Cursor management method and program for the same

• US 20070094619A1
• Filed: 10/26/2005
• Published: 04/26/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyocera MITA Corporation (Kyocera Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kyocera MITA Corporation (Kyocera Corporation)
• Inventors: Shirai, Takuya
• Application Number:
  US11/258,246
• Publication Number:
  US 20070094619A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/860
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04892 Arrangements for controlling cursor position based on codes indicative of cursor displacements from one discrete location to another, e.g. using cursor control keys associated to different directions or using the tab key arrangements for controlling cursor position based on coordinate signals G06F3/038
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

Abstract

When a user inputs an instruction to execute cursor addition processing, an information processing unit (2a) of a computer (2) writes cursor information consisting of cursor number and index information indicating a position of a current cursor and the like, to RAM (2b), and registers the current cursor in memory. When the user inputs an instruction to execute cursor deletion processing, cursor information of a specified registered cursor is deleted from the RAM (2b). When the user inputs an instruction to execute cursor selection processing, a cursor selected from among registered cursors is set as an operative cursor, and the current cursor is moved to a position in the index information of the operative cursor, stored in the RAM (2b).

Claims

1. A cursor management method comprising

a first process of storing a cursor position, specified by an input means for manipulating a cursor that is displayed on a screen of a display device, and

a second process of making a position of a cursor that can be manipulated by the input means, the cursor position stored by the first process, when there has been a specification by the input means.

2. The cursor management method according to claim 1, wherein the input means specifies cursor positions for a plurality of cursors, and the second process makes a position of a cursor that can be manipulated by the input means, a cursor position of a cursor selected, among the plurality of cursors, by the input means.

3. The cursor management method according to claim 1, further comprising a third process of displaying on the screen of the display device, at the cursor position stored by the first process, the fact that there is a cursor storing a cursor position.

4. The cursor management method according to claim 1, wherein a display, with a position of a cursor that can be manipulated by the input means, as reference, is implemented on the display device.

5. The cursor management method according to claim 1, wherein the input means specifies a region between cursor positions, and the first process stores cursor positions identifying the region, as the specified cursor positions, the method further comprising a fourth process of performing processing on the region identified by the cursor positions stored by the first process.

6. A program for implementing in a computer, the program comprising

a first function of storing a cursor position, specified by an input means for manipulating a cursor that is displayed on a screen of a display device, and

a second function of making a position of a cursor that can be manipulated by the input means, the cursor position stored by the first function, when there has been a specification by the input means.