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant). In the menu of "HP-200LX," the display of the icon associated with a running application program is completely the same as that given when the application program is not running, but the characters representing the application program name under the icon are displayed in reverse video if the application program is running, to enable to identify which application program is running. However, this method only displays the characters of the application program name in reverse video, and thus it is difficult to promptly determine which application program is running.
Further, up to the present, a running application program has been terminated by selecting "Filen from the menu bar, and then selecting "CloseR from the pull-down menu, or pressing a specific key assigned the function of file closing, for instance, a F6 key. That is, the former has a disadvantage that a multi-step key operation is required, and the latter has a disadvantage that the pressing of a specific key such as F6 must be memorized.
Summary of the invention
Accordingly, the subject invention in a first aspect provides a method and system of displaying the icons of running application programs in animation, so that which application programs are running can be instantly determined at a glance of the displayed icons.
The subject invention in a second aspect provides a method and system of adding stop buttons to icons in the displayed icon list, so that even beginners can easily close running application programs.
2 In the subject invention, the icons of application programs which are not running are displayed by still pictures as has been done up to the present, but the icons of running application programs are displayed in animation which changes periodically, so that the running application programs can be identified at a glance of the displayed icon list. For instance, if the pictorial display of a certain icon is the globe, an animated display is given in which the globe icon is rotating when the application program is currently running, and if the pictorial display of the icon is a book, an animated display is provided in which the pages of the book are riffled through when the application program is currently running, thereby to allow the user to instantly determine the icons of running application programs.
Further, in the subject invention, when an application program is run, a button having a function of closing the application program is displayed in an at-a-glance icon list, near the icon of the application program or partially overlapping the icon, that is, in a manner in which the correspondence between the icon is clearly seen and the application program can be closed by simply clicking the stop button, so that even beginners can easily close the application program.
Brief DescriDtion of the Drawings Particular embodiments of the invention will now be described in detail, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
Figure 1 is a diagram for exemplifying the configuration of the computer to which the application menu related to the subject invention is displayed; Figure 2 is a diagram showing the configuration of the software for starting and closing application programs, which is executed by the computer shown in Figure 1; Figure 3 is a diagram showing the process performed by the task manager included in Figure 2 for controlling application programs and the launcher; Figure 4 is a diagram showing the configuration of the launcher included in Figure 2; Figure 5 is a diagram showing an at-a-glance icon display screen when no application program is running; 3 Figure 6 is a diagram showing an at-a-glance icon display screen when three application programs are running; Figure 7 is a flowchart showing the processing in the initialization unit of the launcher by the initialization unit of the launcher shown in Figure 4; Figure 8 is a flowchart showing the process performed by the icon displaying unit of the launcher shown in Figure 4 for displaying the icon associated with each application program; Figure 9 is a flowchart showing the processing of the event (touched coordinate information) sent from the touch panel, which is performed by the touch panel event processing unit of the launcher shown in Figure 4; Figure 10 is a flowchart showing the processing of the timer event sent from the OS, which is performed by the timer event processing unit of the launcher shown in Figure 4; and Figure 11 is a flowchart showing the displaying and closing of an application program itself and other processings unique to the application program, which are performed by the application program included in Figure 2.
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Now, the embodiment of the subject invention will be described with reference to a computer having a display device provided with a touch panel function by way of example.
Figure 1 is a diagram showing a configuration example of the hardware applied to the subject invention, and it comprises a display/input device (1) such as a LCD display having a touch panel function, a CPU (2) including a microprocessor and its peripheral circuits, a memory (3) including a semiconductor memory or the like, and a storage device (4) such as a f lash memory.
The computer uses these structural elements to load a task manager (application control software), a launcher (menu display software), application software, and other software, which are stored in the storage device (4), into the memory (3), and executes them.
Next, Figure 2 is a diagram showing the configuration of the software executed by the computer shown in Figure 1. As shown in Figure 2, the software includes a task manager (10) which is application control 4 software, a launcher (12) which is menu display software, and M application programs (13, 14).
The task manager (10) is loaded into the memory from the storage device by a system initialization unit (16) at the time of system initialization, and executed. When the task manager (10) is executed, the task manager clears the execution flags (11) of all application programs, and loads and executes the launcher (12).
when the task manager (10) loads a certain application program m, the task manger (10) sets the execution flag ExecFlag [m] corresponding to the application program m, and when the application program m is closed (unloaded), the task manager clears the execution flag ExecFlag [m) corresponding to the application program (15m:5M).
is The execution flags (11) are changed by the task manager (10), and referenced by the icon display unit of the task manger and the launcher (12).
Accordingly, the icon display unit of the launcher (12) can reference the execution flags (11) to know whether or not each application program is running (loaded).
Further, upon request from the launcher (12) or an application program. the task manager (10) performs application program switching or closes the application program.
Referring to Figure 3, the processing by the task manager will be described.
First, in step 102, the task manager clears the execution flags ExecFlag [1,..., M] to initialize the execution flags to a state in which all the application programs are not running.
Then, in step 104, the task manager starts the launcher. And, in step 106, the task manager waits for an input (a request from the launcher or an application program), and goes to the processing in step 108 if there is some input.
In step 108, the task manager determines whether or not the input is a "request to switch to the launcher," and if the input is a "request to switch to the launcher," it advances to the processing in step 126.
otherwise, it advances to the processing in step 110. And, in step 110, the task manager determines whether or not the input is a "request to switch to an application program m," and if the input is not a "request to switch to an application program m," it goes to the processing in step 114.
in step 114, the task manager closes (unloads) the specified application program m, because control is passed to step 114 if the input is a "request to close the application program m." And, in step 116, the task manager clears the execution f lag ExeCF1ag [m] to show that the application program is not running. And, in step 126, the task manager requests the launcher to display the icon list, and returns to the processing in step 106.
Further, in step 110, if the input is a request to switch to the application program m, step 118 is entered. In step 118, the task manager determines whether or not the execution flag ExecFlag [m] of the is application program m specified to switch to is set. If ExeFlag [m] is set, it goes to the processing in step 124, and if the execution f lag is not set, this is the case in which the application program is run for the first time. Thus, in step 120, the task manager loads the specified application program m into the memory, and in step 122, it sets the execution flag ExeCF1ag [m].
In step 124, the task manager requests the application program m to display the screen of the application program m, and returns to the processing in step 106.
Figure 4 is a diagram showing the configuration of the launcher (32).
The launcher (32) is loaded and executed by the task manager (21) that is automatically loaded at the time of starting the system. The launcher comprises an initialization unit (25) for initializing the launcher, an icon display unit (22) for displaying icons, an timer event processing unit (26) for processing timer events to display icons in animation, and a touch panel event processing unit (27) for performing the switching and closing of an application program by a touch panel event. The details will be described below.
The initialization unit (25) of the launcher carries out the initialization required for the processing by the launcher (32). That is, when the launcher is started, the initialization unit of the launcher invokes the icon display unit (22) to display the still icons of all the application programs. For every application program m, the icon display unit (22) displays an icon Icon [m] [n] at a position corresponding to the application program m.
6 Icon [m] [n] represents the n-th (1:9n-"N) icon of the application program m (1:5M:5M). ACcordingly, M is the number of application programs, and N is the number of the icons for each application program.
There are a plurality (1,...,m) of application programs, and a plurality (1,..,N) of icons are associated with each application program. For each application program m, Icon [m] [1) represents a still icon which is a initial state, and Icon [m] [2,...,NI is an icon for displaying an icon in animation. That is, n is 1 if the application program m is not running (if it is not loaded in the memory), and n has the same value as the frame number (Frame), giving Icon [m] [Frame], if it is running (if it is loaded in the memory).
The frame number (Frame) is a variable used by the launcher, and it is initialized to 2 by the initialization unit of the launcher and incremented by the timer event processing unit of the launcher, as described later, and its value is referenced by the icon display unit of the launcher. The minimum value of Frame is 2, and the maximum value is N that is the maximum number of icons for each application program.
Further, the initialization unit (25) of the launcher requires that a timer event be periodically generated for the OS.
The function of the touch panel event processing unit (27 in Figure 4) will be described below.
If the touch panel is pressed, the icon is identified from that position. If the stop button on the icon is pressed, it sends a "request to close the application programn to the task manager, and displays a still icon. If a place other than the stop button is pressed, it sends a nrequest to switch the application programn to the task manager.
Figure 5 shows a screen displaying a still icon list, in which any application program is not running. And, Figure 6 shows a screen displaying an icon list, in which three application programs, "Schedule, "Address,n and nMap,' are running, and the pages of the schedule book or address book icon are riffled through. The third one is an animated icon representing the rotating globe, and additional stop buttons 100 for closing the application programs are displayed on the icons.
Now, the processing in the initialization unit of the launcher will be described with reference to Figure 7.
First, in step 202, the initialization unit invokes the icon displaying unit to display the still icons of all the application programs. In step 204, the launcher initialization unit initializes the 7 timer, and requests the system to generate a timer event at a predetermined interval (for instance, several tens or several hundreds milliseconds).
And, in step 206, the initialization unit substitutes 2 into the frame number (Frame) to initialize the frame number.
Referring to Figure 8, the processing in the icon displaying unit (22) will be described below.
In step 302, the icon displaying unit substitutes 1 into the variable m of the icon data Icon[m] [n) to initialize the variable m at the time of initialization.
is In step 304, the icon displaying unit determines whether or not the variable m is equal to or smaller than the number of application programs M. If the value of the variable m is equal to or smaller than the number of application programs M, the process goes to step 306, where the icon displaying unit determines whether or not the execution flag ExedFlag [m] of the application program m is set. If the execution flag ExecFlag [m] is not set, the process goes to step 308, where the icon displaying unit displays the still Icon [m] (11 of the application program m on the LCD at a position determined by the application program M. The position corresponding to the application program m can be previously determined, for instance, the upper-left if m=l, and the right side of it if m=2.
Further, in step 306, if the execution flag ExecFlag [m] is set, the process goes to the processing in step 310, where the icon displaying unit (22) displays the Frame-th icon Icon [m) [Frame] of the application program m on the LCD at a position determined by the application program M.
Further, in step 312, the icon displaying unit additionally displays a stop button on the icon displayed on the LCD in step 310. The stop button has a function of closing the application program of the above icon when clicked.
The stop button is displayed near the icon representing the application program. In addition, the stop button is smaller than the icon representing the application program, and it may be displayed so as to overlap the icon representing the application program. Thus, a system easy for the user to use can be provided, in which the user can intuitively understand that clicking the stop button allows the closing of the application program of the overlapped icon. And, in step 314, the icon displaying unit increments the variable m (m--m+l), and returns to the processing in step 304.
8 The processing in the touch panel event processing unit will be now described with reference to Figure 9.
First, in step 402, the touch panel event processing unit obtains an application program number determined by the input coordinates, and substitutes it into the variable m. And, in step 404, the touch panel event processing unit determines whether or not the input coordinates are on the stop button, and if so, it advances to the processing for closing the application program in step 408, and in step 408, the touch panel event processing unit sends a nrequest to close the application programn to the task manager. And, in step 410, the touch panel event processing unit invokes the icon displaying unit to display an at-a-glance screen of the icons of all the application program including the still icon of the application program m.
Further, in step 404, if the touch panel event processing unit determines that the input coordinates are not on the stop button, but they are provided by clicking on the icon of the application program, then it goes to step 406, where the touch panel event processing unit sends a nrequest to switch the application programn to the task manager.
Referring to Figure 10, the processing in the timer event processing unit will be described below.
The timer event processing unit has a function of receiving a timer event from the OS and displaying an icon in animation. The timer event is preset by the initialization unit so as to occur at a predetermined interval. This time interval is the display time for one frame of animation.
when the timer event occurs, the display of the icon corresponding to the running application program is updated. "Running" means a state in which the application program is loaded at this point of time.
The timer event processing unit first invokes the icon displaying unit in step 502 in Figure 10, to display the icons of all the application programs.
In step 504, the timer event processing unit increments the frame number Frame (Frame=Frame+l).
In step 506, the timer event processing unit determines whether or not the frame number Frame is equal to or smaller than the number of icons N, and if the value of the f rame number Frame is equal to or smaller than the number of icons N, the process is ended, otherwise the process goes to step 508, where the timer event processing unit 9 substitutes 2, the number of the first animation icon, into the frame number Frame.
When started, an application program performs an initialization unique to the application program, waits for an input, and according to the input, it performs the displaying of the application program screen, the closing processing of the application program, a request to the task manager, or other processings unique to the application program.
If termination buttons for terminating application programs and a launcher button are displayed on all the application program screens, the application program requests the task manager to end the application program (itself) if the termination button is pressed, and request the task manager to switch to the launcher if the launcher button is pressed.
The termination button in the specification of the subject invention means the conventional button for ending the application program within the application program screen. On the other hand, the stop button is a novel structural element which is the main feature of the subject invention, and it is a button additionally displayed on the icon of the started application program and for closing the application program in a screen displaying an icon list.
Now, the processing of an application program will be described with reference to Figure 11.
In step 602, the application program initializes the application program itself. And, in step 604, the application program waits for an input from the touch panel or task manager, and upon receipt of the input, it goes to the processing in step 606. In step 606, the application program determines whether or not the input from the touch panel or task manager is a nrequest to close the application program," and if so, it goes to the processing in step 614 to perform the process for closing the application program, otherwise it goes to the processing in step 608.
In step 608, the application program determines whether or not the coordinates of the user input are included in the termination button in the application program screen, and if so, it goes to the processing in step 610 to send a request to close the application program to the task manager, and returns to step 604.
Further, in step 608, if the position where the touch panel is pressed gives coordinates other than the termination button, step 612 is entered.
And, in step 612, the application program determines whether or not the coordinates of the input are included in the launcher button, and if so, it goes to the processing in step 616, where the application program requests the task manager to switch to the launcher, and returns to the processing in step 604.
Further, in step 612, if it is determined that a position other than the launcher button is pressed, step 618 is entered. In step 618, the application program determines whether or not the input from the touch panel or task manager is a "request to display, R and if so, it goes to the processing in step 622 to display the application program screen, otherwise it goes to the processing in step 620, performs a processing unique to the application program and returns to step 604.
Although the subject invention has been described above with reference to the embodiment, it will be easily understood that those having the ordinary knowledge in the field could make changes in the form or detail, without departing from the gist and scope of the subject invention. For instance, in the embodiment in the present specification, description has been made to an example in which one application program is started from one icon, but a plurality of sessions may be started from one icon to run the plurality of same application programs. In this case, it is only needed to display an animated icon for one session each time a certain application program is started and additionally display a stop button on the animated icon while displaying the still icon all the time in a screen displaying an icon list.
Further, in the embodiment in the present specification, description has been made to a computer using a touch panel by way of example, but those skilled in the art may easily understand that the subject invention can be applied to a personal computer performing the ordinary mouse inputting by only changing the input of the coordinates touched on the touch panel to the input of the coordinates clicked by a mouse, without changing the contents of the process.
As described above, in accordance with the subject invention, the icons of running application programs are displayed in animation in the displayed list of icons, and thus the user can visually and intuitively recognize whether or not each application program is under running.
Further, in accordance with the subject invention, on the icon of an application program displayed in animation, a stop button having a function of closing the application program can be additionally displayed, so that even beginners can easily close a running application program.
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- A method of displaying icons representing application programs on a display device, for identifying application programs which are currently running, the method including:displaying Still icons to represent application programs which are not currently running; and displaying animated icons to represent application programs which are currently running.
- 2. A method according to claim 1, including the following steps:storing a plurality of icon frames for each of a set of application programs; displaying a set of still icons representing a set of application programs which are not currently running, each still icon comprising a first one of the respective plurality of icon frames; receiving a user input; identifying the coordinates of the position on the display screen of said user input; determining when the coordinates of the position of the user input correspond to the location of one of said still icons on the display screen, and then running the application program represented by said icon; generating a timer event; displaying in an animation sequence a plurality of said icon frames stored for said running application program, a current icon frame of said plurality of icon frames being replaced by another icon frame of said plurality each time said timer event occurs.
- 3. A method according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the displaying of still and animated icons comprises displaying said icons in an icon list produced by a menu display software component.
- 4. A method according to claim 3, wherein:12 a task manager sets an execution flag when an application program is loaded and the task manager clears the execution f lag when the application program is closed; the menu display software component displays said icon list including a set of icons representing a set of application programs, and references the execution flags of respective application programs to determine whether each of said set of application program is currently running; and in response to determining that an application program is currently running, the menu display software component displays said animated icons representing said currently running application program.
- 5. A method for closing an application program, comprising the steps of:displaying a stop button in association with an icon representing an application program when the application program is running; in response to user selection of the stop button, performing a closing process of the application program.
- 6. A method according to claim 5 wherein the stop button is displayed near to or partially overlapping the icon.
- 7. A method according to claim 5 or claim 6, wherein:a task manager sets an execution flag when an application program is loaded and the task manager clears the execution flag when the application program is closed; a menu display software component displays an icon list including a set of icons representing a set of application programs, the menu display software component referencing the execution flags of respective application programs to determine whether each of said set of application program is running; the menu display software component displaying a stop button in association with each icon representing an application program which is currently running and removing the display button when the application program is closed.
- 8. A method according to any one of the preceding claims and substantially as described herein and/or as shown in any one of Figures 1 to 11.13
- 9. A data processing apparatus including means for displaying icons representing application programs on a display device, wherein the apparatus includes:means for controlling the display device to display still icons to represent application programs which are not currently running; and means for controlling the display device to display animated icons to represent application programs which are currently running, thereby to identify application programs which are currently running.
- 10. A data processing apparatus according to claim 9, including:means for storing a plurality of icon frames for each of a set of application programs; means for controlling the display device to display a set of still icons representing a set of application programs which are not currently running, each still icon comprising a first one of the respective plurality of icon frames; means for receiving a user input; means for identifying the coordinates of the position on the display screen of said user input; means for determining when the coordinates of the position of the user input correspond to the location of one of said still icons on the display screen, and then running the application program represented by said icon; means for generating a timer event; and means for controlling the display device to display in an animation sequence a plurality of said icon frames stored for said running application program, a current icon frame of said plurality of icon frames being replaced by another icon frame of said plurality each time said timer event occurs.
- 11. A data processing apparatus including means for closing an application program, the means for closing comprising:means for controlling a display device to display a stop button in association with an icon representing an application program when the application program is running; 14 means responsive to user selection of the stop button for performing a closing process of the application program.
- 12. A data processing apparatus according to claim 11, including 5 a task manager for setting an execution flag when an application program is loaded and for clearing the execution flag when the application program is closed, and a menu display software component for displaying an icon list including a set of icons representing a set of application programs, the menu display software component being adapted to:reference the execution flags of respective application programs to determine whether each of said set of application program is running; display a stop button in association with each icon representing an application program which is currently running; and remove the display button when the application program is closed.
- 13. A computer program for controlling the operation of a data processing apparatus on which it runs to perform the following steps of a method for identifying application programs which are currently running:displaying still icons on a display device to represent application programs which are not currently running; and displaying animated icons on the display device to represent application programs which are currently running.
- 14. A computer program according to claim 13 for controlling the operation of the apparatus to perform the following steps:storing a plurality of icon frames for each of a set of application programs; displaying a set of still icons representing a set of application programs which are not currently running, each still icon comprising a first one of the respective plurality of icon frames; receiving a user input; identifying the coordinates of the position on the display screen of said user input; determining when the coordinates of the position of the user input correspond to the location of one of said still icons on the display screen, and then running the application program represented by said icon; generating a timer event; displaying in an animation sequence a plurality of said icon frames stored for said running application program, a current icon frame of said plurality of icon frames being replaced by another icon frame of said plurality each time said timer event occurs.
- 15. A computer program for controlling the operation of a data processing apparatus on which it runs to perform the following steps of a method for closing an application program:controlling a display device to display a stop button in association with an icon representing an application program when the application program is runnig; and in response to user selection of the stop button, performing a closing process of the application program.
- 16. A machine -readable recording medium having recorded thereon a computer program according to any one of claims 13 to 15.
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